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There is one Bayman yet to arrive, the Abigail Brown, 

 which will wind up the business. The Georgesmen are 

 being hauled up as fast as they arrive. There will be 

 about fifteen sail of vessels follow the La Harve Bank and 

 Georges fishing through the Winter. Six of the herring 

 fleet have sailed the past week, two for Newfoundland and 

 four for New Brunswick . The shore Winter fleet com- 

 prising about thirty sail of vessels, have now commenced 

 operations, and are doing a fair business in supplying the 

 fish dealers.— Gape Ann Advertiser, Nod. 27£A. 



—Since January 1st up to the present date there have 

 been one hundred and five men lost in the fisheries from 

 the port of Gloucester. The entire loss in 1874 was sixty- 

 eight. In 1873 there were one hundred and seventy -four 

 lives lost. 



i)( —Our correspondent "Oconomowoc," of Milwaukee, 

 who described the coming bass rod long ago, writes to 

 offer the following testimony in favor of the Orvis reel in 

 bass fishing. We take pleasure not only in acceding to his 

 wishes, but in endorsing his opinion: — 



"The angling fraternity will rate Mr. C. F. Orvis a true benefactor for 

 the invention of his excellent reel. I have fully tested it, and have real- 

 ized all that its inventor claims for it. It is simple, cheap, durable, and 

 practicable, and as regards workmanship is neat, well finished, and 

 comely. The perforations render it very light, and assist very much in 

 drying the line and freeing it from sand and grit. Its price— five dollars 

 —places a good and reliable reel within the reach of the most impecu- 

 nious angler. For fly-fishing it is as good as any other click reel costing 

 twice as much, while In fishing with the minnow for black bass, pickerel, 

 pike perch, etc., it is eminently fitted. For bass fishers who find a diffi- 

 culty in controling a free-running multiplying reel in casting, the Orvis 

 reel is the great desideratum; for as the reel, from its narrowness, takes 

 up the line evenly without any guidance from the angler, so in casting 

 the click exerts just enough of resistance in casting the minnow to pre- 

 vent over-running of the line upon the reel. A minnow can thus be cast 

 thirty yards with ease, while the reel, as it were, takes care of itself. 

 This will be 'just the thing 1 for a majority of bass anglers. Being nickel 

 plated, it will not rust or tarnish, and although not a multiplying reel, 

 takes up the line qui! e rapidly on account of its extreme narrowness. 

 Mr. Ovis has proven himself a true friend to his brother anglers by fur- 

 nishing ihem with rods and reels of unusual excellence at m^re nominal 

 prices, and will no doubt be rewarded by large sales during the coming 

 season. They would make very appropriate and acceptable 'holiday 

 presents, 1 which our sportsmen's wives, sweethearts, and sisters will 

 make a note of. Oconomowoc. 1 ' 

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SALMON FISHING ON THE NOYO 

 RIVER, ON THE NORTHERN PA- 

 , C1FIC COAST OF CA LIFORNIA. 



San Francisco, November, 1S75. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



On the 30th of October my nephew, P. F. Hooper, and I started from 

 this city bound for the River Noyo, which flows into the Pacific Ocean 

 about 200 miles north of San Francisco. We took steamer to Donahue 

 Landing, and thence railroad to Cloverdale City. Here we remained for 

 the night. From Cloverdale we went by stage to the North Fork of the 

 Navarro River, which was one day's journey. There we elept, and the 

 next morning proceeded by another stage— a journey of filty miles— to 

 the place of our destination— a small tavern on the banks of the Noyo, 

 which we will speak of hereafter. The journey from Cloverdale to the 

 vast forests of redwoods {Sequoia 8empervirm$)—& timber in great re- 

 quest for building purposes here— was through a most attractive and 

 beautiful country, chiefly of softly rolling hiils and rather lofty moun- 

 tains, all covered with the lovely vegetation characteristic of the finest 

 valleys of this State, such as the live oak, white pine, madrona, with its 

 red berries and glossy laurel-shaped foliage, manzanita, with crimson 

 bark, buckeye or horse-chestnut, and numerous other handsome trees, 

 shrubs, and evergreens, mostly of fine i?hape, with natural pastures 

 among them, parti-like, and appearing in many points of view as though 

 planted with the most skillful ait of the best landscape gardening, the 

 chief features of the scene being a mixture of pastoral and agricultural. 

