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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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To Correspondents. 



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Godbout. — Owing to some detention while en route, the 

 fourth letter of Mr. Halloek's Godbout series, did not reach 

 us in time for this week's issue. It will appear in our next. 



—That great pleasure may be derived from Pain is shown 

 by the satisfaction with which the public witnessed the dis- 

 play of fire works at Manhattan Beach lasst week. The exhib- 

 itior's name was Pain, you know. 



—We were compelled last week, as again to-day, to give 

 more than usual space to reports of out-of-doors meetings, 

 pigeon and glass ball tournaments, yachting, cricket, etc. 

 Those of our readers whose tastes incline to other things must 

 be content to wait their turn. Patience is a cardinal virtue 

 this weather. 



White Mountains.— The season at the White Mountains 

 is now at its climax, and an increased number of visitors are 

 availing themselves of the facilities which new railroad lines 

 afford to reach the attractive resorts which they now pene- 

 trate. One can reach the Profile, the Crawford and the Fabyan 

 by rail, and it is only a day's ride from New York by the New 

 York and New Haven Railroad, with parlor cars and sleepers 

 running through without change. As the three hotels named 

 are under one management, a party stopping at either one can 

 leave baggage behind and make the grand tour unincumbered 

 and at trifiiDg expense, making his choice of railroad, private 

 conveyance, or " Shank's mare." 



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Off FOB Cape Vincent.— A party of fishermen with their 

 rods, reels, fly books, , bait boxes, wives and children have 

 gone from New York; and vicinity to Cape Vincent, N. Y., 

 for a loDg vacation. Among those who bought their through 

 tickets the other day were Messrs. Geo. N". Wild, of Red 

 Bank, N. J. ; C. E. Tyler and I. C. Fierson, of Plainfield, N. 

 J. ; Geo. W. Shieblcr, of Newark, N. J. ; D. F. Harris, of 

 New York, and Mr. Henry C. Squires, who appears to have 

 been the prime mover of the expedition. Host Rathbun, of 

 Cape Vincent, dispatched to the latter gentleman last Wednes- 

 day a 25 pound muscalonge, which was on exhibition in Cort- 

 landtst. Mr. Squires had the monster laid out in state in- 

 side, with a placard in the window inviting the curious to en- 

 ter and do homage to the fallen Cresar. The curious came, 

 dozens of them. He will never place a big fish on free exhi- 

 bition again. Eight Newark families breakfasted on as many 

 portions of the muscalonge. and there were a few fragments 

 left over too. 



THE SPORTSMAN'S AGE OF GLASS. 



NO remarkable prophetic vision is necessary to foresee the 

 coming Age of Glass. The glass ball is growing in 

 favor, or, as the reporter would clothe the thought in more 

 fitting terms, the fragile crystal sphero is in the ascendant 

 upon the smoke-beclouded horizon of the shooting universe. 

 Not only do the long established clubs keep up the fire along 

 the line with old time ardor; but peaceful, slumbering com- 

 munities all over the country are being infected, and hillsides 

 which have been silent since the bombardments of the Revo- 

 lution now echo to the shots of Saturday afternoon glass ball 

 match. Even the staid and aristocratic rifle associations, 

 hitherto confining themselves to short and long range bull's- 

 eyes, with a bit of contempt for the more democratic ball 

 business, now plant tho traps on their ranges and invite the 

 world into competitive demolishing of whole hogsheads of the 

 brittle targets. Walnut Hill, Bellevue, the Columbia Asso- 

 ciation's and other ranges have yielded to the demand for 

 this sport, and other ranges must fall into line. 



Glass ball shooting is cheaper than rifle shooting, or than 

 bird shooting ; so cheap in fact that any one who can afford 

 to have a gun at all can well stand the trifling expense of the 

 broken balls. Besides being less expensive, the glass balls 

 possess several other very decided advantages over pigeons. 

 Birds are becoming every year more difficult to procure. 

 Managers of shooting tournaments are sadly thwarted in 

 their calculations by the perversity of the birds which re- 

 fuse to fall into the snare of the fowler. But the glass ball is 

 always on hand. No anxious club secretary need write to 

 the Foeebt and Stbeam to know in what part ot the country 

 the balls are nesting. All that is necessary is to fix the date 

 of the tournament and then telegraph a money order for 

 Bogardus' rough or Paine's feather filled. There is no 

 necessity of feeding the balls in the coops, nor danger that 

 they will die before the trap is sprung. The shooter is not 

 obliged to retrieve the smashed balls as he must the killed 

 birds, nor do the wounded balls fall dead just out of bounds. 

