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New Type!— Here we are again with a new outfit of 

 type, as fresh as a daisy and as proud as a Saratoga belle 

 in a new dress ! Nothing makes an editor so happy as a 

 new set of type, especially if it be paid for. 



Now look into our beaming face, and note our clear, 

 sharp-cut lines. They are not the wrinkles of infirmity 

 or decay, albeit we are leaving a tram of years behind us 

 —but indications rather of a vigorous condition and good 

 form. We may be permitted to brag high on our present 

 state of health, for our lungs are sound and our circula- 

 tion good. Once in a while it is absolutely necessary for 

 us to come up and blow, like a whale. It does us a heap of 

 good, and tends to frighten away the small fry. We have 

 naturally a great deal of respect for most of those con- 

 temporaries who swim in our water, but when we step 

 out in new type, we want them them to stand just a lit- 

 tle aside. Hot weather will never choke us off. and there 

 isn't heat enough in this latitude to melt our composi- 

 tion. Our metal has the true ring. We shall continue 

 to furnish seasonable sketches and readable matter all 

 through the vacation season. We don't refuse a holiday 

 ourselves, and we know what the boys like when they 

 are off in the mountains and down by the sea. 



Now look at us again ; turn us around and con us over. 

 If you discover anything not right, just let us know 

 and we will find a remedy. New type ! why, boys, we 

 feel like we had been born again and made over. New 

 type ! there's nothing like it. And when this same new 

 font shall fade and all the fines grow dim ; when he who 

 now reads with visual eye shall put on specs, and finger 

 out the blurred aud blemished lines ; when, in fine, that 

 great Millenium shall come when every boy shall own a 

 Rod and Gun. and every Forest and Stream shall teem 

 with game and fish ; let those who hear our chuckling 

 exultations now, turn not a sad and pitying look upon 

 our frontispiece: for when this new dress is done, by 

 Jove ! we'll get another font and set 'em up again, 



American Kiflevwn at Wimbledon. — The. cable is 

 bringing fragments of encouraging report from the Several 

 Americans who are now busy with their rifles on the 

 Knglisb shooting common. Hyde, Farrow, Morse and 

 the others are well spoken of and will no doubt bring the 

 credit which rightly belongs to American made arms. 

 Our only regret is that we should not have, real American 

 riflemen as our representatives, instead of the mere agents 

 of gun e 



— Stay-at-home people are now enjoying the very fine 

 weather. 



THE LESSON OF RECENT YACHT 

 MATCHES. 



THOUGH nothing new to om-sclves. the results of 

 recent yacht races must be somewhat startling to 

 our Bourbon friends whose ambition and experience ex- 

 tends no further than the smooth water racing machine. 

 The fact that in all important races of late, keel yachts 

 have won, keel yachts with ballast on their keels, and 

 keel yachts of the cutter type and cutter rig, should cer- 

 tainly convince the skeptics that such craft can be made 

 as fast on or off the wind, blow high, blow low, as ever 

 was the frying pan model, with centre-board and ye 

 ancient rig of the North River brick sloop and all her 

 weaknesses thrown in. Reg inn and Vision never sailed 

 better than when rigged with double head sail ; Intrepid 

 beat all the centre-board cracks including Phantom. 