 A portion of this region is called Anderson's Valley and Round Valley, 

 affording splendid landscape views, such scenery as would certainly in- 

 spire a poet. Part of our traveling was through the redwood forests, 

 which, on this north coast, extend about 150 miles north and south and 

 about fifty miles east and yvest. In these immense woods there are many 

 lumber camps and mills, though the latter are mostly at the mouths of 

 the many rivers and creeks emptying into the Pacific. Many of these 

 giants of the forest— the redwoods— are over 300 feet in height and from 

 12 to 15 feet in diameter at their base. In our passage through the for- 

 ests we encountered some heavy rains, but on emerging from them on 

 the shores of the ocean the weather cleared up delightfully, the sun shone 

 brightly, and the grand Pacific, with its enormous breakers beating 

 against the rocky shores, opened clearly and grandly upon our enchanted 

 vision. We reached the Noyo River late in the evening, just about sun- 

 down, but with sufficient light to notice the numerous salmon, which had 

 lately entered the stream, leaping and breaking the water in all direc- 

 tions. The next morning, you may be sure, before the sun made his 

 glorious appearance above the horizon we were ready in our boat, armed 

 cap-apie for our contest with the most valuable and highest esteemed 

 of all our fishes— the lordly salmon. Our mode of warfare in these wa- 

 ters at this season was with the large red and silver spoon bait armed 

 with a triangle of hooks, trolling with rod and reel from the boat's stern. 

 One of us rowed alternately while the other fished. Our boat was rather 

 too heavy to row very fast, which we found the best way to entice the 

 fish to our spinning spoon bait. The first day or two we only took seven 

 flsh, but we soon discovered what was the most killing spoon, which 

 was a rather large one with much red about it— that is, one side of the 

 spoon red with a small bunch of red worsted between the triangle of 

 hooks. In seven fishing days at this point we captured seventy-three 

 talnion, weighi g in all 642£ pounds, and averaging £$• pounds each. 

 They were of the hook-bill species, of good game qualities, but iuferior 

 for the table compared with the Sacramento River salmon, being rathe r 

 dry and not near so tender in jlesh. Their average weight is also far 

 from being as large, as the biggest we took was only thirteen pounds, 

 while the finer shaped and much better flavored Sacramento quinnaf, 

 species average 27£ pounds each. Neither is the hook-bill kind so hand, 

 some in the mouth and head as the San Francisco market salmon from 

 its bay and tributaries. The hook-bill has its upper jaw projecting un 

 fler its lower, both jaws being armed at their ends with tushes or teeth, 

 which are much larger in the males, as are also their hooked bills. To- 

 ward Winter the finer and more perfect Sacramento sort appear in the 

 northern rivers after the hook-bills, as do also toward Spring the still 

 more valuable salmon trout, that are longer in their bodies, more delicate 

 and nice in their flesh, which is of a much lighter red color. They very 

 much resemble the best species of our salmon in their silvery lustre, but 

 their heads are slightly smaller, and the shape of their tails are nearly 

 square compared with the forked ones of the former. These salmon 

 Will only take the fly in the Spring of the year, as we were informed and 

 found by our own experience . If acceptable to you I will say something 

 concerning the other game we saw as well as several kinds of vegetation. 



I had nearly forgot to mention the excellent accommodations we en- 

 joyed at the Noyo House or tavern, kept by Mr. John Byrnes, our most 

 obliging landlord, who did all he could to make our visit pleasant and 

 enjoyable. The fare was very good and varied, and was better than we 

 have ever experienced in any part of California outside of San Fran- 

 cUco. The terms were only $1.50 per day, with the use of boat. The 

 whole amount of our expenses for two persons for the trip was a very 

 little over $100. E.J Hooper . 



r Angling: in Norway. —Occasionally an American an- 

 gler finds his way to Norway, but it is very seldom. Henry 

 Harbeck, Esq., who is well known to sportsmen here, has 

 spent two seasons there. He has recently returned to 

 Paris, France, where he now resides, and has Mndly fa- 

 vored us with a synopsis of his last Snmmer's trip, giving 

 routes, distances, fares, etc. Doubtless the information 

 will be useful to some of our readers, whom his glowing 

 accounts may induce to visit the Norway rivers for salmon 

 and trout. Here is his log:— 



No. S3 Rue bbu Paix, \ 



Pabis, France, November, 1875. j 

 KpiTon Forest and Stream:— „ 



I started from London and went to Paris, on to Cologne, about twelve 

 hours and a half by rail; from there to Berlin, another twelve hours, 

 from there to Hamburg, about five hours, but between Cologne and Ber- 

 lin stopped at a beautiful city called Hanover, formerly a separate king- 

 dom, but now included in Germany; from Hamburg to Copenhagen, 

 about fourteen hours— five by rail— the balance from Keil to Koeson 

 (Keil in Schlesweig, to Kosaon in Denmark) by steamboat. Keil i6 quite 

 an important naval port of ©ormany. It formerly belonged to the 

 Danes— Schlesweig-Holstein. The friendly feeling between the two na- 

 tions is not great or strong. One route, by which you can get quicker to 

 Hamburg, is direct from Cologne to that place in about twelve hours. 

