FOREST AND STREAM. 



performance, will be found in the latter class. We do not hear so much 

 about the failure of the dogs in this class, but should some noted dog, 

 with pedigree, or imported dog fail to come op to the standard, we are 

 sure to hear about it, and why? Because everyone expects good work 

 and good looks from an imported dog. 01 dog with pedigree. The eyes 

 of the whole sportiug world are at present upon them, many being ready 

 to find the slightest flaw in their action or appearance, and hold it as an 

 argument, not against that particular dog. but against the whole class. 

 And think, these very same people are the very ones wh© would en- 

 tirely ignore a pedigree at a time when it would be most vaiuabie. And 

 then those who sneer at or despise a dog without a pedigree notwith- 

 standing his excellent working qualities are equally at fault, and will in 

 time and it out to their misfortune. 



Now what does a pedigree show, provided always that it is genuine; 

 simply that for a certain number of generations back there has been no 

 impure blood in the stock; in other words, no dropper blood intermingled 

 with your setter or pointer, and not, as most people seem to imagine, 

 that the ?tock is perfect, and this negative proof is all that can not too 

 closely be watched bv those mtendiug to breed. In England and abroad 

 where field trials and bench shows have been in vogue for many yeacgj 

 a pedigree often shows that the progenitors of your stock had either 

 dii-timjnished themselves in the field or on the bench. In our country, 

 however, wheie these trials and shows are a new thing, it simply shows 

 that the blood is pure as far back as it goes, and not that it must per- 

 force be good except in rare instam es where a particular breed has 

 been preservf d and the performances of the different ancestors of that 

 b-^ed have been known 'o a laige community for a number of years. 

 Th re are many instances of dogs v. ho are tine performers in the fieM, 

 and whose looks no one would question, yet without pedigree, and all of 

 whose descendants cime ud to the standard of their ancestor; but these 

 few ca>es should not lead men to totally disregard pedigrees and believe 

 them worthless, and that as good a dog can be had without them as with 

 them; experience proves to the rontrary. In like manner anyone who 

 attempts to breed from a dog with a tine pedigree, but worthless in the 

 field, will find that the majority of his descendants will be also good for 

 nothing for the field, though they be ever so fine in appearance. Some 

 of the progeny, to be sure, will turn out well and inherit the fine quali- 

 ties of the grandsire or grand dam, as the case may be, but there will 

 still be a bad taint in the blood ready to crop out again in their descend- 

 ants, and which may occupy years to thoroughly eradicate. A man 

 having a fine bitch with a good pedigree had much better breed her to an 

 ordinary looking do? with a fine field record and limited pedigree of one 

 or tvvo generations, and afterwards breed his stock up again by culling 

 out the poorer looking whelps of the litter, and breeding those taking 

 after the dam back to some fine stock, than breed her to a dog with a 

 flue pedigree but worthless in the field. Pedigrees and woiking quali- 

 ties taken together cannot be excelled, but either alone must be inferior, 

 and of the two most men would prefer to breed from, and certainly to 

 use, the dog v> ho was A No. 1 in the field, with his sire's and dam's record 

 al^o gooaTihan the dog who was inferior in the field, but who was bred 

 with a, long pedigree attached to his nnrae. In running a pedigree back 

 we finally can trace no further thau a dog who had been imported ; now 

 some say tuis word in a pedigree means nothing, as we have as fine dogs 

 here as ihey have on the other side; be that as it may, it does to my 

 mind mean something, and a great deal. For as there are good and 

 bad dogs in both couutries, would a person here be apt to go to the ex- 

 pense of buying and brngmg across the Atlantic a poor dog any more 

 than a foreigner would come over here and buy a poorly bred dog and 

 take it over there. It stands to reason, therefore, that such a word in a 

 pedigree means that the dog was not a poot dog. although he may not 

 have been something wonderful, and it means that the chances are he 

 was a bettei dug than if he had b en some Tom, Dick, etc., in this coun- 

 try wh m nobody at the present time can tell you about. I don't say 

 that this is always so, but the chances are that nine times out of ten it 

 le. Then the word imported, when it has after it the words 'by Mr 



," is still more valuable as indicating the importer. You can better 



judge what kind of a dog he wouid be likely to own or import. I had 

 commenced this letter with the intention of laying out before your read- 

 ers my idea of the true value of a pedigree in tnat it is valuable as it 

 proves by txclvsion that stock is pute, and not that the stock are bound to 

 be fine field performers; but I have wandered on and unintentionally 

 have touched upon other topics about which there are so many different 

 opinions, and on which I had not intended lo write for some time. 

