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ber like that of the whale. The ivory is worth about 75 

 cents per pound. The Esquimaux and Alaska Indians 

 v iew with great disfavor the destruction of the walrus, 

 which is their main dependence for meat; but it does not 

 appear from reports received this season that the slaughter 

 of countless thousands of these animals in years past, has 

 in any perceptible degree diminished their numbers. 

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SALMON FISHING AT OAKLAND, LONG 



WHARF, NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, 



, CALIFORNIA. 



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Editor Forest and stream : — 



We have again this winter our grilse bonanza in our 

 harbor. For the last two weeks, that is to say, since the 

 opening of tbe salmon season, there have been captured on 

 an average thirty fish per day. Thus early they are 

 running quite small in weight, with an average of three- 

 quarters of a pound, although a few larger have been cap 

 turcd from two to seven pounds. The prospect is good for 

 their biting about four months. They are nearly all the 

 true Sacramento and San Joaquin river fish, with here and 

 there one which some person calls salmon trout, with 

 longer bodies, squarer tails and blunter noses, but which 

 are°nothing more than another of the many varieties of the 

 salmo family, that we have all along our coast from the 

 most southern part of the State to the most northern, ex- 

 tending also to Oregon and Washington Territory, Colum- 

 bia and Alaska. The Sacramento fish, when young, is most 

 delicious for the table, being tender, most delicate in flavor, 

 and free from the oily richness of the full grown salmon. 

 These salmon will neither take the fly nor the spinning 

 trolling spoon in the bay, for both have been effectively 

 tried for several years. Early in the spring season some 

 have been taken with the fly in some portions of the fresh 

 wateis of the Sacramento and McCloud rivers far in the 

 interior or up the coast, by skillful sportsmen. But the 

 roe-bait is chiefly used there, especially in the beginning of 

 winter, and found quite successful with the salmon, as 

 well as the "Dolly Varden" and other species of brook 

 trout. Our brook trout, however, rise well to the fly. 



Some of these salmon have been found in our bay during 

 tbe whole of this year, having become fastened out of 

 season to the trol lines set out by the professional fisher- 

 men for smelts, and the bait being often gorged by them. 

 They have also sometimes been taken in the nets set out 

 for many other fish in our harbor. 



As i have before informed you, we fish for these grilse 

 from the Oakland wharf, with ^od and line, using for bait 

 our wharf or mussel worm, with a slip of herring or smelt, 

 or a small fish at the end of the hook. The lead on the 

 line-is allowed to sink about three or four feet from the 

 surface of the water, and the rod may be allowed to re- 

 main resting on the railing of the wharf, as the fish nearly 

 always hook themselves, and the motion of the line through 

 the water does not appear to be necessary, although some- 

 times a snap bite is taken advantage of by the angler, when 

 he has his rod in hand, and he is then apt to hook his fish 

 in its jaw, without, as in the other case of a station* ry 

 rod, the fish swallowing the bait completely. 



Our weather is generally at this season most charming, 

 with a bright sun and mild breezes. We have had one 

 plentiful rain about two weeks, since which always favors 

 the advent of the salmon in the bays and rivers. We now 

 want some more abundant showers to fetch more fish in, 

 as the weather, for the last five days, has been too calm 

 and warm to induce the young fish upon which the salmon 

 feed to seek the shelter of the wharf. We want some strong 

 gales with colder air to arouse to excitement and appetite 

 all the finny tribes, and particularly the salmon family 

 in and about our seas, rivers and bays. But we have 

 nothing to complain of in our climate in other respects, as 

 it is probably the very finest in the whole of the United 

 States. Our winters are more enjoyable in this city than 

 our summers, as in the latter seasons we have too many 

 violent trade winds, which bring dust and sand and un- 

 pleasant coolness with them (in the interior it is different), 

 while our winters are genial and temperate, like the East- 

 ern weather verging on summer, when we can fish and 

 shoot and enjoy all out-door recreations to their utmost ex- 

 tent, only interrupted by some mild rains of a day or 

 two's duration at intervals. E. J. Hooper. 