 At Christiana, the capital of Norway, there are good hotels. It takes 

 aoont sixteen hours, and by the beet boat from fourteen to sixteen. 

 They touch Gottenburg, in Sweden, on the way. These are small steam- 

 ers, but one is a very fine boat which travelers, if they can spare time, 

 should always wait a day or two for. Copenhagen will be likely to in- 

 terest them anyhow, it being a fine city of old palaces, fine squares and 

 a neat and polite people. The English language is spoken by many, es- 

 pecially at the hotels. Yon c in make them easily understand you on 

 the steamboats. From Christiana you get carrioles, which are one- 

 horse conveyances; you drive yourself, and horses are furnished you at 

 from one to one and a half Norweigan miles; they make about seven of 

 ours. The station masters are appointsd by the Government. The 

 price of horses is about two marks the mile, and four to six shillings 

 for the post boy— that is, the boy that brings the horses back from one 

 station to another. A mark is about twenty-six cents, twenty-four skil- 

 lings to a mark. The average expense for lodging, horses, etc., is about 

 a pound a day. Feod and lodging can be obtained at almost all the sta- 

 tions. If they sometimes have no meat, they have bread, eggs, coffee, 

 cream, and often trout. But this is only a little description of the best 

 way to travel through the country. Now, as to the fishing. I leased a 

 part ef a river for salmon fishing in the Summer of 1874, for which I 

 paid £10 sterling, or about forty-five Norweigan dollars; but that is 

 cheap, as the best rivers frequently bring from £40 to £140. I believe I 

 am the only American angler who visits Norway. The rivers are mostly 

 fished by Englishmen. The climate is very fine, and I have never been 

 troubled by mosquitoes, or black flies, or punkies. I arrived at the river 

 the 20th of Jnne, and it being very early in the season for that river did 

 not get fast to a salmon for four days. That was in the morning. In 

 the afternoon the river, or my pools, became very muddy, caused by a 

 c!ay bank washing away, which had often taken place for many years. 

 Then I stopped fishing and went away to another part of the country; 

 came back in about a week and the water was too high, but it lowered in 

 a few days, and in three weeks time I killed about 130 pounds of salmon 

 and sea trout. The sea trout are different from the Canadian trout in 

 their game qualities, they being the strongest f reeh water fish I ever saw 

 of their siza. I caught none over six pounds weight, and as to the sal- 

 mon in that river, I never saw such strong ones, although I have fished 

 wild rivers in Canada and Ireland. They immediately take down stream 

 and are like race horses. They are a long fish and terrific runners. I 

 never saw their equals. The rivers differ, though; in some they are 

 rather more gamey than in others. They were not large, the largest be- 

 ing only eleven pounds; but in game I never had more sport with a 

 twenty pounder. They run 6mall in that river, though. This Summer, 

 being oetler acquainted with the country, I had much heavier fishing; 

 but the river brought a considerable higher rental. If you have any 

 brother of the rod going to that country I would be happy to give him 

 any information I can, and tf possible put him in the way of some an- 

 gling. I will write you further at some future time. H, Harbeck. 



— ' Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing?" 

 The despicable meanness which is signified by the sentence 

 quoted above, shows the odium in which dogs were Imld 

 bvthe Jews about four thousand years ago. Have dogs, 

 then, advanced in civilization with mankind? Undoubted- 

 ly they have; for as it must ever be, the higher nature 

 raises the lower one. Dogs sre the companions of men, 

 and partake of their vices and virtues, seldom being more 

 depraved than their masters, but often morally superior to 

 them. If evil communications corrupt good manners, so 

 do good communications improve bad manners; and thus 

 the dog has been elevated by communion with human be- 

 ings, although we must admit that the reverse seems to be 

 the case. Perhaps, however, the elevation of the dog is 

 not the least among the many reasons which may be £iven 

 for humanity to animals. It is no small thing to achieve 

 —the cultivation of a jackal, or wolf, or fox, until it has 

 reached the high standard of a well-bred gentleman's dog. 