 "What 1 have written, however, are the honest convictions of one who, 

 though he has not had a great deal of experience, has studied the sub- 

 ject carefully and attentively. W. S. Wkbb. M. D. 



Kfnnel Produce.— 1 he pointer bitch Jessie, the property of V. W. L. 

 Bro* ks, hsq., of Stamfoid, on July 27 h dropped a fine litter of five dogs 

 and two ^yps, sired bj hie imported dog Bingo. 



Mr. K. H. Gillespie, of Stamford, Ct., has a fine litter of orange and 

 white setter pups out of Van Derwerken's Fan, by Cuming's Kolia, The 

 pup,- are all handsomely maiked and are strong and healthy. Kolla is 

 entered at the Centennial Bench Show. 



At the kenrel of Mr. John M. Niall, Killaloe, Co. Clare; on 22d July, 

 Sal wbelpe»i ten, all red puppies (four dogs and six gyps) Tney are 

 vety hignly bred, "elite sired by that graud dog Tatt O'Rooney, tired by 

 Llewellyn • ut of his Knowing, out of " his Carrie, K. C. S. B. No. 1,703. 

 The dam Sal is out of J. H. Sxltus.'s old Sal. K. C. 8. B. No. 43.3SI, 

 sired bv uapt. Wynn's Spark, out of Capt. Frith's Nell, by Windham 

 Lewis's Major out of Capt. Frith's Mus. Spark by Coates' Rap out of 

 Ruby, by Hutchison's Bob, No. 1,700, Vol. I.,K. C. S. B., Rap by 

 Rynd's Rake out of Nell. 



Homes Among the Orange Groves.— The winter 

 homes of Florida are already numbered by the thousands, 

 and permanent settlers from all parts of the North are se- 

 curing pleasant abodes within the borders of that climate- 

 favored peninsula. Among the most attractive portions of 

 the State is that about Palatka on the St. Johns River. At 

 a point about twenty five miles south of Palaika a number 

 of northern gentlemen and ladies have established their 

 residences and flourishing colonies have been started. 

 This new locality has been called Fiuitland Peninsula, and 

 among the settlers are Mr. and Mrs. Leggett, Dr. A. 8. 

 Baldwin, C. L. Robinson, N. K. Sawyer, Dr. J. J. Griffin, 

 D. G. Ambler, C. B. Benedict, L. McConihe, Dr. C. J. 

 Kenworthy, ("Al Fresco" of Forest and Stream), and 

 others. Fruitland Peninsula is a tract of high and fertile 

 land lying between Lake George on the west, and Dunn's 

 Lake anJ Dunn's Creek (now called Lake Crescent and 

 Deep River) on the northeast. The village is Crescent City, 

 and every effort is being ma le to form a beautiful and en- 

 terprising town. The purpose is not so much to make it a 

 cheap place-as it is to make it a delightful one, wh» re peo- 

 ple of wealth will feel like spending money to ornament 

 and beautify their homes. It is expected that most settlers 

 in the town will desire a small tract of land for the cultiva- 

 tion of oranges and other tropical fruits, hence lots con- 

 taining rive acres each have been plotted with the town. 

 The situation is upon the new highway from the ocean to 

 the lakes of the interior, overlooking a long range of hills, 

 lakes, and orange groves. A steamer plies regularly be- 

 tween Jacksonville and Crescent City, connecting with a 

 line of hacks running to Halifax River. The character of 

 the gentlemen who have undertaken this enterprise ought to 

 ensure its success, and we give the new town many good 

 wishes. They publish a pamphlet containing full informa- 

 tion for such as desire to know more of the plans. 



§zchting and § tutting. 



All communications from Secretaries and friends sTwuld be mailed no 

 later tJian Monday in each week. 



HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 



Date. 



Aug. 10.. 



Aug. 11.. 



Aug. 12.. 



Aug 13.. 



Aug. 14. 



Aug. 15. 



Aug. 16. 



Boston. 



10 

 48 

 32 

 23 

 26 

 38 

 54 



New York. 



B. 



M. 



11 



32 



ive. 



18 



1 



10 



2 



12 



8 



24 



4 



39 



5 



52 



Charleston 



10 48 



11 32 

 morn. 

