FOREST AND STREAM. 



289 



and rapidly increased on the estate, not only by natural in- parson or prince of life mim, is obliged to don a white apron 

 crRaseandtheorotectionofitsdwn premises, bul by ad- andaatrawMtaaddoMsparUiithe coolong and prtmd- 



pledged topartaka 01 Are world 



■i i : e and the protection of its 

 ditions to il from Other and more frequently huu 

 of the country; and the woods may now lie said to be lairly 

 well stocked wifli deer, turkeys, pheasants and all kinds of 



game. 



To make all these advantages available fremienl and quick 

 men n-s of access are of course necessary. These have bap- 

 pily been secured through the valuable co-operation ot the 

 management of the Baltimore >fir Ohio Railroad, which was 

 nor slow to see the benefits which would accrue to itself 

 from a liberal policy in this respect, but; was wise enough 

 also to realize i he 'importance of aiding an organization 

 Which had a higher object than merely the pleasures of 

 own members in view. I' uderslatiijing the extent I 

 the propagation and preservation of food supplies is 

 ing a factor in untionnl economy, if has sho 

 ItlOU to aid and encourage, the cluh in it 

 direction., audtoafford its members and tin 

 accommodation possible. It has aceordinly 

 rate fare and issued special round trip tit 

 used, for the benefit of the club, and all trfl 

 10 Stop at Great Cacapon station, to 

 members, when re 

 this excellent prog 

 the 10:15 A. ML e 



P. M in time for 

 after angling or h 

 6-P, M. and arrivi 

 party orj g< •■ 



efforts i 

 r guests 



hiell 



:om 

 Bpo- 

 Ehis 



ss 



intfl 

 cted 



,tcd by one of Ibem to do 50. Under 

 nc members may li ave v\ askington by 



ss, and be on (he club grounds by 2 

 led afteiHMon'.-- gunning or fishing; or 

 Litr all day. theytnay leave there after 



tome by 0:30, in time for a ball or 



)hio Canal Company has also afforded 



all possible facilities to the club, and through its friendly 

 aid and that of the railroad company, telephonic communica- 

 tion between the cluh house and the railroad Station, a mile 

 distant, has been secured— a matter of convenience to tire 

 members of the club and their guests. 



The members of the club who first started it us a private asso- 

 ciation soon saw the 

 organization, li 

 carry out its ol 

 incorporation - 

 land m March, 



and carries on its affair.-. By the terms of its constitution 

 the membership is limited to 'thirty-three, and the initiation 

 fee is now fixed at {500. To each member one share of 

 stock is issued, (lie possession of which entitles him to all 

 the privileges and advantages of the club and to a propor- 

 tionate share of its property, as in other corporations. If may 

 not, however, be sold or disposed of as other stock, in open 

 market, but under the by-laws cau only be transferred back, 

 in the event of resignation or death, to the club, at sucl 



Ml 

 renowned and seductive flfl] hou 

 M in was [list -'brewed" ut, the club house. Yesterday a grave 

 judge was observed peeling potatoes, a parson picking 

 Strawberries, B prominent lawyer opening oysters, and a 

 noted statesman sealing shad for planking. Under the trees 

 a large, kettle boiling and Bending off its savory s< earn of 

 Cooking chowder was stirred by one of Philadelphia's 

 society 'men. and near by him were two more well km v , 

 gentlemen basting two sucking pigs as they were being 

 barbecued. 



The dinner was rated a BU'ecesSi and when the -mi set the 

 American flag was lowered from the •■castle." as the fish 



hOUfie is called, and the "citizens" and their guests left their 

 ■•Slate" sober and in good spirits after an enjoyable day. 



II OilO. 



run.AiiEi.enu. .May ;i. ' 



THE UBIQUITOUS SILAS. 



N the Fokest AM' Stueah of October 18, 1881, page 

 ] taken from the Efng- 

 ntitlcd "A Study From 



I 213, "we published n li 



ston F) 



Life." If was ash 

 The subject of the! 



country hoi el. Old a 



upon his wrinkled liai 



iiar'ilv :,,.'■ I' V-'n !:' 1 

 below the bolt, which 



f the i 



eccssitv of a sir 



mger and more flexible 



ordei 



to bold real est 



te and otherwise bettor 



ects. 



