FOREST AND STREAM. 



333 



above two hundred. This condition to apply only to the 

 scores in determining the winner of the first prize, The 

 second prize to go to the person who at the close of the sea- 

 son shall have made the highest aggregate of three full scores 

 at all the distances, in any three competitions. The third 

 prize to go to the person who, haying never won a first prize 

 at these distances, at the close of the season shall have made 

 the highest aggregate of three full scores at all the distances 

 in any three competitions. 



New Jekw— Newark — Newark Amateur Rifle Club ; 

 200-yards reduced targets: 



WiuHayra 5 65556556 5—60 



J Elver.'. 4 45B5656.B B— 48 



O L FrectiP + 5 4 1 4 5 J 5 4—15 



V Ui'SBP, Jr' 4 455 + 5445 4—44 



JFHili. 4 5 5 5 4.4 8 5 4 5^3 



T Felsrrarg i 5 4 3 6 4 3 6 4 6—42 



— The Pennsylvania State Rillc Association is at present 

 the best model of what such an organization ought to be. It 

 is an aggregation of the several rifle clubs in the State, mak- 

 ing it; rather a rifle congress thin a distinct club. It is pre- 

 pared for fine work, and it) the matter of targets has adopted 

 the following refinement on the Crtedmaor pattern : 



Third Class— To be used in all distances to and iuclndtng 

 300 yards. 



Bull's-eye— 8 inches in diameter sub-divided by one ring 4 

 inches in diameter. 



Centre— 26 inches in diameter, sub-divided by three rings SJ 

 inches apart. 



Inner— 46 inches in diameter, subdivided by three riugs 2£ 

 inches apart. 



Outer BquaTe— 4x6 feet. 



tmd Mo**— To be used in all distances over 300 yards, to 

 and including 700 yards 



Bull's-eye— 22 inches in diameter, sub-divided by one ring 

 11 inches in diameter. 



Centre— its inches in diameter, sub-divided by two rings 

 2 2-8 inches apart. 



Inner— 64 inches iu diameter, sub-divided by two rings 

 2 2-3 inches apart. 



Outer— 70 inches in diameter, sub-divided by two rings 

 2 2-3 iuches apart. 



Outside square— GxO feet. 



The sp ices between the rings on the third class target shall 

 be numbered from three to twelve consecutively, and shall 

 count in a like manner ; all that space on the outside of the 

 rings counting as two. On a second class target, the spaces 

 shall be numbered from two to twelve consecutively and 

 count in a like manner. 



Illinois— Chicago— The off-hand clubs of Chicago enjoyed 

 "mutual competition at the Lake View Range on Saturday 

 last, in the mutch for a cup, presented by J, E. Tilt. The 

 trial was exhaustive, requiring 30 shots per man, and out of 

 the possible 150 the scores stood -. 



,TS Crura... ...6 4 5 45453553645444445644465 4 4 



a 4— 130, 



D B Freeman 4 4 4 i 5 4 4 4 4 1 1 4 5 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 5 4 4 i 5 6 



r. 5 6 j— 120. 



S :,, Tirro'l i 54 4 5544 4 444444446545454456 



3 5 4-129. 



I A Freeman 4 454444544 4 4 4544454416444 4 



5 5 5 i— 1SS. 



Chat If* OSfliU.l 4 4544444444444445 4 4444544 



4 4 4 5- 



F BenrolU) 4 445444444444644 4 44 544 44 44 4 



l, J *— IBi 

 J O II litis ,4 3 3 5 5 1 4 4 4 6 3 4 5 4 4 4 t 4 4 5 4 6 4 -4 5 4 5 4 



3 4—134. 



AM livrill 4 5 445364 4 4 44444465444434443 



I 

 H C El'rflley .....4 44 4 5 54354634445545454 3 3344 



4 a 4— m 



W II I heuowtlll 4 3 443554 3 435444444444344 



4 4 4 6 4 6 



Wm Harm US LHDrury 



J A Colerroar its B P Clratileld .. 



