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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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NEW YOBK, THURSDAY, BBPTEMBER 36, 1878. 



To Correspondents. 



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 and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 

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 CHARLES UALXOCK, Editor. 



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Western Manager 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



Friday, September i1.—Sir\<$Lt&: YoungAmericasvs.OldHaverfordl- 

 ans. Truting: Syracuse, N. Y.; Dover, N. H.; Quincy, 111.; St. Louis, 

 Mo,; Dover, Del.; Manhattan, Kan.; Columbus, O.; Albany, N.Y-; 

 YoungstowD, O.; Lewistown, Pa.; Eentvllle, N. S. 



Saturday, September 25.— Nautilus Boat Club Open Amateur Regatta, 

 Reading, Pa. Cricket: Germantown vs. Young America, Nicetown ; 

 Belmont (2) vs. Merlon (2), at West Philadelphia ; Young America (Jr.) 

 vs. Geimautown (Jr.), at Turnpike Bridge ; Manhattan vs. Belmont, at 

 Prospect Park; Longwood vs. Hlghlandville, at Longwood. Staten 

 Island Athletic Club Games. 



Monday. September 30.— HugheB-O'Leary Walking Match, at Gilmore's 

 Garden. Rtinn'ng Meeting at Syracuse, N. Y. 



Tuesday, October 1 —Hughes and O'Leary Walk. Cricket : Eighteen 

 of New York vs. Australian Cricketers, at Hoboken. Trotting: Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y.; Parker City, Pa.; Eochcster, N.Y.; Norwich, Conn.; Cin- 

 cinnati, O ; Dover, N. H.; Philadelphia, Pa. 



Wednesday, October 2.— Hughes and O'Leary Walk. New York vs. 

 Australians, as above. Courtney Hanlan Match, at Lachine, Canada. 

 Trotting as above, and atMlddletown, Del. 



Thureday, October S.— HugheB-O'Leary Walk. Philadelphia Eleven 

 vs. Australian CncketorB, at Nicetown, Trotting as above, and at 

 Danbury, Conn. 



"^* Mr. Hallock has returned, and is again at his post, 



Twkntt-Eioht Pages.— Circumstances have compelled us 

 to print twenty-eight pages again this week; indeed, our 

 isBues are now more frequently of twenty-eight pages than of 

 twenty-four. Our advertisements press so seriously on our 

 space that we have to cut our garment according to the cloth. 

 It is prosperity which is hearing on us so heavily. 



Again.— We Bay it once more, and shall repeat it from 

 time to time so long as there is need to do so i All drafts, 

 checks, and pos'al money orders sent to us should be made 

 payable to "The Forest and Stream Publishing Company." 

 By observing this rule our subscribers and advertisers will 

 save themselves aad us much needless annoyance. 



THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. 



AFTER many delays and hitches the two best oarsmen in 

 America are Anally to meet each other and test their 

 claim to the championship of America. Prom a strictly tech- 

 nical point of view, the championship is now held by Eanlan, 

 of Toronto, he having defeated Evan Morris in a five mile 

 race at Pittsburgh in June, this year. The coming contest 

 over the Lachine course, near Montreal, will therefore go to 

 show whether he is able to hold the title agaiost all comers, or 

 whether the United States can produce the man to show him 

 over the course. The event must undoubtedly be set down 

 as the most important in the annals of modern boat racing in 

 America. The old line of champions, the Browns, Hammills, 

 and other such gentry, some of whom are even now pulling 

 in golden shells o'er tideless and glassy-smooth rivulets of 

 milk and honey, are fast leaving this wicked world for a bet- 

 ter one, where fouls and hidden obstructions are not known. 

 They and the oarsmen of their day belong to a race of the 

 past. Rowing during the last few years has taken such an 

 energetic start in new and more popular directions that the 

 old knights of the short, choppy dip and blistering seat have 

 been left a long way astern and cut a sorry figure alongside 

 the handlers of the spruces of the present day, with their long 

 swing of 38 or 29 and the far reach of the sliding seat. Never 

 before have the people on this side of the Atlantic lent such 

 favorable countenance and given so much encouragement to 

 rowing men generally, whether amateurs or professionals. No 

 other year can show the rapid succession of regattas and the 

 numerous attendance thereat, the public has witnessed during 

 the season, now about drawing to a close with the great 

 match of the Titans of the United States and Canada. 

