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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May (',, 1880. 



HINTS FOR ADIRONDACK VISITORS. 



THE plan I would suggest has already been tried by 

 several 1 kniw, and is well liked by them, and 

 will, I think, in time be followed by (be majority of 

 Sportsmen. It is. in tlve first place, to procure a tent and 

 full camping outfit ; such as a sheet-iron stove, tin folding 

 baker, and all articles required for cooking, and the 

 table, n ade out of tin or sheet-iron, and all toilet articles 

 required, also a cot or lounge, to sleep on. lie particular 

 to have all things made, so as to get them into as compact 

 form as possible. 



Coarse clothing for camping out is the best, and the 

 less the bettor f although some warm woolen blankets 

 wiil be needed for cool nights. Then have a 'good guide 

 engaged beforehand: one living near the locality to be 

 visited will be best, Have him purchase all the articles, 

 in thn provision line, wanted for the trip here ; such as 



mtfer, lard, sugar and other groceries. 



ned fruit, or extras, they had better 



> your guide meet you when you come, 

 station, or at the end of your stage 



directlv to the pond or stream wher 



flour, tea. coffee, 

 If r.iu. wants i.ii 

 bring them. Hav 

 with a team at lb 

 route, to take yoi 

 you wish to camp 

 and your guide ea 

 hotels WOUlJ chai 

 ncss. will do all 1 1 

 clothing if you si 

 ments to last the 



i get 



to Ih 



rd hi 



have 

 tiling 



say tha 



&. 



your gi 

 enjoyal 

 swer ft 



should 

 to go i 

 from Ne 

 of the St. Regis I 

 season, in August 

 mentioned. They 

 he mot them at St 

 from here. He In 

 and took them t> 

 Level of the St. Ri 

 moved up to the £ 

 in several places o 

 of that, then went 

 the 1 



By tlii. 



team cbe 

 Your guide 

 oking, and 



e't'iip^Ho 

 id bed ; bu 

 e will Fumii 

 around cai 



ired 

 bette 



B all 1 



lerthu 



ugh s 

 ill pr 

 of CO 



a I h Ia1 

 . Aii 

 rood I 



jtel expenses, 

 l for what the 

 tiows his bttsi- 

 t your und el- 



ide hi 



: hi 



i guides ; besides, there would 



boat, with any i 



while I 



nfort. Tw 

 m the Sixte 



u-id si 

 ) let 



anrtlem 



liloLe 



t September, adopted the plan I Inn 



of the 

 or tin 



retu 



1 tot 



.u t tv 

 >st tin 



istjulv 



.ill. 



lotels, 





iiil §40 



iugulrq: 



figured It 



Iu compa 

 three yea 

 weQ-knoi 

 fitted out 

 with i 

 for wJ 



not intend to reti 

 but to take am. th 

 came to pay his t 

 his whole bill lor 

 charged him fifty 

 brig-rod, with luu 

 over $3 at the nii- 

 clalniuig tha' 

 n.a lie SUCh Cl 

 some do is a 

 are not inilii. 



for the bet. 

 Mountain, and St. I 

 few guides, Or thi 

 the rush of sports 

 to this locality to 

 sporting houses h. 

 parties. The £( 

 elos- vicinity, a 

 winters, auu go 

 beforehand. D. 

 Comity, 18 a spl. 

 about all kinds o 



owns a team of I 



deer out Of season, nor 1 

 has an awning tent of 1 



■ Nine 

 while. 



:i BuoK Mountain, 

 i the Humphrey, l 

 Their board, when 





and a 

 ping, f 



..., as he did 



the hotel at the end of leu days, 



ite out of the woods. When he 



iiS>{) per day for himself and boat. 



nited to $65. They 



c tbi 



uld 

 ish to U 



e of a bait fish 

 it have co 



uderstood 



1, or the most of tl 



igeOUS charges as tJ 



-known fact, and I ai 



•es to keep clear of tl 



; of those intending 



ltiver District, I will mention a 

 .» will act in that capacity, for 

 d tourists has not been enough 

 guides to stop around the few 



Ve; but that 



ill those (who 



sit the Blui 



ting fi- 



nd ha* 



Of th. 