THE SPECKLED TROUT OF JAPAN. 



^ Boston, November 21st, 



Editor Forest and Stream: — 



Query— Why is it that in Japan fish will not take the 

 fly? 



I have failed myself, and others likewise, during re- 

 peated trials to tempt, or even obtain the slightest indica- 

 tion of an offer with varied hued flies, the small trout that 

 inhabit by thousands the inland streams which abound in 

 some parts of Japan. The natives capture these fish by 

 casting a hand net over them when 'collected in shoal 

 water and where they are visible. 



The trout I have reference to are about three or four 

 inches long, and of the brook trout species, or of close 

 afliuity, handsome little fish, and when properly cooked 

 are simply delicious. These fish rarely, if ever, exceed 

 this size, although I remember seeing at a place called Mi- 

 yonoshita, a magnificent specimen of trout weighing fifteen 

 pounds. This sounds a little piscatorial, but 1 know 

 whereof I speak, as the fish in question had been netted 

 and weighed, after which he was returned to his native 

 element (which consisted of a small pond in front of the 

 tea house), until on an unlucky day a foreign vandal 

 hooked the fish, left him on the ground, forgot to replace 

 him in the water, aud as a matter of course killed him, 

 and I am under the impression that he even went so far 

 in this disgraceful proceedure as to devour him for his 

 dinner. The natives claimed this trout to be over 

 one hundred and fifty years of age; at all events, for 

 one hundred years the proprietor of the house said that it 

 had been handed down in his family, and that for nearly 

 four generations he had its authentic history, one of the 

 most remarkable features of which was that it had never 

 varied in size during his existence, or that of his father or 

 grandfather. Whether from age or constant association 

 with natives this celebrated fish was remarkably tame, and 

 an object of great curiosity to visitors in that region, and 

 especially well known to foreign residents of Japan. 



VVill some of your piscicuturists or devotees of the rod, 

 kindly offer any reasonable theory regarding the cause 

 of fish in Japan rejecting the fly? ' Saktjra, 



]utioml §Hpimes. 



BILLIARDS. 



A tournament has been in progress at Tammany Hall for 

 the past week or so, in which the most prominent of the 

 experts of the metropolis have been engaged. The tour- 

 ney has been run in the interests of Wm. Delaney, a well 

 known billiard table manufacturer, who gives the purses 

 and pockets the proceeds of the enterprise. The contest- 

 ants include the two Canadians, Joe and Cyrille Dion; the 

 Frenchmen, Garnier and Kudolphe; the Americans, Daly 

 and Slosson, and the German Shaeffer. The latter being a 

 new man, hailing as champion of Indiana. Sexton, the 

 American ctampion did not enter the lists. The result up 

 to the 27th inst showed Joe Dion and Rudolphe.to be in 

 the van with Slosson as third. Thanksgiving day will see 

 the close of the tourney, and our next issue will contain 

 tbe final result of the games played. Thus far the record 

 is as follows: — 



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Pool selling has a great deal to do with the contests; but 

 little confidence being felt in regard to the integrity of play 

 -as a general thing, the best patrons of the game almost 

 ignoring the tourne y. 



base ball— the close of the season. 



Thanksgiving Day ended the base ball season of 1876, 

 and in one respect it has been the most noteworthy in the 

 history of the game, more clubs engaging in contests and 

 more games played than ever before recorded. North, 

 south, east and west has the game flourished to an extent 

 hitherto unknown. Professional play, too, has been 

 pecuniarily successful in the face of drawbacks well calcul- 

 ated to bankrupt prominent organizations; but where 

 honest play and low prices have prevailed, success has been 

 achieved. About thirty regular professional organizations 

 took part iu the season, play exclusive of the clubs belong- 

 ing to the League monoply, and all of the best managed of 

 the co operative class of clubs "put money in their purses." 

