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Pigeon Shooting on Statbn Island.— A match was 

 shot on Wednesday of last week at Sea Yiew Park. New 

 Dorp, S. I., between J. P. Robertson, ex-champion of 

 Chicago, now of Hoboken, and Moses Myers, of Newark. 

 The terms of the match were 7 birds each; in case of tie, 

 one miss out; 21 yards rise, Long Island rules. The fol- 

 lowing is the result: — 



SCORE. 



Robertson 11111 1— GIMyers ...1 110 11 1—6 



TIES. 



Robertson...... 11 111111111 HMyers ft 1 1 11 1 11 1 1 10 



Robertson winning, after killing 18 birdg out of 19, to 

 his opponent's 17 out of 19. !; 



A number of sweepstakes, at 8 birds each, was then 

 shot. The first was won by Colonel Gildersleevc, as fol- 

 lows:— 



Score. Ties. 



Col. Gildersleeve.. ..til ill 



Mr. Austin ..1 11 110 



J. P. Robertson 1 11 110 



M. Myers 



Mr. Olfermann. 



Score. 

 ... 1 1 

 ...1 1 1 



Ties. 



The two following sweepstakes were both won by Dr. 

 Robertson. 



— A match for $250 a side is arranged to take place at 

 the same place on Wednesday next, the 22d inst., between 

 J. P. Robertson and M. Myers, 50 pigeons each, at 21 

 yards rise, and to trap and handle for each other. T. 

 Luby, of Sea View Park, is stakeholder. 



Pigeon Shooting at Newport. — A match was shot on 

 the 15th inst. on the grounds of I he Narragansett Gun 

 Club between Messrs. Carroll Livingston, of New York, 

 and J. P. Grund, of Philadelphia. The following sum- 

 mary gives the details: — 



Narragansett Gtm Club Grounds, September 15.— Challenge match be- 

 tween Ca roll Livingston and J. P, Grund, for $600 a side, 30 yards 

 rise, Livingston to slioot at 51 yards and Grund at 50. 



Livingston 1 110 1 111101 OjGrund. . . .1 11* 10110 11 10111 



00 110110100100010110 0,1 11 11 11111111101011111 

 1-22. i 1 —34. 



After the match a handicap sweepstakes, $5 entrance, 

 was shot, with the following result: — 



E. W. Davis, 29 yards 4 M. Van Buren, 30 yard? retired/ 



Matt Ellis. z7 yards 3, J. P. Grund, 30 varus ..retired. 



J. G. Heckscher, 27 yards, retired. ill. Bloodgood, 2S yards 4 



C . Livingston, 29 yards 4\ 



In shooting off the tics, Messrs. Livingston and Blood- 

 good each killed two birds, and then decided to divide 

 the stakes. A similar sweepstakes was afterwards shot 

 and won by Mr. E. VV . Davis. 



Pigeon Shooting tn Missouri.— Considerable rivalylias 

 long existed between. Sedalia and the adjacent towns of 

 Brownsville and Lexington, resulting in many friendly con- 

 tests at the trap. One of these matches was shot last week 

 between the experts of each place, resulting in a victory 

 for Sedalia, as Mr. Majors of that place won the first prize. 

 The scores were as follows:— 

 Name. 



1 



1 



1 



l 











1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 







—The Trap and Field Club, of Minneapolis, Minn., a 

 report of whose match for the champion badge we pub- 

 lished last week, is composed of a heterogeneous assort- 

 ment of members. There are two members of the State 

 House of Representatives, one Senator, one pot hunter, 

 one Chief of Police, a leading lawyer, one gun maker, 

 one railroad director, one restaurant proprietor, one glass 

 dealer, two merchants, one lumberman, one capitalist, one 

 bank president, and one bank cashier. 



A B Dempsey * 



William Hamlet I 



S. E. Ingram 1 



W. B. Parsons 1 



William Gill 



Colonel John Reid ..1 



R P. Waddell 1 



8. H. Huston. 1 



H.J. Utt 1 



T. W. Parsons 1 



T. T. Majors . .1 



John T. Hill 





Sr-ore. 











Total. 



