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A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural Histoby, 
FisiUCctltuhe, the Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests, 
awd the Inculcation ihMen and Women or a healthy interest 
W Odt-doob Becbeation and Study : 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1876. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, whether relating to Dueinees or literary 
Correspondence, must be addressed to The Fokkst and Stream Pub¬ 
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Secretaries of Clnbs and Associations are urged to favor ns 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- 
mon sportsmen from one end of the country to the other; and they will 
find our columns a desirable, medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Fobest and Stream aim to merit and seenre 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 land and water to those base uses which always 
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ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
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CHARLES HALLOl'K, 
Editor and Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM¬ 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday, June 23d.— 1 Trotting: Syracuse and Pou ghkeepsic, N, Y,; 
Belmont Park, Philadelphia; Parker City, Pa.; Jackson, Mich, Inter¬ 
national Regatta New York Harbor. Base Ball: Mutual vs. Chicago, at 
Chicago; Hartford vs. Louisville, at Louisville; Athletic vs. St. Louis, 
at St. Louis; Monticello vs. Unknown, at Jersey City; Olympic vs. N. 
Haven, at Paterson, N. J.; Archer vs. Quickstep, at Philadelphia; Ith¬ 
aca vs. Olympic, at Patersou; Mutual vs. Tecnmseh, at Jockson, Mich. 
Friday, June 33d.—Trotting: Belmont Park, Philadelphia; Terre 
Haute, Ind.; Beacon Park, Boston. Centennial Regatta New York 
Harbor. Base Ball: Mutual vs. Tecnmseh, at Jackson, Mich.; Camp¬ 
bell vs. Centennial, at Philadelphia; Lowell vs. Rhode Island, at Provi¬ 
dence, R. I.; Obelsen vs. Arlington, at Brooklyn; Nassau vs. Athletic, 
at Brooklyn; Chatham vs. Mutual, at Hoboken. 
Saturday, Jnue 31th.—Racing: Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia. 
Trotting; Fleetwood Park, N. Y : West Chester, Pa. Rifle: Geiger 
Badge Contest, Creedmoor. Regattas; Boston and City Point Clubs, 
Boston; Quincy (Mass ,) Yacht Club. Forest and Stream Club Pigeon 
Shoot, Scranton, Pa. Base Ball: Mutual vs. Chicago, at Chicago; 
Hartford vs. Louisville, at Louisville; Athletic vs. St. Louis, 
at St. Louis; Alaska vs. Resolute, at Jersey City; Alaska vs. Active, at 
Wapingei’sFalls; Orange v-. Nassua, at Orange: Jasper vs. Hudson, at 
Man. Col. Gr,; Nameless vs. Staten Island, at Brooklyn; Hoboken vs. 
Produce Exchange, nt Hobokeu; Lowell vs. Resolute, ut Portland, Me.; 
Quickstep va. Muiual, at Harlem. Cricket: St. George 3d Eleven vs. 
St. Paul’s School of Concord, N. U., at Hoboken. 
Monuay, June 26th.—Racing: Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia; 
Trotting: Fleetwood Park, N. Y. Rifle: Sharpshooter's Union Matches 
at Philadelphia. Regatta to Cape May. Base Ball; Hudson vs. Athlot- 
ic, at Man. Col. Gr.; Monticello vs. Mutual, at Jersey City. Cricket; 
St. George’s 1st Eleven vs. 1st Eleven of Young Americas of Philadel¬ 
phia, nt Germantown. 
Tuesday, Juno 27th.—Racing: Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia. 
Trotting: Watertown, N. Y.; Hartford, Conn.; Stillwater,Minn.; St. 
Petersburg, Pa. Rifle: Competition at Creedmoor for places Dn Ameri- 
can-Jrish Team. South Carolina Regatta, Charleston. Cricket: St. 
George’s 1st Eleven vs. Germantown 1st Eleven, at Germantown. 
Wednesday, June 28th.-Racing and Yachting ns above. Competi¬ 
tion for places on Ir'sh-American Team at Creedmoor. Newark Rowing 
Association Regatta, Passaic. 
Sailinu of the Dory “Centennial.”—' ike fishing 
dory Cunlennial, with its captain and crew, all comprised 
in tire person of Mr. Johnson, sailed on its adventurous 
voyage of 3,000 miles, on Thursday last. Whether it will 
safely reach Liverpool, its destination, remains to be seen. 
Whether it does or not we cannot see what good is to be 
gaiued by the undertaking. In desperate cases of ship¬ 
wreck long boat voyages have been accomplished, but if 
Mr. Johuson safely crosses the Atlantic it is not probable 
that his crossing will materially effect the travel by steamer. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
LAWLESSNESS IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
T HE St, Germain brothers, who fired into a parly of 
sportsmen on the Upper Saranac with a rifle a fort¬ 
night ago, are in jail, and in a disagreeable fix. The charge 
against them, we believe, is only for assault with intent to 
kill (and under the law no jury can fail to convict them), 
but they are also amenable for illegally setting nets and 
lines. The penalty for the first offence is imprisonment in 
the penitentiary for a term not less than one year or more 
than seven; and for the last a penalty of $25, and impris¬ 
onment in case of non-payment. 
