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NWYORtt, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1874. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 

 sorreepondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 lishing Company. Personal or private, letters of course excepted. 



All communications Intended for publication must be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published If 

 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 



Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 and our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aiui to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of laud and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with tho virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in tho home circle. 



Wc cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mall service, if 

 money remitted to us is lost. 



Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 

 CHARLES I1ALLOCK, Managing Editor. 



WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR- 

 RENT WEEK. 



Friday. September 25th. —Brown and Morris boat race, Kenebcccasis 

 River St John.N. B.— Seawanhaka Yacht Club regatta, Newton Creek 

 -Trotting meetings at Prospect Tark, N. Y., White Marsh, Pa., San- 

 dusky. Ohio, Evansv,lie, Ind., Ambler Park. Pa . Folsom, Cal.,Mcr>dan. 

 Conn.. Monongahela City, Pa,, Cuba, N. Y., Tippecanoe City. Ohio, Mid- 

 dleton, Del., Sharon, Pa., and Loclcport, N. Y. 



Satueday, September 36th . — Bogardus vs. Paine, pigeon match 

 -Schuylkill navy regatta, Philadelphia, Pa. -New York Athletic Club, _ 

 Fall games, Mott Haven, N. Y .-Practice day, Harlem boat clnbs-T rot- 

 ting meetings at Sharon, Pa., and Lockport, N. Y. 



Monday, September 28th -Atalanta Boat Club regatta, Harlem River 

 -Trotting meetings at Fleetwood, N. Y., and Easton, Pa. 



Tuesday September 2!>th.— Trotting meetings at. Woodstock, Vt., 

 Ypsilanti, Mich., Oreensburg, Pa., Taunton, Mass.. Bangor, Me Dayton, 

 Ohio, Lexington, Ky., Omaha, Neb., Manchester, N. H.. and Delaware, 



Wednesday, September 30th,-Match day. cricket clubs Hoboken N. 

 J -Trotting meetings at Fleetwood, N. Y., Easton, Pa., Woodstock, Vt,, 

 Yosilanti Mlch.Greensbure, Pa., Taunton, Mass., Bangor, Me., Dayton, 

 Ohio, Lexington, Ky., Omaha, Neb.. Manchester, N. H., Delaware, Ohio, 

 Manhattan, Kan., and Charleston, TIL 



Thursday, October iKt.-Boston Yacht Club rowing regatta, Boston, 

 Mass.-Analostan vs. Potomac, rowing regatta, Washington, DC- 

 Trotting meetings at Taunton, Mass., Bangor, Me., Delaware, Ohio, 

 Woodstock, Vt.. Ypsilanti, Mich., Oreensburg. Pa., Manhattan Kan., 

 Omaha, Neb., Charleston, 111., Manchester, N. H„ Easton, Pa., Green- 

 ville, Pa., Fleetwood, N. Y„ Dayton, Ohio, and Lexington, Ky. 



THE ENGLISH RIFLE TROUBLES. 



THE contest in regard to the Martini -Henry rifle in 

 England still continues. In referring to our Ord- 

 nance Memoranda XV. we And that the Ordnance Board 

 were inclined to attach "considerable importance to di- 

 minishing recoil, deeming that refinements of action in 

 other directions are largely thrown away if there is to be 

 any flinching in the soldier who pulls the trigger. The 

 table of recoils the Board found to be as follows:— 



Fifty caliber service (TJ. S. arm), 129.6 pounds. 



Forty-live caliber service (TJ. 9. army), 123.6 pounds. 



Martini-Henry, 130.3 pounds. „ ,..,., 



The Board adds "that though acknowledging 2 4 addi- 

 tional inches of peneration, made by the Martini-Henry, it 

 was too dearly bought at sixteen pounds increased recoil, 

 leaving out of consideration the much heavier ammuni- 



This question of the weight of ammunition— a most im- 



portant one— seems clearly in favor of the cartridges used 

 for our Springfield arms when compared with those neces- 

 sary for the Martini Henry. 



Springfield, 50 caliber, 40 rounds weighed 3 pounds, 13 ounces. 



No, 58, 45 caliber, 40 rounds weighed 3 pounds, 7 ounces. 



No. 49, 42 caliber. 40 rounds weighed 3 pounds, 5 ounces. 



No. 59, 40 caliber, 40 rounds weighed 3 pounds, 2 ounces. 



Martini-Henry, 40 rounds weighed 4 pounds, 6 ounceB. 



Prom which it is evident that fifty-one roundsjif ammu- 

 nition for No. 58 could be carried at less weight than forty 

 rounds of the oulyforeign ammunition whose performance 

 assimilates with it, viz., the Martini-Henry, (Ordnance 

 Manual, page H76). From this it is apparent that the Uni- 

 ted States soldier can carry with the same load over twenty- 

 five ounces more cartridges than the English infantry 

 soldier. This question of supplying the rapid waste of 

 ammunition on the field of battle is fast, getting to be an 

 important one, in fact may be regarded as an essential 

 point, especially as the magazine gun seems to be coming 

 every day more into repute, and forcing itself into notice 

 like the breech loader and revolver have done before it. 



