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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
to Field and Aquatic Spouts, PracticalNatubal History, 
JjlBH.COI/rilRB, THE PROTECTION OP GAME, PRESERVATION OP FOKKPTB, 
AND TIIB INCULCATION IN MEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTEREST 
in Out-door Recreation and Study : 
PUBLISHED BY 
Rarest and §j>treatt\ publishing Hotngagg, 
17 CHATHAM STREET, (CITY HALE SQUARE) NEW YORK,. 
[Rost Office Box 2832.] 
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per cent.; over Bix months, 80 per cent. 
NEW YORK, THI RSDAY, JULY 13, 1876. 
To Correspondents. 
All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 
eorrcspondcnco, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 
lisrino Comp ant. 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 Names will not be published if 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 he 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 ClubB and Associations are nrged to favor ns with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medinm of useful and reliable information between gentle¬ 
men 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 Forest And Stream aim 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 aud water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms; and nothing will bo admitted to any department of the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible tor the dereliction of the mall service, if 
money remitted to ns is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES II AI.LOCR, 
Editor and Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM¬ 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday, July 13th.—Trotting-. Point Breeze Park, Philadelphia; 
Ambler Park, Pa.; Lake City, Minn.; Chester Park, Cincinnati. Rifle: 
Creedmoor. Base Ball: Mutna vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati; Bos'on 
vs Chicago, at Chicago; Hartford vs. St. Louis, at St. Louis; Athletic 
vs. Louisville, at Louisville; Alaska vs. Rochester, at Rochester, N. Y.; 
Nassau vs. Olympic, at Paterson, N. J.; Harlem vs. Mutual, at Mel¬ 
rose, N. T.; Orange vs Chelsea, at Orange, N. J. 
Friday, duly Mth.—Trotting: Chester Park, Cincinnati; Suffolk 
Park, Philadelphia. Base Ball: Arlington vs. Union, of Newark, at 
Jersey City, N. J.; Mutual vs. Chatham, at Hoboken, N. J.; .Etna, of 
Detroit, vs. Cricket, at Binghamton, N. Y. 
Saturday, .Inly 15th.-Trotting: Newark, N. J. Rifle: Matches at 
Creedmoor aud Glen Drake. Base Ball: Mutual vs, Cincinnati, at Cin¬ 
cinnati; Boston vs. Chicago, at Chicago; Hartford vs. St. Louis, at St. 
Louis; Athletic vs. Louisville; Lafayette vs. Nameless, at Milhum, N. 
j ■ Eureka vs. Union, at Unionsvillo, L. I.; Nameless vs. Winona, at 
Brooklyn, N. Y .: Tea vs. Coffee, at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Witoka vs La¬ 
fayette, at Brooklyn, N. Y.;C«tatest vs. Union, of Umonsvdle, at 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; Nameless* vs. Arlington, at Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hobo- 
ken vs. Staten Island, at Hoboken, N. J. 
Monday, July 17th.—Trotting; Newark, N. J. Rifle: Cavalry com¬ 
petitions at Creedmoor. Base Ball; Mutual, of Brooklyn, N. Y., vs. 
Buckoye, at Columbus, Ohio. 
) Tuesday, July 18th.—Trotting: Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, 111. Base 
Ball: Orange vs. Mutual of New York, at Orange, N. J-; Chelsea vs. 
Hoboken, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 
la Wednesday, July MtU.-Trotting. Columbus. Ohio: Chicago, Ill. 
Intercollegiate Regatta, Saratoga Lake. 
The Massacre.— Custer is dead! The gallant soldier 
and sportsman whom all knew and loved has “been cut off 
In his prime.” The brave “Long-hair,” the Indian’s most 
dreaded foe, is gone, and the savage sings his war song ot 
rejoicing and victory. The particulars of the sad catas¬ 
trophe by which General Custer and his five companies of 
cavalry were entirely annihilated have already been flashed 
through the breadth and length of the land. Of the de¬ 
tails and probable causes which led to the affair we shall 
ever remain in doubt, as none survived to tell the tale. It 
is hut too probable, however, that, led on by his intrepid 
bravery, aud under estimating the strength of his enemy, 
General Custer charged, sanguine of victory, only to find 
himself hemmed in by an overpowering force. And yet 
there is r something still inexplicable about the fight. Three 
hundred men, intrenched, could hold out for a long time 
against an immense number of Indians, as witness General 
Reno’s gallant stand. There is more probably to come in 
the way of detail than has reached ns in the neoegsanly 
meagre dispatches. 
SPORTSMEN’S ROUTES OF SUMMER 
TRAVEL. 
