FOREST AND STREAM. 



Henry Keylish, 2; K. B. Hauser, bow. Argonauta Row- 

 ing Association, of Bergen Point, New Jersey, Fred C. 

 Eldred, stroke; Walter Man, 3; E. R. Craft, 2; Edward 

 Smith, how. Beaverwyck Clnb, of Albany, James Wilson, 

 stroke; Daniel Doncaster, 3; Richard Gorman, 2; Torrance 

 Gorman, bow. Ballston Rowing Club, of Ballston Springs, 

 New York, J. S. Smith stroke; S. C. Meadbery, 3; Albert 

 J. Reed, 2; J. M. Ramsdell, bow. 



— The bout race between Pipenbrink and Moseley, of 

 the Mutuals, and Wilson and Doncaster, of the Beaver- 

 wycks, at Albany, September 4th, was one of the prettiest 

 that lias taken place on the river for many a year, and 

 while the Mutuals were successful, the Beverwycks made 

 a gallant race, and may feel proud of the result, The time 

 of the three miles for the Avinner was twenty minutes and 

 forty-five seconds, that of the losing club but nine seconds 

 later, twenty minutes and fifty-four seconds. This for a 

 three mile rafce with a turn, is the fastest upon record, the 

 next to it being twenty-one minutes and forty-one and a 

 half seconds 



— The Oneida Boat club of Jersey City will hold their 

 regatta on Saturday, September 13th/ 



Scullers race for champion badge ; eight oared barge race 

 and a seventeen foot working boat race are a part of the 

 programme. 



— The Atlantic boat club hold their annual . regatta on 

 the Passaic river, New Jersey, on Wednesday, September 

 17th. 



— The Friendship Boat Club will hold their annual re- 

 gatta on Monday, September 29th, over the Pleasant valley 

 course. Senior and junior sculls, a four oared race, and an 

 open single scull race. 



— Brown has agreed to Biglin's proposition for a race at 

 Halifax three days after the St. John regatta, and has 

 signed articles and forwarded them with the necessary 

 money for deposit to New York to bind the agreement, 

 The face will probably take place on the 20th inst. 



— Mr, E. Hasee, of the Atlantics, and Mr. D. Roch, of 

 the Nautilus club, will row a sculler's race on the Harlem 

 river on Monday, September 15. 



— A number of the members of the New York Rowing 

 ' and Athletic Club have subscribed for another new medal. 

 The medal must be won three consecutive times by a mem- 

 ber in order to become his final property. The race is for 

 single sculls one mile straight away, and to take place on 

 Saturday, September 13. 



We reprint from our second nunfber the f ollowing rules 

 adopted for the government of the International Regatta to 

 take place at St. John, New Brunswick, on the 17th instant. 

 We shall have a full report of the proceedings from our own 

 reporter : 



1. The races shall take place on the Kennebecasis Eiver, on the usual 

 regatta course, on the 17th day of September; or should the weather 

 on°that day prove. unfavorable, on the first suitable day, thereafter. 



2. All races shall be started in the following manner: The starter on 

 being satisfied that the competitors are ready, shall give the signal to 

 start. 



3 If the starter considers the start false, he shall at once recall the 

 boats to their first stations, and any boat refusing to start again shall be 

 distanced. 



4 No fouling, whatever, shall be allowed. 



5 It is in the province of the umpire, when appealed to, but not before, 

 to decide a foul. The boat decided by him to have fouled shall be die- 



6. It shall be considered a foul when, after the race has commenced, any 

 competitor by his boat, oar, or person, conies in contact with the oar, 

 boat or person of another competitor, and nothing else shall be consid- 

 ered a foul. 



7 Any boat taking another's (boat's) water does so at his own peril, 

 and it shall be held that a boat's own water is the straight course from 

 its starting point to its turning point. 



8. Each boat shall turn its own buoy, the turn to be made in shore 

 toward Rothesay. 



9. If in any race in which more than two boats start a foul takes place, 

 and the boat adjudged by the umpire to have been fouled reaches the 

 turning point first, the race shall be decided as the boats come in; but if 

 the boat fouled does not come in first, or if the umpire is unable to de- 

 cide which boat has committed the foul, the race shall be rowed over 

 a°-ain unless the umpire shall decide that the boat which came in first 

 had sufficient lead at the moment of the foul to • warrant it having the 

 race assigned to it. 



10. Whenever the umpire shall direct a race to be rowed over again, 

 any boat refusing to row again shall be distanced. 



11. Every boat shall stand by its own accidents. 



13. The decisions given by the umpire shall be final, and there shall he 

 no appeal therefrom. 



JW and the flmmd. 