Undoubtedly h great deal of the trouble our insular 

 friends have found in the Martini-Henry may arise from 

 the defective holding of the piece, though it is an un- 

 disputed fact that the recoil of this arm is at times hardly 

 endurable. At Springfield, where daily trials of arms 

 take place under inspection of competent ordnance officers, 

 the regular marksman who shoots all the guns has com- 

 plained of the severity of the Martini-Henry recoil. The 

 bruising of the cheek, arising from the firing of this gun, 

 does not necessarily follow from the rising of the butt, but 

 probably from the violent throwing downward of the head 

 by the recoil on the shoulder, Such devices as cheek 

 pieces, crescent butt plates, etc., would be of general in- 

 convenience in a military arm. 



The apparent simplicity of the Martini-Henry, and its 

 fewness of motions, may have certain merit, but if the 

 character of the arm is such that, a violent shock is given 

 to the system when the piece is fired, such simplicity of 

 parts is of little advantage. 



In target rifles it requires no comment on our part to ex- 

 plain how any arm having a violent recoil would be preju- 

 dicial to shooting. At Creedmoor, with the Remingtons, 

 Sharps, Ward-Burtons, or Springfields, any remark on the 

 recoils, or "kicking," is unheard of. Sometimes some few 

 marksmen wear a pad, but its use is exceptional. Occa- 

 sionally muzzle loaders brought on the range have beeu 

 found difficult to handle ou account of the butt fitting to 

 the shoulder with a narrow slip of crescent-shaped metal. 

 The recoil in this case, coming almost on a knife edge, 

 gives increased concussion. As we remarked in our last, 

 we have every reason to be contented with our present sys- 

 tems of breech, loaders as to comfort. Perhaps in the field, 

 when the contest comes off with our Irish guests, our 

 breech loading rifles will play no undistinguished part. 



Qui vivra term. 



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COLLEGE JOURNALS. 



THE College terms began with September, and we are 

 again in receipt of the characteristic publications- 

 be they oracle or organ— that emanate from the several uni- 

 versities of learning throughout the land. Nearly every 

 college has its representative journal, and very creditable 

 indeed are the most of them, both in typography and con- 

 tents. Often there is evidence upon their pages that the 

 maturer thoughts of the teacher have been added to those 

 of the student; and we believe that both Faculty and 

 undergraduates take pardonable and natural pride in main- 

 taining for them a high tone and enviable standard of lit- 

 erary excellence. Each journal serves as a sort of compen- 

 dium and record of the year, and is made valuable to 

 parents, alumni, and any others interested in the progress 

 and success of the respective classes or institutions. The 

 first of these that has reached us this term is the Trinity 

 Tablet, of Hartford, Ct., a sixteen-page, 8x10 sheet, printed 

 on tinted paper, with exquisite taste, and carefully com- 

 piled. Very similar, but more pretentious, are the Harvard 

 Magenta, the College Argus, of Micldletown, Ct., and a half 

 dozen others; while a few, like the Tale Record and Amlwrst 

 Student, affect rather more the character of the general 

 newspaper. We shall hope to welcome these to our table 

 in due course of their publication. Some are hebdomadals 

 and others are printed monthly. No doubt they serve as a 

 very instructive practical school for a rising generation of 

 editors with minds and brains, who will do credit to a pro- 

 fession to which men are very apt to resort after they have 

 failed in a variety of other pursuits. One thing is certain, 

 they outrank 50 per cent, of the journals of the country in 

 all those qualities requisite to make a newspaper and to 

 give it a character above that of an advertising sheet and 

 chronicler of vegetable monstrosities and neighborhood 

 casualties. 