 The League Association, which was organized to insure 

 club engagements being fulfilled, and to prevent "crooked" 

 play " revolving " — the two prominent abuses connected 

 with professional base ball playing — partially failed in its 

 objects, inasmuch as two of the eight clubs which entered 

 the League arena, failed to play their full compliment of 

 games, and a minority of the eight were open to the charge 

 of too intimate a connection with pool gambling influences 

 known as "crooked" play. The season's experience, in 

 fact, showed pretty clearly that the policy of the League in 

 several respect, was a faulty one. They erred, in the first 

 place, in adapting too high a tariff of admission to their 

 contests, the League losing sight of the important fact that 

 hard times prevail and that retrenchment was the order of 

 the day and the lime. Another mistake they committed 

 was that of employing suspected players in some of their 

 teams, thereby creating a doubt ot the integrity of play 

 at the club teams as a class. In excluding professional 

 organizations from their Association which could not give 

 guarantees to fulfil engagements they again erred, for 

 assuredly it is the policy of a wise legislation by an Asso- 

 ciation the object of which is to govern the professional 

 class, to include every club which is of that class. It is 

 not at all necessary that while admitting all professionals 

 to the benefit of the League laws and regulations that they 

 should be obliged to give all the entree to the champion- 

 ship arena. That can still be kept to the count of 

 thoroughly responsible clubs. But there is no need of 

 making the League a class monopoly. To the extent 

 therefore of the drawbacks of these mistakes the season 

 was not as successful as it might have been. In 1877, 

 however, better counsels will no doubt prevail, and a more 

 liberal policy will be introduced, and under circumstances 

 which will bring the professional class under the influence 

 of one controlling association governed by one code of 

 playing rules, there can be little doubt of a more success- 

 ful season in this respect in 1877, than marked the season 

 of 1876. 



Foot Ball. — At a game of foot ball played at Princeton, 

 N. J., on the 25th inst., between twenties representing the 

 University of Pennsylvania and Princeton College, the 

 latter were victorious, winning the six straight goals in 

 seven, ten, two and one-half, twenty-nine, twenty-seven 

 and one and one-half minutes respectively. The game was 

 played under association rules. 



Athletics. — The Scottish-American Athletic Club holds 

 its second annual games to-day at Washington Park (ad- 

 joining Jones' Wood Colosseum), East side Boulevard and 

 Sixty-ninth street. The events comprise 100 yards run, 

 quarter mile run, half mile run, one mile walk, three mile 

 walk, throwing the hammer, running high leap, putting 

 the shot, vaulting with pole, throwing 56 pounds weight 

 (all handicaps), for members — 120 entries. Also quarter 

 mile run, one mile run and three mile walk (open to all 

 amateurs), for which some of the leading athletes of this 

 vicinity have entered. 



Carleton House, Jacksonville, Fla.— -At last Jackson- 

 ville has been supplied with a first-class hotel unequalled 

 by any south of Washington. It has been erected by 

 Messrs. Stimpson, Devnell& Davis, of Massachusetts, and is 

 located on the corner of Bay and Market streets, one of 

 the most pleasant portions of the city. It has a frontage 

 on Bay street of 135 feet, on Market of 85 feet, and the 

 west wing is 85 feet long, making an entire frontage of 305 

 feet. It is four stories high, built of pressed brick, and 

 the exterior neatly finished. A spacious and handsome ve- 

 randah protects the building on Bay and Market streets. 

 The main entrance on Bay street is 42x21 feet, with a neat 

 office to the left. In the office is a Creighton's Oral Enun- { 



ciator communicating with each room in the house thereby 

 avoiding the necessity of dependence upon dilatory bell 

 boys. To the right is the grand staircase with an elabo- 

 rate newel post surmounted by a classic Sir Knight sup- 

 poiling a highly ornamented gas burner. Entering a side 

 hall to the left a cosy smoking room 18x18 feet is reached, 

 and nearly opposite is an elevator communicating with the 

 various stories. At the end of the hall, and within a few 

 feet of the elevator is the entrance to the dining room, a 

 spacious apartment 40x60 feet. The location of the dining 

 room and elevator will enable ladies to reach the former 

 without traversing the halls, and subjecting their toilets to 

 a too careful inspection, if they wish to expose their 

 laces, furbelows and pin-backs to the admiring gaze of the 

 opposite sex they can descend the grand or ladies stair-case, 

 and traverse the spacious halls to reach the apartment 

 where choice viands will be distributed ad lib. 