J tilacauiey US Oeo McConnell ,140 



Michigan — East Saginaw, May 24. — Score of the East, 

 Saginaw Amateur Kifle Olub at weekly practice ; 200 yards, 

 off-hand : 



own experience and observation should have brought his 

 mind to a different conclusion. In the case of the bear, shot 

 at the bait from the overhanging rock twenty yards off, the 

 ball struck over the heart, the butt penetrating the heart, 

 •which would have finished him without the aid of the ball 

 from the teamster's Winchester, also penetrating near the 

 heart, which would have killed him. I could not see that 

 the splinters from the Express had penetrated the cavity, 

 and were consequently of little service. From my observa 

 Hon of I he wound, the solid ball would have been equally as 

 effective. 



Again, in the case of the only grizzly killed by " Viator's " 

 rifle, without the aid of another rifle, two balls penetrated 

 behind the bear's shoulders, one immediately behind it and 

 showing a good deal of penetration, and the other farther 

 back, bur, through cavity, and I think another a little farther 

 back. Either of the first two should have produced instant 

 death to have shown ranch greater destructiveness than a 

 solid ball. As it wa9, he reported the bear very lively after- 

 ward, finally lying down in a dying condition within ten 

 feet of the opposite side of the edge of the thicket. Ap- 

 proaching lire edge of the thicket, he gave that finishing shot 

 in the eye that he so graphically described in your paper, 

 and which he. holds up as a triumph of the Express. My 

 own conclusions arrived at, from an inspection of the car- 

 cass and from his own account of the affair, were diametri- 

 cally opposed to those of " Viator." He concludes that any 

 half playing such a smash with an animal's head, entering 

 the eye, was the very weapon for a grizzly. My conclusion 

 was that any rifle was a failure as an Express rifle that, put- 

 ting two balls 'behind the shoulder, did not produce instant 

 death with either of them, and that a heavy solid ball in 

 this instance would have been as much, or more instantly, 

 fatal put, either through the eye or behind the shoulder. I 

 was rather surprised he failed to mention in his articlo 

 those two balls put about the heart and that failed 

 to finish him. It cannot be successfully controverted that 

 for the spinal column or the head the heavy solid ball is the 

 projectile. A short time since I killed a Big Horn bull, strik- 

 ing an inch below the eye on side of face, coming out on 

 back portion of head, andtouching neither the brain nor 

 spinal column. He dropped as dead as if hit iu the brain. 

 How? Simply from concussion of the brain. Whatever ad- 

 vantage there is in the Express ball is confiued solely to its 

 action on the vital organs within the cavity, and to the 

 paunch and bowels. 



Whoever goes after grizzlies with an Express ball much 

 less than 350 gr., and with plenty of powder behind it, will 

 soon have the " bumble-bee sting " of Captain Williamson, 

 who is to be commended for his candor in stating his ex- 

 perience. The idea of managing a grizzly with a 260 or 270 

 gr. ball, with any quantity of powder behind it (the more 

 over 100 gr. the worse for the hunter), seems to me prepos- 

 terous. " Viator " seems to think them "small potatoes." 

 A little solid experience with them will convince him to the 

 contrary. He evidently knows little of their anatomy, na- 

 ture or habits. Without going into a discussion as to the 

 relative prowess of the grizzly or tiger, I will venture the 

 opinion that, considering the appliances used in hunting the 

 two beasts, the grizzly is the more formidable opponent of 

 the two. Bbae Paw. 



Montana, April 23, 1879. 



W J thaw 4 4 



CO yawkey 4 4 



J n Howry a & 



v u .'jduorji 4 -i 



no Hamilton 4 3 



KFCorbyn.... 2 a 



6—43 

 4—12 

 4— SO 



4 — 4» 



4 4 4 4—37 



4 3 4 6 4 5 5 



5 4 6 4 5 5 4 

 4 4 6 4 3 5 4 

 4 S 4 4 4 6 4 



4334544 5- 



For Forest and Stream and Mod and Gun. 

 THOSE SIX GRIZZLIES AGAIN. 



OUR correspondent " Bear Paw" will notice in the fol- 

 lowing communication the omission of that part con- 

 cerning the mooted question of the respective game killed by 

 the members of that now famous Rocky Mountain party. 

 "Viator" himself gallantly came to the front with a very 

 candid and altogether satisfactory statement in our issue of 

 April 24. Of the Express bullets "Bear Paw" writes: 



"Viator " asks my testimony as to tbe efficacy of the Ex- 

 press bullets. This 1 have given, and again say that the bullet 

 used by me — 275 gr. — and those used by him — 200 and 270 

 gt. — we more effective on game no larger than deer than the 

 solid balls formerly used. But when it comes to bear, elk 

 and buffalo, such light balls are inferior to a heavy solid ball. 

