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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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A W J2..cjvJu¥ JOURNAL, 



Dkvoted to Field ajnd aquatic Spouts, Prmwhui. Natubai. History, 

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK. 

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Thurspay, October 19th — Trotting: Woodbury, N. J., Brooklyn 

 Driving pH>k, L. I Rifle: Special Match Da\, Glenrirake; Em- 

 pire S are Rifle Association meuiing, Syracuse; Cricket: St. George vs. 

 Young America, Hoboken. Base Bail: Alaska vs. Alpha, at Brooklyn. 



Friday, October 20tU. — Trotting: Brooklyn Driving Park, L. I. 



Sa\urday. October 21st. — Rifle: Schuyler, Hartley & Graham and 

 Geiger Matches, Creedmoor; Regular Match Day, Glendrake. Base 

 Bail: Nameless vs Union, at Brooklyn. 



Monday, Oetooer2id.— Rifle: Fall Meeting California Rifle Associa- 

 tion. 



Tuesday, October 24th.— Facing: Maryland Jockf-y Cluh, Baltimore. 

 Trotting: Driving Paik. Fleetwood Park. N. Y.; Washington. D. C. 

 Rifle: Fall Meeting Calif ruia Rifle A:-suciation: Sixth Division Rifle 

 Association, Syracuse. 



Wednesday, Ocoher 25th. — Racing: Baltimore. Md. Tiotting: Wa a h- 

 ing'ou. D. C; Fleetwood la k. N. Y.: Rttrewille. Pa. RiflVas above. 



An Imposition on Good JSatuke and a Fraud —A 

 friend has reunited to us a copy of Forest and Stream 

 into which had been clandestinely folded a four-pagi 

 advertising sheet entitle 1 '"New York and Lomhn 

 Supplement," Vol. I., No. 1. The prospectus of this 

 emission says: — 



'•Arrangements have been made to place this supplement inside the 

 following i.amtd English and American publications." 



Following ihe announcement are the names of 19 New 

 York and 11 London papers, including the Forest and 

 Stream. 



We here wish to deny that we have ever made any such 



arrangement, or were even aware of the existence of such 



publication, or of its proprietor, who signs himself C. D 



Murphy, Advertising Agent. We do not wish any such 



affix to our paper. The imposition is a base one and un 



worthy the genius of the inventor. If any such fraud at 



tempts to steal a ride on the tail of our wagon, we shall 



cut behind. 



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•Steinway's. — Mr. Theo. Thomas is giving a series of con- 

 certs at Steinway Hill, which are well attended, as a matter 

 of course. Mr. Thomas's popularity as a leader and the 

 excellence of his orchestra are as as well sustained as ever. 

 Slein way's pianos also hold their own in the public esteem, 

 and although not so highly puffed as some others received 

 equal honors at Philadelphia 



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Wild Rice. —Mr. R. Vakntine, of Janesville, Wiscon- 

 sin, writes: "The price of wild rice given in my circular, 

 which you printed la^t week, should be ten cents per 

 pound, which makes it about $2 per bushel. This is just 

 |he cost with freight added," 



PORTABLE wooden houses are manufactured in Lon- 

 don at various very low prices. A house 10 feet by 

 10 feet, with boarded roof and boarded floor, covered with 

 felt, suitable for a store house, shed, or tool-house, is sold 

 for $50. Wi'hthe addition of varnished matched board- 

 ing inside, a very comfortable room is obtained, quite com- 

 fortable enough for game-keeper3' lodges, shooting boxes, 

 or temporary summer lodgings. These are furnished at 

 $75 each. Structures of this kind ought to find ready de- 

 mand and sale in America. We believe there is a Portable 

 House Building Company at Paterson, New Jersey, and 

 one at Cincinnati. Pel haps there are others in this coun- 

 try; but we do not know of them. We remember to have 

 examined a schedule of prices some five years ago, but the 

 list did not contain any structures of the kind referred to 

 above. The lowest priced of all was a dwelling to cost 

 about $500; and the rates ran up to a very desirable cot- 

 tage with varamlahs and many rooms at $1200. We have 

 no doubt that if the New Jersey company, or any other 

 company in existence, would undertake to manufacture 

 shooting boxes, such as we suggest, they would reap abund- 

 ant profits. Gentleman going to Currituck, Patuxent, 

 Barhegat, and Shinnecock, could take their houses with 

 them year after year, and be independent of hotel charges 

 and exacting guides. With a gunner who can cook, and 

 his necessary provender and equipments, the sportsman 

 would be a full lord of the manor, and couid snap h'.s 

 finge r s at the gradgrind world outside. In winter this 

 house would furnish snug quarters and save many a 

 rough night of hardship. We can imagine nothing more 

 cosy than one of these fittted up with a camp lounge, a 

 Dunklee's stove, and plenty of blankets, after a day of 

 shivering and fatigue among the ducks. How delicious 

 canvas backs and coffee for supper, then! The summer 

 dweller in the Adirondacks could pitch his substantial 

 camp beside the still waters or tumbling stream, and fish, 

 aud read, and smoke, without fear of being molested or 

 giving offence to other boarders, while the visitor to Florida 

 could migrate ad libitum, from point to point, as easily as 

 a tortoise, with his house on his back and shelter always 

 at hand. 