11'Ulo 





s tog 

 ntmg hi 



out Wltl] 

 ide in th 

 d trappin 



to liiCl 



keep 



L Center, !• 



and a good cook, known 

 . Hairing, has a good boat 

 a hound, but will not run 

 uid fish on Sundays, lie 

 He. is likely to be en- 



caged until September. Hill Edwards is another good _... 

 e sit. passed around a camp, and what he don't 

 know al.oul hunting, tuning, orauything connected with 

 it is not v, crUi knowing. He is poor, but StMOtly honest, 

 rather old, but tougher and can do more work than many 

 younger men. I would want no better guide. His ail 

 dress is William lie' wards, St, Regis falls. Cyrus Whit- 

 ney is another capital hunter and hshenuau, and knows 

 ' --north Of Hamilton County, 

 anac lakes. lie is a sur- 

 mountains for years, lie 

 Which is named after him, 

 up boa map oi the Adi- 

 een cl i nded to the Blue 



lived. The three iioNeal 



• lieepttie hotel at Hi. Regis 



hree killed fourteen deer 



it branch of the St. 



r. The same party 



every foot of il 

 and west of Meecnam aim 

 . .., i ,i , and has frequented I 

 discovered the Wlutnej I o 

 ami assisted Dr. 

 OB ... i iivhicb w <- 

 Mountain region if be ha 

 brothers, who with tuejri&l 

 Falls, are good guides. TJ 



bear in one Week, on the 

 RegiS River, still hunting in Nuvei 



1 bad reference to in my letter m the JiORBST and Ktkbam 

 ol March llth. They are y oiing men. bin have always 

 resided in a good locality for game, and understand all 



about camping and hunting and fishing. 



John I am personally acquainted with, and know to be 

 a good guide. No doubt the others are fully as good as 

 he is. They have the name, at least, of being 80. They 



own several hounds. There are Beveral others m the 



lers in the 



ited with, and 

 . __ present. Sev- 

 (Joiinly come to the 



he 



own Bevu — 



vicinity whom 1 am not i 



I do not remember their ..a. 



era] Old hunters tiom St. La...e 



Sixteen-niile Level of the St, Begis every season, and 



when they can get a chance, win guide parties. They 



are all well versed m cathp life. Ti.ey kill very little 



e-oiie ubeu noi eiiLTige.i iorointrs. ltorgotto mention 



Uiatt.mt poles ami pins need mil be brought u hell par- 

 ties come here, as they can CUl goOdoneBat most any 

 place where Chej camp. Ti.ey can also store ail tl en 

 camping outfit hire with their guide, to be ready for ihe 

 jievt season. What one would pay at a hotel lor a few 



weeks' board one season will buy a good camping outfit 



that \\ ill last for years, when well taken care of. Some 

 of the guides can' furnish a considerable portion of the 

 articles required for camping when wanted. Den Smith 

 has nearly all, which he will furnish for a small parly. 

 The sheet iron stove can be dispensed with very well 

 during the warm weather, but will be needed to warm 

 the tent after the nights get frosty. It will he handy at 

 anv time to fry meat or fish on, aiid for slapjacks, but is 

 unhandy to fcranspi it. 



Those who come to stop here for one or two weeks wall 

 find the plan I suggest much cheaper than to go to the 

 hotels, where they will have to be titled out in the same 

 way and go to some locality at a distance from EhemOBl 

 of them to find good hunting or fishing, Those who only 

 come for a few days H ill do "well enough bv going to one 

 of the hotels. There are some whose charges an 

 able ; of course they cannot board as cheap as tl 

 in the towns and villages. Their ran of cusli 

 lasts a small portion of the year, and it costs, ih 

 siderable to get their provisions in from the rail 

 towns. Hut some charge too much, and the proprii 

 of them have become independent in a few years' t 

 Those in the north-west portion of the Adirondacks have 

 always been very reasonable in their charges heretofore 

 Adbjun Ondack. 