1 



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1 



1 



7 



1 



l l 1 



1 



1 



1 







9 







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1 



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1 



7 







1 1 1 







1 



I 



1 



5 







1 1 * 



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1 







1 



7 



1 



1 1 



1 



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8 



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1 







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7 



1 



1 1 



1 



1 



1 



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8 



1 



1 1 



1 



1 







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8 



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10 







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SHOOTING NOTES FROM ST. LOUIS. 



St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 4th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The Sportsmen's Club of this city held their monthly shoot this after- 

 noon at Rinkel's— the Six-Mile House. This is also the Scheutzen Park, 

 and, as usual, held in great repute by our German friends, who have a 

 rifle range on the grounds. Here I found Col. L. A. Pratt, the proprie- 

 tor of the famous Barnum\s Hotel of tins city. It was in this hotel 

 where ex-Gov. Yates, the friend of Gen. Grant, lived and died. Mr. 

 Pratt was well and favorably known in Cincinnati as proprietor of the 

 old Spencer House in its palmiest days; also in Louisville, as connected 

 with the Gait House. I mention this for the benefit of traveling sports- 

 men who may take this city on their western trip. As an old sportsman, 

 a congenial landlord, and an enterprising and public spirited gentlemau,' 

 he is proverbial. He proposes to form one of a company to establish a 

 race-course in this city, which it is badly in need of; but It is a question 

 whether there is public spirit enough to accomplish so desirable an ob- 

 ject. I enclose the score as follows: Distance, 21 yards; for the club 

 medal: — 



SQUAD NO. T. 



Name. Score. Total. 



R. S. Henry 1 11110 111 8 



C.J.Clark 1 110 11110 1 8 



W. H. Wadsworth lllllllll 9 



J. D.Johnson .1 11110 110 7 



E. V.Verrier .....1101100000 4 



C. M.Williams ..1 111111101 9 



George Rerikil 1 101111 ill 9 



Dr. Newbery 1 111110 110 8 



Capell ... 1 llllliioi 4 



Soulard 10 1110 11 6 



Viemont 1010110111 7 



SQUAD NO. 2. 



Card l 111111001 8 



Pierce 1 lllllllll 10 



Albright 011001101 5 



Annlan 110000001 3 



Wilson 1 lllllllll 10 



Sterling 1 111110011 8 



Cole 011001000 3 



Col. Pratt 1 010001001 4 



31 YARDS. 



Pierce 1 110 1 4 



Wilson 1 10 1 3 



I - Cole 



J Annan 1 1 



Quinlin and Scott, judges; Barker, referee. 



After the score the tie was shot off by Pierce and Wilson and won by 

 I the former; distance, 31 yards, when the medd was transferred by Card 

 » to Pierce, the honors of which he wears with becoming dignity. 



The spirit in which the Shooting Club conducted the match, as well as 



the character of its individual members, inspired me with a great degree 



of respect for its increasing and lasting popularity. It is the only true 



■ plan by which perpetuity can be maintained. You must fill up the list 



with memoers of character and moral worth to guarantee a pleasurable 



f recreation in this sport, as well as in any other. It was this principle 



J that induced the Forest and Stream to start out as the advocate of el- 



'>a.mgthe field sports, believing that one can be fond of the <nm and 



rod without being a loafer, or of the horse without being a jockey; and 

 it has lived to see the fruits of its labors disseminated throughout 

 the land. This teaching is no longer looked upon as heresy to good, 

 sound, moral ethics. This is why the Forest and Stream is found on 

 file in every well regulated household— a sentiment which has so often 

 been given to me on every side, that I am constrained to repeat it in my 

 correspondence as a confirmation of public confidence in the integrity of 

 its purpose. You have struck out nobly, manfully. Be not weary in 

 doing good. The fruit is ripening; the harvest will be your reward, and 

 your coffers filled to repletion. So mote it be. B. 



THE DITTMAR POWDER. 



New York, Sept. 14th, 1855. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



I wrote you a few weeks since asking some information in regard to 

 the Dittmar powder, and received, through your Answers to Correspond- 

 ents, the sensible reply that the best way to discover it was to experi- 

 ment with the powder myself, which I have done to a certain extent. 1 

 send you the result of my trial, principally because it seems to indicate 

 properties in the powder so different from those mentioned by "Gloan," 

 in his article reprinted fiom the Turf, Field and Farm in your issue of 

 the 9th inst. 