G ENTLEMEN seeking for desirable localities for sum¬ 
mer vacations will find their choice greatly facili¬ 
tated by reference to the numerous advertisements of 
popular routes printed in our columns, and a close exami¬ 
nation of tlie special information given therein. Beaders 
of Forest and Stream look at sublunary matters Irom 
an aesthetic and not a commercial stand-point. They buy 
horses for pleasure and not for hauling merchandize; guns 
for diversion, and not for killing redskins, although their 
quest for game often leads them into the hunting grounds 
of the hair-lifters; fishirig gear for pastime, and not for 
commercial emoluments; vessels for holiday cruises and 
not for transporting goods; gunpowder for the field, and 
not for blasting rocks. So, also, they patronize railroads 
and hotels, not for the commercial advantages they afford, 
hut as means of quick transit to pleasant resorts and re¬ 
laxation from business cares, and comfortable resting places 
for body and mind. As they have now learned to look to 
this paper for assistance in securing for themselves the 
highest gratification, with the least risk of disappointment, 
these advertisements have been prepared expressly for 
their service. Most of the lines advertised are not to be 
found in the general newspaper, so that he who examines 
our columns will be spared the vexation of fruitless search, 
or the necessity of purchasing and probing voluminous 
railway guides. The information given will be found 
most valuable. 
The Maine Central takes the tourist by the preferred 
route to the Bangeley lakes, where the mammoth speckled 
trout of America dwell, and also penetrates to some of the 
choicest resorts in Maine, 
The Intercolonial, recently opened, carries the traveller 
to the very threshold of the choicest hunting and fishing 
grounds of five of the Canadian Provinces—Ontario, Que¬ 
bec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward’s Island, and Nova 
Scotia—places hitherto accessible only by long and intricate 
journeys and old-time conveyauces. 
The Northern Bailway of Canada reaches by an all rail 
and steamboat route the much talked-of districts of 
Muskoka, Magnetewan, and Nipissing, and the finest 
summer resort in the Province—Lake Couchiching—with 
its immense hotel, embellished ’with flower gardens and 
private drives over a mile and a half of its own territory, 
and supplied with every known appliance of attraction by 
land or water. 
The Collingwood steamers traverse the north coast of Lake 
Superior and reach to the finest trout river in the world— 
where the trout grow to fabulous weights and sizes, not eveu 
attained by the fish of Kangely Lakes. If one desires, he 
can continue by steamer to Duluth and the great west 
beyond, or be can take the “Dawson Route” at Fort 
William, and by a series of steamer excursions and portages 
by wagon, traverse, in four days, the chain of lakes that 
form open communication with the Selkirk settlement in 
Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Ihe Red River of the North, 
returning, if he elect, by steamer and rail through Minne¬ 
sota to St. Paul. 
The Chicago and North Western Railway opens up the 
wonderful resources of the great West,with its vast prairies 
and mountains, abounding in game birds, animals, aud 
fish of infinite variety. Its branches cover all the country 
west, north, and northwest of Chicago, reaching to the 
waters of northern Michigan, of the southern coast of 
Lake Superior to southern Minnesota, and, if desired, to 
,he Pacific coast. 
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad penetrates to 
he northern wilderness of Michigan and the home of the 
N-ayling, and not only grayling, but trout, black bass, pike, 
md muscalonge. Dogs, guns, and fishing tackle are 
-arried free over this route, and the officers of the road 
nake it an especial object to attract and provide for sports- 
nen There is ample tavern accommodations along the 
ine’where one can at least be comfortable, if he can’t 
uxuriate. Camp cars are furnished for fishing parties and 
’amilies at low rates. This is a new feature, and offers to 
sportsmen comforts not known to their kith in Europe. 
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’s new rail¬ 
road is the shortest route to the Adirondacks, saving 
tedious wagon travel, and taking the visitor to the very 
mteway of this Sportsman’s Paradise. 
= The Pennsylvania Central, with its extensive ramifica¬ 
tions will carry the tourist into the heart of the Alleghames 
md the Blue Ridge, with its abuudant game and romantic 
C The New Jersey Southern Railroad takes one to Barne- 
rat with its rare fishing and shooting-hi uefish in myriads, 
bass, weakfish, sheepshead, quail, ducks, geese, and bay- 
birds-extending to Cape May, Egg Harbor, and the van- 
-jus intermediate fashionable summer resorts. 
The Long Island Railroad renders the salt water attrac¬ 
tions of the Great South Bay, with its fish and wild fowl, 
»asily accessible from New York, and brings to our very 
doors one of the finest sporting districts in America. 
The south side of Long Island has been the sum¬ 
mer resort of the Knickerbockers of New Tork for 
Half a century. The trout in its streams the bluefish 
and weakfish under the waters, and the wild fowl on the 
waters of the Great South Bay have made that favored 
spot a household word among pleasuic Dctkeia and sports- 
men The present season finds the hotels at Babylon, Bay 
Shore, Islip, Sayville, and Patohogue well filled, and with 
the general reduction in prices for hoard, economy, as well 
[is comfortjmd pleasure, can,.be considered- The “south. 