 This alone would repay dog lovers for their devotion, be- 

 cause a nature has been developed capable of sympathiz- 

 ing with man under many varied feelings and circumstan- 

 ces of life, and is made available in times of danger for 

 the protection of life and property. Some people say when 

 a noble dog has saved a human life: "Well, he was a 

 good dog; buthe only followed his nature. Dogs of his 

 breed could scarcely do otherwise. There is no proof of 

 courage in the narrative, for the animal simply followed 

 his instinct." When a human being has accomplished a 

 daring and brave act, medals or other decorations are be- 

 stowed on him, poems are composed to his honor, and his 

 friends assemble and embarrass him with extravagant lau- 

 dation. No one thinks of saying to him: "You could not 

 have done otherwise. Considering; what your training and 

 avocations have been, it would have given you pain to de- 

 cline the daring exploit." However true such observa- 

 tions may be — and they are true in many cases— no one 

 grudges a brave man the honor that is due to 

 him, nor thinks of detracting from his achievement. It 

 may be objected that the difference between a dog and a 

 man risking their lives for the good of others resides in a 

 consciousness in man, which is not present in the dog, 

 that he submits himself to danger, even in the presence of 

 responsibilities of a social and domestic nature; and that 

 such consciousness provokes a struggle in his own 

 breast which is finally overcome by a sense of duty. While 

 we de6line to vouch for the degree of consciousness pres- 

 ent in a dog's mind when he performs a daring act, we 

 dare venture to say that in many cases in this respect a no- 

 ble dog is not inferior to many men. He rushes through 

 flames which he knows will consume him; leaps from 

 heights, attacks armed men, and in other ways exposes 

 himself to death voluntarily in defence of his master; and 

 what higher evidence can we find of fidelity and true 

 courage in the human being?— Animal Kingdom. 



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Yale. — The Record, m commenting upon the recent 

 sculling match, in which Kennedy won such an easy vic- 

 tory over Bainbridge, remarks that the event has a signifi- 

 cance which has not been noticed, and considers that it 

 should be attributed mainly to the merits of the English 

 stroke, and not to Kennedy's greater endurance and physi- 

 cal strength, as Bainbridge had before met and defeated 

 men who were greatly the superior in this respect to his 

 late antagonist. 



Stevens Institute.— A match game of foot ball was 

 played on Thursday last between a twenty of the Stevens 

 Institute, headed by Kingsland, captain, and a twenty of 

 Rutgers College, headed by Mil i ken as captain. Kent of 

 '76, Stevf ns and Owen of '78, Rutgers, were umpires, and 

 Price of Columbia, was referee. Stevens won the first 

 goal on a splendid kick by Shippen. Stevens also won the 

 second goal in 16 minutes and the third in 22 minutes Rut- 

 gers won the final goal in the remarkable time of 8 min- 

 utes. 



Dartmouth.— The Faculty of Dartmouth College are 

 arranging a plan for representing the college at the Phila- 

 delphia Exhibition. Samples of student's work will be 

 sent, and other methods of showing the workings of tho 

 college will be employed. 



— A circular letter, signed by the Presidents of the Yale 

 and Harvard Athletic Clubs, has been sent to all the col- 

 leges which were represented at Saratoga last year, invit- 

 ing them to send delegates to Springfield on the 4th of De- 

 cember to form an athletic association. 



Scottish-American Games.— The members of the Scot- 

 tish-American Athletic club spent Thanksgiving day in de- 

 ciding their first annual athletic competitions at Jones' 

 Wood. The performances commenced with the light ham- 

 mer throwing, in which there were twelve competitors; 

 Charles McLetchie, allowed 15 feet, throwing it 98 feet 4 

 inches. Following this was a 100 yard race, run in heats, 

 A. Tasker and L. D. Robertson tieing in the first, F. Dykes' 

 Jr. (8 yards) winning the second, J. Grassick, (7 yards) the 

 third, and D. B. Fleming, (7 yards) the fourth. The final 

 heat was won by Grassick in il-£ seconds. 



The next was a one mile walk, which was won by Thos. 

 McEwen. John Knox, Jr., in the running high leap, leaped 

 5 feet three inches, and won. The half-mile race was won 

 by B. Greig, in 2 minutes 9^ seconds. In putting the light 

 stone, John Gassick (scratch) was first, he throwing I ha 

 stone 37 feet 7 inches. In vaulting with the pole John 

 Knox, allowed 2 feet, vaulted 9 feet. 3 inches; Frank Duke 

 (scratch) 8 feet 4 inches. The quarter mile race was won 

 by David F Knox, who had an allowance of 28 yards, iu 

 1 minute H seconds; Thomas McEwen, allowed 20 yards, 

 was second. In throwing the 56-ponnd weight, A. Thom- 

 son, allowed 3 feet, threw the weight 31 feet 3 inches; II. 