 Atcdanta and the likes in the sad from New London to 

 Greenport; Enterprise in the same match won from such 

 dyers as Regiua, Winsome, and Sohemer, and the same 

 cutter again astonished the faithful by handsomely beat- 

 ing Madcap at Boston, and Madcap is unquestionably the 

 fastest sloop of her formage in America 1 Muriel, cutter, 

 shows herself quite the equal of the centre-boarder in the 

 fleet cruising up the sound under the Seawanhaka colors, 

 and everything goes to prove that a sea-worthy model and 

 a sailors' rig are not by any means incompatible with 

 speed even in our summer breezes [and smooth water, to 

 say nothing of the other advantages craft of the cutter 

 type offer beyond what can be found in the sloop in the 

 way of accommodations and coal cabins below. But 

 then your truly loyal Bourbon learns nothing until too 

 late, and so the cutter may not become popular until 

 one day she shall outnumber the smoothing-iron fleet, 

 when all her good qualities will suddenly be discovered 

 and the honest boat come into favor at last to the dis- 

 comfiture of the machine. That day may come sooner 

 than the jack-tars of the raging Sound imagine, for there 

 are now nine cutters afloat in Boston and New York and 

 we know of six new ones to be added this winter ; so the 

 fever is spreading and the taste for honest yachts is grow- 

 ing apace. Already in the East the keel and wholesome 

 draft hold sway, in New York only does the centre-board 

 and the frying pan still reign supreme, but even here we 

 know their grip is weakening. Why should New York 

 have to learn from Boston ? Yachtsmen should take the 

 lessons of the recent races to heart and log another mile 

 ahead. 



CITY RECREATION PARKS. 



THE officers of ' ' The Detroit Becreation Park Company 

 and United Clubs' Association," of Detroit, Mich., 

 have secured in that city a plot of ground upon which 

 improvements are to be begun at once to provide suitable 

 grounds and facilities for all kinds of out-door games and 

 exercises, during all seasons of the year. 



Accomodations will be prepared for the following re- 

 creations : base ball, lacrosse, cricket, foot ball, quoits, 

 lawn tennis, archery, curling, bowding, skating, croquet, 

 pedestrianism, etc. Special inducements will be offered 

 to make the park attractive to ladies, not only as specta- 

 tors, but as participants in some of the games. This is a 

 move in the right direction, and we are pleased to learn 

 that the project has met with the unqualified approval of 

 the citizens of Detroit. 



The following well known gentlemen are the officers of 

 the Becreation Park Company : James McMillan, Prest.: 

 A. E. Brush, Vice-Prest.: Sect. andTreas., F. O. Daven- 

 port; Corresponding Sect., A. C. Bowman: with Messrs. 

 Hendrie, Moran, McGregor, Taylor and McLoughlin, for 

 Directors. 



The formation of this Becreation Park reminds us that 

 New York city is to-day without a play ground, and that 

 its inhabitants are driven to other cities and towns to 

 procure their manly recreation. In this connection, a 

 clever article appeared about two years since, in one of the 

 New York morning papers, headed " A Plea for Cricket." 

 In a most comprehensive way did the writer, in a few 

 words, show the absurdity of the Central Park Commis- 

 sioners, in refusing the New York cricketers the use of 

 that part of the Park which was originally intended for 

 them, and which is designated " Cricket Ground" on the 

 maps from which the park was laid out: 



It seems a great pity and a wrong, that our cricketers 

 should be obliged to forego their favorite exercise while 

 the broad and unused sward of 'the Central Park lies in- 

 vitingly open before (hem, and would be gladly resorted 

 to were permission granted for its use. It cannot be 

 urged by those who have the misfortune to be unac- 

 quainted with cricket that the park would be defaced 

 or injury come to the turf through its practice ; for 

 the fact is, one of the first necessities of the game, 

 -; .. ,, perfect Condition Of the ground, and its preservation 

 the lirst care of the player. So far from being an injury, 

 a well appointed cricket ground of four or five acres 

 would be an ornament, and the matches played there a 

 great attraction and source of pleasure. The roads are 

 open to the riding and driving public ; the walks are 

 beautiful and well used ; the waters around the city are 

 open to the lovers of yachting and boating ; but to those 



who prefer a more vigorous exercise, or who cannot 

 afford horses or yachts, the privilege of following tlieir 

 own course of physical culture, or what is best suited to 

 requirements seems to be 



■ per 



their own 

 denied It really 

 metropolis like New York 

 and the graurid already r, 



be allowed to languish wit 

 rescue, it and the more B§ 

 without the expense of pn 

 Let the authorities of N 

 and take a lesson from 



lmosi ignoble that in a great 

 with the means at its command. 

 ade, this splendid sport should 

 hout offering a helping hand to 

 pecifllly because it can be done 



•ecu, io (lie city. 