Bide,” as well as all other parts of Long Island, can be 
reached by the Long Island, Flushing, North Shore andi 
Central and Southern Railroads, now all under one man¬ 
agement. Drawing-room cars are now on express trains. 
The time-table of these roads will be found in our adver¬ 
tising columns. 
The New Haven Bteamers afford the most delightful 
route to the White Mountains and the Connecticut Valley, 
and the Erie road opens up the attractions of western New 
York and Pennsylvania. 
This very,'cursory sketch shows that by the Toutes adver¬ 
tised in our paper the tourist can reach all of the most 
desirable summer resorts in the country; and we trust that 
both advertiser and subscriber will find it to their interest 
always to continue to use the Forest and Stream as a 
medium for their profit and pleasure in all things. 
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Greenwood Lake. —This is the nearest forest lake to 
the City of New York. It is twelve miles long, and af¬ 
fords excellent sport to the angler, while the surrounding 
wilderness furnishes small game in its season. The hotels 
on itB charming borders afford every luxury, while its 
proximity enables the tourist to reach it in a brief time, it 
being about GO miles from the city, some 48 by the Erie 
railway, and the remainder by an excellent carriage road. 
Those who have been in the habit of spending their sum¬ 
mers there, and alt persons interested in having an angling 
ground accessible and neat by, will make it convenient to 
respond to the appeal of Wm. O. McDowell, through our 
advertising columns, urging the formation of an associa¬ 
tion for stocking and preserving Greenwood Lake with fish. 
A preliminary meeting will be held for this purpose ou 
July 23d at the Brandon House, head of the lake. This 
lake now affords superb black bass fishing, and those who 
are interested intend to keep its attractions up. 
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Mr. Beugh and thf. Turtles. —At the instance of the 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Mr. 
Eugene G. Blackford, the Fulton Market fish dealer, was 
recently arrested. The charge was that Mr. Blackford 
had violated the law in turning turtles on their backs and 
allowing them to remain in that position with their flippers 
tied together. The case was tried in the Court of Special 
Sessions, before three justices, on the IstiuBt., and resulted 
in the acquittal of Mr. Blackford, the decision of the 
Court being that no case had been proved. The bulk of 
testimony certainly was in favor of Mr, Blackford’s side of 
the case, and he was fortified with letters from eminent 
authorities, among them Professor Baird, certifying that 
turtles are more at ease, when in captivity, on their backs 
than on their bellies. Mr. Bergli, however, is notsalisfled, 
and will probably take an early opportunity to test the 
question again. 
Melons. —Our good friend Mr. Chas. G. Kendall, of 
Port Royal, has forwarded us a crate of excellent melons 
from his plantation on Palmetto Island. With the excep¬ 
tion of one or two, into which the rats had forced an 
entrance, they came in excellent order, thanks to the care 
exercised on hoard the “ City of Dallas," of Mr. Herman 
Grepke's line. Received at this . particular juncture, they 
were doubly welcome and refreshing. 
Now, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Wild Charley, Donald 
McKay’, and the Warm Spring Indians, doff the sock and 
buskin, and don the stock and buckskin and .march to the 
the front! Good scouts are in demand, and real fighting 
plenty. Buffalo Bill, by the way, is, we believe, already 
with General Crook’s command. Some of the papers are, 
we observe, speaking slightingly of General Crook as an 
Indian fighter. This is all wrong. General 'Crook was 
the first man to settle the Apache question in Arizona, 
and his abilities to deal with the savages are considered, 
there at least, of the highest order. 
—The attention of sportsmen going to Canada, the Mar 
itime Provinces especially, is called to the advertisement 
of the Intercolonial Railway in our columns. There is 
speedy and continuous connection now between Halifax and 
Quebec, and any person visiting the Bay Chaleur or points 
on the north shore of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 
(Gulf of St. Lawrence), will find this the shortest and easiest 
means of access thereto. There are Pullman cars on the 
whole route from Halifax to Quebec. 
Caution.— There is much danger in shooting woodcock 
in the summer season in thick cover, where the party num¬ 
bers two or more. With a party of four shooting near 
Secaucus on the opening day were two young friends of 
ours brothers. A line had been formed and kept up, hut 
one dropped back, and his brother, turning to shoot at a 
bird which was behind him, put over two hundred pellets 
in his thighs, at fifteen or twenty yards distance. There 
was a narrow escape from death or frightful injury, and 
much unhappiness to two persons, y et no one was to blame 
—only it was -July shooti ng.^ _ 
Off fob OANADA.-The Editor-in-chief is now absent 
on his customary salmon fishing cruise to Canada. He 
will travel over the entire newly constructed portion or the 
Intercolonial Railroad between Quebec and Shediac, and 
get such information as may be of value to sportsmen in 
future, and to the readers of Fobbs r and Stream in par- 
ticular. 
For twenty consecutive days the thermometer has ranged 
as high as 90' and over in the city ; something unparalleled. 