 Another important consideration is that no vigilant tender- 

 hearted S. F. P. C. A. ever hampers the sport. We have 

 uot as yet heard of any State legislature prohibiting glass ball 

 shooting on the ground of cruelty to the balls. Sportsmen 

 and S's F. P. C. A. may very properly hold different views 

 as to whether or not the wild pigeon was introduced into the 

 scheme of creation expressly for trap shooting ; but as to the 

 proper mission of the glass ball there can be no such dispute. 



We fail to find any reason why we should not expect a con- 

 tinued and increasing prosperity of glass ball manufacturers 

 and shooters. The sport is year by year gaining dignity as 

 perfection in it is rendered more difficult. Mechanical in- 

 genuity has been applied with such good effect to the con- 

 struction of the trap that it has come to be a most intricate 

 contrivance. Good glass ball scores under these circum- 

 stances are nothing to be ashamed of. When the last solitary 

 E.-toputex -inigratorivft (plain English, wild pigeon, but 

 harder to hit with its Latin name) shall have been sprung 

 from the trap, and its -feathers scattered to the thirty-two 

 points of the compass by the rain of lead from a thousand 

 guns, and the race shall have taken its inevitable place in the 

 category of the Dodo the Moa and the Archaopternyx, the 

 glass ball will be in its full glory and the Sportsman's Age of 

 Glass a present reality. 



Ho ! FOB Coney Island.— New Yorkers of the past gener- 

 ation used to go a great way for their surf, sand, and sea 

 breezes. At first it was Fire Island ; then came Long Branch 

 and Rockaway, much nearer, but still far away. Meanwhile 

 Coney Island laid neglected at their very doors. Three years 

 ago it was unthought of, or despised. Contemplate the change 

 to-day. Why, the united voices of all the journals of the 

 land, in daily and weekly acclamation, cannot exhaust the 

 theme of praise and wonder, and thankful gratitude to those 

 who have made it what it is. Periodically, in times past, it 

 has been customary for a storm to rise, and blow and wash 

 the island out of recognition in a single night. Sand hills 

 would shift, inlets open and close, and vessels strand upon the 

 sites where buildings had stood the day before. Even so, by 

 an agency almost as potent, a transformation has just now 

 been effected within a space of time too brief to realize as 

 commensurate with the prodigies therein performed. The 

 shifting sands and desert wastes have passed away and given 

 place to a combination of attractions and delights almost in- 

 comparable on the globe. At night the spectacle is one of un- 

 surpassed magnificence, especially on those gala Saturday 

 nights when the whole beach is ablaze with the glory of pyro- 

 technic display given by the Manhattan Beach proprietors. 

 Those persons who have seen all the old world creations, look 

 on with amazement here. No one realizes until they have 

 seen. Every day 100,000 people visit Coney Island and de- 

 part with fullest satisfaction of what they have enjoyed. 

 Those grand establishments the Manhattan and Brighton Ho- 

 tels are crowded with guests who have hitherto summered 

 elsewhere. In all the little hamlets around about summer 

 boarders congregate ; for they have learned that here they can 

 enjoy all the delights of the beach by day, and take their 

 nightly rest close by at weekly charges quite within the means 

 of purses which arc not long. New York and all its environs 

 now appreciate most heartily the privileges which they enjoy, 

 and wonder that they had not been Heaven-sent before. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Tide New Fobs Game Laws— Sportsmen are already 

 complaining of the new game laws relating to deer hunting. 

 They say August is too early to kill doe when fawns are not 

 wholly independent of the mother before the first of Septem - 

 ber. Moreover, it is cruel and unsportsmanlike to run deer 

 with dogs in the hottest month of the year, as this new statute 

 permits, and it is asserted that another game law will be pre* 

 sented to the Legislature for adoption next winter.— Trey 



We pointed out the defects in the game law as it was pro- 

 posed previous to its passage, and prepared a compromise 

 tabic of close seasons which we printed. We were glad to 

 see the bill modified in regard to some of these suggestions of 

 ours, though the deer clause was not one of them. We urged 

 the first of September. 



New Yokk Quad. Season.— The inadvertent omission of 

 the word " except" in the following paragraph, published 

 in our issue of July 3, led to a mistake which was at once 

 apparent : 



Quail.— Sec. 8. Cannot be killed, exposed for sale, nor 

 had in possession after killed, except between Nov. 1 and 

 January 1. Cannot be killed in Counties of Montgomery 

 Schenectady, Saratoga, or Albany, within three years from 

 passage of thiB act. Misdemeanor ; penalty, $25. 



§Jf* gifle. 



THE ENGLISH AND SCOTCH EIGHTS. 



The selection of the eights of England and Scotland to 

 compete for the Elcho Shield on the 24th inst., has brought 

 out some fine marksmanship in some wretched weather. 

 The first prize meeting was held at Sandwell Park, near 

 Birmingham, by permission of the Earl of Dartmouth, on the 

 11th, 12th and 13th of June. The English Eight Club has 

 been formed with the express intention of creating a wider 

 constituency from which to select the English Eight, and 

 the club already numbers ninety members, among whom 

 are most of the distinguished small-bore shots of English na- 

 tionality. The captain of the Eight, Sir Henry Wilmot, M. 

