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FOREST AND STREAM. 



^orimnrntu §ootl§. 



W. EL BOND'S 



IMPROVED 



SECTION BOATS 



Exploring, Traveling, Hunting, 

 Fishing, Trapping, &c. 



PATENTED AND PATENTS APPLIED FOR. 



The follotcing are some of the advantages of 

 of these boats. 



< 1st— There is no possible danger of the sections com- 

 1 ng apart. These boats are just as rigid under any kind 

 of a strain as a whole boat would be. Hundreds of 

 them are in use, but no case has occurred where thoy 

 have come apart. 



2d— They are as speedy as a whole boat; the joint 

 does not perceptibly decrease their speed. 



3d— It is almost impossible to make a hole in the sides. 

 It has actually been proven that a blow which will split 

 the sides of a wooden boat from end to end, only makes 

 a dent in these boats. 



4th— In durability they are immensely superior to 

 any wooden or paper boat. Chafing against sand, 

 rocks, ice, or even grass, mkes the latter all but usej 

 less, but on these boats has little effect. 



5th— They have in many instances supnlanted the 

 others, and as their merits become more fully known, 

 will, for many purposes, almost entirely superseed 

 them. 



W. E. BOND, 



22 South Water St., Cleveland, 0. 



1873. 



BOATING SEASON. 



1873 



WATERS' PATENT 



IMPROVED 



Paper Boats 



RACING, EXERCISE, PLEASURE, 

 SHOOTING OR TRAVELING. 



The inventors having during the past six months 

 given their entire attention to their manufacture, will 

 with this season, introduce our Improved Paper Boat, 

 in the construction of which, great improvements have 

 been made, overcoming all objectionable features which 

 have been developed during the past six years. We 

 refer with pl3asure to the record of t y e past. 



Our boats have been wintered and summered in both 

 hot and cold climates, rowed in both fresh and salt 

 water, yet after five, and in a few cases six seasons 

 of steady use, these boats can ba shown as serviceable 

 to-day as when first finished. They were awarded the 

 First Medal and Diploma op the American In- 

 stitute, at its Fair held in New York in October, 1809, 

 and for racing and training they are preferred to those 

 of wood by numerous boat clubs and numbers of the 

 best oarsmen throughout the United Sates, having since 

 their introduction been rowed by the winners of Three 

 Hundred and Twenty Nine Matched Races. 



E. WATERS & SONS, Troy, N. Y. 



Sole Manufacturers for the United States and Europe. 



NEW YORK AGENCY. 



Arrangements have been made with the well-known 

 house of A. M. INGERSOLL, Boat Builder, No. 159 

 South Street, New York, (Established 1828,) who will 

 keep at all times a large assortment of our boats on 

 hand. Parties desiring any class of boats, either Paper 

 or Wood, will receive further particulars on application 

 to 



E. Waters & bONS. 



AVILTJDE. 



TOTEM. 



SNAP 



West & Lee, 



PUBLISHERS OF 



jVatiu'al History Series of 



GAMES, 



AND MANUFACTURERS OF 



OHIVALRIE, 



Worcester, Mass. 

 BROOKLY N CUN E MPORIUM 



E. H. MADISON, 



DEALER IN 



Grims and Grunning* Material, 



504 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 



Sporting; Groods 



BOUGHT, SOLD, EXCHANGED, AND 

 ON HIRE. Special attention paid to Fine Guns 

 and Breach-Loaders, &c. Repairing of every descrip- 

 tion ^specialty. 



%*&" Goods sent everywhere by express, marked 

 C. O. D. 



J.C.Conroy&Co. 



Importers and Manufacturers op 



FISH HOOKS, 



And Fishing Tackle, 



No. 65 PULTON STREET, NEW YORK- 



HUMOES OF SPOUTING LIFEj 



A NON SEQUITUB. 



Infant Tyro.— "Father they say trout bite pretty well now." 



Parental Boss Cobbler.— "Umph! Umph? You stick to your work and they won't 



bite you." 

 (Who knows what the world may lose by this crushing of the youthful bent ? ) 



§yorfamen8 %oodn. 