HOW IT STRIKES A STRANGER. 



"TTKTOR1ES make men wise," .says the immortal 



■Tl Bacon, in one of his essays. They might have 



this tendency were they always truthful; but when ' 



Thehisfo 

 if relatin 

 ntry : 



the slot 

 at on 



of I 



3 have b, 



s native 

 d short- 

 ) like to 

 >les, but 



lean toward the fault of fuvorin 

 land. Charity toward our neigf 

 comings is one of the varest Virtu 

 view our own homes thi'oimli fdS 



when we go abroad we prefer to wear the green eye-g 



of the cynic and snarler. And yet I raveling never f 

 10 Open the ej'es and prove tons that even if it be t 

 that there is no place Like borne, there are many pi. 

 that come precious near to it ; and the nations of the 

 earth have only to kiimv each other more thoroughly to 

 love each other a vast deal more. 1 f ever the miliei ' 

 comes, if ever that promised lion-and lamb business 

 lie transacted, it is my impression that the ha). pv result 

 will have been brought about bv the previous adoption of 

 a universal language and unbounded facilities for trav- 

 eling. The mistakes we make about nations and peoples 

 We have never met or mingled with are often ridiculous 

 iii the extreme, and the worst of it is we are almost un- 

 willing to be put right 



There is, perhaps, no nation in the world so Conserva- 

 tive in their ways and notions as Ihe English. They are 

 conservative even in their faults and in their ignorance. 

 It is extremely convenient lor an Englishman to believe 

 that he belongs to the greatest country under the sun; 

 that that luminary never sets on the territory oi i 

 Queen; that she rules tin? waves, and that with the ex- 

 ception of Bannockbiiru arid Bunker Hill — trilling acci- 

 dental mishaps — his arms never suffered a reverse, and 

 never can nor wdl. If is convenient for him, u- be 

 thinks St., to come abroad with notions like these in his 

 head : and very much astonished he is indeed to find that 

 his opinions are not always deferred to. and that people 

 exist who dare to think that one man is as good as au- 

 other, and maybe a sight better. 



Ashe comes to America, even so does the undiluted 

 Englishman cross the borders into Scot laud. 1 te thinks 

 he is stepping into a country which the prowess of his 

 forefathers has conquered, lie forgets, or he never has 

 learned, the story of the union of the two countries; lie 

 U firm in the belief that, the rebellion of '45 was a war 

 between south and north Briton, in which the latter came 

 off second best. His eyes are soon opened, though. He 



expects to find Scotch hotels mere huts; to his surprise 



he finds them palaces. Scotch landlords extortionists; 

 he finds them both honest and liberal. He gapes about 

 for the rubbing posts the Duke of Argyll built for the 

 people ; be finds they were raised lor the" cows. Illegiti- 

 macy he has been told is the rule; he finds himself 

 good nun raid leal lassies, lie finds, too, that 

 hroseimd braxie are not the staple articles of dii :, n. 

 the selling of sulphur ointment a regular business. He 

 finds, also, that hospitality is a: portion of the national 

 religion, and that he is everywhere surrounded with 

 steady, plodding, industrious men and advanced think- 

 ers. Hut I must tell you one thing that the Englishman 

 does not find— no, not in all broad ,Se.,L!aml — and that is 

 a man or boy who cannot read and write. School boards, 

 though, wdl" do a dealfor England; Scotland didn't need 

 them. 