This college journalism has grown to be quite a feature 

 of late years— very different now than in the early days of 

 the Tale Banner, which was the pioneer of College periodi- 

 cals, not quite thirty years ago. Such publications were 

 simply tolerated then. They were looked upon by the staid 

 professors rather as puerile emanations, which, while ad- 

 mitted to give relaxation to pre-ocenpied minds, were never- 

 theless discountenanced as tending to encroach upon the 

 studies of the curriculum. At that time, too, the range of 

 subjects for consideration was circumscribed. Topics 

 could be found only within the envelope of the academic 

 walls; and because these wore grave and trite, and distaste- 

 ful to minds that craved a change of pabulum to spice their 

 daily routine of thought, it happened bfc*l BU6H extraneous 



subjects as were selected to give variety to the contents, 

 were trivial and shallow; so that the "light literature" of 

 the paper comprised a melange, of frivolous criticism of un- 

 popular tutors and students; of personal banter, stale jokes, 

 quiddities, and chaff. The "body" of the paper (certainly 

 not the brains) consisted of wise esfays on abstruse sub- 

 jects suggested by college text books, which owls might 

 possibly have read with profit. No wonder that college 

 papers were distasteful to the Faculty, or thai Iheir vapid 

 utterances cloyed upon the students, whose minds, however 

 fond of pranks and fun, nevertheless wanted strong food 

 to aid the development of their vigorous growth, 



Circumstances are very different now. As we have said, 

 almost every college has its representative paper, and 

 teachers unite with students in making their contents enter- 

 taining, instructive, and dignified. The nonsense column 

 is very modestly assigned to an obscure corner, like the 

 school-boy with the fool's cap; there is a marked absence 

 of childish personality or cruel criticism; the cultivation 

 of physical studies in later years, has given wide scope for 

 useful essays upon which both mind and muscle may 

 develop and harden, and the relation of physics and meta- 

 physics, of gymnastics and moral science, are so combined 

 and presented as to afford a study exceedingly attractive to 

 those who impart, as well as to those who receive. So that 

 we find our college editors really at work in a sphere of 

 labor peculiarly their own, and accomplishing results which 

 cannot be measured for their usefulness. They are adding 

 height to mental stature and weight to cubic inches, that 

 will make men of them instead of cynics when they mature 

 — men shaped in a natural mould— a mould that gives 

 freedom and play of limb, while at the same time it is 

 plastic in its operations and conservative in its forces. In 

 lieu of printing dry homilies, or dissertations on Tacitus 

 and the Sphynx, they induct us into tho mysteries of slid- 

 ing-seats, of scientific training for physical contests, of the 

 philosophy of putting the stone and the standing jump, of 

 the anatomical structure of the biceps, and the mechanism 

 of the lungs. They give us current records of college 

 events, both in the curriculum and the campus, so that the 

 private life and employments of the students are measur- 

 ably indicated thereby, and anxious parents may no longer 

 worry a3 to what is done with a leisure hour. Begetting 

 confidence in themselves, they learn to confide in others, 

 yea, even in the magisterial Faculty whom they formerly 

 regarded with awe; and they find their reward in liberal 

 contributions to boat clubs and gymnasia, as well as to 

 those higher arts which grace their Alma Mater and give 

 her substantial character and enviable reputation. 



Success to the college papers ! 



HO! FOR FLORIDA. 



THE usual migration of sportsmen and invalids to 

 Florida will soon begin. We have several letters 

 from gentlemen who purpose leaving the North about No- 

 vember 1st, asking for information as to routes, hotel ac- 

 commodations, fares, shooting grounds, etc. This we 

 shall furnish to our readers from this time henceforward 

 throughout the season. We have unusual facilities for 

 gathering reliable information of highest practical value 

 not only to sportsmen and tourists, but, to invalids and per- 

 sons seeking lands with a view to settle. We have corre- 

 spondents at St. Augustine, Jacksonville, New Smyrna, 

 St. Lucie, Mellonville, Palatka, and Glen Gove, the objec- 

 tive points of all tourists visiting the Land of Flowers. 

 We made Florida statistics and resources a specialty of 

 this paper last winter, and succeeded in sending at least 

 fifty sportsmen and two settlers there. This year we shall 

 devote our columns still more largely tc this section, and 

 doubt not their use will serve the reader and. advertiser bet- 

 ter than any other paper of whatever circulation. Our 

 statements are accepted as facts, and our recommendations 

 are confided in and acted upon. It is this Hint gives our 

 journal precedence and value. We trust that hotel and 

 boarding house proprietors at favorite Southern resorts, 

 agents of popular railway and steamboat lines, land own- 

 ers and others interested in the development of the South, 

 will recognize this fact by giving us their patronage, and 

 eventually realize it in pecuniary profits. We are pre- 

 pared to offer the testimony of those who used us last win- 

 ter as to the advantage thereby gained. 



The increase of Northern patronage of Southern winter 

 resorts, especially at St Augustine, within the past two 

 years, is something remarkable. Present hotel accommo- 

 dations have proved insufficient, and several additional 

 and more commodious buildings are being prepared for 

 the reception of guests upon the opening of the season. 

 Traveling facilities are being everywhere increased; better 

 boats will be supplied and more of them, and better rail- 

 way coaches. New routes of travel will be opened, both 

 in eastern and western Florida. The long contemplated 

 railroad from Jacksonville is in process of rapid construc- 

 tion, as we learn from the St. Augustine Prnx, and even 

 the shackly, rickety wooden railroad from Tocoi is being 

 replaced with iron rails. On the 7th instant 200 yards of 

 new rail had been laid, and all the iron required for the 

 whole fifteen miles is reported soon to arrive. All the 

 neighborhood is agog. Tocoi, wdiich contained only three 

 buildings two years ago, has now grown to the dignity of 

 a hamlet. 



It is quite probable that we shall fit out an expedition to 

 explore the whole western coast of Florida this fall, pro- 

 vided we. can receive the necessary assistance and co-opera- 

 tion of the railroad and steamboat lines in transporting our 

 correspondents with their boat, and sliding them otherwise. 