 It is to be hoped that the environs and circumstances may 

 prove what we should have a right to expect, but 

 what, unfortunately, we can only pray for. The Lachine 

 course at this time of the year is especially unfitted for shell 

 boat work, and already lumpy water is seriously 

 interfering with the practice spins of both men. That such 

 an utter lack of stamina and judgment in arranging the pre- 

 liminaries of so important a race should have been displayed 

 by the backers and friends of the man from Union Springs, 

 is for Americans south of the St. Lawrence a most unfortu- 

 nate mishap. Instead of pulling the race on some neutral, 

 quiet water, Courtney is carried off across the border and, 

 nolens nolens, pitted against as tough a customer as ever he 

 met, over a course unfavorable to him in the extreme, and 

 upon terms the like of which have never yet been heard of 

 in the history of boat-racing. A strange land, strange water, 

 and strange conditions will do much to neutralize what there 

 may be in favor of the best man we can put up to fight our 

 battle with the wonderful Canadian. A more bungling piece 

 of diplomacy than that shown by Courtney's agents we have 

 no ken of. The Canadians completely overreached him and 

 his men, and carried all before them. So Courtney will have 

 to tackle his man for a prospective $11,000 or nothing! 

 What are the chances of the two? They are very nearly 

 evenly matched, we should say. Hanlan has the prestige of 

 a greater number of races with the best scullers to be found 

 among us on his side, while Courtney has a wonderful string 

 of victories as an amateur. As a professional he has kept re- 

 markably quiet, his victories, chiefly over Becond class men— 

 Riley, Plaisted and other light timber— cutting no very great 

 figure upon his record. About the best thing Courtney can 

 point to is the victory he scored in 1876 on the Schuylkill. 

 He has pulled but a few five-mile courses, and should he take 

 the lead October 2, he will find all the work he wants to hold 

 out with Hanlan, whose wonderful stay is perhaps the most 

 remarkable feature of his splendid sculling, and upon which 

 not a few among his friends count with justice. 



CORRESPONDENTS: GOOD AND BAD. 



LAST week, in our issue of twenty-eight pages, we pub- 

 lished communications from seventy-four correspond- 

 ents, distributed as follows ; Maine, Now Hampshire, 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, 

 Texas, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Kansas, 

 Indian Territory, and California, Ontario, Quebec, and Hol- 

 land. The communications were narratives of sporting ad- 

 venture, articles of scientific discussion, minor notes, and 

 short news items. Of their authors four-fifths are, personally, 

 utter strangers to us. These letters came to us through the 

 mails. For their authenticity and reliability we must depend 

 upon the integrity and good faith of the men whose names 

 are affixed to them. In the course of a year we receive 

 thousands of such communications. It would be no difficult 

 matter to deceive us, and, through ub, our readers. We be- 

 lieve, however, that in very rare instances is this done. The 

 contribution published in our columns, as a rule, bears the 

 stamp of its frank and manly author. We (that "we" means 

 editor and readers, too,) occasionally, however, Bre im- 

 posed upon, and not in a good humored way either. We can 

 appreciate a joke ; we cannot endure the imposition of a cor- 

 respondent who habitually and intentionally exaggerates, 

 falsifies and misleads. Our readers must understand that if 

 the Forest and Stream is deceived month after month as 

 to the character of a correspondent, it is simply because the 

 Forest add Stream is human and, with all humanity, sub- 

 ject to imposition. Moreover, to show how much serious 

 harm to a newspaper a malicious purveyor of misinformation 

 may accomplish, we publish the following complaint from a 



gentleman who has been securing subscribers for us in a State 

 not a thousand miles away. We may premise that the revela- 

 tion was as unpleasant to us as it was unexpected, and that 

 the matter has been promptly attended to ; 



I was completely beaten out in . This is parti v to be 



attnbuted to a cause which I have had thrown at me many 

 times in the past two months, and of which I would have 

 written to you before, if it had not been that I thought I had 

 escaped its influence. But the matter was mentioned to me 



again before I had been in this hotel ten minutes. At 



in this State, resides a man who corresponds for the Forest 

 and Stream, and the fact that he docs write for the paper has 

 prevented me from securing a large number of subscribers in 

 no less than six different places. He is known in all these 

 towns as a most scientific and unscrupulous liar, with a ten- 

 dency to assumption, and a total disregard of facts. More 

 than fifty persons who now take the paper have assured me 

 that if he continued to correspond they would stop their 

 paper when their subscriptions expired. I tell you the facts 

 just as I hear them, and vouch for the injury done to your 

 paper. He is a young man of some talent,' but with an utter 

 disregard for truth and actual facts. A gentleman in his town 

 told me about one one-hundredth part of his statements would 

 bear sifting, which opinion was corroborated by all the other 

 sportsmen of the vicinity. 



