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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practicai, Naturae History, 
FiSii.CDi.ruBE, the Protection of Gawk,Preservation of Forests, 
ai.’d the Inculcation in Men and Women op a healthy interest 
IN OUT-DOOB RECREATION AND STUDY : 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876. 
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Editor and Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM¬ 
ING WEEK. 
Thuusdat, July 6th.—Racing: Long Branch. Trotting: Meriden, 
Conn.; Ameoia, N. Y.; Suffolk Park, Philadelphia; Detroit, Mich; 
Belmont Park, Philadelphia; Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia. Re¬ 
gatta: Bnrlington, Iowa. Rifle: Sharpshooter's Union, Philadelphia. 
Base-Ball: Mutual vs. Louisville, at Louisville, Ky.; Boston vs. St. Louis, 
at St. Louis, Mo.: Hartford vs. Chicago, at Chicago, Ill.; Athletic vs. St. 
Lonis, at St. Louis, Mo.; Olympic vs. Covington Star, at Paterson, N. 
J.; Alaska vs. Wilkesbarre, at Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Friday, July 7th.—Trotping: Suffolk Park, Belmont Park, Point 
Breeze Park, Philadelphia; Detroit, Mich. Base-Ball: Alaska vs. Car- 
bondule, at Scranton, Pa. Beverly Yacht Club Regatta. 
Saturday, July $th.—Racing: Long Branch. Trotting: Detroit, 
Mich.; Belmont Park, Philadelphia. Rifle: Creedmoor. Base-Ball: 
Mutaal vs. Louisville, at Louisville; Boston vs. St. Louis, at St. Loots; 
Hartford vs. Chicago, at Chicago; Athletic vs. Cincinnati at Cincinnati; 
Alaska vs. Irving, at Scranton; Brooklyn vs. Cricket, at Binghamp- 
ton; Nameless vs. Staten Island, at (Staten Island; Produco Ex. vs. 
Stationer’s Ex„ Brooklyn; Goodwill vs. Osceola at Brooklyn. 
Monday, July 10th.—Trotting; Ambler Park, Pa.; First race for 
‘■America” cup, N. Y. Harbor. Base Ball: Alaska vs. Cricket, at Biug- 
iampton. 
Tuesday, July lith.—Trotting: Ambler Park, Pa.; Point Breeze 
Park, Pa.; Chester Park, Cincinnati. Base-Ball: Volunteer vs. Cricket, 
at Binghamptou; Alaska vs. Ithaca, at Ithaca, N. Y.; Chatham vs. 
Brooklyn, at Hoboken, N. J.; Resolute vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn; Union 
vs. Olympic, at Paterson; Mutual vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati; Boston 
vs. Chicago, at .Chicago; Harttord vs. St. Louis, at St. Louis; Athletic 
vs. Louisville, at Louisville. 
Wednesday, July 12th.—Trotting as above. Second race for “Ameri¬ 
ca" cup. Meeting of Wisconsin State Sportsman’s Association, Madi¬ 
son, Wis. 
_Id summer woodcock shooting the cover is often so 
dense that the shooter is unable to see his dog or to know 
whether he is still working or on a point. In such cases a 
bell can he used to great advantage, and Messrs. Benin 
Bros., of East Hampton, Ct., whose advertisement ap¬ 
pears iu another column, are manufacturing a small, fine- 
loned bell for the purpose, which costs but a small sum. 
The bells are finished in both nickel plate and silver, and 
are arranged to slide on or off the collar. 
Woodoock IN Connecticut —The Connecticut House 
of Representatives has passed the Senate bill which permits 
the shooting of Woodcock in that State from July 1st to 
February 1st, excepting during the month of August. 
Important.— Care should be t&kuu, in buy ing Fishing or Hunting Suits, 
to get a genuine Holahird Suit, and not one of the worthless imitarions 
which me boiDg put on the market, Tho best is the cheapest.—Ady. 
OUR CENTENNIAL. 
T HE steady march of one hundred, years has brought 
our Republic’s army of citizens to their first centu¬ 
ry’s halt. It is with a joy almost fierce that the American 
pauses and looks back over the ground he has traversed 
and exults at. the fulfillment of the fair promise of his 
youth. America has reached its majority, and the Ameri¬ 
can asserts his right to admission to the councils of the 
world! 
It is a grand occasion, and while the “powers” of the 
Old World may smile at the grotesque enthusiasm of our 
celebration, they will pardon us when they remember the 
trials and triumphs that have attended the Republic’s 
youth, the severe buffetings it has had, the home discord 
which nearly caused its ruin. 
Looking upon the material progress which our country 
has made within the century, those departments of science 
included within the scope of this journal should by no 
means be overlooked. That of Fish Culture is the growth 
of the last quarter of a century. In 1776 there was no 
need of it; most of the streams which our commissioners 
are now so anxious to re-stock with trout, salmon, shad or 
bass, were unknown to any other angler lhau the red man 
whose spear could never deplete their abundance. 