 P., and the Adjutant, Major Waller, are respectively presi- 

 dent and honorary secretary of the new club, and the compe- 

 tition was carried out under arrangements made by them. 

 On the 12th inst., the serious business of the meetiDg began. 

 The captain of the Eight had determined to select six men 

 and two reserve men on the result of the two days' shooting, 

 retaining two nominations to the team in his own hands! 

 The two gentlemen to complete the Eight will be selected 

 shortly before the day of the match for the Elcho Shield. 

 Fifteen shots each at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards on each day. 

 The gold, silver and bronze jewels of the club go to the 

 three highest scorers in the two days' aggregate. The scores 

 by totals at the several ranges stood : 



son yds. 900 yds. i.OOO yds. Total 



Sergt Gilder 6S u % S 3I * 



MrE-ans.... 10 50 83 223 



Oapt PotlllppS 05 6U ss sis 



Lieut Toller 6* 63 S5 212 



Mrllaniphry. 63 07 77 21a 



MrTurLer 68 M 74 208 



Lieiii. J Deeley to 59 77 2> e 



MrBacknonse ..69 60 77 206 



Mr Mttfonl ii 



Major Siriteu OS 



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201 



New Type.— Next week we shall appear in a new dress, 

 and we hope with increased attractions. 



Lieut O01 Blaud 02 



.-.ir U lialford n 



Lieut a Baker 59 6a 69 194 



LleutMoser 02 64 68 194 



Marim Smith 67 42 79 lss 



iwrHawley 60 a 68 175 



MrBlocK 4S 66 65 168 



On the 13th there was a marked improvement in the 

 weather, but dark clouds were wafted to and fro, and the 

 conditions were not to be boasted of. The scores ran : 



800 yds. 900 yds. 1,000 yds. Total 



Glider n 07 91 231 * 



Turner 14 66 91 231 



Humphrey 74 04 92 230 



KvauS 73 111 92 2V5 



Tuller 66 6S ss air 



Bland 69 68 ST 217 



Detsley 01 63 S5 2119 



HaUoid 11 70 67 209 



Moser 89 SS si 20J 



BaCKtlotue 65 01 79 205 



Baker 68 68 79 SOS 



Metford 03 63 18 205 



Pnlllipp ,68 BS 70 20s 



Qawley 07 68 TO 200 



PlXley 62 63 71 I9fi 



ScriveD 57 65 Id lao 



Block 67 52 71 isi) 



Smuh 61 -19 57 jaj 



The following gives the totals of the last five shots at 1,000 

 yards on each day. By subtracting them the regular 15-shot 

 total may be reached : 



Gilder 24 21 Block 11 ]4 



Buuiuliiey 21 23 l'lnlilpp 22 ai 



Met lord 17 20 Deeley la 2u 



Hall r.i ,18 20 1'Lxley 21 30 



Hawley U I* Mow ir ix 



Evans 21 35 Toller 28 j] 



Turner 20 21 BucBhoase 21 jjjj 



Scrivc-n IS 21 Band 20 is 



Baker 30 21 Smith 19 u 



The following rifles were used by the competitors : Gilder, 

 Sharpe, B. L; Evans, Metford, B. L., by Gibbs; Humphry, 

 Remington, B. L ; Turner, Field-Turner, B. L.; Toller, Mel- 

 ford, M. L.. by Gibbs ; Phillipps, Metford, M. L., by Gibbs- 

 Bland, Metford, M. L.; Deeley, Metford, B. L., by Westley 

 Richards; Backhouse, Metford, M. L., by Gibbs; Metford, 

 Metford, B. L., by Westley Richards; Moser, Ingram, M. 

 L.; A. Baker, Metford, B. L., by Westley Richards; Pixley, 

 Metford, M. L; Scriven, Metfoid, B. L, by Gibbs ; Hawley, 

 Metford, M. L., by Gibbs; Martin Smith, Metford, B. L., by 

 Westley Richards; Block, Metford, B. L., by Gibbs; Halford, 

 Metford, B, L., by Westley Richards. 



According to the pUn of selection, Messrs. Gilder, Evans, 

 Humphry, Turner, Toller and Phillipps take places on the 

 team with two places to be filled by appointment. 



The selection of the Scotch eight was concluded at the Cow- 

 glen range, near Glasgow, on the 16th ult. The wind was 

 gusty and tantalizing, and though all the men except Sergt. 

 Fletcher use the back position the scores were not over good. 

 Under the new rules the first competition only Bettled the 

 places of four men, and these, with the next six in order of 

 merit and two gentlemen nominated by Lieutenant-Colonel 