 "Viator's " theory is, that the hollow ball, on striking, 

 " spreads out like a mushroom," and remains together. My 

 observation has been very careful, and is entirely different 

 from his. The fact is, on striking, the sides burst asundel 

 and splinter off with the acquired velocity of the ball, and 

 at an auele with the line of fire, more or less obtuse, accord- 

 ing to the velocity. The size of these splinters vary in- 

 ly with the velocity of the ball— the greater the velocity 

 the smaller the splinters. They vary in size, also, in propor- 

 tion to the diameter of hole in point of ball. In case of the 

 thinuer-skinued and small-ribbed animals, like the deer, the 

 splinters from the light ball do penetrate the cavity. With 

 the buffalo, bear or elk (thick skin, large ribs, and frequently 

 three or four inches of flesh outside of ribs), these small splin- 

 . :n the light ball would not have momentum sufficient to 

 reach the cavity , or, if they did, with not sufficient power 

 to be effective. Only the butt of ball would, which, being 

 lighter than ie solid ball, is less effective. The only ad- 

 vantage of the hollow ball is when it goes to pieces just be- 

 fore entering the cavity, the splinters flying off in a fan- 

 shape, or rather as the frustum of a cone, and attacking a 

 large portion of the vital organsat onee. If Ihese splinters 

 fail to enter the cavity, or with not sufficient force, there is 

 ,• wasted, and the butt has to do all the work. 



1 cannot indorse "Viator's" opinion, that his .450 Express, 

 with the 260 or 270 gr. ball, was so destructive on bear. His 



pchtittg mid Routing. 



HIGH WATliK FOR THE WEEK. 



hi \ 

 .la . 1" 

 MaJ ii 

 June 1 

 Jane S . 

 June 3. 

 June 4. 



Boston, 



yew i'ork. 



H. M. 



B. M. 



5 14 



2 00 



6 11 



2 57 



7 VI 



3 6S 



8 13 



4 59 



9 15 



6 01 



10 20 



7 06 



11 22 



6 OS 



COMING FIXTURES. 



.. _ J Opening Cruise. 

 May so— yuaker City Y C Opening Cruise. 

 May 30— seawanliaka T O Opening Cruise. 

 May 30— Kontli Boston Y C Union Regatta. 

 June l— Baltimore T C Annual Regatta. 

 June 7— Atlantic Y C Annual Regatta, 

 June 1— N Y Canoe Regatta. 

 June 9— Southern Y C Cup Regatta. 

 June 10— Brooklyn Y C Annual Regatta. 

 June 10— Salem Y C Opening Cruise. 

 June to— i . Is lei it Ll I .nnnal Regatta. 

 June 11— Empire Y C Annual Regalia 

 June 12— Quaker City ¥ c Annual Regatta. 

 JunelS-ba; of iiuintj V c Sprkg'Regatta. 

 June 14— Beverly Y C Special Regatta. 

 June 14— Clileaga Y U Annual Regatta. 

 June. 14— Nu-a Si'Oiia V S Opening Cruise. 

 June 17— Euste. n Y C Opening Cruise. 

 June 17— Lynn Y C Annual Regatta. 

 June 17— :i Aunual Hegatta. 



Jnne 17— Newburyport Y C Annual Ke.atta, 

 June 19— New Jersey Y c Annual Regatta. 

 June in— New York Y C Annual Regatta. 



YACHTING NEWS. 



A Yum: Rion<[G Assuciaitos.— The new Jersey Yacht 

 Club has issued a call to other clubs to select committees for 

 the consideration of some plan looking toward the formation 

 of a Union or Raciog Association of some kind. The call 

 should be promptly answered, We have received a letter on 

 this subject and will publish our own views in connection 

 with it nest week. 