;w Tork city look about them, 

 what other cities are doing 

 throughout the country. Philadelphia is most liberal in 

 her encouragement of her clubs, and guards their in- 

 terests with jealous care. Brooklyn's Prospect Park is 

 open to both cricketers and ball players : and the authori- 

 ties in many other cities, also, wisely encourage manly 

 exercise, knowing that it keeps a community not only 

 physically but morn Hy healthful 



White Mountains.— The error in our last issue, to the 

 effect that the Fabyan, Profile and Crawford House at 

 White Mountains were under the same management, ought 

 certainly not to have been made by the writer, who had 

 visited them all in person only the week before. It was 

 a slip of the pen not easily accounted for. The Profile is 

 under the same management which it has enjoyed for 

 years, namely, that of Messrs. Taft and Greenieaf. its 

 owners. It is one of the very choicest, spots in the whole 

 range, and guests of the house can find better I rout fish- 

 ing on the premises then they are likely to get anywhere 

 else in the vicinity. One pond is specially set apart for 

 breeding purposes, and there is an admirable hatching 

 house at the outlet which leads from it into Profile Lake. 

 It was our good fortune, while there, to receive and ac- 

 cept an invitation from that veteran angler and author, 

 Wm. C. Prime, to fish the celebrated " Lonesome Lake", 

 his private property, which is reached by a bridle riath 

 up an ascent of 1000 feet. We fitted a baker's dozen of 

 trout out of their limpid element in a few minutes, and 

 "rested" the pond, Mr. Prime's hermitage is one of the 

 most delightful seclusions imaginable, or would be, were 

 it not directly under the eye of the "Old Man of Hie 

 Mountain ". Of course the old man keeps mum enough, 

 but Mr. Prime is continually giving himself away in 

 those characteristic letters which he is now writing for 

 the Journal of Cotfirnetve over the. same old signature 

 of the big W. which he appended to the solemn "Owl 

 Creek Cabin Letters " thirty years ago. This season, for 

 the first time, the Profile House can be reached by all 

 rail. New York passengers can take the New York and 

 New Haven Railroad in the morning and reach there the 

 same night. 



It is the Tv:iv. Mountain House which, with the Fabyan 

 and Crawford, forms the mountain trinity of attractive 

 homes to which our note of last week referred. They are 

 under the management of A. T. & O. F. Barron, and afford 

 all the comfort and delight which tourists could wish. We 

 would advise visitors who are fond of fishing to take their 

 rods, simply asserting that to our personal knowledge 

 there is good trout Ashing to be had, near by, though 

 we decline to tell where, for fear the brook woiddn't 

 afford wading room. The experienced angler will soon 

 find out for himself. 



Our Alaska Correspondence — Those of our readers 

 who are familiar with the noin de plume of "Piseco". 

 which by the way graced the very first issue of this 

 journal six years ago, will appreciate our good fortune in 

 having secured the kind offices of the commander of the 

 sloop-of-war Jamestown, now on the Alaska station, who 

 has promised to semi us occasional letters from that 

 far-off territory. The first of these appears as the leading 

 article of the current issue of Forest and Stream. This 

 able officer has been sent to Alaska not only as a sort of 

 plenipotentiary, but also as chief of a scientific corps, 

 and we are certain that the duty could not devolve upon 

 a more capable or efficient person, All that can be 

 learned of the ethnology, political economy, physical 

 characteristics, and resources of the country will be 

 doubtless discovered, so far as limited time will permit. 

 The material information contained in the letter now be- 

 fore our readers is altogether new. and constitutes merely 

 a foretaste of the feast of good things promised. 



Cool, Breezy, and Enchanting. — There was a 

 grand exhibition of fireworks at Coney Island last week, 

 given by the proprietors of the Brighton Beach Hotel. 

 The entertainment was free, and as many spectators as- 

 sembled as the available standing space would permit. 

 On the same night Capt. Bogardus gave his unique exhi- 

 bition of signal fireworks of various colors, Bred from an 

 Ordinary shot gun. The whole beadh «as ablaze from 

 end to end with calcium lights, colored fires, groups aud 

 rows of gas jets, illuminations of all kinds, blazing 

 rockets, and bursting asteroids, whUenausic from a half- 

 dozen of the best bands in the world made stirring and 

 delicious melody. Never before in history hat. any public 

 received so much for little money as they now nightly 

 receive at Coney Island. The liberality of all the chief 

 proprietors seems unbounded. They actually vie with 