In hunting, the old flint-lock has given place to J f lie 
muzzle-loader, and that to the double-barrelled breech¬ 
loader, quick and sure. It is curious to recall how steadily 
these successive innovations have been resisted. Many an 
old fogy long looked with suspicion upon the percussion- 
cap; and afterwards regarded the substitution of the shell 
with equal disfavor. 
In natural history, America has taken her place among 
the foremost in the age. Rafinesque, Wilson, Audubon, 
Townsend, Cassin, Gould, Binney, Wyman, Emmons, 
Hitchcock, and many others laid the foundations of the 
study of nature in this country within the past century, 
and have gone to their rest. Yet under what disadvantages 
the earlier ones worked. There were no scientific societies, 
no libraries, no museums worth speaking of, and little 
means of publication this side of Europe. This was not 
much changed until Agassiz came to this country in 1847, 
began the erection of the magnificent museum at Cambridge 
which has become the Mecca of American naturalists, and 
gathered about him that band of naturalists, Alex. Agassiz, 
Theo. Lyman, Verrill, Shaler, Packard, Morse, Hyatt, 
Putnam, Hagen, Allen, St. John, and the rest who are now 
leading research. About the same time the Smithsonian 
Institution was founded “for the increase and diffusion of 
knowledge among men,” and under the gnidanee of Profs. 
Henry and Baird, has accumulated vast stores of books 
and materials for the elaboration of the working naturalist. 
Academies of Science have sprung up at Boston, New 
York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Buffalo, San Francisco, 
Charleston, and other cities, and It is not too much to say, 
that if collecting should cease completely now, there is 
material enough stored in these museums to keep American 
naturalists busy for another hundred years in c’oset studies. 
To us as sportsmen, Simon pure, looking at the Centennial 
from a point the most natural for us to take up, we are not 
sure that our enthusiasm can be called unbounded. 
The wilderness of the olden times has its own romance 
and its own attractions. It was the home of the early nim- 
rods of America, the scene of their conflicts, of their feats 
of daring, of their wonderful adventures by flood and fell, 
The backwoodsman, the wigwam, the log hut, the trail, 
the moccasin, have romance in their very names. In con. 
nection with them we are disposed less to laud the conver¬ 
sion of rivers into highways, than to lament the lost 
streams whose rocky beds alone remain to mark their 
course, less to admire the fruitful fields of the West than 
to linger over traditions of its old time glory. It is true 
that if there were fish then, there are also fish to-day. 
Even Izaak Walton, the immortal, may have delighted 
some early settler on the Father of Waters, as he traveled 
towards the setting sun, just as to-day he stands pre-eminent 
as the philosopher of the rod. It is true that if all change 
has not been for the better, a little of it has been so. We 
do things more scientifically now-a-days, with our rifles 
designed for all purposes, with our breech-loaders, and our 
wonderfully natural artificial flies, but that is all we have 
to show for the loss of many a stately forest and fruitful 
stream. The appliances of science, the results of ingenuity, 
so far as sportsmen are concerned, must engage unequally 
in an endeavor to compensate for the irretrievable loss sus¬ 
tained in the sweeping change which has overspread the 
face of nature. 
We are lucky, however, that we can leave the deafening 
din of the stately city, mount our iron horse, aud ride a 
thousand miles away, and there, near by where perhaps 
the braves-of an Indian tribe are sleeping, peacefully ply 
the “gentle art,” as we meditate upon America’s present 
greatness, the glories of a hundred years of independence, 
and the history which added centuries are to create. Let 
us be great and good as we ar e great. 
International Rowing. —Since our comments upon this 
subject in last week’s-issue, we have official information 
that Dublin will not compete in the International Regatta 
at Saratoga. Dublin has, however, not only declared her 
intention of entering at the Centennial Regatta, but has 
been the first of all clubs to send an official entry naming 
her crew, and remitting the e ntrance fee. 
—Leland’s Clarendon hotel at Saratoga, is receiving a 
large patronage from summer sojourners. It is delight¬ 
fully located, and one of the most popular resorts at the 
Springs. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
Ohio.—A special meeting of the Ohio State Sportsmen's 
Association is called for this day, at the rooms of the Cu¬ 
vier Club, in Cincinnati, when important business was to 
have been presented to the members present. Under the 
presidency of Hon. Thomas A. Logan the Ohio Associa¬ 
tion lias been untiring, even in the face of discouragement, 
in its efforts to promote the best Interests not only of the 
sportsman but.of all who are interested in the protection 
of fish and game. If we remember aright, the last Ohio 
Legislature, passed a trespass act, which is most obnoxious 
in its provisions, placing restrictions upon shooting which 
are almost insurmountable. If the present meeting of the 
Ohio Association was with a view to procuring an abrogation 
of this act, we trust that it may be successful. 
Minnesota. —A sportsman’s club for the preservation of 
game aud enforcement of game laws has been organized at 
Shaltopee, Scott County, Minn. The following are the 
officers of the club until the next annual election: W. H. 
