FOREST AND STREAM. 



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X Washington, D. C, March 8, 187ft. 



Editor Poerst and Stream : 



Little did I think, when 1 seat you my simple interroga- 

 Bmber, that I was dealing with a subject of sucli 

 general interest, or that T was to be the means of inaugurat- 

 ing such a prolonged discussion as has since been developed 

 throng ua of your paper. The result, however, 



has not been such as to make me regret the asking of the 

 question. I have carefully read all of the opinions which 

 you have published, and have derived much information and 

 B meat from them. The general result of the discussion 

 is not . as to make it very clear to my mind 



which side i nearly as I can judge, it may be 



summed up about this way : 



Editor — Trout, never take a fly that way. 



Mr. Van Sicklin— What, never ! 



Mr. Holberton — No, never. 



"T. S. U."— What, r, 



•■ Joe." — Hardly ever. 



Mr. Prime— Hungry trout most often strike 

 With the tail before they bite. 



" Oregon"— Frequentlc-e 

 I agree. 



Now. Mr. Editor, among all this conflict of opinion I am 

 wholly unable to decide whether or not trout actually do 

 strike the lure with their tails, but I am very clearly of the 

 opiuion that whether they do or not, they ought to ; for 



is a soaring soal, 

 . : i in- blra mi lngii, 



r should be ready to nail 

 The ar-ti-iie-ial riy. 



His tall should flop and his body carve, 

 And from this plan be -ht.mlci never swerve; 



should it ish and his bus protrude, 

 And this should be bis customary attitude. 

 Very truly, J. A. H. 



—Mr. Edwin Tinsley, of Hamilton, Ont., has bred his 

 cocker spaniel try psey, winner of first prize at Detroit, to his 

 Dash-Daisey. The dam of Gypsey was bred to Dash on Feb. 

 35. 



Extraokdinap.y Catoh of Trout.— The following is a 

 statement which was published in the Rodgers City Advance, 

 Michigan, last August. That paper says it is the best speckled 

 trout fishing that ever came to its knowledge, either in that 

 State or out of it : 



Mr. Edward Erskine, of this village, started last week to 

 the Ocqueoc with some five others for the purpose of testing 

 the fishing in this justly celebrated stream. Strohn's lumber 

 road took them right to the river. Three of the party did the 

 fishing and it was soon round that the trout could be caught 

 faster than one man could catch, bait and take off, so the re- 

 maining three stood behind to take off the fish and have bait 

 in readiness. The party fished two hours the evening of ar- 

 rival, and three hours the following day, and brought home 

 with them one thousand and eight speckled trout, besides 

 what they ate. The fish were far beyond the average in size, 

 more being over five ounces than under, and fully one-fourth 

 of them going over half a pound m weight, and fish of three- 

 quarters of a pound to a pound and a quarter being fairly 

 sprinkl ■ ,. :nl anythng in our 



lection, Each of the three fishermen must have caught 

 sixty.seven :i ; i pel hot aides what they ate, which were 

 probably not over twenty to thirty. Had we not seen all the 

 flab. brought hi j . ,, some of them, we should 



have been inclined to doubt the correctness of this statenunt, 

 but we know it to be true. Luckily Mr. Erskine and party 

 had a two-horse team along, or they never could have brought 

 the fish and their camping blankets and utensils all home. 



The adventure seems to have been a test between the physi- 

 cal endurance of the men and how long the supply of fish 

 would hold out, 



—The Chequamegon Hotel at Ashland, Wisconsin, on Lake 

 Superior, will be opened for visitors on May 1. 



A. MOSQUITO NET FOR THE WOODS 

 Fort Wayne, Ind., Feb. 17, 1870. 



EtUTOK FoEEST AND STREAM : 



I have noticed from time to time that many of your cor- 

 respondents say that while out camping their nights are al- 

 ways disturbed by mosquitoes, sand flies, black flies, etc. As 

 I enjoy an annual camp in July, allow me to describe my 

 scheme for repelling the night biters and buzzers. I have 

 ■ecu it used nor described, though perhaps thousands 

 like it may be in use. I take two mosquito liars, each eight 

 yards long ; double each eud for end, which leaves them four 

 yards long, (I use them double for strength): sew together 

 two sides ; lay the bar, which is now nearly square, on the 

 floor ; lay an army rubber blanket in the centre of the bar ; 