 23 



*6 

 38 

 54 



The Newburgh Regatta. — On Wednesday of last week 

 the annual Newburgh regatta was sailed over a course start- 

 ing from the judges' boat, anchored off the city, to and 

 around a stake boat anchored off the Long Dock at Fish- , 

 kill, turning from north to south; thence to and around a 

 stake-boat two and one-half miles south, turning from east 

 to west; thence to and around a stake boat two and one- 

 half miles north of the starting point, turning from west 

 to east; thence to and around a stake at the starting point, 

 going over the course twice, the distance being twenty 

 miles. The W. R. Brown took the first prize in the first 

 class and the Cynthia the second. In the second the Art- 

 ful Dodger took the first prize and the Coquette the second, 

 and in the third class the Sophia Emma took the first and 

 the Tom W. the second prize. Appended is the time at 

 start and finish: — 



FIRST CLASS. 



Elapsed 



Time. 



m. s. 



17 



33 



88 



34 



17 



U 



Name. h. m. s. h 



W.K.Brown 2 46 55 3 



Le Roy ..3 03 30 3 



Cynthia 3 04 45 3 



Fidget 3 05 08 3 



Fie Bun 3 16 08 3 



Laura 3 23 25 3 



SECOND CLASS. 



Artful Dodger 3 09 " 12 3 .38 '42 



Coquette ; 3 19 16 3 47 01 



Freak 3 24 05 3 52 33 



Eloise 3 35 36 4 03 41 



THIRD CLASS. 



H. M. S. H. M. 8. 



Sophia Emma 2 18 24 2 51 02 



Thetis 2 41 36 3 25 16 



Tom W « 2 46 53 3 26 43 



Emily 2 59 50 3 41 20 



Dione 3 00 30 3 44 40 



Osprev 3 02 30 3 45 45 



Gracie 3 06 00 



Hattie 3 19 33 i 01 33 



Corrected 



Time. 



H. M. 



09 

 26 

 22 

 30 



■A) 

 52 



H. M. 8. 

 3 37 42 

 3 43 01 



3 49 13 



4 01 21 



H. M. S. 



2 51 02 



3-21 16 



3 19 33 



3 37 40 



3 37 CO 



3 38 45 



3 51 53 



The International Regatta. — The fourth annual 

 amateur regatta of the Saratoga Rowing Association com 

 menced on the lake at that place on Monday last. The 

 same causes which militated so largely against the success 

 of the college regatta were in favor on the present occasion, 

 and not only prevented the programme from beiag carried 

 out, but also caused the withdrawal of some of the boats 

 during the progress of the racing. Saratoga Lake, when 

 it chooses to keep itself in condition, is a very charming 

 piece of water on which to row, but it appears to require 

 but the slightest inducement to get itself into a state of 

 roughness most disheartening to oarsmen . On Monday 

 when the first race was called, at 11 o'clock, the water was 

 quite smooth, but later in the day it became too rough for 

 rowing. The first event was the junior single-sculls, for 

 which the folio wiug gentlemen started: — R. H. Robinson, 

 of the Union Springs (N. Y.) Rowing Club; W. H. Rogers, 

 of the Atalantas, of New York City; J. E. Mann, of the 

 Argonautas, Bergen Point, N. J.; F. Tompkins, of the 

 Wolvenhook Club, Greenbush. N. Y. ; M. S. Cummins, of 

 the Saratoga Rowing Club; J. Magin, of the Waverly 

 Yacht and Rowing Club, New York. Robinson, the fa- 

 vorite, took the lead at the start, and kept it to tue finish, 

 winning the race handily. Tompkins was the only one 

 who seemea able to keep auywhere near the winner, whose 

 time was 15:16|. Tompkins was second, Mann third, 

 Cummins fourth, and Magin fifth. Rogers quit after going 

 a mile and a quarter. 



The second race was for pair-oared shells, for which 

 there was the following entries: R. Ltffman and O. T. 

 Johnson, of the Neptune Club, West Brighton, Staten Is- 

 land; Capt. Edward Smith and F. C. Eldred, of the Ar- 

 gonautas, W. H. Downs and J. E. Eustis, of the Atalan- 

 tas; Henry Smith and John Killorin, of the North-west- 

 erns; J. T. McCormick and T. J. Gorman, of the Beaver- 

 wycks. The word to start was given at 11:55, the Argon- 

 autas being first off with a 34 stroke'. They had the lead 

 for a quarter of a mile when they were passed by the At- 

 alanta pair. The North-westerns soon pulled into second 

 place and turned the stake boat close behind the Atalantas, 

 with the Beaverwycks third. The Neptunes and Argon- 

 autas, owing to their boats being low out-rigged and having 

 shipped considerable water, gave up the race. Shortly 

 after making the turn the Chicago crew spurted and took 

 the lead, holding it to the finish, their time being 21m. 29s. 