With this cud 



n view a special act of 



-as pi 



ocured from the 



Legislature bl Maxy- 



1SS2.. 



and under tills 



charter it now exists 



price as may be fix 

 This provission in n 

 oids o desirable men 

 insure hat mony and congen 

 that a single member's obj 

 election of any applicant Eoi 



A1 the present time the roller 

 names, leaving only four vacancies 



he club is in no hurry to till 

 B as follows : F. A. Ashford. 



John A. Baker, J. H. B: 



B. E 



T. Hi 



ly the committee of management. 

 i'aiw, as anyone can see. to secure 

 hip; and in order to still further 

 reniality in the club it is provided 

 objecting voice shall prevent the 

 bership. 



'iinu 



tw 



nty-i 



ind these, it is undor- 

 The members at this 



A . W, Bacon, Maroellus 

 •v, R. J. Bright. B. C. 

 Eils. Earl English. A. II. Evans. R. I). 

 i-ison Garrett, George p. Goff. S. H. Kauff- 

 . Lee, L. Z, Loiter. F. B. McGuirc. W. 0. 

 !. MoJtee, Warner Miller, Crosby S". Noyes, 

 ;, George M, Robeson, George P. Rowrll. 

 1, Frank Taylor, J. M. Tinker, W. C. Wood, 



nllemen comprised in this list the 

 need no introduction: but for the 

 laid lhat ii includes promi- 



incml" r 



of Congres; 

 al services 

 ie, most of 



ivhi. h 



nben 



stood 



dale a: 



llailey 



Dram 



Evans 



mann, Willi; 



Mclntyrc D 



H. F. Pieki 



Thomas Bus: 



Levi Woodbury. 



To the most of the 

 people of Washinid 

 benefit of strangers i 

 nent private citizens 

 and distinguished officers in tne 

 of the country. As would mnui 

 tlirin reside in or are identified 

 li-t also comprises enough of n 

 where to give a distinctly liberal 

 to the club, tk* prime objects of 

 healthful recreation and rational enjoy 

 Already been largely secured, not for its 

 for their friends as well, who from timi 

 tabled by them. Indeed, hospitality I; 

 marked t'he history ol the club so far. 

 or guests - of individual members last summer, were many 

 persons distinguished in all walk-, of life, including the 

 President of the United States, and the coining season 

 promises to lie even more brilliant and pleasant in Ibis re- 

 spect than any that have preceded it, 



Al the annual meeting of the club, held Thursday even- 

 ing, the following officers were unanimously elected: Presi 

 dead, S. II. EauHmann; Vice-president, "E. 11. Ricking; 

 Treasurer, Thomas Russell: Secretary, W. 0. Melntyre; 

 Committee of .Management, the president and treasurer, ex- 

 officio, and Messrs. Levi, Woodbury, W. 0. Melntyre and 

 F. B, MeGuire. 



By the official reports preaa 

 in a prosperous and llourishin 

 otherwise, and measures were 

 was unusually full and spirited 

 lions and improvements, whi 

 value and desirability of its fil 

 COmfdrl and enjoymeni of its 



Before adjourning, the Ilia 

 inou&ly voted to the retiring p: 

 recognition of his long and 



lo eat. aud if appear- that tor sumc inscrutable reason this 

 unfortunate Silas is bound lo him— as (hang to Bug— and 

 must ever follow in his percgri nations, nodding vigorously 

 in a never-oeasine. St. Vitus dance affirmation. We shall 

 not be surprised" to lind ilie two bobbing up serenely in 

 another barroom next spring, and by and by, perhaps in 

 about live years from now, they may reach' the Rockies, 

 where the old man will try the big tish. 



WHAT THE FISHERMAN SAID. 