AS an established institution, tragedy has been for years 

 banished from our metropolitan stage, but at Wal- 

 laces there continued, until recently, to be presented the 

 best old English comedies. Here was a green spot, where 

 the intelligent and cultured lover of the drama could find 

 an evening's entertainment, be pleased throughout the per- 

 formance, and go home with the consciousness of having 

 spent an hour Or two in the most satisfactory recreation. 

 Now these splendid, and we may correctly say, social enter- 

 tainments, never lacked patronage— the theatre was always 

 crowded. The lookers-on were literally composed of the 

 very best people of the city. "Wallack's regular patrons" 

 were as thoroughly well-known as were the ushers, and 

 night after night you saw the same aristocratic faces, the 

 same high-toned gentlemen and lovely women, while the 

 young people were models of refinement and good man- 

 ners. ° It always was an interesting sight in the palmy days 

 of Wallaces supremacy to witness a large family party 

 enter the boxes and take their seats. First came the mother 

 and father, dressed with exquisite care, but properly old- 

 fashioned, to-suit "their style," next the blooming daugh- 

 ters to whom the fond father assigned the best- seats with 

 a courtliness of manner that would have charmed Chester- 

 field. Then the beaux and brothers were "chinked" in, the 

 "admirers," however, always managing, by the careful 

 mother's direction, to be placed behind or by the side of 

 the girls. All were in the best of humor, their faces rip- 

 pling over with smiles— the very difficulties of getting 

 packed away in the narrow seats adding to the zest of the 

 affair, and 'every little annoyance proving a subject of 

 pleasant remark or suggesting a practical but harmless joke. 

 After all this bustle and rustle and suppressed laughter, and 

 after due arrangement of ruffles, shawls, curls, and bon- 

 nets, the party would finally settle down into a display of 

 ineffable contentment, the prevailing idea being, "We have 

 a pleasant evening before us, and we are bound to be very 



happy." Presently the ladies would timidly put up their 

 tiny, jet-tubed opera glasses and study attentively, whether 

 the equivocal individual across the parquet was a, very 

 homely masculine girl, or a young gentleman with his hair 

 parted in the middle. Then the occupants of a private 

 box opposite would suddenly throw signals of recognition 

 to our happy group, and a battery of smiles and congratu- 

 lations follow that were wonderful to behold. Then the 

 happy father would notice an old gentleman with a great 

 want of hair on the back of his head, encased in an im- 

 mense white vest, sitting in the orchestra seats, armed with 

 a heavy cane and a "field glass." and said happy father 

 would point out this owner of the huge white vest to his 

 daughters with the remark, "girls, there sits one of your 

 mother's old admirers," whereupon the mother would ex- 

 press her astonishment at such a frivolous remark in the 

 presence of the young people, then her eyes would snap 

 and all would laugh, especially the young ladies. Then 

 three young men, with a quarter of a dozen of white kid 

 gloves on their hands, would station themselves in a con- 

 spicuous place in the corridor and attract the young ladies' 

 attention by the affectation of earnest conversation, at 

 which the beaux of the family party would become per- 

 fectly indignant, while the young ladies, strange as it would 

 seem, rather liked the idea of being objects of so much at- 

 tention. The gas by this time would be turned on in full 

 force, the musicians crawl out from a hole under the stage 

 and take their assigned places, when Tommy Baker would 

 enter, looking as if he was abashed at the attention he at- 

 tracted, then, showing his back in full to the audience, he 

 would wave a piece of pipe stem as a baton, then throw 

 his head over each shoulder, smile approvingly to see so 

 many people present (he presumes for the only purpose of 

 hearing his band), then, tapping the music stand, the over- 

 ture, generally a medley, was thoroughly well done. Every- 

 body, at this preliminary notice, would now settle down 

 into a listening mood — even the quarter of a dozen of kids 

 felt it imperative to sink into temporal obscurity — a new 

 arrangement was made of the crowded personalities and 

 compressed crinoline — the curtain is up ! 



Who ever noticed the excitement of a legitimate Wallack 

 audience at this critical moment without a glow of pleas- 

 ure ? Programmes were not needed; the faces and persons 

 of every actor or actors were familiar; in fact, the play 

 was as near the audience as if it had been acted in the par- 

 lor and among the occupants of a private house. 



Who will say that the legitimate drama failed of sup- 

 port, or that good acting has not its power to command 

 patronage ? Who that thinks rightly can otherwise than 

 regret that intellectual entertainments have been thrust 

 aside to be supplanted to "the poetry of motion, and gor- 

 geous attire and splendid scenery ?" 



