FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 



£ I— tt^TURE, THE PROTECTION OP GAME. PRESERVATION OP FORESTS, 



akd the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 

 XH Out-door Recreation and Study : 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1875. 



To Correspondents. 



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Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 

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IJHAR LBS HALJLOCR, Editor. 

 WILLIAM C. HARRIS. Business <vtanaeer. 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK. 



Thursday, August 26th. — Racing at Monmouth Park, N. J. Trotting 

 at Springfield and Lawrence, Mass., Portland, Me., Wilkesbarre, Penn. 

 Simcoe, Canada. International Amateur Regatta, Saratoga. Base ball — 

 Philadelphia vs . Doeer, at Philadelphia; Athletic vs. Chicago, at Chi- 

 cago; Keystone vs. Active, at Reading, Penn. 



Friday, August 27th.— Trotting at Springfield and Lawrence, Mass., 

 Cynthiana, Ky., Big Rapids, Mich. Base ball— Athletic vs. Chicago, at 

 Chicago. 



Saturday, August 28th. —Racing at Monmouth Park. N. J. Trotting 

 at Osage, Iowa, Cynthiana, Ky. Base ball — Athletic vs. Chicago, at 

 Chicago, J. B. Doeer vs. Media, at Media, Penn., River ton vs. North 

 Philadelphia,, at Philadelphia. Creedinoor— Contest for Remington 

 diamond Badge. 



Monday, August 30lh.— Base ball— Keystone vs. Archer, at Philadel- 

 phia. 



Tuesday, August Slst.— Trotting at Hartford, Conn., Dover, N. H., 

 St. Albans, Vt„ Jamestown, Penn., Aurora, 111. National Amateur re- 

 gatta, Troy, N. Y. Ontario Rifle Association meeting, Ontario, Canada. 

 Base ball— Resolute vs. Burlington, at Waverly, N. J. 



Wednesday, September 1st.— Trotting at Hartford, Conn., Dover, N. 

 H., St. Albans, Vt., Kenosha, Wis., Battle Creek, Mich., Florence, Ky. 

 . Notional Amateur regatta, Troy, N. Y. 



What Others Say of Us. — Our entry upon the fifth 

 volume of Forest and Stream has evoked many valued 

 complimentary notices from our newspaper contemporaries 

 which it would please us to acknowledge separately if it 

 were possible. Their opinion seems unanimous that it is 

 "one of the very best of weekly papers," and for this ex- 

 pression we thank them all. From the editor of the St. 

 Augustine Press, who is also editor of the New York Path- 

 finder, we have received a private letter, which our vanity 

 prompts us to publish. It is all about ourself, and runs in 



this wise: — 



Long Branch, August, 1875 „ 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



In glancing over the index of your last volume some idea of the com- 

 pleteness and worth of your valuable paper is plainly discovered. Not 

 only one individual or one State has been benefited by the publication of 

 the Forest and Stream, but thousands personally and the States uni- 

 versally. Its a requisite in every household, and a fit companion for 

 either the user of the gan or rod. Its manifest interest in our national 

 games and sports is a noteworthy feature of every issue. We have 

 watched with interest the progress of this journal, and. considering the 

 times when its managers chose to inaugurate it, and the dullness of busi- 

 ness generally, we say they have worked a young miracle, and estab- 

 lished in a short space of time the best sporting journal in this country. 

 Its managers never lacked capital or exertions to place it favorably be- 

 fore the public, and to-day it is widely circulated and known throughout 

 this country and Europe. We cannot correctly predict its ultimate at- 

 taining, but feel justified and assured when we foretell a wonderful and 

 glorious success for |he young institution, a 



FOREST^ AND 



STREAM AT 



TENNIAL. 



THE CEN- 



f 'We would respectfully suggest to the management [of the Centen- 

 nial Exhibition a* Philadelphia} that the sportsmen of the United States, 

 a numerous and influential class, would be highly gratified if some pro- 

 vision were made for the exhibition in close juxtaposition — in order that 

 comparisons may be more easily made— of the guns, weapons, fixed am- 

 munition, and, indeed, all the paraphernalia used in the sports of the 

 field, whether by land or water, of each of the peoples represented at 

 the Centennial. We can see no good reason why one of the numerous 

 halls in the main building should not be devoted exclusively to this pur- 

 pose, and be converted into a museum tor the display of weapons and 

 implements used in the pursuit of 'fur, fin and feather;' and if it is 

 done, we will venture the prediction that it will prove one of the most 

 popular features of the exhibition."— Turf, Field and Farm, Aug. 20th. 



"Sport, like every other human occupation, has its place in the Cen- 

 tennial, and we hope that some means will be devised for worthily pre- 

 senting our National Sportsmen to the great gathering of the nations." 

 — Bod and Gun, Aug. Uth. 