As we stated in a recent issue, the St. Germains fired 
into Hon. W. A. Wheeler’s party under mistake, suppos¬ 
ing them to be the IIoyt-Romcyu party, who had cut up 
their nets, after having first notified them of the illegality 
of their procedure, anil been defied to interfere. The firing 
was without doubt a willful and deliberate act of lawless¬ 
ness, with intent to do bodily harm, actuated by motives 
of revenge; and the judge cannot charge the jury other¬ 
wise under the evidence that will be brought. The plea 
that intent was absent, because the aggressors had no cause 
of grievance against the party fired into, will probably be 
put in; but we regard the fact of the wanton and reckless 
firing into an unsuspecting and unoffending pleasure party, 
by a rifle ball aimed by a practiced backwoodsman so truly 
that at a distance of 100 or 200 yards it penetrated the boat 
within a few inches of the person of one of its occupants— 
(his we regard rather as an aggravation than a palliation of 
the case. If the lives of innocent parties are to be thus 
endangered, the North Woods must become deserted ora 
sufficient police force be organized for their protection, 
which would of course be impracticable. The arming of 
each visitor or sportsman in his own defence will not guar¬ 
antee his personal safety, for he may be cut down by a ball 
aimed at some other person, or at himself in mistake for 
some other person. If gentlemen were assured that they 
had only open enemies to fight, then, with a prospect of 
being forewarned, they could be reasonably forearmed; 
but at present one may as well save his weapons and am¬ 
munition and trust to the luck and the temper of those 
whom he encounters. In the case of the 8t. Germains, 
they were well informed of the lawjtnd its penalties, and 
defied its execution. They threatened, and they executed 
their threats; now let them suffer the penalty for their 
misdeeds. 
We sincerely hope that intelligent men, resident or so¬ 
journing temporarily in the Adirondocks, will see that this 
is made a test ease in the cours. It is to the interests of 
the landlords, who have most at stake, that the game and 
fish is preserved, otherwise there will soon be no attraction 
for sportsmen; and it is to the interest of all to see that 
the woods are made safe and tenable to those who enter 
them unsuspiciously and without apprehension. Let us 
know whether the setting of nets and lines is illegal or not. 
We have assumed that it is, as we read the law. If the 
act is legal, then the St. Germains have a right to defend 
their property by weapons, if necessary, at the lime when 
it is being destroyed. But they have no right to deliber¬ 
ately shoot the trespasser at any time afterwards; for they 
immediately become amenable to the law for an assault to 
take life. We shall look for the decision of the court with 
much interest. 
Hard Times— We may still be living in “hard times,” 
but any one who will look at our quotations for fish in the 
usual column this week must acknowledge that it is many 
years since delicacies in the fish line were so well within 
the reach of people of moderate circumstances as they are 
now. Salmon, fresh from the Restigouche, is selling at 
eighteen cents per pound. That most delicious of all fish, 
the Spanish mackerel, although brought from southern 
waters, is worth but twenty five cents, while heretofore, 
when caught in our immediate vicinity, they have brought 
from thirty to fifty cents. Green turtle sell for but twelve 
and a half cents per pound, when a careful examination 
of our files for years back will not show them to have sold 
for less than eighteen cents, and seldom at less than twenty- 
five. Indications show that throughout the season we are 
likely to have an unusual abundance of both fish and game, 
of all varieties. _ _ 
—A game protection society is about being .formed at 
Newport, R. I., some of the most prominent citizens as 
well as summer visitors having interested themselves in the 
matter. The game already on the island is to be carefully 
preserved and added to by restocking. The organization 
will also include a rifle dub, and a range is to be estab¬ 
lished at Portsmouth Grove, a few miles from this city, 
where a 1,000 yards stretch upon a dead level can be 
secured at a trifling expense, permission having been given 
by its owner for that purpose. The targets are nil to face 
the south, and on the right of the shooting poiut a high 
hiil rises, which will be a most favorable place from which 
to watch the signals and shots. 
More Solid Evidence.— Mr. Gilbert Longfellow, of 
Roque Island, near Machias, Maine, complains in a letter, 
printed io our Natural History department, that a casual 
reference to himself has brought him so many applicants 
for eggs that they are a nuisance, or words that might im¬ 
ply as much. He refers to this fact (and so do we) as evi¬ 
dence of the advantage of advertising in our columns. 
—This Centennial year every inducement is being held 
out for people to travel. The Erie and New York Central 
are fighting over which will curry the passenger traffic. 
The fare to Niagara and Buffalo is $5, to Utica $4, to 
Chicago $13, and a proportionate rate to all points. 
FOREST PARK ASSOCIATIONS AND 
PROPRIETARY CLUBS. 