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KEEPING A LION IN BRTJCE'S TIME. 



THIS is what Mr. Arthur G. Brown, the Superintendent of 

 Zoological Society of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, 

 writes us: "A full grown lion should have about fifteen pounds 

 of meat a day. This at 4f cents per pound, which the beef 

 used to cost us, would amount to within a fraction of 70 cents. 

 The horse meat which I now use averages a cost of J of a cent 

 per pound, reducing the amount to 11J cents per diem. As 

 lions are generally not fed on one day in the week, this cost is 

 reduced 1-7 of the above figures. The horse meat answers as 

 well as beef, and as the meat is freshly killed it is richer and 

 more full of blood than any beef which could be procured for 

 such purposes. The quantity of food should be cut down at 

 least ^in hot weather, or the livers of the animals might suffer. 

 Traveling shows feedle3s than this, but this is our basis." 



The query we had put to Mr. Brown arose from a quaint 

 old description of a lion and how he was kept, which has 

 lately been exhumed from the exchequer rolls of Scotland. 

 Robert Bruce, the doughty king of Scotland, had a lion. 

 Perhaps he who had been taught patience from studying a 

 spider in his toil found instruction in a lion. Bruce was in 

 the habit of going around from place to place accompanied by 

 his pet. The archives tell us that it fell on the burgh of 

 Perth to find a house for the brute, and though the lion had a 

 mansion to himself, the Queen and hor two sisters were 

 lodged in a double bedded room. What interests us, however, 

 is this fact, that to keep the lion for a year the kingdom was 

 mulcted with a charge of £6 13s. 4d. Those not acquainted 

 with the Scotch pound in the Fourteenth Century, might 

 think this an extravagant charge ; but the pound Scotch in 

 those days was only 20d ; therefore, £Q 18s. Scotch, 

 was about $2.50. As money in the Fourteenth 

 century was worth ten times more than it is to-day— that 

 is to say, that its purchasing power was ten-fold— it is apparent 

 that the expense of keeping that Hon was in fair proportion 

 to the cost of beef or mutton. Anyhow, civilization has cer- 

 tainly advanced since the time when Bruce kept a lion, for feed- 

 ing animals in zoological gardens has been brought down to a 

 science. Some data on this curious subject can be found in 

 older annals. The cost of keeping the wild beasts for the 

 Roman gladiatorial combats is given somewhere. We some- 

 times think that one of the most interesting works which 

 could be written would be one devoted to the keeping of wild 

 animals in a state of captivity, and matter of the most useful 

 character could be derived from it. We have looked in vain 

 among libraries for a book of this kind, which would be phil- 

 osophically constructed and thorough in its character. Re- 

 turning to the lion of Perth and the Philadelphia lion : while 

 the former cost some §3 to keep/the latter could not be fed on 

 beef for less than $30 a year. We must remember, however, 

 as has been before stated, that a value of $3, gold or silver, 

 five centuries ago would have had a buying or exchanging 

 power of fully $40. This little bit of antiquarian zoological 

 lore, when the value of the Sootch pound is understood, is no 

 longer puzzling to the political economist, and it is quite pos- 

 sibe that Mr. Reiche, under similar circumstances, could not 

 have fed a lion cheaper than King Robert Bruce's keeper. 



A Welt. Merited Honor. — Professor Spencer F. Baird has 

 received the silver medal of the Society of Acclimatation of 

 Victoria, in recognition of his introduction of salmon in the 

 Australian colonies. 



The Sharps Rma Meetin&.— The matches at the Sharps 

 Eifle Range, Bridgeport, Conn., last Tuesday, were success- 

 ful throughout, and the occasion a most pleasant one. The 

 fund for the Yellow Fever Sufferers thus raised will in due 

 time be forwarded through the Forest and Stream. 



The Yellow Fever Fund.— Wc have to-day handed to 

 Mayor Ely $7, sent to " The Sportsman's Contribution"— J. 

 G. Willetts, Skaneateles, $5, and C. 3. Kinyon, Owatonna, 

 Minn.. $2. Total, so far, received by us, $303. There are 

 many weeks of suffering yet to be gone through in New Or- 

 leans, Memphis and many other places. We are still ready 

 to receive money for the purpose designated. We are quite 

 certain that many of our friends will respond. " He who 

 gives quickly gives twice." So says a good, old Latin pro 

 verb. 



