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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A Wta^Y JUUKWAL, 

 Dl ^ T1 ?? ToFlBLI> an^ Aquatic Spobts, Practicai, Nattjkal History, 



JMSHL-uLTUKIS, rHJS f BOTKUTION Of WaJKB, PBBSEBV ATION OF FOBBSTS, 

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NKW VOKK, rrtrHSUAl, SEPTEMBER 28, 1876. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to Dusinese or literary 

 Correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 libhjng Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 



All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 

 real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 

 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 



Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



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 

 And our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Fobbst and Stbeam 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 

 tead 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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Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 

 CHARLES H ALLOC K, 



Editor and Businese Manager. 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK, 



Thursday, September 28th.— Trotting: Rockland, Me : Suffolk Park, 

 Philadelphia: Dayton, O.J Paiker City, Pa.; Onbh, N. Y. Match be- 

 tween Foreign and American rifle 'earns, Washington. D. C. Queens 

 County Agricultural Fair, Mtneola. L I. Base Ball: Cincinnati vs. Bos- 

 ton, al Cincinnati; Our Boys vs. Contest, at Brooklyn; Mutual (prof.) 

 vs. Kesolute, at Elizabeth, N. J.; Greenville vs. Elizabeth, at Jersey 

 City; Chelsea vs. Alaska, at Brooklyn. 



Fbiday, September 29rh— Trotting: Snffolk Park, Philadelphia; 

 Dayton, O.; Parker City. Pa.; Cuba, N. Y. Base Ball: Enterprise vs. 

 Orange, at Jertey City; Greenville vs. Knickerbocker, at Harl.m, N. Y.; 

 C telsea vs. Alaska, at Brooklyn; Madi-on vs. Monticello, at Newark; 

 Our Boys, vs. Crystal, at Brooklyn. 



Saturday. September 39th.— Racing: Jerome Park, N. Y. Fall games 

 N. Y. Athletic Clun, Mott Haven. Swawanhaka Yacht Clnb. 

 Corinthian fcchooner Regatta, N. Y. Haroor. Regatta Cen- 

 tral Hudson Yacht Club, New Hamburgh, N. Y. Match 

 between Foreign and American teams at Washington D. C. 

 Base Ball: Louisville vs. Botcn. at Louisville; Our Boys vs. Chelcea, 

 at Brooklyn; Ot-cf ola vs. Staten Island, at Brooklyn; Orange vs. Reso- 

 lute, at Orange, N. J. 



Monday, October 2d.— Quail shooting begins in this State. Trot- 

 ting at Maryville, Mo. Ba^e Ball: Lo lis ville vs. Boston, at Louisville. 



TubpdaY, October 3rd. — Racing: Jerome Park. Trotting: Maryville, 

 Mo.; Piqua, O.; Cincinnati. O.; Galesbunj, 111. Minnesota Stare Fair, 

 St. Paul. Bench Shows of Dogs, St. Louis, Mo. £»ate Ball; Louisville 

 vs. Boston, at Indianapolis. 



Wbdni-sdat, October 4th.— Trotting as above and at Jamestown, N. 

 Y.,»ud Pottatown, Pa. Bench Snow of D gs, St. Louis, Mo. Base 

 Ball: Louisville vs. Hartford, at Louisville; Our Boys vs. Euterprise, at 

 Jersey Oity. 



Puck's Debut. — We have been greatly amused by the 

 pictures in the first number of the German humorous paper 

 called Puck, published by Keppler & Schwarzman at No. 

 13 north William street. It attempts the same career of 

 satire upon the passing life as has made the fortune of 

 Puich, Kikeriki, Figaro, and other rib- cracking periodi- 

 cals. We are sorry we cannot read the jokes, as we are 

 behind in der Deutsche sprache. A noticeable feature of the 

 journal is its use of comic illustrations to ornament adver- 

 tisements. 



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More Testimony. — We take the liberty to print the fol- 

 lowing extract from a letter received by us this week:— 

 PEEBiiEss Tobacco Works, } 



RoCHBSTiB, Sept. 23. f 



Editor Forest and Stream:— 



We deeire to say tha<- we recognize as one of the most important sources 

 of our successful introduction of "Vanity Fair" to the sportsmen of the 

 TJuited States, the valuable columns of Forest and Stream, and ad- 

 vertisers who wish to biing their go«»ds to the attention of the sports 

 men of this country, would certainly be amply paid by patronizing your 

 polumns. Your truly, Was. Kimball. 



YACHTING. 