 then at each corner of the blanket tie into the bar a button 



with tape, leaving ends about six inches. Takeoff the blanket 

 and tie a button in the centre of the bar. When I go camp- 

 ing I tie four laths to my tent poles, or oars. I have now four 

 nice stakes made for the purpose. 'The stakes are four and 

 a half feet long, one inch and a quarter in diameter ; around 

 the top a narrow ferrule. In top of each stake 



: Mi one and a half inch deep. Take 

 quarter-inch round iron tongenough to go from one stake diag- 

 onally across to another, bend the end of iron one and a half 

 stake. Tins arrangement does away 

 with the twine, which shrinks in wet and stretches in dry 

 weather, ami therefore requires re-adjustment. This plan will 

 also give more room in a tent, and then we have nothing to 

 trip over as in the case with the twine running from long 



le. The stakes and irons add but little 

 more weight to camp equipage and are easier put up. The 

 whole can be built, tor two or three dollars. Iu camp spread 

 down the rubbet I . corner drive a lath, take 



stout twine, ,nt from 



lath, run up to top of lath, thence diagonally across to lath, 

 thence down to opposite stake ; this prevents the lath from 

 being pulled inwardly. Then take the bar and tie a button 



to each lath, about two feet, up from ground, which leaves 

 sides and ends hanging. Tie the centre button to lines where 

 they cross at top. This makes a cupola of the bag, then lay 

 down the rubber blanket under the bar. fold the bar under 

 the blanket on all sides but one. Place a stone at 

 to hold down the blanket and the sides of bar. Then I fill 

 my bed-tick with straw; make my bed, crawl in at the open 

 end and fold that under also ; then ail is safe from the sting- 

 ers, etc. If a snake wants to crawl in he goes under, through, 

 and out at other side ; nothing can get in unless able to break 

 the " safe " open. I think the arrangement a good oue, have 

 used it for years. I never sleep in a tent other than the above, 

 barring stormy weather. It keeps oil all dew as well as pests : 

 is large enough for two, and can lie used in a tent by using 

 stiff poles instead of lath, so that the twine need only be run 

 from top of poles and net down to ground. It is full length 

 and does not get out of kilter every time one turns over ; it 

 need not be touched. Willis D. Maier. 



"THE TROUT-PERCH." 



•l Lakewlle. Ct., March G, 1879. 



Me. Editoe — Last fall a strange fish was caught in our 

 town by parties who were putting up shiners for pickerel fish- 

 ing. I secured it and sent it to Dr. Hudson, of the Slate Fish 

 Commission, to identify. He submitted him to the meeting 

 of INew England Commissioners, at Boston, and here is the 

 information he gives me in a copy of letter from Col. Theo- 

 dore Lyman : ■ 



Dbak Doctor— You hit a strange ash in your phial. It 1b the Pcr- 

 cojisie guttatus (Agassiz), see " Agassiz Lake Superior," n. 2S6, and 

 plate 1. It may be called the trout-perch, having characters of the 

 two, and represents a set of flelies t hat more properly are fossil (in the 

 - Its habitat is from the Gre ..never from 



e: umiectirnr before. Hay it not have been sent in some invoice of 

 whlteUsh or of black bass ? Pray teil me the exact locality, as Mr. T. 

 W". Putnam, who looked itnp, wishes to labellt. 



Truly yours, Theodore Lvman. 



faclititiQ and Routing. 



HIGH WATEK FOE THE WEEK. 



Date, 



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AVw York. 



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YACHTING NEWS. 



Spekading— The taste for mechanics. — An erratic scribe, 

 who suddenly pounced upon New York with the object of 

 upsetting the world in general and the yachting community in 

 particular, and who succeeded in making about as much im- 

 pression as the squeak of a mouse would upon the equanimity 

 of an elephant, has turned up in Boston, with his pen wildly 

 discoursing about liydronamics. As he evidently cannot live 

 without his Fobest and Stream, we have no doubt but that 

 by the time we graduate him in the rudiments of mathematics 

 and mechanics he will have imbibed sufficient respect for the 

 conventionalities of science to kindly call it hydrodynamics, 

 even though he may never be equal to the conception of the 

 word's full meaning. It sounds so much nicer. Only com- 

 passion for our kind friend induces us to caution him to " go 

 slow " awhile until we have grounded him well in the subjects 

 so dear to his heart, lest he lose caste with our minor con- 

 temporaries, who in their incapacity have hitherto welcomed 

 him to their journalistic bosoms. Snugly enscoused in "the 

 old homestead," our friend will have more leisure to study 

 his Forest and Stream and to deal out to our little contem 

 poranes at second hand what he will learn from us. But 

 watch those long foreign words with care, and always get in 

 all the syllables, for they really mean something. 