Turning to the right from the main entrance a wide hall 

 is entered, to the right of which is the reading room, 21x18 

 feet; and at the end and to the right is the ladies' parlor, 

 38x40 feet. This room opens on Bay and Market streets, 

 and affords a fine view of the river, and the massive old 

 oaks and orange trees on the opposite side of Market street. 

 The parlor opens into the ladies' entrance, a hall nine feet 

 wide, from which starts a private staircase leading to the 

 various stories. A spacious hall leads from the private 

 entrance to the end of the Market street wing. To the 

 left of the hall and near the entrance is a ladies' reception 

 room, designed for the accommodation of lady guests until 

 they can be assigned rooms. In this wing, in addition to 

 the reception room, are seven commodious sleeping apart- 

 ments for the benefit of those who prefer acommodation 

 on the lower floor. 



Ascending the spacious main staircase the second, third 

 and fourth stories are reached, where 97 commodious and 

 comfortable bedrooms will be found. On the second story 

 the furniture is walnut; on the third ash with walnut trim- 

 mings; and on the fourth neat and good cottage furniture 

 with marble tops. Bath rooms and w r ater closets are on all 

 the stories. On each floor stand-pipes have been provided, 

 with a sufficiency of hose to reach to the end of each wing. 

 The supply of water is obtained from the river, aud head 

 obtained by a powerful force pump worked by the steam 

 engine. The building is lighted by coal gas, and the fix- 

 tures are chaste and handsome. 



The steam laundry is on the second floor, and tbe drying 

 room is provided with 1,200 lineal feet of clothes line. 

 Clothes are washed and mangled by steam. This conveni- 

 ence alone is a great accommodation to a Florida hotel, 

 for it avoids the necessity of travelers employing irrespon- 

 sible washerwomen. 



Leaving the dining-room, the carving, dish and plate 

 room i* reached; an apartment 22x45, containing every 

 convenience. Leaving the carving, room the kitchen is 

 entered, where a Walker & Prall range fifteen feet long has 

 been erected. Adjoining the range is a machine intended 

 to steam a barrel of oysters at a charge. In a building 

 adjoining the kitchen is a high pressure engine capable of 

 working up to eighteen horse power, the dudes of which, 

 will be to wash clothes, make ice cream, work the elevator, 

 steam oysters, and in the event of fire, deluge the house 

 with water. In the yard is a spacious buck cistern con- 

 taining 30,000 gallons of filtered rain water for the use of 

 guests. 



The cuisine department possesses all the modern im- 

 provements, and is under the charge of a competent gen- 

 tleman (one of the proprietors), who has had a long 

 experience in a leading Boston hotel. The waiters have 

 been selected in Philadelphia, and will be found gentle- 

 manly and obliging. In addition to the attractions of the 

 hotel we may remark that Mr. Ludkins has a boat yard 

 within fifty yards of the house, where those who are 

 fond of aquatic sports may obtain anything from a shell to 

 thirty-foot yachts. 



It is the intention of the proprietors to make the "Carle - 

 ton" a first-class house, and from personal knowledge and 

 examination we have no hesitation in recommending it to 

 the favorable notice of tourists, invalids and s'p,ort«iuen. 



Al FiiEfcOo. 



Tiffany & Co., Silversmiths, Jewelers, and 

 Importers, have always a large stock of sil- 

 ver articles for prizes for shooting, yachting, 

 racing and other sports, and on request they 

 prepare special designs for similar purposes, 

 Their timing watches are guaranteed for ae~ 

 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. Union Scpiare/Nsw York. 

 Adv. 



