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CAUTION TO SPORTSMEN I 



ALL BPOKTING PAPEBS PLEASE COPT. 



Bridgepobt, Oct. 27th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Your correspondent "P. P. P.," of Baltimore, in your paper of the 

 26th inst., writing of the unfortunate accident that happened to Dr. 

 Thebauld while loading one of Eley'a paper shells, advises ' "loading the 

 Bhell first" and "capping after loading," 



Confirming the remarks that follow the letter, allow me to state 

 that having been engagtd for ten years pa t in the manufactuie of cen- 

 tral fire shells and cartridges of all kinds, from tbose used in small 

 pistols to the one-inch Gatling guns, including both metal and paper 

 ehells for shot guns, and a great variety of different kinds of primers; 

 that during the whole experience, which covers hundreds of millions of 

 cartridges, we have never bad a central-fire cartridge explode in the pro- 

 cess of loading, after the caps or primers have been put in. But in the 

 process of capping, which has always been done before loading, thousands 

 of caps have exploded even when being seated with carefully-prepared 

 machinery. All caps in which the anvils are placed upright, similar to 

 those used in the Eley shells, are more liable to explode when being put 

 on the shell than most other kinds. From positive knowledge on the 

 subject. I would as soon advise charging a muzzle-loading gun with the 

 caps on the nipples and the hammers at full cock as putting the caps or 

 primers on bieech-looding shells or in any manner meddling with them 

 after the shells aie charged. 



If "P. P. P." feels inclined to continue the plan he recommends, I 

 wonld suggest the attendance of a surgeon and undertaker while he is 

 loading his shells. If parties when loading shells will first see that the 

 caps or primers are pressed well in their places, and do not project above 

 the heads of the shells; then place the shell on a block with a hole 

 under the cap, so deep that a stray shot or othtr email article will not 

 give something for the cap to rest on. There will be no danger of an 

 accidental discharge with any reasonable usage in loading or ramming 

 home the charge. _____™__— »__^ A * C ' H - 



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FISH IN SEASON IN NOVEMBER. 



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Black Bass, Micropterus salmoides; Weakfish, Cynoscion, regalis. 



M. nigricans. 

 Mascalouge, Esox nobilior. 

 Pike or Pickerel, Esox Indus. 

 Yellow Perch, Ferca flavescens. 

 Sea Bass, Scicenops ocettatus. 

 Striped Bass, Boccus lineatus. 

 White Perch, Morons americana. 



Bluetish, Pomatomus saltatrix. 

 Spanish Mackertl, Cybium macula- 



tsm. 

 Cero. Cybhim regale. 

 Bonito, Garcia pelamys. 

 Kingtish, Menticirrus nebulosus. 



Fish in Mabkei. — Our quotations show rather an advance 

 in prices during the past week: — Striped bass, are worth 

 18 to 20 cents per pound; smelts, 25 cents; bluefish, 12£ 

 cents; salmon, (frozen) 45 cents; mackerel, 15 to 25 cents 

 each; white perch, 15 cents per pound; Spanish mackerel, 

 75 cents; green turtle, 15 4 cents; terrapin, $12 per dozen; 

 halibut, 18 cents per pound; haddock, 8 cents; kingfish, 25 

 cents; codfish, 10 cents; blacktish, 15 cents; flounders, 10 

 cents; sea bass, 20 cents; eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 cents; 

 sheepshead, 25 cents; scollops, $1.50 per gallon; soft 

 clams, 30_to 60 cents per hundred; whittfish, 18 cents per 

 pound; pickerel, 18 cents; salmon trout, 20 cents; hard- 

 shell crabs, $3.00 per 100. 



—Striped bass, running from half a pound to two and a 

 half, are now being caught in great numbers down the in- 

 ner bay on what is known as "The Plot"— a portion of the 

 Jersey Flats between Oaven's Point and Sand Island, where 

 the fish resort to feed upon the shrimp and small crabs. A 

 great many anglers are constantly upon the ground, and 

 make good catches. One day last week Mr, L. A. Abbey, 

 of Abbey & Imbrie, took thirty in two hours. A bass 

 rod, reel, float, and 100 yards of line, constitute the proper 

 tackle. The fish will continue to run untill the 15th of 

 November. 