We Speak for Them. — A minor contemporary hints tha- 

 admission to the yacht club meetings is a conventional cour- 

 tesy extended to the press. When the journal in question 

 shows itself possessed of a tithe of the gentlemanly instincts 

 yachtsmen have a right to expect from all who attend their 

 meetings, its representative will be admitted. Until then the 

 probabilities of its ever receiving recognition at the hands of 

 gentlemen are exceedingly slim. 



Popularize the Sport.— We have had occasion of late to 

 record with pleasure the efforts made by one of our leading 

 clubs to diffuse a popular appreciation for the theory under- 

 lying yachting. With similar feelings we learn that Mr. A. 

 H. Siegfried, of the Louisville Courier- Journal, an ardent 

 follower of canoeing, has given a very interesting and ex- 

 haustive lecture before a large audience in Columbus, Ind , 

 on canoeing of the modern a large amount' of 



experience with the paddle on our vast net-wort 

 waters. America ought to take the lead in canoe i 

 other country presents facilities for combining ti 

 the paddle, hunting, fishing and camp life to the 

 variety that can be found in our broad land. Popu 

 sport, we say, and an army of canoeiMs will soon bear wii- 

 ness to the love for outdo, ■■ is, after all, as in- 



nate with us as with our British cousins across the water. 

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I 

 elected for the ensuing yeai 



Agnes : Vice-Corn., William Co ». .■ Rear 



Com., Augustus Norton, sloop R Sec'y, Fred 



T. Peet ; Tress . Richard C. Field , MeasuM r, H. C. Wlnt- 

 ringham; Secretary, J. Lawr. nee Marcel- 



Jus ; Trustees— Geo. A. Thayer, Wm. W. Beebe, Jacob 



W. Cooper, Wm. H. H. Beebe, J. L. Marcellus, J. G. John- 

 son, M. D.: Regatta Committee— J. L. Marcellus, C. T. Lip- 

 pitt, Geo. A. Weber. The time fixed for the regular June 

 regatta was Saturday, June 7, and the course the same as 

 ire — viz. , for schoners and first class sloops, around 

 the lightship ; second class sloops, around Bar Buoy, in Ged- 

 ney's Channel : and third class sloops, arouud southwest spit. 

 J. L. Marcellus. Cor. SeCry. 

 The selection of Mr. Wintringhani as measurer is one 

 which will confer credit upon the club, for there are few gen- 

 tlemen in America more fully acquainted with the .theory of 

 yacht design than the new measurer of the Atlantics. As, 

 sooner or later, the question of an equitable system of meas- 

 urement is certain to come to the surface, the value of having 

 measurers of some mathematical proficiency at the head of 

 all leading clubs is not to be overrated. 



Susbeam-Gabii Matches.— We are informed by Mr. W. 

 S. Nickersonthat no call having been made upon the Sunbeam. 

 to pay half the expenses of the judges' steamer, he was ig- 

 norant of any such liability until the recent review of the 

 matches appeared in our columns, and that 

 Mr. F. E. Peabody has since informed him that the steamer 

 was hired by the judges without any expectation of having 

 expenses reimbursed by the racing yachts. No blame, there- 

 fore, attaches to Mr. Nickerson in the case. 



Sbawakhaka Yaoht Club.— The "Center Cup" (value, 



$500), which was announced as open to first class sloops 

 only, will be open to all sloops, to sail without time allow- 

 ance. Here is a chance for the sloop owners, should Provi- 

 dence favor the club with a breeze of wind to show the stuff 

 they are made of. The course from Sandy Hook Lightship 

 to Five Fathom Lightship, off Cape May, and return— dis- 

 tance, 250 miles — will give a fine opportunity for a thorough 

 test for big and little. The cup has hitherto" gone begging for 

 entries. It remains with the sloop men to show by a full 

 muster this year whether it was from lack of interest or from 

 a suspicion that their vessels are unfit for the work, that so 

 valuable a prize has hitherto failed to draw. Eastern skip- 

 pers should send down their solid keel craft, and see whether 

 wholesome lead cannot carry the day with us as it has done 

 abroad. The course and the inducements are there : let us 

 see what our cracks can do in some honest outside work, 

 alongside of which our summer matches in sheltered waters 

 are child's play. 