Poetland Yacht Club.— The annual challenge cup match 

 of this club was sailed May 23. A fresh 16-mile wind fr..ui 

 the north was blowing. Il<:y, 50ft., E. E. Preble, and Vim, 

 44ft., Vice-Corn. A. K. Paul, were the only entries in first- 

 class sloops. Won by Yioa, Bay not finishing. This gives 

 the Vice-Commodore, whose sloop has already pocketed one 

 cup, winning it three years in succession, the first year on 



cup also. Ray, we judge, could not have been in 

 form, for she is one of George Steers' famous models, and a 

 good deal like America. In a stiff breeze she ought to have 

 had things her own way. The second-class finished as fol- 

 lows : Twilight, 36ft. Tin., W. A, Charlton, 3h. 27m. 43s.; 

 Edith, A. M. Smith, 3b, 55rn.: Marie, 22ft. 8in., T. L, Kim- 

 ball, 4b. 2m. IS.;., and iVcfl.r, 28fi. T. P. Bradford, 4h. 30m. 

 43s. Nellie takes second class schooners prize, Undine not 

 finishing, and TiDiUght takes second-class sloops prize. There 

 were no entries for third class. The length measurements 

 given are on water line. ,,[,iops Idler, 84ft, 2in., Ceo. O. 

 Owen; Willie, SSft 10in., C. Stanwood, and Tempus, 27ft. 

 Sin., W. W. Goold, all of the second-class, did not finish. 



QmsoY-Y/ 



threi 



suited as follows: Waif, A 

 42m. 2s., beating 

 Litchfield, won in second-* 



Wawa, Glance, Psj/chi. Wi 

 out for taking wrung eon 

 Bass, won in lb. 13m. 9s., 

 Undine, 'Alp and Flirt. Oi 

 were measured on water li 

 at both ends. Judges, 

 Glover and Samuel Bass 

 each of the others. Next 

 Hill, June 0, 2 p. m. 



.'he opening regatta of this club 



, 18 to 22ft., and under 18ft, re- 



J. Clark, won iu first-class in lb. 



J. F. Sheppard. Thistle, W. LI. 



lass iu lh. 48m. 48s., beating Elf, 



'dfire and Dream, the latter ruled 



■■■ie. in third-class Socket, B. F: 



beating Imp, Dandelion, Elmer, 



nly plain sail was allowed, Boats 



'ne, including one-third overhang 



Messrs. J. T. Penniman, J. M. 



. One Prize in first-class, two iu 



regular regatta off Quincy Great 



Two Lakgb SiEiit Yachts.— The two largest steam yachts 

 — one built in America and the other in Great Britain— have 

 recently been launched. The forme is for Mr. Dion Bouci- 

 cault, and built by Ward, Stanton & Co., of Ncwbur'di N 

 Y. Length on deck, 168ft.; on water line, 149 ft.,- over 'all' 

 187ft.; beam, 26ft.; depth of hold, lift, 4in., and draft of 

 water, Oft. Tonnage, C. M., 400. Her frame is of white 

 oak, with locust staunchions, hackmatack knees and oak 

 planking; deck beams of yellow pine, with iron beams in 

 wake of the boiler room ; white pine decks worked in nar- 

 row strips ; copper fastened below water and galvanized iron 

 above ; engines of l he compound inverted condensing type • 

 cylinders, 23in. and 48in., by 30in. stroke; two return tubu- 

 lar boilers, with a heating surface of 2,000 sq. ft., two fur- 

 naces to each boiler ; working pressure, about lOOlbs.' shaft 

 of steel, with a 9ft. Gin. propeller; capacity of coal bunkers 

 70 tons. She will be rigged as a schooner. Foremast, 80ft"' 

 topmast, 44ft.; mainmast, 88ft,, topmast, 44ft,; bowsprit out- 

 board, 82ft,; main boom, 57ft ; fore boom, 40ft. A full 

 complement of boats has been made for her by T. Desmond 

 of Peck Slip. They include a very handsome gig, 25ft. finl 

 ished in hardwood and brass trimmings; a 25ft. steam launch 

 or pinnace; a metallic life-boat, 19ft. long, fitted with air 

 clumbers and lifelines ; a 25ft. cutter and a 16ft. cutter - 

 also a small dingey. It is needless to add that the interior 

 furnishing and decoration of this new yacht will be of the 

 most tasteful and elegant design. On deck she has a smok- 

 ing room 14ft. xlOft,, and a cabin trunk running from the 

 pilot-house forward to the companion aft, with" a width of 

 14ft This trunk is 2ft. Oin. high. Abaft this will be a sec- 

 ond trunk over the engine and boiler space, and beyond that 

 a clear quarter-deek of 50ft, in length. The main saloon is 

 24ft, square, with 8ft. headroom, and is located forward of 

 the boilers, under the first trunk. Next to it will be the gal 

 ley, pantry, ice -house, etc., occupying 10ft. fore and aft" 