—The season for fishing in northern fresh waters is now 

 about over, and the record of the summer does not show 

 up to advantage. The Adirondack region, to which mul- 

 titudes who constitute the great mass of anglers in this 

 section have been in the habit of resorting, has disap 

 pointed most all visitors. Sebec Lake and Grand Lake 

 stream, in Maine, have scarcely made the fisherman happy 

 who went there. Rangeley has held its own, we believe; 

 but that is an exceptional locality in its fluvial and physical 

 features; and even a portion of it has had to be set aside 

 for a period of years, to enable it to rehabilitate itself. 

 Magog and Megantic disappointed us, as it did many others. 

 The salmon rivers of Canada suffered from late floods, 

 and when the waters lowered, the fish went up with a rush. 

 There was fair sport for a little while for the anglers who 

 were fortunate enough to be on the ground, and then the 

 fun ceased, leaving a hundred or more hungry expectants 

 stranded, as it were, upon their dry banks. Restigouche never 

 hadso many visitors of this elk since it began to flow, as it did 

 last season. The Cascapodiac'was, however, a remarkable 

 exception in its fruition, it has always proved itself one of 

 the most reliable rivers in the Canadian Dominion. It 

 rises in the Gaspe district, and empties into the Bay Cha- 

 leur. The St. Lawrence rivers, Moisie and Godbout, did 

 not do as well as usual, and the commercial statistics of the 

 salmon catch for the summer show a marked diminution in 

 weight and numbers. 



Bass fishing in the Peterboro lakes, Ontario, brought its 

 reward, as it always does, the region being one of the 

 finest fishing localities in Canada. Land-locked salmon 

 thrive in its waters, and are taken of large size and in con- 

 siderable numbers in May. Our report from the H. B. 

 Co.'s agent at the Nepigon is a good one, and some 30 or 

 40 anglers were there to enjoy the sport of catching it3 

 magnificent trout, which average three pounds apiece, or 

 more. Central New York has afforded fine sport for lake trout, 

 bass and pickerel. In the St. Lawrence, however, the fish- 

 ing was very poor. Mr. Andrew E. Hume, the proprietor 

 of Hume's Island, near Alexandria Bay, who stays at the 

 Thousand Islands all summer, took only five mascalonge 

 during the whole season, the heaviest weighing 35 pounds. 



He says: "I heard of only one heavier, weighing 371 

 pounds taken at Clayton. The bass fishing with flies was 

 very poor indeed, but occasionally one did a good day's 

 still fishing with minnows. The best was 47 bass, with an 

 average weight of nearly two pounds, the total being 89£ 

 pounds. I think myself the bad fishing was owing to the 

 very high water we had and the large number of grasshop- 

 pers which were nearly always to be seen on the surface of 

 the river. I think that the shad Seth Green put into the 

 lake are doing as well as when I was on Long Island. I 

 continually caught small ones about two inches long in my 

 minnow seine, which is only 20 feet long." 



Rice Lake, Canada, a favorite resort for Americans, has 

 been a closed resort this summer owing to the imposition 

 of the $1 per day tax upon all foreign anglers. Pennsyl- 

 vania has made a fine showing especially on the Schuylkill 

 and Delaware rivers, where the bass fishing was never so 

 good, perhaps. We hear of no great trout stories from the 

 wilderness counties. In Virginia, on the Potomac, at 

 Great or Little Falls, there has been a marked improve- 

 ment in bass fishing, as well as an increase of stock fish in 

 the interior waters, through the efforts of the Fishery 

 Commissioners. Perhaps we shall have better luck next 

 year, alt round. Meanwhile we must hang up our rods 

 and creels, unless we go to Florida, where the products of 

 the sea and river seem innumerable and the sources of 

 supply never failing. 



The waters of Michigan and Wisconsin which abound in 

 trout, black bass, grayling (in the former), and pike, are 

 rapidly coming into favor with anglers, who resort to their 

 chosen fishing grounds in greater numbers each succeeding 

 year, and all reports that we have received from those 

 States, as well as from Minnesota, indicate satisfactory re- 

 sults for the past season. As eastern streams and lakes 

 become depleted, these will attend in proportion, and some 

 tuture day may find them as popular and as much visited 

 as Maine and the Adirondack^. 



— A Gaspe, Canada, correspondent, writing from Perce, 

 repoits the cod fishery very unsatisfactory, the catch being 

 about two-fifths below the average, and the smallest known 

 for thirty year?. 