NOTWITHSTANDING the Centennial regattas and 

 also the fact that the "America" cup has been sailed 

 'for and again won by an American yacht, the yachting 

 season which closes on Saturday with the Corinthian 

 schooner regatta of the spirited Seawanhaka Club cannot 

 be said to have been a success, or in any way superior to 

 those of the last two or three years. Thare has been an 

 absence of elan, a want of vim, as evinced by the paucity 

 of entries in all the large regattas, and for the fall races 

 particularly it has been found impossible to enlist a suffi- 

 cient number of contestants to make even a match in each 

 class. And yet in point of weather never has a season 

 been more propitious. Even the June regattas, which 

 generally develop into mere drifting matches, were this 

 year exceptionally favored, and yet as the season pro- 

 gressed the interest waned. It would be difficult to define 

 the causes which have led to this almost indifference to 

 yacht racing. The fleets are increasing, new yachts have 

 been built in large numbers, and we meet with them cruis- 

 ing everywhere, and yet but few owners seem to care for 

 racing. The probability is that it is owing to the want of 

 a master spirit, some one who will take hold as Mr. Ben- 

 nett formerly did, and stir up by example and encourage- 

 ment the weak and wavering into following his lead. We 

 are not sufficiently well posted as to the wheel within a 

 wheel by which the affairs of the leading yachting club 

 of this country are governed, but it seems as though fogy- 

 ism or ultra-conservatism was at work to hinder its pi o- 

 gress and retard the growth of yachting generally. For it 

 is only through trials of speed, as represented by regattas, 

 that we can look for the emulation which "results in im- 

 proved models. There is one club, the Seawanhaka, 

 which is entitled to great credit for its efforts in behalf of 

 yachting. Its regattas, with prizes on the most liberal 

 scale, have been thrown open to yachts of all clubs, and its 

 "Corinthian" races, in which the yachts must be sailed by 

 the owner assisted by his non-pro. essional friends, would, 

 if properly appreciated and more generally participated 

 in, do much to revive the old yachting spirit. 



The events of the season may be said to be the races for 

 the "America" cup, in which the Madeleine so handsome- 

 ly defeated the Countess of Dufferin, and in which the 

 old America herself reappeared with such credit; and the 

 unioriunate accident to the Mohawk — a yacht which, 

 trom the laying of her keel until that unhappy day when 

 the recklessness of an incompetent sailing master put the 

 town in mourning, has been the subject of more contio- 

 versy and sensation than any ever launched in this coun- 

 try. Eastern yachtsmen have also had rather a depressing 

 season. The many clubs which rendezvous in various 

 parts of Boston Bay have, as a rule, had a lack of wind on 

 their regatta days, and their races have not been as suc- 

 cessful as usual. It is a noticeable fact that.°mali yachts, 

 say between twenty and thirty -five feet in length, are in- 

 creasing rapidly in numbers, and the racing between such, 

 in theae waters at least, has been unusually spirited. 



CONDITION OF THE CENTRAL PARK 

 MENAGERIE. 



DURING the past two years the menagerie at Central 

 Park has witnessed varied fortunes, but stems not 

 to have degenerated, although subjected to the thousand 

 drawbacks attendant upon having it under the control of a 

 political body. It is doubtful whether any zoological gar- 

 den or menagerie can ever be made to flourish under the 

 care — to use a polite word — of the Paik Commissioners, as 

 such. What has been done since 1873 we are told in the 

 report for 1874 and 1875 of tne Superintendent, Mr. Wm. 

 A. Conklin, to whose intelligent supervision the people 

 are indebted for t£e preservation and improvement of our 

 menagerie. Some facts extracted from this report will be 

 of interest. The number of animals reported as living in 

 the menagerie has steadily increased, at the close of 1875 

 amounting to 626, and improvements in their accommoda- 

 tions have caused a marked decrease in mortality among 

 them. Indeed, we are told that the only death of import- 

 ance was that of a camel, which had been in the collection 

 since 1868. The skins and skeletons of dead animals are 

 given to the American Museum of Natural History, to 

 some medical college, or are exchanged for living speci- 

 mens with taxidermists. Their public usefulness, there 

 fore, does not cease with death. The value of the animals 

 on exhibition at the close of 1874 was $41,422, and at the 

 close of 1875 was $50,989; only one- third of which was 

 the property of the Department. Animals offered for ex- 

 hibition, of which there are not duplicates in the menage- 

 rie, are kept free of expense; for all otners the owners are 

 required to furnish food. Among the principal exhibitors 

 —frequently donors — were and are P. T Baruum, Messrs. 

 Smith & Nathans, Messrs. Chas. Reiche & Bro., and Mr. 

 Louis Ruhe. The late Maj Gen. Cuoter gave largely, and 

 the menagerie is indebted to many officers of the Navy, 

 captains of sea-going steamers, and various private per- 

 sons, among others our good friend Mr. Eugene G. Black- 

 ford. A library is also being formed in connection with 

 the menagerie. The expense of maintaining the collection 

 (about $18,000 in 1875) is an insignificant item in the esti- 

 mates of the Park Commission in view of the great inter- 

 est taken in the animals, and the important aid thus afford- 

 ed to special students and to general education. We are 

 told that increasing numbers visit the menagerie, and that 

 schools, accompanied by their teachers, frequently avail 

 themselyes of the advantages offered to study the living 



specimens. It is to be hoped that the Commissioners of 

 Parks will not cripple the usefulness of this necessary 

 branch of youthful education, unless the "Fathers" are 

 fearful lest the children shall acquire habits of observation 

 which might prove troublesome when directed toward 

 politics in New York. The annual cost of keeping some 

 of the larger animals has been as follows:— Lion, $125. 

 grizzly bear, $150; camel, $150; elephant, $250;' tiger' 

 $125; black bear, $120, and other animals in proportion' 

 The yearly consumption of meat is about 60,000 pounds 

 of hay about 80,000 pounds, and of bread about 25,000 

 pounds, besides a vast additional quantity of miscellaneous 

 food. 