The Americas Mediterranean.— The schooner Intrepid, 

 Mr. Lloyd Pheenix, is logging knots and fathoms of the real 

 sort among the romantic West India Isles. Whsn last heard 

 from— Feb. 18— she was at Port Spain, Trinidad. All well 

 and vessel behaving excellently. 



Screw Sharpies.— Steam yachts of the sharpie type are 

 ! no longer a myth. Messrs. Clute & Co., of Schenectady in- 

 form us that they have very satisfactory reports of a big'one 

 on Florida waters, which they engined a short time ago. ° She 

 is 86ft. over all, 79ft. on keel, 14ft. beam, and has an engine 

 14in. square with screw 4ft. lOin. diam. Speed, over sixteen 

 miles. Several others have been built for the same latitudes 

 and Mr. Clapham, of Roslyn, L. I., has undertaken their con- 

 struction nearer home. 



tnr Point Mosquito Club.— This Boston organization 

 is about to be incorporated by the Massachusetts Legislature 

 The opening match will be held April 3, with numerous 

 entries. Ex-Commodore McDonald has been elected honorary 

 member. His boat having been lengthened beyond the rules 

 of the club necessitating his resignation. 



Golden Gate (Sam Francisco) Yaoht Club. — The officers 

 for the year of this club are as follows : President, H. w" 

 Coffin; Vice-President, E. A. O'Connor; Secretary, C. W. 

 Hubner (re-elected) ; Treasurer, John E. Broderi'ck ('re- 

 elected) ; Commander, E. F. Cluin ; Vice-Commander, E.R 

 Brady ; Commissary, George R. Coates. What has a' Presi- 

 dent got to do with a yacht club ? 



Jbbsrt Cits Yacht Club.— At the twenty-second annual 

 meeting of the Jersey City Yacht Club, held March the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year : Com- 

 modore, John A.- Nugent ; Vice-Commodore° A. P.' Ball • 



Finance Committee, John A. Hitton, J. F. Roberts C e' 

 Gardner; Regatta Committee, J. T. Roberts, John E. Carnes 

 D. H. Bennett j Executive Committee. G. C. Doyle h' 

 Searle and Edward Gilbert. Friday, May 30. has been' set 

 apart as opening day, when the squadron'is expected to be 

 ready for inspection. 



Brooklyn Yacht Club.— New rooms have been encased 

 for the club in the Halsey Building, Fulton street, opposite 

 City Hall, Brooklyn. The annual match has been sf t down 

 for June 10. 



Haverhill (Mass.) Yaoht Club.— The followine are the 

 officers of this club for the year : Commodore, E. F "Brown • 

 Yiee-Ccmiuiodore, J. E. Meadowcroft ; Fleet Captain f' 

 Harris ; Measurer, H. Doane ; Secretary, J. E. Collins '• 

 Treasurer, W. M. Draper ; Trustees, G. A.'Luxbury, W s' 

 Greene, C. H. Heath : Regatta Committee, A. Jutra's, 8." F 

 Woodman, C. H. Heath. The Commodore has long been 

 kuown to us as a spirited yachtsman, and we congratulate 

 him upon the assumption of his new office. 



New Bedford Yacht Cli:b. -The following officers have 

 been elected for the coming year : Commodore J A Hawes- 

 Vice-Commodore. W. Nye, Jr.,- Fleet Captain, W. t Waar- 

 ner; Secretary, G. W. Packer; Treasurer, W. A. Mackie 

 Measurer, J. H. Beetle. jj 



WiLLiAMsuoiiHu Yaoht Club.— In consequence of some 

 lie dissensions among the! .members of this club it 

 ■ Heir meeting. March 5, to disband and sell 'all 

 their property. We regret that a club with such an excellent 

 field before it should have allowed petty quarrels to sum- 

 marily cause its demise. However, other junior clubs will 

 lions to their ranks, and perhaps it is best after 

 all thai juld gradually merge into a few strong 



and permanent organizations rather than eke out a more or 

 M as separate and lifeless bodies. 



SocrsEnN Yaoht Clitb, New Oslbaks.— Twenty-five new 



members were added at our last meeting, and a good deal of 



:ended to. We look forward to a renewal of 



old times, whenuue Crescent Yacht Club flourished in all its 



St. AeorsiiN (Fla.) Vacht Club.— The club opened he 

 seas m by a acnes Of acquatie festivals. Thirty entries wtie 

 made for their annual match, March, 12. 