EtiHi-f Fin-eat tend Stream; 



In the last issue of Forest and Stbeasij t ou publish "A 

 Momentous Question," in which yon quote il story of a man 



who had some I ks in holes through the ice, and another 



man came in a sleigh ami pulled out a big tish and made off 

 with it. In your editorial comments you wonder what (he. 

 fisherman said. As the man drove off before the fisherman 

 could reach him, the latter must have spoken in a loud voice 

 in order to be hoard, and I imagine that he shouted some- 

 what in tl is strain: "Bless your dear old heart, you blessed 

 fellow, if you come this way again don't hurry off so. and I 

 will mokQ.it pleasant Co* you. May the fish sit easy on your 

 stomach bless you." -\f least he could have said this. 



(i. \i. 



E,lil»r Jfomt urn/ strdtm: 



\\ i, ni did the fisherman aayv Why be never uttered a 

 word. Like the profane old "fellow who found lhat the 

 boys had loosened the tail-board of his w agon and let his 

 apples in'o the street to hear him swear, he just stood still 

 and looked amazed. Win u be was asked why he made no 

 remark, lie answered! No use: 1 couldn't do justice to the 

 subject. '"' M - 



EiUor Tfyrent and simim: 



The fisherman mi-ht not have said much, hut his panto- 

 mime would have been worth seeing. R. G. 



of his lealher-lik" 



slook. 



incredul 

 marks >>t an appw 

 there. Sny, Site, aiu i 

 ;, H Heir Writ. 



The ajjed Walton «•< 

 - down i' the bridge ; 

 thicker'timy linger, n 

 a ilsli I har the darn fo 

 and Hit flsh ruiunV r< 



THE PIKE-PERCH. 



EiiUor VormtanH Sbvom: 



1 see in your issue of April '.'li a 

 O'Brien, of Milwaukee. Wis., i 

 states that I have manifestly confi 

 gruss-pike or pickerel. Mr. O'Brien giv 

 making this statement "that tie pike | 

 shoals or enters creeks, but inhabits dee. 

 It is plain to me that Mr. O'Brien lias heeuinisled by the words 

 Cypress ('reek and Mussel Shoals. I suppose that the 

 former term suggests to him a sluggish, muddy stream, with' 

 " ooze; when, in reality, the stream in 



omimmicatiou from Mr. 

 the course of which he 

 nded the pike-perch with 



ni clej 



is a hold. How 

 •elly bottom. ; 

 and pure as 

 I .applied to a 



ml win. 



ulet, 



ntci 



jii. 



Tl.ii': I V 

 Ion y coo 

 loot 1 set 



Th 



cha 



n yisterd 

 study" 



,cter v 



] tli.-deiuirtuve oft] 

 ■I kiiidoi-lhinl.-.yo 



rill be recognized as I 



ith which we are all i 

 truth so lifelike that 



The sketi 



first saw it, as we do now-, thai il 

 from the living subji-ct by an ' art) 

 conceive of no good reason for que 

 renceof the incident, in 1881, as h< 



The New York Heraldol April I 

 the caption "A Lesson in the Gent 



Two well equipF 



iaithful delineation 

 cor less familiar. 

 believed when we 

 have been taken 

 he spot." We can 

 g the actual ocour- 

 irded. 



13, reported, under 

 the following: 



■mien stewed inn. an old fash- 

 C EuOSg Island. As iia-v placed 



.si person, who sat tilted baeic 



to 



ime are enter- 



I-. i, 



ri-ndv atronglj 



Ann 



ag us guests, 



ted the cluh was shown to be 

 g condition, financially and 

 taken by the meeting, which 

 . to make siill further addi- 



ch will greatly increase the 

 e properly and promote the 

 nembers and their guests. 

 nks of the club were unani- 

 .sHleni, Mr. A. II. Evans, in 

 iie.-i devotion to the interests 

 of the organization, of which he has been the chief and 

 active officer since its foundation several years ago. 