That we will ever get back to the "old times" is difficult 

 to predict, but this much is certain, the meretricious char- 

 acter of the stage which is now so popular can possibly be 

 over done, The power of capital to create mechanical 

 effects is wonderful indeed, but the triumphs of great 

 minds cannot be ordered as you order splendid attire and 

 gorgeous scenery; they come only through the careful cul- 

 tivation of God's gifts. At present, the large and most es- 

 timable class of people who delighted in the representation 

 of the old English comedies at Wallack's have no- place of 

 amusement. To them the drama, as they understand it, 

 has ceased to be presented in this city. How much society 

 and the drama have lost by this fact is difficult to appre- 

 ciate. Alas, for the day when Wallack's succumbed ! But 

 echo answers back, "it pays to succumb," and the mana- 

 ger's conscience is at rest. 



On Tuesday evening The Wandering Jew was formally 

 installed at the Grand Opera House, its merits being her- 

 alded as an entirely new and most powerful, romantic, and 

 spectacular drama ! If the greatest possible variety of 

 scenery, and much of it done with most artistic style, will 

 fill the great interior in which it is exhibited, then Mr. 

 Daly's aspirations will be rewarded. Close upon this ap- 

 peal to the eyes, follows on — 



Thursday evening, September 11th, the opening of the 

 new Lyceum Theatre, with a romantic spectacular drama, 

 entitled. Notre Dame, with a full chorus and corps de ballet. 



We now have five first-class theatres appealing to the 

 public for patronage, in all of which only the eye is ap- 

 pealed to. The notion among managers seems to be that 

 all intellectual representations that will pay are impossible. 

 The struggle for supremacy in the use of paint, ballet girls. 

 minstrel music, and startling scenery, is gigantic Look out 

 for wrecks at the close of the season. 



Italian opera in its grandest estate will soon be inaugu- 

 rated, and the city, when this is done, will be fuller of 

 operas, theatres, and other places of amusement than at 

 any time in its history. Signor Salvini, accompanied by 

 Signora Piamonti, will reach this city this week, and will 

 open on Monday, the 15th instant. Mr. Max Maretzek an- 

 nounces the coming of Mme. Lucca, Signor Tamberlick, 

 Mme. di Murska, with innumerable others of .great fame, 

 who are to establish once more the grand opera. Mme. 

 Nilsson Rouzeand, with the expected arrival of Mr. Stra- 

 kosch's stars, complete the extraordinary list of singers 

 who are destined in a few days to be pouring out their 

 musical notes to New York audiences, with the expecta- 

 tion that they (the audiences) will be most lavish with their 

 notes. We promise to be overwhelmed. 



• BROOKLYN. 



The Brooklyn Academy of Music, which possessed from 

 the beginning most of the requirements of a first-class 

 building, was, from the unfortunate character of its inte- 

 rior, always dingy and uninviting. No force of gaslight 



could remove the impression that it was a great cave, \ ery 

 cleverly arranged for dramatic representations. The men 

 who originally colored the ceiling and selected the "Uphol- 

 stery, must have looked forward to the time when the 

 building could be used for some penitential purpose, p 0s .^ 

 bly a monastery. For years this radical defect has re- 

 mained, and the Academy lias ceased to be of any practical 

 value, except for some extraordinary use— a charity fair or 

 a trumpery exhibition. In the summer just passed import- 

 ant changes have been made throughout, The seats have 

 been renewed, the private boxes ornamented with crimson 

 satin lambrequins, with rich draperies to match. But the 

 most important and desirable work is in the substitution f 

 new gas fixtures and the washing out of the old india-red 

 wall, and the introduction of a light-pencil gray tint, set off 

 with a due amount of golden stripes. A new era of use- 

 fulness promises to open, and we trust that the bnildin^ 

 in most respects excellent, will become, as it should, a pop- 

 ular, and if anything a fashionable, place of amusement. 



The new Park Theatre, late Mrs. Conway's, was opened 

 on the 9th instant with a most excellent company, and go 

 thoroughly "reformed" in its interior designs, decorations, 

 and scenery that but little is left save its location to remind 

 one of its for years most deplorable condition. Brooklyn 

 is morally in great need of the inspiring effect of good, 

 cheerful amusements, and it seems likely to be provided 

 with them this coming winter. Mr. Samuells, though a 

 young man, as a manager has a genius for his business 

 which is even of more importance than experience; he will 

 be a success. 



The Brooklyn Theatre, under the management of Mrs. 

 Conway, will open on next Saturday night with Othello, 

 Mr. Edwin Booth, Mad. Jannauschek, Mr. and Mrs. Barney 

 Williams, and Mrs. Chanfrau are named among the stars. 



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Breech- Loaders. By moan, New York: George E, 



Woodward. Orange Judd & Co., 1873. 



