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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1879. 



To Correspondents. 



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The Yachting Season. — Having made the most ample 

 arrangements for obtaining special correspondence and news 

 of all yacht races and cruises, readers of a nautical turn of 

 mind -will find more original matter in our yachting columns 

 than in all other sources combined. We flatter ourselves that 

 •we have won our race in this respect and have left all compet- 

 itors away down to leeward. 



Old PenMBYLYANU Days.— '* Antler's" sketch of early 

 pioneer life in Pennsylvania half a century and more ago will 

 be read with interest by the generation which has forgotti 

 the use of the canoe-paddle, save aa among its sports, and 

 which has discarded the old flintlock which snapped nineteen 

 times and was "onhitched" the twentieth time. 



Out of the CtnutENT.— Those who seek for the curious 

 and the antiquated need not go back for it a half century. 

 There are numerous eddies in the advance of the day, out of 

 the way reaches, where the life of to-day is that of a hundred 

 years ago and of a hundred years hence. Into just such a 

 place did our correspondent drift when he came among the 

 good, hearty, rugged, old-fashioned people of Canaan. 



Loorc to Torn Doos.— The Mayor of New York has just 

 appointed the fifteen dog catchers of the season and one of 

 the partizan daily papers has been trying to make a political 

 issue of it, Whatever may be the parly views of the gentry 

 thus honored with the official appointment it seems very cer- 

 tain that no dog's politics will save him. Canines of every 

 shade of political belief, black, tan, yellow, mottled and 

 spotted -will be ignominious!}' yanked iu together, and, despite 

 their party bowlings on the buck stoop through the nigh's of 

 the last campaign, all will be quenched together in the fateful 

 cage of the East River. Meanwhile it behooves every man, 

 ■woman and child who possesses a valued dog to see that its 

 poll lax is paid and the collar on. The dog catchers for the 

 most part do their work in a satisfactory way, but once in a 

 while their greed prompts them to egregious violations of the 

 commands laid down in Leviticus xix : 11. It will therefore 

 be wise to keep diligent watch over the dogs which are worthy 

 of life. And when a dog catcher does become a dog-thief it 

 is the duty of the dog's owuc-r to punish him for it, so that his 

 thieving propensities may be promptly squelched before others 

 suffer. 



5^" Foeest and Stream will be sent for sis months for 

 $2 ; for three months for $1. To clubs of five or more, %'6 

 per year. 



THE CONDITION OF YACHTING. 



THE public has been blinded by the splendor of the vic- 

 tories of America in 1851. and Sapho, Magic and Colum- 

 Ua in more recent years. The impression has got abroad that 

 because we could outsail our trans- Atlantic cousins we were 

 superior to tbem on every point, and had nothing to learn 

 from Englishmen concerning a yacht. Exactly the reverse, 

 however, happens to be the case, and it is a maudlin, sickly 

 kind of patriotism that dictates to hide and gloss over our 

 shortcomings, instead of exposing boldly to the light wherein 

 we lack, with the hope that, knowing ourselves and seeing 

 ourselves as others do, we might learn to profit from those 

 who, in everything pertaining to the noble sport of yacht- 

 ing, have forgotten more than we as a class ever knew. It 

 has been the earnest endeavor of Fop.est and Stream to cater 

 to no small national prejudice, but to point out why and 

 where Americans fail as yachtsmen, and what course we 

 should steer to attain the desired haven of perfection. That 

 among our smaller craft not the faintest trace of real seaman- 

 ship nnd yacblsmanship should exist ; that in their matches 

 the despicable sand-bag shifters still carry all before them in 

 ETow York and other waters ; that an intellectual sport should 

 be reduced to the level of mere athletics,— is something 

 which would make any but the most tenacious despair of ever 

 seeing things righted, and the money, efforts and time now 

 sunk in sailing machines turned into legitimate channels, in 

 which yachting becomes not a mere gamble among jockeys, 

 but an ennobling pastime, leading to better health, greater 

 coolness, quicker wits, sharpei eye, and a vastly increased 

 range of knowledge, as well as candor and manliness in char- 

 acter. 