<s£ 



BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 



BOSTON, 



importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in 



Fishing Tackle, 



Have the best facilities for the Manufacture of 



FISHING EODS, AETIFICIAL FLIES, WATER- 

 PE00F LINES. 



and their connections abroad enable them to supply 

 all Foreign Fishing Tack' 3 to the best advantage. In 

 the Fall of 1873 will return .o their store, ( rebuilt since 

 the Fire,) at 



178 Washington Street. 



Orders by mail promptly answered. 



Entablished 1837. 



J. B. Crook & Co., 



Importers and Manufacturers of 



II 



'ILJJIJ 



£50 Fulton St., N. Y- 



Green Hart, Split Bamboo, Log Wood, Fly 

 and Salmon Bods, a specialty 



R. L RAWSON'S 



SPORTSMAN'S DEPOT. 



GUNS, FISHING TACKLE, 



AND ALL KINDS OF 



Sportsmen's Goods. 



62G Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 



ATTENTION !_SPORTSMEN! 



N. Y. State Sportsmen s 



ASSOCIATION. 



§>yorfamen 'h %ootte 



m. 



Report of Committee on Stan- 

 dard for Shot. 



Nine Silver Medals and the only Gold Medal awarded 

 for finest articles, j 



Your Committee have the following report to make 

 on the adoption by shot manufacturers and sportsmen 

 of a uniform "AMEEICAN STANDAED " of Drop 

 Shot. 



We have corresponded with all the manufacturers 

 in the country, and most of them express a willingness 

 to conform to the standard which shall be promulgated 

 by your Convention. 



All manufacturers will have eventually to conform, 

 when sportsmen require that their shot shall compare 

 with the standard of excellence which your Committee 

 has fixed. 



Upon the most critical examination, your Committee 

 have decided to adopt as the "AMEEICAN STAN- 

 DAED," the scale presented to us by Messrs. THOS. 

 OTIS LE EOY & CO., of New York.as follows: (Here 

 is given the scale, which can be had, on application, 

 from Messrs. Thos. Otis Le Eoy & Co., New York.) 

 The number of pellets as given in the standard, is the 

 correct number of perfect shot which wiH be produced 

 by the given scale of each size. 



E. NEWELL, Chairman. 

 N. M. SMITH, 



F. G. SKINNER. 



I hereby certify that the foregoing is an extract from 

 the minutes of the meeting of the New York Sports- 

 men's Association of June 11, 1873. 



JNO. B. SAGE, Secretary. 



AND DEALERS IN SHOT. 



" American Standard." 



As the New York State Sportsman's Association has 

 adopted a Scale of Sizes for shot under the above 

 name, it will be some satisfaction to our friends to 

 know that the standard of diameter adopted is nearly 

 identical with that which we have always used. The 

 only material diflerence consists in reducing the small- 

 er sizes, known as Nos. 11 & 12, and the larger sizes 

 heretofore designated under the letters " B" and " T." 



As the new standard (which we of course adopt as to 

 diameter) would in this respect deprive our friends of 

 several sizes which they have heretofore used with ad- 

 vantage, we have concluded to supply them under an- 

 other letter of which we will give timejly notice. The 

 number of pellets given in the standard for an ounce 

 does not correspond with the diameter; it is, therefore, 

 impossible to adopt both. 



The resolution adopting the new standard, although 

 passed June 11th, was not mailed to us until July 7th 

 — nearly a month after it had been given to another 

 firm, who have thus been enabled to brand their bags 

 "American Standard," and to exclusively advertise 

 the report of the Committee as a recommendation of 

 their shot for "superior excellence,'''' as compared with 

 that of all other makers ! 



Whilst the Report of the Committee may not be fair- 

 ly open to the construction which has been ostentati- 

 ously put upon it, its ambiguous phraseology is calcu- 

 lated to convey the belief that the Committee after 

 " the most critical examination" of all the shot made 

 in the IT. S., has adopted a standard which was sub- 

 stantially new, and not supplied by any makers of shot 

 but the parties named. 