 Before reaching the line the Atalantas stopped rowing but 

 were ordered by the referee to cross. The water was so 

 rough that after the double-sculls had been called twice 

 without any response the race was postponed until the fol- 

 lowing day. 



The double scull race was rowed on Tuesday, the water 

 being in capital condition, and the time made by the 

 winning crew unparalleled. The Atalauta couple, Rodg- 

 ers and Ackerman, took the lead at the start, but were 

 quickly overtaken and passed by both the Neptune and 

 Union Springs crews. The Neptunes rounded the mile 

 stake boat first in 5m. 22s., followed three seconds later 

 by Courtney and Yates, the Atlantas seven seconds be 

 hind. At the half mile Courtney spurted and passed the 

 Neptunes, and kept the lead to the finish; The iollowing 

 is a list of the crews and their times for the two miles: 



Time.' 

 Names. H . m. s. 



Union Springs— C. E. Courtney, F. E. Yates I 12 ip 



Neptune- T. R. Keator, James Riley 2 12 20J- 



Atalanta— H. W. Rogers, P. C. Ackerman 3 12 25 



Wolveuhook--J. J. Miles, C. C. Craig 4 _ 



Rockaway Yacht Club. — The fifth annual regatta of 

 this club wa3 sailed over their usual course of ten miles on 

 Wednesday last. The wind was blowing fresh from the 

 northeast, and all the yachts started with reef in their 

 mainsails, and, save the Mignon, with jibs furled. The 

 entries were as follows: 



Fannie D., 23 feet 3 inches, owned by C. A. Donnelly. 



Mignon, 22 feet, C. A. and J. D. Cheever. Lucille 21 

 feet 11 inches, A. Walker. Spinaway, 21 feet 4 inches' E 

 and R. La Montague. Gaviota, 19 feet 10 inches, D. Lord' 

 Jr. The time allowance, one minute to the foot was 

 given at the start, the Gaviota getting awav first at 4.33 

 Before the first round was completed all the yachts set 

 their jibs. The Mignon was evidently the fastest boaHn 

 the fleet, and before the second round was made was lead- 

 ing the fleet. The time taken at the finish was: 

 Name. H. m. s.| Name. H M , 



Mignon 6 26 29 Lucille 6 '^6 ' fw 



Fannie D 6 26 42 Gaviota [q 37 it 



Spinaway 6 29 53! 



The Fannie D. won the Commodore's pennant for mak- 

 ing the best actual time over the course, and the Mienon 

 won the plate prize for being the first boat in. The judges 

 were S. P. Strong, Jr., William Ladd, and P. Y. Burtsell- 

 and Messrs. C. A. Cheever, William Lummis, and D. Lord,' 

 Jr., were the Regatta Committee. 



The "America" Cup. — A meeting of the Regatta Com- 

 mittee of the New York Yacht Club was held at the office 

 of Commodore Kingsland on Friday for the purpose of 

 perfecting the arrangements for the series of matches to be 

 palled by the Canadian yacht Countess of Dufferin and the 

 Madeleine. Bol h Major Giff ord, representing the owners of 

 the "Countess" and Commodore Dickinson were present. 

 Major Gifford desired to name the 14th, as the day for the 

 first race, but as that is the date fixed for the assembling 

 of the yachts of the club at Glen Cove preparatory to start- 

 ing on the annual cruise, it was finally decided that the 

 first race should be sailed tomorrow, the 11th inst. The 

 second race -will be sailed on the following day and should 

 there be a tie, each yacht winning one race, a day will 

 there be named for sailing the deciding race. The Made- 

 leine was on the ways last week undergoing a thorough 

 overhauling and her sails were being refitted. The Countess 

 has had a new foresail and her topsails have been altered; 

 she also has been on the ways, and been thoroughly scraped 

 and pot-leaed. Whathetting there is on the event is Ion o- 

 odds in favor of the Madeleine. 