Our contemporaries will doubtless be gratified to know 

 that the proprietors of Forest and Stream took this mat- 

 ter in hand at the very inception of the Centennial Exhi- 

 bition, and as long ago as last February had engaged space 

 in the building to cover 1,200 square feet. There anything 

 that comes within our province will be welcome to a place, 

 whether old relics or new inventions, things useful or or- 

 namental, boats, guns, rods, dog collars, camp utensils, life 

 preservers, bear traps, snow shoes, lariats, wigwams, buck- 

 skin suits, wampum belts, portable stoves, Indian scalps, 

 pelts and horns, jack lamps, moccasins, tents, rubber 

 goods, stable furniture, rare birds and animals, fruits and 

 plants, trolling tackle, bats and balls, billiard tables, aqua- 

 riums, and cartridge belts. Last month we arranged also 

 for space outside of the building, adjoining our interior al- 

 lotment, where we hope to have a genuine camp in the 

 forest with a running stream— shelter tents, a veritable In- 

 dian birch wigwam, canoes, etc., etc. Every department 

 will be complete, and genuine Indians and trappers have 

 already been engaged to superintend each one. A great 

 many friends to whom we privately communicated our 

 plans have promised contributions, and when all are per- 

 fected we will lay them before our readers, whose co-opera- 

 tion, as well as our contemporaries,- we shall cordially in- 

 vite. 



PORTABLE BOATS. 



A DOZEN years ago the Indian birch canoe was prac- 

 tically the only portable boat known in this country 

 or elsewhere. Its use was limited to the Indians and a few 

 whites who lived as they lived, by fishing and hunting. 

 The uncertainties of the chase made their life nomadic, 

 and their canoes were so constructed as to meet their re- 

 quirements fully. Weighing but thirty to fifty pounds 

 they could be easily carried upon the back for long dis- 

 tances from water to water, while the materials for their 

 repair were always at hand as nature provided— a few splits 

 of white cedar, a few sheets of birch bark, cedar roots to 

 sew them together, and the gum of the spruce to make them 

 water-tight. What could be more perfect in construction or 

 adaptation? Other canoes, called dug-outs, made of logs, 

 were much in vogue at the South, and used elsewhere, but 

 they were ponderous affairs, the lightest of them, and by no 

 means portable in the true acceptation of the word. It was 

 not until the influx of sportsmen into the Adirondacks, 

 which succeeded the establishment of Pol Smith's and 

 Martin's hostel ries there, that strictly portable boa*s came 

 into requisition . In that vast wilderness the thorough- 

 fares are chiefly water-courses connecting together, or 

 merely separated by narrow strips of land requiring port- 

 ages. The sportsmen who went there in pursuit of game 

 and fish often traveled long distances; hence the demand 

 arose for a craft that could be carried easily, as well as 

 carry. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the in- 

 vention that grew out of the necessity of the circumstances 

 was the very perfect and beautiful Adirondack boat which 

 we have all admired and so much enjoyed. The lightest 

 of them are intended for two persons only with their camp 

 stuff; but heavier ones will carry three, and they are not 

 so heavy (eighty pounds,) but that a stout guide will carry 

 them three miles without frequent rests. Nevertheless, 

 swift, light, staunch, and graceful as they are, they do not 

 seem to have entirely filled the bill. What we re- 

 quire is a craft that will not encumber, one that will 

 carry a heavy load, that will have speed, that will not 

 leak with the first abrasion, or founder with the first 

 thump on her bottom. She must be of light draught to 

 traverse shallow streams, and stiff, to stand the flaws and 

 seas of the deep open lakes. If we admit that the Adiron- 

 dack boat combines all these, still, she is not compact enough. 

 She cannot be folded into a small package and toted about 

 like a valise. This seems to be the great desideratum 

 sought for now in a strictly portable boat. 



Some few years ago, two types of canoes were invented 

 which combine all the essentials of a strictly "travel- 

 ing boat," one known as the Rob Roy canoe, invented by 

 Mr. McGregor, and the other as the Nautilus, by W. 

 Baden Powell. These have been fully described in a series 

 of papers puplished in Vol. II. of this journal. They do 

 not, however, fully meet our requirements. One at least, (the 

 Rob Roy,) will carry but a single person, while both are 

 better adapted to a continuous line of water courses than 

 to a broken country where they must be carried over many 

 portages of miles in length. Something different is still 

 required at least for general forest service in this country. 

 With the rapidly increasing interest in fishing and the 

 chase which has especially marked the past two years, and 

 is still. growing apace, the demand for a suitable boat be- 

 comes constantly more imperative; m& to, meet this 1 from $80 to |10Q, 



requisition a dozen builders are taxing their ingenuitv 

 Whether any one will ever succeed in attaining the great 

 desideratum may well be questioned, because the service 

 required of these boats must vary in accordance with the 

 fluvial geography of the localities where they are to be 

 used . To make ourselves clearly understood, it will be 

 well to indicate briefly the general features of the several 

 styles of boats that we have personally examined, to show- 

 wherein they meet the various conditions of service to be 

 required of them. 