 Seven state-rooms are to be found forward of the saloon on 

 cither side of a passage leading to a ladder to the smok'inir 

 room on deck. Abaft the engine-room bulkhead are located 

 the officers' quarters, consisting of a cabin 10x12ft and 

 three state-rooms. Next, the galley and crew's quarters 

 with storage-room, etc. The steamer was successfully 

 launched May 20 aud christened " Stiecughraun" by Miss 

 Beckwith, of Mew York.- The engines are now being lined 

 and the joiners and upholsterers are finishing up their work ' 



The other large yacht— the largest in the world— has been 

 built to the order of Ml, Albert Brassey, brother of Mr Thos 

 Brassey, M. P., who recently circumnavigated the world in 

 his auxiliary barkantine Sunbeam. The new steamer meas 

 ures 504 tons Y. K, A. rule, or about 30 tons more than the 

 Sunbeam. The Czarina, us Mr. Brassey's vessel is called 

 was buiit by Camper & NichoLorr, of Gosport, England and 

 engined by Day, Summers & Co., of Southampton 1 with in 

 verted compound condensing engines of 60 H. P 'nominal 

 Cylinders, 20, and 40in. by 24m. stroke. On her trial trio a 

 mean speed of 10.17 knots was developed, with OOlbs pres- 

 sure, 27in. vacuum and 110 revolutions— an excellent tier 

 formance, considering the auxiliary nature of her engine 

 power. She is rigged as a three-masted schooner. a 



South Camden Yacht Cum.— This club sailed their onen 

 ing regatta May 12, from Kaighn's Point to the Horseshoe" 

 buoy and return. Wind light, tide favorable. The first 

 class finished as follows: Mc.Ckes, W. Weaver- Shook F _ 

 Bagel ; Gnang, W- Harper, and Holland, M. Koberts Tho 

 second-class: E, A*JU<m, J. hzkev ; Anna, C. Rocfc The 

 former was disqualified for receiving assistance' during a foul 

 with another craft. In the third-class the Padkv won her 

 opponent, ConkUn, not finishing. ' 



Savasn-ah YAonT Club.— In their annual regatta Mav T 

 at the Isle of Hope, the first-class finished as under- IdaM 

 T. M. Newell, 4b. 15m.; Vmmrn, Vice-Corn. J W alhW 

 4h. 16m. 30s.; Ida C, Com. W- Hone, and Wave ° V O 

 Wylly, failed to make the course. In the Becond-claas VtbUfe' 

 S. MeA. White, won in 8b. 16m. 30s ; SophronielT <\ rfer' 

 rien, on. 31m. 15:.; lilla, H. M. Deruere, and Bessie,'^ I 

 Kinsey, not timed. In third-class Tallulah, 1. Beckett won 

 in 2h. 31m. 30s.; Stella, Dr. L. A. Faliigant, 3h. 59m tS 

 Wing, G. W- Wylly, Jr. , not limed. Bateaux races'fin! h d 

 up the day. 



Dktkoxt iNoTF.s.-La Chapelle Bros, have launched the 

 Steam yacht Stella; Partridge, a 2311, yacht for Congressman 

 Newberry, and Plass has finished a 22ft. cat. 



Seawashaka Yacht Cut, -Tbe revised edition of their 

 club-book has been received. It has incorporated manv 

 new and commendable features. A programme of the 

 races for 1879, us published in those columns, the usual 

 lists ol officers, and a roll of 11 schooners, 1 steamer 

 25 cabin sloops and cutter.-, and 17 open yachts their 

 dimensions and builders. The club-list show's 130 'active 

 members, a large number these iimes, when so many have 

 dropped out of all tables, time allowance! 



signal code, and charts of courses have al-io been in 

 eluded. The following fKule VII. Sailing Reeulat'onsl 

 should be wrii ten in letters of gold, for it is something which 

 has not even been attempted by the old and wealthy clu'-g of 

 Great Britain : Every yacht winning a prize in any regatta of 

 this club snail deposit with the Secretary her " lines " ac- 

 curately taken off and drawn upon paper by the Measurer of 

 the club, or approved and certified to by him. The scale for 