That the leaven is working we are sure ; that what we have 

 written baa not been lost entirely we feel confident. In a Te- 

 cent issue of the 2f. T. Times an able editoral sums up the 

 case we have been arguing for many months, and the Times, 

 like ourselves, winds up with an appeal for the formation of 

 a Yacht Racing Association as the beat and quickest means 

 by which order, system and progress can be brought out of 

 chaos. Rule out shifting ballast and live ballast, sail under 

 uniform rules from Halifax and Portland down to New 

 Orleans and Galveston, and yachts will soon assume an abler 

 model than at present, and yachtsmanship be better under- 

 stood, as skippers learn to dive con amore into the charming 

 realms of a sailor's life. 



HANLAN. 



THE result of the Hanlan-EUiott match was a foregone 

 conclusion. Even the English betting men, generally 

 slow to acknowledge the strength of a stranger, had given the 

 victory to Hanlan long before the contest opened. To any 

 one who has followed the wonderful career of the Toronto 

 oarsman from the first time he stepped into a shell, his bril- 

 liant subsequent record as the fastest and most finished 

 sculler the world has ever produced, is a matter of no great 

 surprise. There are those who have sought persistently to 

 decry Hanlan and to hold up as his superior our own pet of 

 Union Springs, though even such as were disposed to put 

 their sheckels on Courtney never failed to acknowledge that 

 the long, powerful swing, ample chest and stay, as well as 

 the style of the Canadian, could not be matched by any one 

 save perhaps the Owasco sculler. But that even then they 

 underrated the man was plainly shown by the result at 

 Lachine, where Hanlan merely toyed with Courtney, letting 

 him pull up occasionally, and invariably getting away from 

 htm again at his will. Had Hanlan pulled his best in that 

 race, he could have bailed out his boat and saluted the crowd 

 just as well as he has twice done on the Tyne. The readi- 

 ness with which he vanquished Elliott only goes to prove 

 still more what to us was an old story— that Hanlan is with- 

 out an equal in a shell at home or abroad. The actual cham- 

 pion of America and England, he may as well be hailed as the 

 fastest oarsman in the world ; for pulling Tricket for the 

 championship of the world must be regarded merely as a 

 matter of form ; there can be no question as to the issue of a 

 match between the Toronto lad and the hostler of Australia. 

 Concerning the race with Elliott little is to be said. It was 

 rowed Monday, June 16, over the Tyne course, for the 

 championship of England, $1,000 a side and the London 

 Sportsman cup. After several foul starts both Bcullers got 

 away together at 12:15 p.m. At the fourth stroke Hanlan 

 takes the lead, rows a winning race as he pleases, occasionally 

 quickens his stroke as high as 42, but dropping soon again to 

 a steady swing of 32 to 34, he finally crosses the line in 

 21m. la.— 55 seconds faster than the Elliott-Higgins match, 

 winning by eleven lengths, which he might have made 

 twenty just as well as not. la this race Hanlan, besides add- 

 ing greatly to his own world-wide fame, has again proved 

 that the care and zealous watchfulness bestowed upon him by 

 Col. Shaw, and the aid extended by the Hanlan Olub of 

 Toronto have fallen upon shoulders most worthy, for he has 

 never "gone back" on the club, nor has the club ever " gone 

 back" upon their favorite. 



It will be a long time ere the world sees another sculler the 

 equal of Hanlan. _ 



The Muckletonians.— The Muckletonian Club, of Win- 

 chester, Kentucky, is an association of gentlemen cunning in 

 the use of rod and gun. It was established upon the banks of 

 the Kentucky River years ago and the friendship which binds 

 the members together has grown strong with the seasons. 



What the title IMuckletonian imports wc must confess we 

 know not, and we are content to accept the dictum of the 

 Olub that this name is one of the Eleusinian mysteries, past 

 finding out. But its signification must be a happy one, for 

 the Muckletonians are a jolly set, and know how to get a 

 great deal of sensible enjoyment out of the world. There are 

 seventeen of them, representing the professions and the differ- 

 ent business interests of Clark County. Twice each year 

 they go forth, leaving dull care behind them, and seek pleas- 

 ure and recreation among the wilds. Last fall a party con- 

 sisting of R. N. Winn, J. D. Gay, D. A. Oay. J. J. Eubank, 

 J. D. Simpson, A. H. Sympson, G. R. Snyder, R. J. Snyder, 

 B. P. Gofl, T. F, Phillips, S. G. Jackson, J. L Wheeler, M, 

 G. Taylor and Leeland Hathaway of the club ; Dr. James 

 Sympson, Rodney Haggard, W. D. Gay and James S, Winn, 

 invited guests, and Robt. Brown, cook, and Thomas Browu, 

 waiter, went to the Rocky Mountains, inspected the mining 

 towns, explored the parks, wondered at the va3tness of the 

 country, amazed the veteran guides by their daring feals of 

 horsemanship, bagged game and fish, and returned full of en- 

 thusiasm, health and happiness. One of their number has em- 

 bodied their experiences in a brightly written little pamphlet 

 descriptive of the trip, which makes an excellent memento 

 for the members, and their sisters and their cousins atid their 

 aunts. This year the Muckletonians propose a fishing and 

 hunting excursion through Michigan and Minnesota. We 

 hope to hear from them. 