T HERE are quite a large number of shooting, fishing, 
and game protection clubs throughout the United 
States and Canada—most of them incorporated—that own 
considerable tracts of real estate, with buildings for the 
accommodation of members and guests, and all appurten¬ 
ances for their pleasure and convenience, and the objects 
generally for which they were formed. Among the oldest 
of these clubs are the fishing clubs at West Island, Pasque 
Island, and Cuttybunk, off the Massachusetts coast, the 
South Side club of Long Island, the Oquossoc fishing club 
of Ruugeley Lakes, Maine, the Long Point shooting club 
on Lake Erie, the Currituck shooting club of Nortli Caro¬ 
lina, and the Qua Qua shooting and fishing club of Wis¬ 
consin. All of these own considerable tracts of real estate, 
and valuable buildings. There are very many more that 
have been established on a similar basis within three years 
past; indeed, it is chiefly within three years that the innu¬ 
merable sporting clubs in nearly every State, of whatever 
character or scope, have been formed. Nearly all of them 
have the protection of game as a professed object, though 
they do not make the propagation of game and the culture 
of fisli a business or a study, their main object being a 
systematic prosecution of sport with rod and gun under 
the laws defining the close and open seasons. 
The Long Point club, if we are not mistaken, was the 
first chartered organization that purchased a large tract of 
country with the avowed object to protect it and the game 
in it. Its success was so great that, despite the opposition 
of ancient squatters on their territory, and persistent dep¬ 
redations . by outsiders, they found the game to have in¬ 
creased marvelously within three or four years, while the 
opposition of market hunters had proportionally decreased. 
This success was observed, and the example stimulated 
other organizations. 
For centuries the ownership of large forest lands for 
hunting purposes was a royal prerogative throughout all 
Europe, and until a very recent date, even within the con¬ 
tracted area of England, tracts of 20,000 acres or more, 
like the Black Forest and New Forest, were appropriated 
for the sport of the grandees, and jealously guarded by 
foresters and game keepers. We, in America, who claimed 
the “whole unbounded continent" as ours, had no need for 
reservations like these in the early days. The wilderness 
was around us, and the game was free. But with the en¬ 
croachment of population forests were felled, game became 
scarce, freeholders prevented trespass on their lands, and 
good bunting grounds became isolated and comparatively 
few. For awhile the lords of the manor could enjoy the 
privileges of royalty in democratic America on their seigno- 
rial domains, but these large tracts soon became too valu¬ 
able for individuals to hold, and they were cut up into par¬ 
cels. For individuals to reserve large ureas exclusively for 
hunting purposes was totally out of the question; but 
astute sportsmen, who Baw the game retreating rapidly, 
and perceived that they must soon travel immeasurable 
distances to find any at all, began to consider expedients. 
The initial result was the establishment, in 1871, of the 
Blooming Grove Park Association, in Pike county, Penn¬ 
sylvania, the editor of this paper being one of the incorpo¬ 
rators. This association now owns and leases about 12,000 
acres of forest land, which is an extent that compares 
favorably with the largest in Europe. It was found that a 
combination could assume obligations which the wealthiest 
individual could hardly do, and the results of five years 
appear in the gratifying annual exhibits of the Secretary 
of the association. The Park has become an attractive 
plaee of resort for sportsmen and their families from May 
to December; deer are very numerous, being not only 
protected, but propagated; the club house is the largest 
and best in America, and the primary objects of its projec¬ 
tors are in a fair way to be carried out to eminent success. 
That the preservation and reservation of suitable forest 
tracts for the public benefit has received the serious atten¬ 
tion of our leading statesmen is evinced by the setting aside 
of the Yellowstone region by Congress as a National Park, 
and the attempt to reserve theYosemite and the Adiron- 
dackB. Quite recently two forest park associations have 
been chartered—one embracing the Fuitoa chain of lakes 
in New York State, and the other certain districts near San. 
Francisco, California. We have referred to both of these 
within a month, and some additional information respect¬ 
ing the California enterprise will be found in the following 
letter. Both of these tracts, we should state, include many 
thousand acres:— 
y Sab FrAhcisco, Jane 4th, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
A week or two iu;o I sent you some account of my operations in ang¬ 
ling in Lake Merced, some few miles nearer our city than either lakee 
San Andreas or i'ilarcito.i (of the latter of whioh, when I visit it, 1 will 
also write you some description), and which are the principal pieces of 
water now leased by onr new sportsman’B club hare. I will now relate 
my piscatorial experience in San Andreas. Tnis line fresh water lake 
comprises an area of one thousand acres. It is surrounded by hills, and 
a few that may be termed mountains, partly clad in trees and shrnbbery, 
and partly in pasturage. The scene from our club house about the mid¬ 
dle of the lake is very rurally intereating and picturesque, a succession 
ol line headlands and small bays presenting themselves to the eye in 
looking either up or down it. The manner of flahing there, this eariy in 
the season at any rate, for sometimes there la bait angling, is by trolling 
from a boat a small spoon. The flab to be taken are a small species of 
silver salmon, or salmon trout, the general average of their weight this 
year being one pound and a half. Different from Lake Merced, this lake 
is naturally well supplied with small chubs, furnishing a good amount 
and description of food for their larger brethren. Also, the woods and 
brush on the west side furnish the salmou with abundance of insect 
provender. This lake is also about three or four feet higher Hum it was 
last season. It is likewise more, exposed to the strong west trade gales 
f rom the ocean, which blow almost daily in this region In the monthB of 