We are now officially informed that the committee 

 did not intend to recommend any particular make of 

 shot above any other, but merely adopted the scale 

 presented to them. 



It is unnecessary to remind experienced sportsmen 

 that the practical excellcnco of shot does not consist in 

 the standard of tize by which it is called; nor in the 

 immber of pellets in the ounce, but embraces other im- 

 portant features which cannot be appropriated by the 

 adoption of a name, nor by any cunning deception. 

 We gladly accept this opportunity to assure our friends 

 that the well-known character of our shot will be care- 

 fully maintained, and in some important respects im- 

 proved; and we feel confident that it will be found in 

 practice to be more uniform, heavier, cleaner, and 

 more effective than any other; and thus commend 

 itself to the favorable opinion of all who use it. 



TATHAM & BEOTHEES. 

 New York, July 21st. 1873. 



Brook TVotxIs, 



QPAWN AND YOUNGS FISH FOR 



\0 sale. FEED MATHER, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 

 &SP 1 Ponds laid out and instructions given. ltf 



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CLAVERACK COLLEGE 



—AND— 



Hudson River Institute, 



FOR BOTH SEXES. 



Fine Grounds, 167 Furnished Booms, 20 In- 

 structors, 11 Departments, 120 Classical' 1 ' 

 Pupils, large Gymnasium and Brill- 

 Hall. Special advantages in all 

 Departments. Term opens 

 September 8, 1873. 



Rev. ALZ0N0 FLACK, A. M., President. 



CLAVERACK, N. Y., 



JdiihUcaUotis. 



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BY S. NEWHOUSE, 



FIFTH EDITION. 



A Book for the Trapper, Hunter 

 and Farmer. 



IT TELLS 



How to Trap all Fur-bearing animals. 

 How to Cure their skins, 



How to live in the Woods. 

 How to build Boats, and catch Fish in the Wilder 



How to destroy the pests of the Farm and 

 Poultry Yard. 



IIoio to hunt Deer, Buffalo and other game. 



IT GIVES 



Narratives of the exploits and experience of 

 Trappers and Sportsmen, old and young. 



It is a Book for Lovers of Woodcraft, for 

 Excursionists and for Boys. 



An octavo volume of 216 pages, containing 32 full 

 page illustrations of animals, forest life, etc., and num- 

 erous woodcuts of Traps and Trappers 1 appliances. 



Price, Bound in Cloth $l.BO. 



PUBLISHED AND FOE SALE BY 



Mason, Baker & Pratt, 



142 & 144 Canal St., New York. 



Mansion House, 



BUFFALO, 



F. E. HODGES, PBOPBIETOB. 



BUTTERF1ELD HOUSE, 



OSCAR LST0NE& CO., Proprietors. 



UTIGA, NEW YOKK. 



ROSSIN HOUSE" 



Toronto, Canada* 



SHEARS & SON, Proprietors. 



This house is a favorite resort for Gentlamen Sports- 

 men, from all parts of the United States and Canada. 



pHEAP PLEASUEE EXCURSIONS TO 



Lake Superior, 



By Collingwood and Lake Superior Line. 

 Chicora, Cumberland, Frances Smith. 



The Finest Line of Steamers on Canadian Waters. 



During the month of August, cheap excursion ticket- 

 will be issued by this line, good for any of its steamers 

 either for the whole trip, or for any part of it, if passen- 

 gers prefer to lay over at any point of the route. 



The Captains have been instructed to take all the in- 

 side picturesque channels of the route, and to lay over 

 at points of interct to aliow time to the excursionists 

 to land or to enjoy the sport of fishing. 



Spacious private parlors can be secured on each 

 steamer for family parties. The tables are replete with 

 every delicacy of the season. 



Leave Collingwood every Tuesday and Friday at 4.30 

 P. M. on arrival of "Steamboat Express Train," con- 

 necting with all Morning Trains or Steamers, cast and 

 west, arriving in Toronto. 



The cheapest, coolest and most delightful summer 

 excursion on American waters. 



N. MILLOY & CO., 



Passenger Agents, 



8. FRONT ST., TORONTO. 