"Portable." This word conveys a good deal of mean 

 ing. With a house that can be taken to pieces in one 

 hour and packed into an ordinary one-horse wagon, travel 

 ing with household gods and goods becomes almost as easy 

 as traveling with Saratoga trunks aud nothing else. By 

 rail, steamer, boat or wagon, aye, even on foot, one can 

 move as easily as the crab can fold his tents and steal 

 away. 



This much for the sportsmen. 



We can go farther than this, and wonder why it is that 

 more summer and winter tourists, alternating between the 

 high aud low latitudes, and sojourning for the season, do 

 not buy the>e portable houses, ot from three to eight rooms 

 each, and locale at their pltasure, wherever the scenery 

 invites, or circumstances may dictate or compel. It would 

 be vastly more agreeable, and comfortable to them, and 

 less expensive, thau boarding at hotels, or even at ordinary 

 boarding-houses, where neither bed or food is delectable; 

 securing privacy for all, aud better chauces of health, aud 

 a couiinuauce of life. Besides, living thus would make 

 women of our frivolous belles and watering place exotics, 

 and teacii them to be independent of help, revealing the 

 pleasure of providing for themselves in this fashion— bring- 

 ing more joy to the heart than the empty adulatious ot 

 suitors ever can, and more enviable roses to the cheeks 

 than admirers ever bestowed, with added health, wisdom, 

 increasing knowledge of natural objects, and a love and 

 appreciation of all 



THE NB.W RtGATTA COURSE. 



IT must be a source of gratification to the oarsmen of 

 this and mighboring cities to know that a regatta 

 course has at last been found which, while combiuiug all 

 the advantages of others formerly used, is without many 

 of thtir drawbacks. Greenwood Lake, one of the most 

 beautiful sheets of wate> in the whole country, is very ac 

 cessible by railroad ctneet and is but two and a half hours 

 distant from tbe city. While provided with am pie hotel 

 accommodations for crews and spectators, it is free from 

 the expenses, reckoned both in time and money, of Sara- 

 toga. The crowd of boats which throng Harlem river and 

 hamper the contestants are unknown, and it excels the 

 Schuylkill in its greater width, which enables a larger 

 number of boats to compete at the same time. While 

 much larger than Sai%oga lake.it is surrounded by land so 

 much higher that the disturbing influence of even an or- 

 dinary breeze which ruffles that piece of water, is scarcely 

 felt. It must be admitted that on the day appointed for 

 the recent regatta, the water was too rough for rowing, but 

 it must also be remembered that the season was the fall of 

 the year, and the wind such as to render rowing impracti- 

 ble anywhere. 



When the Sportsmen's Club of Greenwood Lake extended 

 their courteous invitation to the several rowing clubs that 

 took part in the recent regatta, which was so admirably 

 conducted that all who participated in it look forward wilh 

 pleasurable anticipation to the enjoyment of a permanent 

 annual regatta on that beautiful sheet of water, the gentle- 

 men did not perhaps look further than the temporary 

 gratification of witnessing the splendid rowing of the vic- 

 tors and their competitors; and the magnificent develop- 

 ment of power in Riley, Kennedy and Keator, victors of 

 the 4oubie-seull ? gingle-gcu.ll and pair-par races, Tiie firsfc 



races were, however, to be made memorable, as was the 

 Saratoga single-scull race of 1876, where Mr. Riley made 

 the fastest time on record; so at Greenwood lake the pah- 

 oar heroes, Messrs. Riley and Kennedy, did their best for 

 their hosts and their Neptune Club by making the fastest 

 time yet attained in a par oar race Mr A. H. Veruam 

 the ruling spirit of the Greenwood Lake Regatta, in addi- 

 tion to the satisfaction of knowing how much his efforts ior 

 the general success were appreciated, will, if what we hear 

 be true, be able to say that tbe laurels won at Greenwood 

 lake by Messrs. Riley and Kennedy are to be carried to 

 England, where it is probable these gentlemen will com 

 pete at the Henley races during the ensuing spring. 