 Graham, allowed 5 feet, threw it 20 feet 2 inches. The 

 sack race was won by D. F. Knox, allowed 35 yards; L, 

 D. Robertson, allowed 60 yards, was second. The one 

 mile race was won by William Parker (scratch) in 5 min- 

 utes and 20 seconds; William Hume, second, allowed 50 

 yards. In tossing the caber, M. F. More (scratch) tossed it 

 37 feet 8 inches, and R. Williamson, allowed 1 foot 6 in- 

 ches, 35 feet 8 inches. The three mile walk was won by 

 Thomas McEwen (scratch) in 28 minutes; John Low, al- 

 lowed 2 minutes and 15 seconds, was second. 



The judges were George and Mathew Goldie, D. M. 

 Sterns and Mr. Giles. The entertainment did not come to 

 an end till long after dark. 



— The gladiatorial tournament which was held durino" 

 the past week at Gilmore's Garden, better known as the 

 Hippodrome, was brought to a conclusion on Saturday 

 evening last. The entertainment during each evening com- 

 prised fencing, boxing, bicycling, Graaoo-Roman wrestling, 

 club swinging, and feats of purely muscular strength with 

 dumb bells and cannon balls. In each instance a cham- 

 pion, selected by the house, was pitted against all comers 

 and bravely did they uphold the honor of the selection! 

 Mike and Joe Coburn were resrecftvdy the house cham- 

 pions in light and heavy sparring, M. Regis Senac defended 

 himself with the foil, Mr. R. A. Pennell was the Samson 

 of the occasion, and "brought down *.he house," while Mr. 

 J. Messinger played with cannon balls as though they 

 were marbles. The bicycle races were unusually good 

 Mr. McClelland doing five miles in excellent time, and M.' 

 M. Chnstol, Bauer, Du Morlier, and Grace distinguished 

 themselves as GraBco-Roman wrestlers. In fact, this per- 

 formance constituted tho, piece de res?stance of the enter • 

 taiument. Equally interesting, however, was the set-toon 

 Friday evening between Chambers and Edwards, cham- 

 pion light weights of the P. R. Altogether the tourna- 

 ment was a grand success, affording gentlemen an oppor- 

 tunity of witnessing those contests requiring strength, agil* 

 ity, and science, without any debasing concomitants. Mr. 

 Fred J. Englehardt, under whose supervision the affair was 

 conducted, is entitled to much praise for the admirable 

 manner in which it was managed. 



THE KECOTiD FOR 1875. 



As in 1874 we publish exclusively the full table of the 

 championship contests of 1875, which gives the date and 

 score, as well as the name of each of the contesting clubs 

 in every match game won and lost as the championship 

 scores of 1875. The table in question — see another pgge— 

 contains the totals of won and lost games, but not the 

 drawn games or those forfeited, neither being included in 

 the table list of games played. The list of drawn games 

 was eleven, which with the 333 games won and lost makes 

 a grand total of 344 games played. The club names are 

 placed in the order of the percentage victories. Thus Bos- 

 ion as 71-8; Athletic, 53-20; Hartford, 54-28, making 

 them first, second and third on the list. Of the seven 

 clubs which played their quota of six games with each 

 other, the Mutuals stand last on the list. The following is 

 the record of drawn games not included in the table: — 



May 27— Boston vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia, ten innings 3 3 



June 28- Boston vs. Athletic, at Philadelphia, ten inniugs * '10 10 



Aug. 3— Mutual vs. Chicago, at Brooklyn, five innings \ . " \ % 



Aug. 5— Hartford vs Mutual, at Brooklyn, ten innings 1 1 



Aug. 12— Mutual vs. Hartford, at Hartford, nine inning?. . . ... i 1 



Sept. 2— Boston vs. Philadelphia, at, Philadelphia, ten innings'" 8 8 



Sept. 14— Hartford vs. Chicago, at Chicago, nine innings. . & ' 1 1 



Sept. 27— St. Louis vs. Philadelphia, at Philadelphia, nine innings' 5 5 



Oct. 14— Hartford vs. Athletic, at Hartford, i.ine inuin«s 10 10 



Oct. 19— Athletic vs. Chicago, at Philadelphia, eight inniiigs' " 1 1 



Oct. 29— Mutual vs. St, Louis, at Brooklyn, seven mnings. ' "." 6 $ 