Well now, reader, as a fair coulee-ion i- good for the 

 soul, I ought to tell you that before arriving as I have 

 done for the first, and I sincerely trust not the Is 

 o the • ■ shores my ideas of America and Americans were 

 a kind of mixed, They were gathered principally Iron; 

 the tittle-tattle of Englishmen at home, and from the 

 Writings Of SUoh men as the ever-to -be admii ed Oliver 

 Holmes, the qufezical Josh Billings, Mark Twain the 

 humorous, and the genial Bret ilarte. 1 fully believed 

 that America was a great country; that A 

 never ceased saying so ; that they were never tired draw- 

 ing the long bow or throwing the hatchet ; that tin' bean 

 ideal Yankee was long and lean and lanky ; that he wore 

 a broad- brimmed hat. long hair and a heard (3 la goal ; 

 that he spoke through his nose; that he always said "1 

 guess" and "I calculate" and "No, sirree;" that be was 

 great in drinks : that hespent much time in loafing about 

 bars; that he sometimes went roaring around iN. Bi— I 

 don't know what •'roaring around" means ; beloved Bret 

 Harte, wilt thou tell me?) ; that he spat copious lj tn 

 times in a comrade's eye; that gouging out eye? was a 

 pastime | that, be always carried a six shooter; that he 

 often used it ; that he never went abroad without a bow ie 

 knife, and that the bow ie came in handy as a referee in 

 quarrels, or an instrument to eat peas with. 



1 icitn girls, I was given to understand, were all 



very well as to looks while still in their teens: that they 

 faded at twenty one, and were not in it at all at thirty". 

 Well, I have been here a week— not a long I 

 tainly, to study men and manners— uovcrth 



scales have already fallen frorn my eyes, I can already 

 see men as trees walking. 



I was certainly, however, not favorably impressed with 

 the first appearance of New York, as i gazed upon it 

 from the deck of the good ship City of Bmmli. But 

 then our voyage had been a stormy one." and the day wis 

 rainy, with a cold east wind blowing. Owing to the sad 

 death of our poor friend Tileston. there was no one ID 

 meet us. We did not even hear of the event until we 

 landed in the dock ; then, indeed, our spirits sank below- 

 zero. 



It struck me that the custom -house officers could 

 not have done their duty in a more obliging or gentle 

 manly fashion ; at the same time. I consider the restric- 

 tions against landing dogs in this country are calculated 

 to do a deal more Harm than good. 



f England, you have only to 



hand your bigg; _ 

 Here you might Whistle the 

 any- such useful COD ' Since 

 fashioned two pair lumberii 

 took for a trifle of $4 to con 

 Sturlevant House. The far 

 been em- shilling (>'S cents), 



thei 



h'istle for a Is 

 rhites of your eyes out lor 

 md all iii vain". All old- 

 carriage, however, uudcr- 

 •y myself and friend to the 

 ' in England would have 

 The mud on the streets, it 

 1 very dark, and tin Streel 

 most vilely paved. No doubt matters will he 

 mended in this respect some day. 1 cannot, forget that 

 tin's Herculean republic is only in its infancy; but I 

 rode in an omnibus from the ferry to Bariium's show, at 

 Brooklyn, and 1 shan't soon forget the jolting; verily, 

 the road that leads to my father's peat moss is better far 

 than this. 



Ere I reached my hotel the sun shone forth, avenues 

 and squares began to appear and New Yoik rose 

 Ul my estimation ; and it struck me we have nothing in 

 England to compare in beauty with the streets of this 

 city. I do not forget palatial Prince's si reef, of Edin- 

 burgh, nor the marble walls of Union street,.', 

 Ti.ey each have their beauties; but the houses hiektlui 

 airy grace of these. They are not hedraped with beauti- 

 ful weepers, and the sidewalks are not shaded with 

 drooping trees. As to the squares, 1 never saw anything 

 like them in the old country. Tall houses, grim and 

 gaunt, frown over our London squares , in es and shrubs 

 there are in abundance, and even grass and flowers, hut 



there is no freshness nor beauty about them. You may 

 pity, but you eannotadmire them ; besides, bloomed they 

 everso lovely, they are not free, for they am hemmed 

 round by iron railings, with inhospitable "gates, the keys 

 of which are kept By the surrounding inhabitants, and 



no one dares enter save slatternly nurse maids, babies 

 ami lap dogs. But how different are your New York 

 squares ; bow free, and open, how green the grass, and 

 sweet and healthful the breezes that blow through them. 