If we are quite familiar in the United States with" breech-loading rifles, • 

 perhaps better acquainted with them than any other people in the world, 

 it is none the less true that we know hardily anything at all about breech- 

 loading sporting guns. Such special works as have been written on this 

 particular arm, of which W. W. Greener's book \vas the best, were rather 

 to be regarded in the light of catalogues of breech-loaders; therefore any 

 practical work on this subject, of a wider scope, must be of interest to the 

 general American public. GloaiVs book, is cleverly written, is to the 

 point, and can only be the production of one who lias thoroughly 

 mastered, not only theoretically but practically, everything in regard to 

 what must inevitably be the arm of the future. In books of this charac- 

 ter, it is sometimes quite puzzling for the critic to determine exactly 

 whether the work under review is, or is not the production of a gun maker, 

 or written in the interest of gun makers, and G-man's Breech-Loader, is a 

 work of precisely this uncertain character. It is true, a certain prominence 

 is given to those most excellent English gun makers, Messers. Dougall, 

 Greener, Westley Richards and Lang, and even our American makers, 

 Parker & Brothers have some slight comment made about them, (though 

 the Remington gun, is entirely ignored), but after a careful perusal, we 

 are only too glad to give the book the highest praise for fairness. If 

 the book does have the peculiar smack of an English book, and 

 may or may not be written in the interest of the English gun makers, 

 it by no means detracts from the excellence of the compilation. Id 

 fact there can be nothing objectionable in this. If English breech-h lading 

 guns are better so far than those of American make, if they shoot harder, 

 have more range, are less liable to get out of order, by all means let us 

 have them. Sportsmen have nothing to do with patriotism, they accept 

 only the best arms, no matter where they are made. But where we cliii'er 

 from Gloan, and think he is mistaken, is where exercising somewhat of a 

 prophetic power, he seems desirous of inculcating the idea, that breech- 

 loading guns equal to the beet English guns, can hardly ever be produced 

 in the United Slates, if we have made the best breech-loading rifles in 

 the world, not only for sporting out for military purposes, is there any 

 reason why we cannot turn out breech-loading fowling pieces? A gun is 

 not more difficult to make than a watch, and to day, American skill has 

 triumphed in this special art of horology after but a few years practice. 

 Arguments as to the greatest excellence of hand-made locks or even fit 

 barrels, have only a comparative degree of force. If a pistol or a rifle 

 lock on military arms, can be made perfect enough to pass rigorous ordi- 

 nance examinations, there is no possible reason why the same pieces m a 

 breech-loader cannot be made equally good. Of course there is a dUleian- 

 tism about these things, and we are the furthest possible from decrying 

 it. If a man has the money to spend, his gun should be a perfect, piece of 

 art. We cannot paint by machinery it is true, and between a cup carved 

 by a Benvenuto Cellini and a Colt's Revolver, there is a wide difference 

 If in the artistic inspirations, this more prosaic century has retrograded 

 in the mechanical instinct we have fully progressed. Gun making has 

 its secrets; it is a combination of the highest scientific and mechanical 

 powers, but it is by no means the great mysterious art, in which so many 

 writers try to enshroud it. The solution of perfect gun making lias been 

 found in manv new mechanical devices, which now supplant the old hand 

 work. ,ln the" United States, breech-loaders must drive out muzzle-loaders, 

 and as soon as the demand sets in, not one manufacturer, but a dozen wU 

 make them, and there is no doubt]but that good guns will be made. They 

 mav be plain guns if you please, democratic^ ones if you like. You may 

 not be able to pass the thumb all over them without the linger nail catcli- 

 ing, but they will undoubtedly be sound, honest and square guns, it tne 

 perfect sportsman lucky enough to combine unlimited means an< 

 eleaant tastes, should want a $1000 gun, there is no doubt that m a very 

 short time, the American gun maker, will be perfectly able to make him a 

 breech-loader fully worth the money. We entirely disclaim any ideao 

 rivalry, and are free to acknowledge what was before asserted that so tai 

 English breech-loading sporting guns are superior to our own, but 

 idea we wish to convey is that this superiority cannot always be maintained . 

 In the last ten years, England has taken more ^'rom us, in gun mechan- 

 ism of every kind, than we have received from her. Having we trust u 

 no captious spirit advanced our opinion, we now return with great pleas- 

 ure to the intrinsic merits of the book. Every subject is discussed wi ^ 

 singular good judgment, and the advice given is excellent. In fact, w 

 have so good an opinion of Gloan's Book on Breech-Loaders that we tn * 

 to use it frequently for subtle points of gun lore, and we have no hesi 

 tion in recommending it to the attention of all American Sportsmen. 



The best use yon can make of seventy-rive cents will be to buy a ga 

 of Avilude, the most instructive and delightful games ever PnwKA^. 

 your dealers have not got it, send the money to West & Lee, W orceuv . 

 Mass., and it will be sent by mail, post paid. 



"The best of its class.— Boston Evening Transcript, 