Movements of the Fishing Fleet. — The fishing ar- 

 rivals at this port the past week includes 16 from the Banks, 

 24 from Georges, 6 from the Bay St. Lf wrence, and 2 from 

 shore mackereling trips, making a total of 48. The re- 

 ceipts of fish have been 1,000,000 pounds Bank codfish, 

 350,000 pounds Georges codfish, 185,000 pounds halibut, 

 hake cod, haddock and pollock from otf shore, and 2,800 

 barrels mackerel. The mackerel season is practically 

 closed, although one or two good fares have been secured 

 in Barnstable Bay wilhin a week. Most of the fleet have 

 hauled up. The Bay St. Lawrence fleet have nearly all 

 arrived home and will not average one hundred barrels to 

 a vessel for the entire season. '1 he stock of mackerel on 

 the market is ligbt and prices are well maintained.— Gape 

 Ann Adcertiser, Oct. 21th. 



—The Scotch poaching angler suspends by straps under 

 his outer garments a capacious bag of coarse linen for con- 

 cealing the salmon, while he carries in his hand quite in- 

 nocently a string of trout. Lord Scrope once caught a 

 poacher with a salmon in his bag, and demanded how it 

 got there. The reply was, "How the beast got^ there I 

 dinna ken. He must ha' louped into ma pocket as I war 

 wading." His clever answer so amused Lord Scrope that 

 he let him go scot iree.—ticribner. 

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BOOKS ON FLY-MAKING. 



Leesburg, Va., Oct. 40th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



A gentleman inquires in one of your late issues for a work on fly- 

 making. E J. Hale & Bros., of New Toik. had a copy of "Blacker'B 

 Art of Fly-Making" last j ear; and there are more whence that came. 

 "Ephemera" cays of it: "I earnestly recommend this valuable little 

 work to all who wish to become perfect fly-making adepts. It is sold by 

 the author (a fly-maker), 54 Dean street, Soho, and by Messrs. Long- 

 mans & Co., Paternoster Row." T. W. 



We have a list of English works giving more or. less in- 

 struction in the art of fly dressing, which is certainly 

 useful in a general way; but we do not iecommend them 

 to our anglers, because the patterns are for the most part 

 different from those adapted to American waters. Quite 

 recently a gentleman who advertises in our columns, as 

 will be seen by reference to them, has undertaken to give 

 lessons in fly-tying, and we would earnestly recommend all 

 those who can avail themselves of his services, to do so. 

 Those at a distance must content themselves with printed 

 instructions, and the best we know of are those prepared 

 by the veteran, Thad Norris, Esq., for the columns of this 

 paper. They are illustrated with suitable designs, and 

 will be found in Nos. 12, 13, 14 and 16, of- Vol II., Fobest 

 and Stream. They can be studied the coming winter 

 with profit. ^ . 



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Coaching.— The fall parade of the Coaching Club on 

 Saturday, was not in all respects a success. This consum- 

 mation to be perfectin requires bright skies and gaily 

 dressed ladies, and although to be sure a few of these lat- 

 ter fappeared on the dray roofs, they were muffled in 

 waterproofs. Six coaches only participated, the drivers 

 being Col. Jay, Col. Kane, Mr. Bronson, Mr. Neilson, Mr. 

 Jerome and Mr. Bennett. The programme as to route was 

 carried out, the parade ending at the Brunswick. 



Athletic —The third meeting of the Athletic Associa- 

 tion of the College of the City of New York, which was 

 to have taken place Saturday on the New York Athletic 

 Club grounds, at Mott Haven, was postponed on account 

 of the weather and will probably take place on Tuesday, 

 November 7th, at the same place. 



Football.— An international football match between 

 Harvard University and the Football Association of Canada 

 took place Saturday. When the game was called Harvard 

 was victorious by two goals and two touch-downs; the 

 Canadians nothing, 



BASE BALL. 



MODEL GAMES OP 1870. 



The following is the record of the model games won by 

 each of the League clubs during 1876. The limit is placed 

 at five runs for the winning nines, and the order is that of 

 the most games played:— 



ST. LOTUS. 



t. Louis vs Chicago ...1 to OjSt. Lotus vs Chicago 4 to 1 



" Athletic 4 to 2 



" Mutual (10 ins).. 4 to 3 



" Louisville 5 to 



" Athletic 5 to 



'* Cincinnati 5 to 1 



" Cincinnati 5 to 1 



" Hartfoid 5 to 2 



" Boston .5 to 2 



" Boston 5 to 3 



Mutual 2 to 0| 



Hartford 2 to 



Hartford 2 to 



Louisville 3 to 



Hartford 3 to 



Chicago 3 to 



Louisville 3 to 



Louisville 3 to 2 



Boston 3 to 2 



HARTFOKO. 