 Why. it iB quite a treat to come here uilh a hook and 

 while away a lazy hour. Yes. the square is all American 

 institution" ; and the nurse-maid is another. Yonder one 

 comes, wheeling along in front of her one of On- airiest 

 of airy perambulators, and what a lovely child ir. con- 

 tains," lounging at length with the grace ol a, youthful 

 duchess, not cramped up as we cramp our children in a 

 British barrow. 1 don't knowwdiich to admire the most, 

 the maid or (he child ; the little white "mutch," on ihe 

 hitler's head is quite new to rile now, and intensely inte- 

 resting. 1 should like to kiss that baby. 



After riding for a week in the street cars, and on the 

 elevated railway', I do not miss Ihe English hansoms a 

 bit. The tramway (street cars, you call them) is pretty 

 near perfection, and goes very nearly if not ouile as fast 

 as the study London four-wheeler. 1 know, loo, what 

 I have to pay. and that I Will not have to h do ftboul h. 

 fare at my journey's end, Besides, these tram i 

 roomy and clean, "and 1 don't think there is the slightest! 

 chance of catching the smallpox in any one of them, 

 nor of finding a. bug on my si. esc alter my exit, Ii, 

 strikes me that the elevated railway doesn't impo . I ■ 

 appearance Of the streets, nor should I like to dwell in 



i, i, i, - adjoining. The feeling of privacy . ,, 

 great in their rooms. 



While traveling in the streets, badly |o, il liioughthey 

 be, I seldom see a dead or fallen horse. In i 



can count them by the dozen. My way is E r oppe3 

 by that truly English institution, a block, in 



When going to catch a Irani, yi U gem rail;/ alio.-, J e, 



twenty rainutes to spare. Sou enter youv ban 



off you fly, from Fleet street to Haddington, for instance. 

 But' woe is me; even should you erne) i 

 safely, without collision brother mishap from the Strand, 

 if it be in the afternoon ten to one you find yours< M 



Regent street hopelessly-, helplessly 

 perfi etoi san of cabs, cartsand^ 



you may stay chafing and I inning 



long \ . ■nr i ..-.I ir.io, i . , .,: 



ill be spoiled, and your wile is sure 

 ig Dutohn.au has come to grief, and 

 somes to the door she will imagine 



that your miserable remains have just, been brought 

 home ill a carpet bag, 1 have not seen a single ciossine 

 sweeper. They don't sweep ihe crossings here, or no"- 

 body crosses and nobody walks, so it wins u 

 tints the side paths iu the upper city are seldom over- 

 crowded. How different it is at home ! 



Bv the way. another British institution which I miss is 

 te rough ; down town he may be, but le-re i ,1,, nol see 

 the man. And i tnisB, too, the working mechanic, oi 



~5 ahd grime in the worlcsh 

 wear his Sunday clothes on his week-day back, i a.ve 



mind, to leaiu yet, However, 1 am coming on. I know 



now what "a boss shine for live cents"is. i kno 



th, i n i | in coins— a eent, a en i 



and dime. I've no fault to find with 



dimes, but the five emit bit is a duffi I id i Un ' 



and the go i ; o' ' " ■ -y, and smells like a btol U i tot 



Ct.ULn.X STABLlis, .M.U., B.N. 



either in 



Oxfo 



d ol 



blocked i 



1 the l 





till all oh 



and 



f b ca 



dav. Yo 



ir dii 



ner \ 



to think t 



hat tl 



10 fly 



:.! eveiy 1 



mock 



that 



ife at One Shot.— Xorwirfi, X.Y.Jj'rit 30//o — 

 On the afternoon of the '27th of this month I 

 filter snipe; a friend of mine was with me who bad 

 hem but little. Three birds rose, two of them 

 flying quite close together He killed both wi 

 rel. 1 never sav, I ,. fore, Spvenevei 



it being do, , , the "West, where at times thej 



are very plenty. We got ten birds, sev< ahym 

 three by my friend. We bad a little spamei, quite wild 

 had we hall a stanch, -.ointer I think our ba 

 have been larger, 