I loaded the left-hand barrel of my gun (an English muzzle loader, 12 

 bore) with two drachms of first-ciass black powder and one and one-half 

 ounces of No. 7 shot, and the right-hand barrel with the same bulk of 

 the Dittmar and a similar charge of shot. In this way I fired three 

 rounds at thirty-two yards distance, using old numbers of the Atlantic 

 Monthly for targets, and found the reBult'to be in each case as follows: 

 Pattern from bo.h powders materially the same; penetration about forty 

 per cent in favor of the black powder. There being no wind at the time, 

 the smoke from the black powder hung about the muzzle of the gun and 

 hid the target at the moment of firing, while there was no smoke to speak 

 of from the Dittmar. In regard to the recoil, the Dittmar certainly had 

 the advantage; in fact, it was almost imperceptible. 



The fault I have chiefly to find with the Dittmar —and this is the point 

 at whicli I totally differ from "Gloan's" opinion— is, that it is altogether 

 too slow; in fact the report, which was very slight, was entirely distinct 

 from that of the cap, and sounded as though the gun had hung fire, 

 while with the black powder in the other barrel the explosion of cap and 

 powder was simultaneous, and I know the gun was perfectly clean. Sub-, 

 sequent trials in the field proved the target trial correct, the penetration, 

 though not great, being sufficient for ordinary shooting, and the slight 

 recoil, report and smoke being agreeable. But I found it almost impos- 

 sible to make a cross shot successfully, ou account of the slowness of the 

 powder. I should also state that after firing a few times, some of the 

 powder, unconsumed, could be shaken from the barrels, some grains 

 coming out not even blackened. Athos. 



Goveuneur, N. Y., Sept. , 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Having organized a shooting club with the above name, I take the lib- 

 erty of sending you our score at the first shoot of ten single birds, 21 

 yards rise, 80 yards boundary: — 



Name. Score. 



G. P. Ormston. 4 



J. M. Sparks 5 



H. Sudds 8 



W. Ba-bour 7 



G,Bowk 5 



Name. Score. 



J. B. Preston 7 



E. b'. Beardslee 9 



J . M. Spencer 



U. G. Wood 3 



A. C. Gates 5 



C. Knight &| 



We think this a good score for amateurs, some never having shot fiom 

 a trap before. The club was organize! July 23d, but we were unable to 

 get birds until now; but our efforts were, effectual in protecting game 

 the balance of the el jse season. Yours tru'y, E. F. Beardslee. 



Portland, Me., Sept. 18th, 1875. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The annual Sta:e shoot came off on the 14th and 15th at Little Che- 

 beaque Island, about fifty members of the Androscoggin, Me., and For- 

 est City Clubs pani6jpating. Tue shooting was at 15 birds each, 21 yards 

 rise, with the usual boundary. The score was led by Messrs. Noyes and 

 Hall of the Forest City Club, and E. Nason, of the Androscoggins, each 

 killing fourteen. In shooting oil the tie at 27 yards, Mr. Hall killed his 

 five straight, and won the State championship and diamond badge. 

 Joe Martin, of the Forest Citys, and C. Nason, of the Androscoggins, 

 being tied at 13, had a sharp tussle for the second prize (a Parker gun), 

 which was finally won by Mr. Nason, after tieing six Tim°s. 02 birds be- 

 ing required to settle the matter. Thenli^n men vvivu t\\ . 1 . v. birds 

 each to their credit, stepped up to contest for the third prize— a Stevens 

 rifle— which was captured by Mr. Curtis, of the Androscoggins, he get- 

 ting all his five birds. There were ten contestants for fourth prize— a 

 fly rod. Shooting off ties of eleven, Mr. Billings, of the Forest Citys, 

 scoring four out of five and winning. Mr. Leavitt, of the Androscog- 

 gins, beat four competitors in shooting off ties at ten, and took the prize 

 - a pair of sleeve buttons. The birds were a fine lot, and over 1,300 

 were used during the two days. Vidi . 



\m nnd Miver 



FISH IN SEASON IN SEPTEMBER. 



♦ 



Land-locked Salmon, Salmo gloveri. Salmon Trout. Salmo conflnls. 

 Black Bass, micropfetms salmoides, micropterus nigricans. 