The railroad company who have recently extended their 

 line to Gieenwood, are desirous of doing everything i a 

 their power to foster boat racing, and the management of 

 the regatta is in the hands of a club of wealthy business 

 men, whose names are a sufficient guarantee that every- 

 thing will be couducted in an honornbie and thorough 

 manner. Not a rowing organization, and therefore not par- 

 tisan, but a sportsman's club having at heart not only the 

 interests of the lake as regards rowing, but in its game aud 

 fish, and, above all, preserving intact its integrity as a re- 

 sort for gentlemen. With this guarantee we cannot see 

 how it can fail to become a most popular course for aquatic 

 contests, easy of access, inexpensive, and with ail the 

 necessary requirements for such purposes. 



Greenwood lake has been immortalized by Frank Forester. 

 It is but a few miles distant lrom the "vale of Warwick " 

 and in one of his works he describes a deer hunt, in com- 

 pany with Tom Draw, if we remember right, on its shores. 

 The great exponent of American sport fully appreciated 

 its value as a sporting ground, and although the deer no 

 longer feed in the cedar crowned summits of its surround- 

 ing hills, and the woodcock and quail have been sadly 

 thinned in the neighboring "Warwick woodlands," the 

 partridge still drums on the fallen hemlocks, and the lake 

 itself is fairly stocked with that gameist of fish, the black 

 bass. Beautiful Greenwood is a boon to New York des- 

 tined to be a source of rest and pleasure to many an over- 

 worked city man, who in .these times can afford neither 

 the time or expense of a trip to a more dislant and perhaps 

 more frivolous watering place. 



Cornell's Challenge.— We have already noted the 

 fact that the Rowing Club of Cornell TJaiversity had vo- 

 ted to challenge the winners in the next Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge boat race. One of the greatest drawbacks to the 

 carrying out of this very praiseworthy intention on the 

 part of Cornell will be the want of funds, the college be- 

 ing a comparatively young one, not having a list of wealth- 

 thy alumni who would come forward with the sinews of 

 war. With this in view our contemporary, the Spirit of 

 the Times, has, in a most praiseworthy "spirit," opened a 

 subscription list, the proceeds to be applied towards de- 

 fraying the expenses of the crew should they go, heading 

 the list with a very handsome sum. The amount already 

 subscribed considerably exceeds $1,000, and there is very 

 little doubt but that it will reach the required figure. Sub- 

 scriptions can be sent to the Spirit office. The last, time an 

 American crew pariicip ited in a college race in England 

 was in August, 1869, when Harvard was beaten three 

 lengths by Oxford on the course between Putney and 

 Mortlake on the Thames. Since that time the art of row- 

 ing has made wonderful strides in this country, and it is by 

 no m< aus t jO much to hope that in the ne> t contest the ta- 

 bles may be turned. 



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Honorary Doctorates. —The Congregationalist of August 

 23d, contains a list of 80 "honorary doctors" (39 of "laws," 

 and 41 of "divinity"), created by 34 of the colleges this 

 summer. Last year, the Independent, by means of a special 

 circular sent to the college officers, iuanag"d to get together 

 a similar list of 202 (L. 73, and D. 129;, representing 79 

 colleges, which list was piiuted in the is>ue of July 29tb. 

 In 1874, the Chri&lian Union, of October 7th, had a list of 

 185 doc'orates (L. 49, aud D 136), conlened by 70 colleges; 

 aud the Co lege Courant of July 27th, and September 12ih, 

 that year, made out a recor.t of the "doctorates of '73," 

 comprising no less than 250 names (L. 101, and D. 149), 

 honored by 88 colleges. The United States Bureau of Edu- 

 cation, which made a systematic attempt to secure a com- 

 plete list of the honorary degree of 1873— the only year 

 when an attempt has ever been made at an official record- 

 failed to do a9 well as the Courant, and secured reports of 

 only 77 colleges, whose doctorates numbered 219 (L 84, aud 

 D. 135). As the number of collegiate institutions in 

 America which are authorized to confer degrees of all 

 sorts is supposed to be between 300 and 400, it is fair to 

 assume from the records actually compiled, that the 

 annual crop of American "honorary doctorates" cannot bo 

 less than 300; but so long as no one succeeds in gtttins to- 

 gether a complete list of even so much as tbe names of 

 these institutions, the complete statistic* of that crop must 

 remain unattainable. The full record of New England's 

 twenty colleges for the last four years, is believed to be 

 known, however, and it shows that 9 of them in 1873, 5 in 

 1874, 8 in 1875, and 9 this year, refrained from making any 

 honorary doctorates at all. New England's average crop 

 of these degrees is a little more than forty, the four years, 

 lists showing 83 LL D's, and 84 D D 's. Dartmouth dur- 

 ing that interval has conferred 21, Yale 18, and Harvard 10. 

 Princeton, which is outranked in age and fame only by tbe 

 two last mentioned colleges r actually issues two series of 

 these doctorates each year* having created a round dozes 

 {hjf m& P. $) during tfee eighteen monthf §8$*$ *Wfe 