"I seed a feller, tori n" stylish chop, down tor the bridge yesterday, 

 an' he didn't have a lishm pole no Uiieker'n my linger, with a Utile 

 clock onto it. and wlu-n he hooked a tish tlinr Hie darned fool sUm,.1 

 turnin' theliaudle u' lli.-n bole i-Io'I;, and tin- n^li nmnin' rmin' an" 



roun'.an" i lie liole (ishin" pole 1 lin".and I swar-an" ain't Llail Hie 



Cod's (null. Kilev" Silas nodded vigorously •■If h.- didn't DioLkey 

 anMnoukev for purtv niirh half on hour with that ere ;i-n ai"..r.- in- 

 got his ilippers onlo him. Now thal's wot 1 call cussed v,,., -.;,-. 

 None o' yer moiikeyiu' with a tn.ul when he nils aholi „• my grass- 

 hopper. 1 yauks him out if I loses a log." 



The ancmit turned with a lon^hiK ^a:'.e loward ttie har and i hen 

 toward Ins hearers, but Ihev did not take the hint. 



■■I kinder icui-ss von fellers is jist like lhat darn fool 1 soon yester- 

 day," he added, as the two passed I hrongh the door. 



The Ihr.'hl neglected to give the dale of this occurrence, 



but we determine very nearly when it must have happened. 



with bluffs of limestone 

 Ildt-tiirbed by liv-hots i- 



rg water. Mussel Shoals, too. is 

 'tion of the Tennessee River e\ 

 tending - over forty miles in length, and consisting of rapids 

 and shallows, varied wilh deeper water. The fish of which 

 1 spoke was caught in a trap at the Bainbridge Ferry, at the 

 foot of the shoals. I did not see the fish taken from the 

 trap, inn saw it afterward in Florence, where it was old bj 

 theoaptorand I ".assisted" at its consumption. 

 I do not claim to lie tin authority on fishes, but I t 



nl the p 



taiuly 

 ■kerel, 

 rsu th- 

 ai ob- 



ud 



A VVEB in N'eriuonl they 111 

 " / in the upper town of East 



Ie seen 



As the tioul 

 Ibis litt 



Again, il nv 

 ffirald is a 

 thing that vt 



-t hi. 



on Longlslai 

 ,-as enacted 



;• been in the 



THE STATE IN SCHUYKK1LL. 



TILE Philadelphia Fish House Club, or what is better 

 known among the members of the association as "the 

 State jn Schuylkill," gave its one hundred and ilfty-first 

 anniversary iced at the club house, on the banks of the 

 Schuylkill, near Gray's Ferry, on tin? 3d inst. 



Organized in 1732," the society has kept up a line of feasts 

 yearly. The territory of ■'the Stale"' j.- on the east bank of 

 the river, and was once famous for ils fishing grounds. 

 Coal tar and I he poisonous refuse from the gas works has 

 long since driven every vestige of the tinny tribe from the 

 stream. Yet the members of the organization still hold to 

 the old site, and what is lacking in the way of tish in the 

 Schuylkill is brought to their kettles and pans from more 

 fertile waters. Every member of the club, no matter of 

 what calling, and every invited guest, be he president of the 

 United States, general of the army, admiral of the navy, 



iVspaper, and wot 

 much mote than 



enterprise as a news gatherer ha 



modern wonders of the world 



intelligence nor 



quotation above 



be accepted as j 



ddid i 



irty-eighl h 



lad,- li,e//,,vV,,n 



It does not deal 



n stale fish. The mere fact. then. I 



is from the Herald of April 29, 18: 



oof positive that the ' 



il April 1 

 thai day 

 lb. I'm I in 

 news any 

 • old. ft 



appr 



i lifclil 



of the 



llsliile 



at the 

 1, may 

 tl just 

 g that 

 ('■ that 



age in th 

 productii 



most remarkable 

 similarity of Ian: 

 in fact, a verbal 

 different and iudepfcnd 

 is unparalleled by anvthin 

 in sonic of the translations 

 graphical labors of certain 

 But the most astonish 



the 



which 



nd a marvelous 



There is hen.-. 



of two entirely 



i far as. we know- 

 it he 



^recently published 



of the Sees Jm. or by tin. 

 friends of Bret Harte. 



ig part of it is the ubiquity of 



Silas, who is on hand in the I'lsicr county barroom in 

 1883 and again in the Long Island ho. 

 each case to back up whatever th 



lor ids future outlook is anything but cheerful. Tho old 

 man is evidently a tramp, and a healthy, well I 



specimen. As tramps go, he has yet twenty vigorous years 

 before him in which to perambulate over the contim.nl iu 

 search of a night's lodging or a fewpenniesto get something 



know the difference between the pike-pi 

 the widely differing dorsal tins of the t 

 cient to distinguish them to even the 

 server. The pickerel \E. reticiilatiw) m 

 far as my observation extends, of grenl 

 twelve inches, ami in other than si 

 ponds. 