 Striped Bass Moceus lineatus. Sea Trout, Salmo immaculutus. 



Bluefish, temnodon soltator. Weakfish. 



Fish in Market.— The late gales have had the very 

 natural effect of dampening the ardor of our fishermen, 

 and in consequence the market ^supply has materially di- 

 minished. Bluefish are now being received from New 

 Jersey, Long Island and Massachusetts, but the causes 

 mentioned above have tended to raise prices, and we now 

 quote these fish at 10 cents per pound. Sheepshead are 

 very scarce,- the few in market being received from our own 

 and adjacent Long Island waters; price 30 cents per pound. 

 Striped bass from Rhode Island sell for 25 cents; halibut, 

 20 cents; kingfish, 25 cents; pompano, $1.; blackfish, 15 

 cents; sea bass, 20 cents; eels, 18 cents; salmon, (frozen,) 

 50 cents; frog's legs, 45 cents per pound; soft crabs, $1. to 

 $1 50 per dozen; green turtle, 20 cents pei pound. Bait. — 

 Shedder crabs, $1 50 per dozen; shrimp, $1 per quart; 

 soft clams, 30 to 50 cents per 100; sand worms, $1 50 to $2 

 per 100. 



—Our correspondent /'Monmouth," begs some sugges- 

 tions for making a proper book for holding trout flies. 

 A perfect book in our opinion, should have flexible leathern 

 covers with movable pairs of leaves, each pair slipping un- 

 der an independent cord in the back of the book, so as to 

 be detached or inserted at will, when, as in the case of a 

 few hours fishing, the whole book, which is bulky in the 

 pocket, is not required. Some of these pairs of leaves 

 should be made of parchment, with six pockets in each, 

 three on a side; others of plain Bristol board, without 



pockets. Both should have the Hyde contrivance described 

 in an August number of this paper, which is a little metal 

 hook provided with two small spurs which are pushed 

 through the parchment or card and held firm by being 

 bent down at the back of the leaf. These can be placed at 

 any preferred distance apart, and in as many rows as the 

 page will accommodate. When parchment leaves with 

 pockets are used, they hold the fly by the bend of the 

 hook; the snoods or snells are coiled separately and placed 

 in the pockets. When cards are used, we have the snoods 

 of uniform length — the length of the page— their loops 

 passing over the metal holders, and the fly hooks 

 through little elastic loops attached at the opposite end of the 

 card, which keeps the gut lengths straight — a great desid- 

 eratum, obviating the necessity of soaking, or straighten- 

 ing in other ways — and ready for instant use. The leathern 

 covers should have pockets of their full length for holding 

 thread, silk, a bit of wax, a few feathers, tinsel, bait hooks, 

 and other trifles, and there should be leather loops for 

 scissors, and flannel slips for needles and pins. An elastic 

 band should pass over the covers to keep all snug. 



— Hon. S. P. Russell, Superintendent of the Warehouse 

 Department of the New York Custom House, has just re- 

 turned from a trip to the Thousand Islands. While there 

 he pulled in among others a twenty-pound maskilonge, 

 which was dispatched forthwith to John R. Lydecker, As- 

 sistant Collector of Customs, New York. We congratulate 

 our venerable friend on his success. It proves conclusively 

 that the cares of the responsible position he holds have not 

 obliterated his old love for sport, or lessened the persuasive 

 powers he was wont to display among the speckled trophies 

 in Madison county, where, with Beckwith's assistance,' he 

 used to beat the strings of Judge Mason and Dave Mitchell 

 on a Monday's fishing. 



— The Severn River, which heads in the Muskoka dis- 

 trict, is a great place tor pike and black !*ass. The Oril- 

 lia (Canada) Expositor states that on Tuesday of last week, 

 at its outlet on Lake Huron, Mr. R. Cummner, of Mill- 

 brooke, caught fit teen pike, the largest weighing 35 lbs., 

 the next 34 lbs., and the other thirteen averaging 18 lbs. each. 

 An enormous pike, much larger than he caught snapped 

 the trolling hook, dragged his boat a short distance, and 

 finally broke loose. He also secured a large amount of 

 bass and other fish. 



The Fisheries. — The number of fishing arrivals at this 

 port for the week ending September 1(5! h was GO— 40 from 

 Georges, 10 from the Banks, and 16 from mackcrcling. 