Mr. Conklin deserves great praise for persevering in his 

 work, and bringing about *uch continued improvement 

 and success. His suggestion that a certain amount of 

 money be appropriated annually for the purchase of ani- 

 mals is a good one; but a menagerie at Central Park will 

 never attain the fulfillment of what is possible in this city 

 until it is owned by a stock company, and established 

 upon a different basis than is possible with the present ar- 

 rangement. The plan reported in our columns some weeks 

 ago of forming a Zoological Garden Association, the gar- 

 dens to be situated at Central Park, will, we earnestly 

 hope, be carried into effect during the coming season. 



Forest and Stream Geography. — Although this paper 

 is not far advanced in its fourth year, it is quite safe to 

 say that its pages contain more general information rela- 

 tive to the geography and natural history of the newly 

 settled and wilderness districts of North America, than is 

 embraced within any other single volume or publication. 

 In this assertion we speak advisedly, not ignoring the very 

 thorough and invaluable explorations of the United States 

 and Canadian Governments in the Far West. Considered 

 relatively to the whole continent, the sections thus exam- 

 ined are small, while our investigations include the entire 

 area south of the Arctic belt. Not only have the salient 

 points of the older States been repeatedly and thoroughly 

 described in these columns, but al-o those of Texas, Florida, 

 Arkansas. Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, Upper and 

 Lower California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Monta- 

 na, Washiragton and Indian Territories, British Columbia, 

 Labrador, Newfoundland, and all the British Provinces. 

 The information thus far given as regards these regions is 

 in no respect meagre. It covers the prairies of the west, 

 the southwest, and the far west. It includes the moun- 

 tain ranges of the whole country — the Laurentian chain, 

 the White and Green Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Al- 

 leghanies and Blue Ridge, the Unaka aud Clinch range, the 

 Sietra and the Rocky Mountains. It embraces the ever- 

 glades of Florida, the interior great lakes, the Dismal 

 owamp of Virginia, and the prominent points akng the 

 entire coast from Labiador to Mexico. In a valuable series 

 ot papers it covers the zoology and ichthyc fauna of the 

 entire Northwest, and the writers on ihese various sections 

 and topics are among the most intell'geut of our frontier 

 officers, and of the Canadian and United States Boundary 

 Commissions and Government surveys. We are surprised, 

 when we refer to our files, to perceive the immense extent 

 of territory that has been so covered from authentic sources 

 of information, and the masterly manner in which it has 

 been done; and we ate led to write these lines, not in any 

 spirit of vanity that is unpardonable, % but because of such 

 surprise, as well as to direct attention to the work which 

 we are doing, and to impress upon our readers the value of 

 the instruction so imparted. Undoubtedly, one can learn 

 more of the geography of the continent that will serve him 

 practically, by reading these articles which we publssh, 

 than by studying text books and school geographies. The 

 reason is, that his mind becomes fixed by incidents in 

 which he sympa'izes or is interested, and if he will only 

 take his map aLd find out the localities treated of, he will 

 be apt to remember what he learns forever after. 



From the beginning we have made these sketches of 

 travel a feature of this journal, just as Harper's Maga- 

 zine has done for many years; and notwithstanding all 

 that has been written, the source of supply seems unfailing. 

 America is so large that the fund of informaiion is not 

 likely to run dry, nor are our contributors likely to wipe 

 their pens in sadne^s because nothing remains uuwiitten. 

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Our Duck Picture this week is a capital illustration of 

 the eagerness with which game is pursued in any locality 

 accessible to the metropolis Whether it is the frantic 

 pursuit of a single duck on the water, or the pot hunter 

 creeping up to a robin or "highholder" on land, the city 

 furnishes the "sportsmen" and extermination follows. 

 There is, however, we are pleased to note, a growing re- 

 spect for the laws, the result no doubt of their wider dis- 

 semination through the sporting papers. There is no ex- 

 cuse now for city sportsmen, or, for that matter, any others, 

 remaining in ignorance of close seasons, and if their num- 

 bers are so great as to result in the early killing of all game 

 within a certain radius, it is at least satisfactory to know 

 that it is done at the legal time. As for our illustration, it 

 is irresistibly comic; the more you look at it the funnier it 

 seems — the eagerness, the appliances, the decoys and the 

 whisky jugs, are all true to life, and in the midst the little 

 duck, the target of a hundred guns, tips up, and with his 

 webbed feet in most significant position disappears, and is 

 seen no more. We print this by permission of the Scrib- 



ner publishers. 



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Gen. Newton's Great Success,— Who ever heard of 

 such, "blasted luck?" 