— The fourth annual regatta of the Carman Ttowmg As- 

 sociation, of Washington Heights, will take place at their 

 club house, foot of One Hundred and Fifty-second street, 

 North River, on Saturday afternoon, the 12th inst, com- 

 irenc iug at 3 o'clock. The entries will consist of four 

 single sculls, two four-oared gigs, two eight-oared barges, 

 and a tub race. 



Canada.— The annual regatta of the Quebec Rowing 

 Club will be held on the 12th inst., when, besides five four- 

 oared boats from the club, it is expected that crews from 

 Montreal and Halifax will enter. To induce a lively com- 

 petition of the sort, besides the handsome silver cup given 

 as a special prize by Mr. T. H. Grant, it is proposed to con- 

 tribute the champion cup of the St. Lawrence, but in addi- 

 tion ihere will be other valuable prizes, including substan- 

 tial sums of money. 



— The scull race for the championship of Halifax Harbor 

 to-day, in which the competitors were Warren Smith and 

 Obed Smith, of the Fishermen's crew, and John Brown, 

 was won by Warren Smith, making the distance, three 

 miles, in 23 minutes. 



-♦♦-». 



CENTENNIAL ROWING NOTES. 



Philadelphia, August 8th 1876. 



Editor Forest and Stream:— Still Cornell shows no 

 disposition to row in any of the International races at 

 Philadelphia. It may be that I am not, nor even Forest 

 and Stream, nor the college rowing men, nor the rowing 

 world at large are right in saying that Cornell has any duty 

 to perform, but they all do so. One thing is certain and 

 that is that rowing men of all classes have looked to them, 

 the proved and acknowledged champion college crew of 

 America, to uphold the honor of American college rowing 

 against all comers. That they will not attempt to do so is 

 now certain, that the fault, if fault it is, lies with Capt. 

 Ostrom is possible. The captain's reasons, which I de- 

 clared last week as trivial, have been since denounced by 

 the best authorities in this country as preposterous. In 

 Ostrom's letter to Mr. Beebe he advances one reason which 

 I fail to detect in his letter to the Secretary of the Schuyl- 

 kill Navy. He does not think that the English crew now 

 here, meaning First Trinity, of Cambridge, is a represent- 

 ative university crew. What right has Cornell, Columbia, 

 Yale, Harvard, or any other American college to ask that 

 Cambridge shall select from her twenty-two rowing asso- 

 ciations a crew to compete with one selected from a con- 

 stituency equalling neither in numbers or experience any 

 one of these twenty-two? Our American universities are 

 in rowing matters only the peers of what at Oxford, Cam- 

 bridge, or Dublin are called and are — colleges. No one 

 can impeach my allegiance to America, or to anything 

 that to her appertains, but I ask why should we exact un- 

 fair odds and those odds against ourselves? One thing 

 might be asked of the Cornell crew, and of their captain 

 — were they prepared to row the Englishmen at Saratoga 

 on the 11th inst., in accordance with the challenge re- 

 ceived by First Trinity on their arrival? If they were, 

 why should they advance the reasons already given? 

 Why not say at once, "We have little to gain and much to 

 Ipse-, we are afraid to risk it." That is certainly the infer- 

 ence to be drawn from their action. 



The list of entries as far as received, have already been 

 published in anu ruber of papers, but the official list is not 

 yet issued. To-morrow night the Regatta Committee again 

 meets, and with it rests the acceptance or rejection of &uch 

 entries as from the oversight, ignorance or neglect of Sec- 

 taries, have been received after August 1st, the time 

 fixed for the closing of entries. As it at present stands, the 

 only bona fide entry for the graduates race is the Dublin 

 crew, A crew of New York graduates have telegraphed 

 an entry 10-day, and Yale may present another. The 

 Dublin men have come out for a race, and not a walkover, 

 so there is no probability that these late entries for this race 

 will hi objected lo. The London Rowing Club are on the 

 way, having sailed by Wyoming on Wednesday. The 

 Dublin are now on the Scythia, and the two crews will be 

 here before the next issue of Forest and Stream. 



The practice of the first Trinity has been somewhat inter- 

 rupted by the sickness of Mr. Jameson, their bow. The 

 whole crew went to Cape May on Saturday, and will stay 

 until Tuesday or Wednesday. Mr. Jameson is better to- 

 day, and it is to be hoped he wili be able to take his place 

 in the boat (bow) before the week is out. By this time 

 next week, several of the crews will be at practice on the 

 river. Sculls. 