The Adirondack Boat. — This is a round bottom, lap streak 

 cedar boat, fourteen to eighteen feet in length, (we speak 

 of portable sizes,) accomodating two or three persons with 

 their camp outfit. They are stiff and safe and possibly 

 the best suited of any to that particular region. We can 

 suggest no change. For ourselves,' we should prefer a 

 bass wood, or cedar canoe, as being of ligher draught and 

 easier to navigate through grass or winding, overgrown 

 streams; but in the Adirondacks a large proportion of 

 the visitors are ladies, and very few of either sex are ac- 

 customed to canoes, which are easily upset. A sectional 

 boat would, on the whole, be of no advantage here. 

 Price $60 and upwards. 



Bond's Sectional Boat. — This is made with iron sides and 

 wooden bottom, with an air chamber amidships. It is 

 constructed in two sections of eight feet each, which can 

 be unjointed, and one half of the boat set in the other. It 

 is evident that wherever a wagon can go, this boat can be 

 hauled with facility. It is not easy to carry on the back, 

 as it does not balance well. In a country much broken by 

 lakes and streams, where only short portages have to be 

 made, we see no advantage that the sectional boat has over 

 an entire boat. Its advantages, however, are obvious 

 where long transhipments are to be made by rail or other- 

 wise. It is flat-bottomed and can run in shoal water, and 

 being of iron is less vulnerable to snags and rocks than 

 other boats. Built at Cleveland, Ohio, by Thos. E. Bond; 

 price $60. 



Waters' 1 Paper Canoe. — This is an improved Nautilus 

 canoe, made by Waters & Son, of Troy; price $100 to 

 $125. The body is made of tough linen paper about one- 

 sixth of an inch thick; length fourteen to sixteen feet, 

 depth amidships eight and one-half inches. It has a can- 

 vas deck which buttons at the sides. Weight fifty to sixty 

 pounds. It has ample accommodations for camp stuff, 

 but carries only one person. Objection has been made 

 that the material (paper) would soon become soft and de- 

 structible, but the long voyages of months and miles made 

 in this crat wholly controvert this. They will stand any 

 kind of a sea. 



The Rushton Boat is made at Canton, N. Y. This is a 

 round bottom lap streak cedar or oak boat, with much more 

 sheer and bearings that the Adirondack boat, and much 

 lighter, as they are made to weigh as little as thirty pounds, 

 and therefore very desirable for a single person in an inland 

 lake country. Lightness being indispensable to a portable 

 boat, this boat certainly meets this requirement more than 

 any other. It is best adapted for a single . person, but will 

 accommodate two. Length, eleven to thirteen feet; 

 weight, thirty to fifty-five pounds. 



The English Canoe. — This is a bass wood canoe made by 

 Wm. English, of Peterboro, Canada, and like the Gordon 

 canoe, more nearly approaches the Indian birch canoe in 

 shape and character than any other craft afloat, but is 

 much stronger, stiffer and and faster. It is made of thin 

 boards laid upon ribs two inches apart so neatly that the 

 seams cannot be detected on the outside. Length fourteen 

 to eighteen feet, weight about sixty pounds, and will carry 

 three persons and their baggage with ease. It is in all re- 

 spects equal to the Adirondack boat, and is much more 

 easily managed and handled by one who understands them, 

 and is of lighter draught and easier to carry over a portage. 

 They are not easily fractured, as bass wood is very tough. 

 They can be fitted with a small sprit sail. Price $25. 



The Gordon Canoe is like the English canoe in all re- 

 spects except its shape. It is, if anything, perhaps a little 

 more cranky, but is preferred by many experts. It is made 

 by Thomas Gordon, at Lakefield, Peterborough, Canada. 

 The- Herald Canoe is made at Gore's Landing, Rice Lake, 

 Canada, by Hutchinson & Co. Its mateiial is white cedar. 

 It has no ribs, and is so constructed that it resembles a 

 dug-out canoe, both inside and out. Instead of ribs it has 

 transverse strips of cedar jointed neatly, constituting the 

 frame of the canoe, and upon which similar boards are 

 laid lengthwise. Price, weight, and dimensions similar to 

 the above. 



Hegemari's Folding Boat. — All of the above named are 

 entire boats, excepting Bond's, and portable only as to 

 weight. Ingenious men have lately been contriving some 

 kind of a craft that would serve all the purposes of a prac- 

 ticable boat, and still be portable as to weight and compact 

 as to dimensions. To invent a machine that one can carry 

 like a valise, or stow in his trunk, which, arriving at his 

 destination, shall be speedily convertable into a freighting 

 or sporting boat, seems to be the problem of the hour. Of 

 course the lightest material must be employed, and this 

 seems to be canvas. To make a light, jointed frame of suf- 

 ficient strength to keep the canvas shell in proper shape, 

 and sustain the weight of its load, is what is wanted. 

 Hegeman's boat does all this. Its frame is a marvel of 

 braces and joints that shut up like a carpenter's rule fold- 

 ing with it the canvas into a complete parallelogram whose 

 weight is not more than forty pounds. This boat is not 

 sinkable; it will sustain a dozen men easily. It is a good 

 boat for many purposes, and can bought at prices ranging 