PnENOMESAL Florida, — Florida, it is sometimes com- 

 plained, has an itching palm. But we do not blame her for 

 this; a taste for the gold and silver and nickels of the 

 strangers within the gates U a most praisworthy taste in a 

 State which has no gold nor silver nor lead mines of her own. 

 What we do blame Florida for, however, is that abnormal 

 craving for notoriety which she is constantly displaying in 

 novel and unpleasant ways. So capricious is the State in 

 the manifestations of this desire for the public gaze that it 

 is exceedingly difficult for the inhabitant of that land to enjoy 

 that feeling of security so necessary to a peaceful reclining 

 beneath one's own vine and fig-tree. It 13 not so long ago 

 that we chronicled a great descending of Florida rain and 

 uprising of Florida water (no surreptitious puff of a toilet 

 article intended), overflowing of lands, drowning of beasts, 

 and general panoramic display of Noac'iian landscape. Laler 

 the boiling spring suddenly gushed up off the Florida coast j 

 then an upheaval of the land, Parturient montes, and all 

 the other approved premonitory symptoms of a Floridian vol- 

 cano. Now that the eyes of the world have been turned to 

 the spouting of Vesuvius, the emulous peninsula has ceased 

 her competitive rumblings, and betakes herself to a new role 

 As will be seen in a letter elsewhere, vast portions of tho 

 State are drying up. A long drought has visited the land ; 

 streams have disappeared ; the watery fastnesses of reptiles 

 and wild beasts are giving forlh their parching inhabitants; 

 the fish are dying in the shallow, heated channels, and general 

 woe has fallen upon the brut.e creation. Such a succession of 

 calamities would seem to rob life in phcnominal Florida of 



its charms. 



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The Forest and Stream as a Stakeholder, — When 

 we published ourselves as the stakeholders in a rocent 

 pigeon-shooting challenge, we did so conceiving lhat to be 

 the intent of cur correspondent's communication. To slste 

 that we did not seek to unwarrantably assume such a posi- 

 tion would be entirely superfluous. Readers of Forest and 

 Stream know its character too well to make any such dis- 

 claimer of wrong intent necessary. More than this. So far 

 from desiring or assuming to be the stakeholders iu any match 

 whatsoever, we have always held ourselves aloof from 

 such office. It has been, is and will be our aim to encour- 

 age generous rivalry in sport, for the sake of the sport itself 

 rather than any mercenary gains accruing from it to the par- 

 ticipants; generous competition of skill rather than strife 

 for personal aggrandizement. 



IMPORTATION OF GAME BIRDS. 



WE publish herewith several reports from gentlemen who 

 have received and set at liberty the migratory quail 

 recently imported from Messina. The hardy little fellows 

 have aroused much enthusiasm among all who have noted 

 their excellent condition after such a long confinement on 

 ship-board, and the quail promise to become favorite birds 

 with American sportsmen. The Brooklyn Gun Club exerted 

 themselves to secure a large number, and have distributed 

 them with a generosity demanding recognition. Of the 300 

 and more birds consigned to the club, they presented 100 to 

 the Blooming Park Association ; 100 were sent to Smithtown, 

 L. I.: 40 to the Watertown Sportsmeu's Club, of Seneca 

 County, N. Y.; 41 to Theo. Morford, Newton, N. J.; 15 to 

 James Bryce, Fanningdale, N. J., and 10 to George Creed, 

 Jamaica, L. I. If the Long Island birds come back next 

 spring, the club proposes to renew the importations next year 

 on an extensive scale. Our correspondents unite in giving 

 Mr. H. P. Tobey, of Boston, deserved credit for his courtesy 

 in taking charge of the orders and materially facilitating the 

 undertaking. 



Our columns have already contained from time, to time 

 nearly all the available information concerning the habits and 

 appearance of these birds. Nevertheless, we shall publish 

 an article upon the subject next week, accompanying it with 

 a cut 