The pike. or. as it is sometime*- called here, the jack (K. 

 lueiUi), is sometimes taken in the same waters in which we 

 lind the pike-perch. Dufitoptirai amerkaw of boKay, and 



Sli;.,,li'li"ii iinii-riniiiHiH of iVirnrd. but in the Streams of this 

 vicinity they are rare, and I have never seen one. caught 

 here that would weigh over three puunds. Will. 



Tensbssee, 



VERMONT TROUT AND DEER. 



plenty of deer remaining 

 Bounty, and I have seen the 

 • is my hunting resort 

 Of trout they have an 

 ■attics al all 'the lakes, 

 Within a few hundred 

 ' one of Hie wealthy 

 gas of money. He 

 at in various diivc- 

 wanl lo go a-fishiu;r 

 rater out of doors? 

 i'ortv \ ears ago I went to the top of Monaduuck Mountain 

 to look out a route for a sable line, which I located through 

 lo kittle Averill Pond, which is nearly a mile long." That 

 is where he wished to go. The country about it is unchanged; 

 tie -mho grand old wood-. 1 'nave been lo "Uncle Steve's" 

 lookout within a f ew days on Bnowshoes. The pond is- one 

 of ni.inv in that unbroken wilderness, fifteen by twenty miles 

 in extont, and I'ortv years have ool d. siiuved its valleys and 

 mountains. It they had wiped out the degenerate sons of 

 the race of crust hunters there would be no more desirable 

 breeding ground for dot r in New England 



In lure is the source of Coalicook River, of Quebec, and 

 oi the Xollicrdnit River and several Other small tributaries 

 Of theComicdieut. Last autumn AmasS Ward, the gunk-. 

 gathered several hundred pounds of spruce gum, using 

 Loach Pond as home camping ground, lie said a sun 

 way lo return there was to follow the deer trail.-, until ihey 

 became well defined ami led lo the pond, which is one and 

 one-half miles from Little Averill and sixty rods from 

 Averill Lake, four miles in length and over a mile in ^realist 

 width. The northern stream outlets in Canadian settlements. 

 For wihl grandeur, bold headlands, and large font on rocky 

 shores, go" to Little Averill. three mile.- south of which is 

 Lewis I'ond. ;i not her slimmer feeding ground folder. 



Leach Pond is twelve miles from this village which is 

 thirteen miles by Stage route from North Stratford, on ihe 

 Grand Trunk Railroad. Ward cut a trail from Leach Pond 



tracks o 

 until V. 



caribou, but New 

 tinoiii has an opci 



II 



mpshin 



ponds a 

 yards ol 

 men of 



id streams 1 shall 1 

 Ihe writer live- "L 

 his village, anil as i 

 s lo make exciir- 

 eccnllv he said to i 

 • lo tin- handsouu 



-l 



ition. ' \ 

 d Of li-b 



s after t 



tious. ! 

 with in 



"i>o yo 

 body of 



) the Nulheghan R 



smalle-l il 



on it. and i 

 y of sports 

 . party of 



back of his \ 

 which they l 

 as a campinj 



which, he says, i- alive with trout 

 ■li.s. There are four miles of "dead 

 not often visited I do nol know that 

 i have over exploied ii Sevi ra! years 

 o-r.s and their help w cut out by 'com- 

 l.in nit his log and was carried home OU the 

 pxkman. They did not return to get the ii.ait 

 .■ported in great numbers. Using Leach Pond 

 place, which can be reached with a buekboard 