 Amount of Georges cod landed is 000,000 pounds, halibut 

 21,000 pounds, Bank cod 600,000 pounds, halibut 165,000 

 pounds. Mackerel still continue very scarce, the receipts 

 being but about 1.000 barrels. No Bay fares have arrived 

 the past week. — Cape Ann Advertiser, Sept. 18. 



— The American fishermen have not fared well thus far 

 this year iu the Gulf. The fleet of mackerel men found 

 their favorite fishing grounds at the Magdalen Islands bar- 

 ren, and though they made a good haul off Prince Ed- 

 ward's Island early, the right of in-shore fishing, acquired 

 by the Treaty of Washington, has not yet proved so prof- 

 itable a boon to them as Canadians generally estimate it. 



— The largest striped bass of the season, taken at Cohas- 

 set Narrows, Mass., was landed with rod and reel from the 

 bridge, on Thursday afternoon, by Ellerton L. Dorr, Jr., 

 12 years of age, a magnificent fish weighing 19 lbs., which 

 was sent to the Temple Club and served up. 



Millions of Catfish in the Lii'I'er Delaware. — As a 

 locomotive tender was being rilled with water at the tank 

 in the Erie Railway yard at Port Jervis, a few days ago, 

 suddenly the water ceased to flow. The apparatus was 

 taken apart, and the pipes were found to be choked witli 

 catfish from an inch to two inches in length. The same 

 day, as engine No. 273 was going up the mountain, it was 

 found that no water was running from the tank to the 

 boiler. The train was stopped aud the fire drawn to pre- 

 vent an explosion. An investigation showed that the 

 connecting hose was literally packed with these little fish. 

 Hydrants ceased to work throughout the village, and the 

 pipes carrying water to the boilers in the Erie shops refus- 

 ing to discharge, operations were necessarily suspended 

 until they could be eleared. As in other cases, catfish-was 

 the cause of the stoppage. There was almost a complete 

 famine for several hours. An examination of the water- 

 works reservoir showed that the strainer had been cut in 

 some way, giving free access to the water main to millions 

 of the young fish. The break was repaired, and the cause 

 of the trouble removed. — Easton Free Press. 



—Fish will live twice as long if killed by a blow on the 

 head when caught as when left to die gradually. 



A' Shelter Island, Prosi>ect, ) 



Suffolk County, N. 5T., September, 1875. ( 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



The season here closes to-day (15th.) It has been, notwithstanding the 

 unusual density filling the business atmosphere, a season of brilliant 

 success. I rame here to fish. I have not been disappointed. This 

 "Beautiful Isle of the Sea 1 ' is indeed a shelter from amidst the whirl of 

 New York life. Little do you know how many of your neighbors and 

 friends have found here the change "to the weary mind so needful. " 

 The day I arrived here two gentlemen went to Gardiner's Island for such 

 fish as they could find. They chartered a sloop of about thirty tons 

 measurement. Within an hour of their arrival at the fishing ground they 

 struck a school of sea bass, the final result of which was a grand catch 

 of 3,500 pounds of this capital fish. They telegraphed to New York and 

 sold the whole to a single buyer at 15c. per pound. 



Gardiner's Island for its fish is as well known to you as the first verse 

 of the book of St. John. But tens of thousands who like to sail and 

 would like to catch fish don't know where to go for them until they grasp 

 a copy of the Forest and Stream. All through the Summer Gardi- 

 ner's Island is alive with some one variety or other of the finny game. 

 The fishing ground is about two hours' sail fiom Shelter Island Hotel. 

 Parties frequently go for a two or three days' trip. Plum Gut is also 

 within two hours' sail of Shelter Island. You know what Plum Gut is 

 as a fishing ground, and so know your readers. One who has read your 

 journal for two years past, but cannot remember the best fishing locali- 

 ties throughout the United States and Canadas must have a memory like 

 a sieve. Capt. George F. Randolph, of New York, was here for ten days 

 with his beautiful yacht, now belonging to the Brooklyn Yacht Club— 

 theKete. He gave one delightful excursion party previous to starting 

 on his final trip for this season, which is to Martha's Vineyard, taking 

 Newport, etc., by the way. Yours in fishing rig, H. ° 