Hartford vs Louisville 1 to OlHarifoM vs Chicago 4 tol 



to 1 

 to 3 

 to 

 to 2 

 to 4 

 to 4 



St. Louis 4 



Mutual 4 



Boston 5 



Cincinnati 5 



Athletic 5 



Boston 5 



Louisville 3 to 0| 



" Louisvilie 3 to 



" Chicago 3 to 



'* Mutual 3 to 



" Athletic. 3 to 1 



" Boston 3 to 2 



" Louisville 4 to 0| 



LOUISVILLE . 



Louisville vs Boston 3 to 



" Boston 3 to 



" Athietic 3 to 



" Athletic 3 to 1 



" Boston 3 to 1 



" Cincinnati 3 to 1 



" Cincinnati 3 to 2 



MUTUAL. 



Mutual vs Cincinnati 1 to OlMutaal vs Athletic 3 to 2 



•■ Cincinnati 2 to 0| " Hartford 4 to 1 



" Cincinnati 2 to 1 " Boston 5 to 1 



" Hartford 2 to l| " Louisville 5 to 1 



Louisville vs Mutual 4 



" Cincinnati 4 



" 81, Louis 4 



" St. Louis 4 



** Chicago 4 



" Boston 4 



to 1 

 to 1 



to 2 

 to 2 

 to 2 

 to 3 



CHICAGO. 



Chicago vs St. Louis •, 3 to 2 



" Louisville 4 to 



" Louisville 4 to 2 



" Mutual 4 to 2 



Chicago vs Louisville 4 to 3 



<l Cincinnati 5 to 



" Boston 5 to t 



"Mutual 5 to 1 



CINCINNATI. 



Cincinnati vs St. Louis 2 to 1 i Cincinnati vs St. Louis 5 to 2 



'* Louisville (llin) 3 to II " Athletic 5 to 2 



" Louisville 3 to 2| 



BOSTON. 



Boston vs Cincinnati 4 to 0| Boston vs Cincinnati 5 to 3 



" St. Louis 4 to 3 St. Louis 5 to 4 



" Louisville 5 to 3| 



— The 'New York C Hipper Chess Tourney closed on the 

 18th inst. at the Cafe International, the result being the 

 success of Messrs. Mason, Delmar and Bird in winning the 

 three prizes. The silver cup has not yet been awarded. 

 The score of those whose victories were not exceeded by 

 their defeats is as follows: — 



Games 

 Players. Won. 



Mason 16 



Delmar 15 



Bird 15 



Ensor 11 



Bill - 8 



Wernich 9 



Limbeck 8 



Clarke 8 



RoBer •• -- 6 



Becker 6 



McCuicheou 5 



Lissner 5 



Marr bore off the leather medal, he winning but one 

 game out of the sixteen he played. 



— The following is the full record of the seven leading 

 players in the tourney. 



Games 



Games 



Lost. 



Drawn. 



3 







2 



1 



2 







4 







4 



3 



8 



1 



4 



1 



5 



1 



1 







2 







3 



9 



5 







Gaines. 

 Played. 



19 



18 



17 

 15 

 15 

 18 

 13 

 14 

 7 



10 



Ma^ou 



Delmar 



Bird. 



Eusor |0 



Wernich I ' 



Limbeck 10 



Games lost 1 '2 2\ 1 



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15 



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1 



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5 



1ft 



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17 





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2 



11 



4 



15 







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14 



3 



■3 



4 



3115 



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1 



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9 



8 



1 18 



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3 





5 



4 











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Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, and 

 Importers, have always a large stock of si!^ 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare special designs for similar purposes, 

 Then* timing watches are guaranteed for ac- , 

 curacy, and are now very generally used for 

 sporting and scientific requirements. Tiffany 

 & Co., are also the agents in America for 

 Messrs. Patek, Philippe & Co., of Geneva, of 

 whose celebrated watches they have a full 

 line. Their stock of Diamonds and other Pre- 

 cious Stones, General Jewelry, Bronzes and 

 Artistic Pottery is the largest in the world, 

 and the public are invited to visit their estab- 

 lishment^without feeling the slightest obliga- 



tion to purchase. 



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Union Square,*New York, 