Briggs (commonly called “Governor”), President; John 
McMullen, Vice President; Wm, Wilson (judge), Secreta¬ 
ry; Chas. Bormarth, Treasurer; Executive Committee, 
President and Vice President, C. A. Stephens, John Sen- 
eerbox, and L. E. Moody. A meeting will be held on 
July 10th to adopt articles and by-laws. There will be 
plenty prairie chickens there this season. 
SPORTSMAN’S CLUB OF CALIFORNIA 
AND. FOREST AND STREAM. 
Sam Francisco, Jane, 1876. 
Editor Forest and Stream :— 
We are getting along finely with oar sportsman’s club. We have now 
about 180 members. The fishing for salmon and trout In Lakes Merced 
and San Andreas has not, up to this lime, been so guod as it was last 
year, but in Filarcitos Lake some very nice sport has been enjoyed, 
many good-sized tront haying been captnrcd with the tly, spoon and 
The constitution and by-laws of the dub, in pamphlet form, have 
just been published, with a list of members. In it ate some of the best 
and wealthiest men of the city and State. The by-laws consist of arti¬ 
cle 1, section 1: No person shall use more than one rod at one time, 
while fishing in any of the waters under the control of tho club, aud no 
trout, grilse, or salmon shall be taken from such waters, except with rod 
aud reel. No persons shall set any lines for capturiDg fish from the 
shore, or shall fish during the night in any sncli waters. Section 2. Por- 
sons not members of the club may be admitted to the privileges of the 
same, subject to the following regulations: A member may invite one 
or more guests to the club bouse or waters of the club, and such guests 
shall be subject to all the rales governing the members of the dull, and 
the member shall be held responsible for the conduct of his gaests, and 
for any pecuniary responsibility which they may incar. Members shall 
pay $2.50 per day for each guest fishing any waters controlled by the 
clnb. In the California I/orticulturisl I have now a sporting depart¬ 
ment -the Rod and Gun. It is in the Jnno number, but for some mouths 
previously I had prepared aud published articles of this character. This, 
I hope, may lead sportsmen here to send for your excellent weekly, tho 
Forest and Stream, (as a nibble at my papers may Induce a good bite 
at yonrs) a work which treats so instructively and amnslngly at large ou 
all such matters; such as the narratives and adventures iu both shooting 
and fishing from dl points ot tho world, with all other sporting subjects 
and natural history, botany, etc., etc., being most inviting and interest¬ 
ing to all lovers of such things, who are evidently increasing in numbers 
every day. Fishermen who take delight m the rod, and sportsmen who 
are equally rood of the gun, miss a vast amount of pleasure and infor¬ 
mation when your splendid and variously furnished work is us a sealed 
book to them. This I assert in all sincerity and truth, with a thorough 
conviction that your periodical only wants to be seeu aud read by all 
trne followers of field sports for them to lose no line In sending for it 
at the small price for which they cad obtain so valuable and enjoyable 
a publication. E. J. Hooper. 
We certainly attach proper value to the expression of 
approval which the well-informed editor of the California 
Horticulturist has so kindly volunteered in behalf of this 
journal, and are proud and pleased lo have earned it. If 
the circulation of this paper is not so large as he and its 
other patrons think it should he, or is not multiplying with 
geometrical strides, it is attributable in a great degree to the 
universal hard Limes which "try men's souls” now, just as 
they did in 1770. Nevertheless, we have no reason to com¬ 
plain, either of the paucity or of the intelligence of our 
constituency, which includes without doubt a larger pro¬ 
portion of eminent men of the United States and Canada 
than any other journal. To have such support is success 
in itself, and to have earned it is an honorable reward of 
effort. Mr. Hooper has contributed largely to the columns 
of the Forest and Stream information relative to mat¬ 
ters and things on his side of the continent, especially of 
the Sulmomda; and we are encouraged to learn from him¬ 
self that he is to include a natural science department in 
his valuable magazine. This will add much to its interest 
in the view of eastern readers; and will supply a source 
of information much needed by sportsmen, namely, a 
journal devoted to the physical geography and natural his¬ 
tory sports and characteristics of the Pacific coast. 
Obituary.— We have to add to the list of friends of this 
paper who have lately deceased, the name of John Auchiu- 
closs. Well known as a man and a merchant in this city, we 
cun only allude to his high qualities as a disciple of the ang¬ 
ling art. But a few clays before his death Mr. Auchinelo65 
called at our office, and obtained samples of the flies most 
likely to be of service on his Canadian trip. But the flies 
were destined never to be wetted; he had only reached 
Quebec, when the summons mot him, and the journey wa3 
suddenly cut short. Mr. Auchincloss was un ardent and 
skillful salmon angler, and his trips lo his favorite river 
were anticipated and enjoyed with the keenest relish. We 
add our mite of sympathy for those left, to the abundant 
measure from a thousand sorrowing friends, 
—The "Forest and Stream-Hat," made by Espenseheid, 
118 Nassau, is very beautiful. We sport one of them. 
