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FOREST AJSD STREAM. 



[Jtjly 23, 1880. 



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HlBTOBT, FISH CtTLTURE, THE PROTECTION OF GAME, PlVESEHVA- 

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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1880. 



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Me. Fred Mather with the Forest and Stream.— 

 It affords us the most sincere satisfaction to announce 

 what our readers and friends will with equal pleasure 

 learn, that the Forest and Stream has added Mr. Fred 

 Mather to its staff. That gentleman will in the future 

 conduct those departments of the journal which are de- 

 voted to Hsh Culture and Sea and River Fishing. 



Mr. Mather is so well known, both in this country and 

 in Europe, as a practical fish culturist, an accomplished 

 angler and a well-informed student of ichthyology and 

 the related branches of natural history, that it would be 

 out of place here to rehearse his qualifications for the dis- 

 charge of his new duties. We are content to congratu- 

 late our subscribers on this accession to the staff of the 

 paper. It is the right man in the right place. 



We may add that Mr. Mather's very wide personal ac- 

 quaintance among anglers, fish culturists and ichthyolo- 

 gists gives him unlimited facilities and resources for 

 making the Forest and Stream now more than ever the 

 ablest, freshest and best journal of its kind in the 

 world. 



Mr. Mather will assume his active duties here with the 

 new volume, the first number of which will be published 

 Aug. 5th. 



The Berlin Medals.— The prize medals awarded at 

 the Berlin International Fishery Exhibition will not be 

 ready for distribution before next October, and possibly 

 November. Those coming to the American exhibitors 

 will be received by Prof. Baud, the United States Fish 

 Commissioner, who will deliver them to the Secretary of 

 State for distribution to those to whom they have been 

 awarded. 



— The American representatives have returned from 

 'Berlin. Prof. G. Brown Goode, Mr. Fred Mather and 

 Capt. J. W. Collins arrived on the Neckar last week, Mr. 

 Rockwell was left in London seriously sick with typhoid 

 fever. Messrs. True and Palmer remained behind to 

 pack up the exhibits. 



—Mr. Chas. Hallock has severed his brief connection 

 with the "Sea World." 



—Brooklyn will be specially favored next year. The 

 New York State Association will meet there in June, and 

 in July will follow the convention of the National Arch- 

 ery Association. 



AN association has been organized at Utica, N, Y., 

 which promises to confine itself very strictly, and, 

 from the high character of its membership, very effec- 

 tually, too. we should judge, to the work of game pro- 

 tection, The call for the initiatory meeting was signed 

 by the following prominent sportsmen and citizens : C. 

 W. Hutchinson, W. T. Dunmore, Fred B. Divine, I, C. 

 Mcintosh, Geo. D. Pomeroy, B. A. Wilson, R. B. Jones, 

 Edwin Richardson, J. A, Erlhauer, Thos. McCorkle, Wm. 

 Waning, Geo. Booth, W. G. Hubard, David H. Gaffin, 

 C. W. Keeler, C. T. Mould, J. A. Maben, Oscar A. Whee- 

 ler, W. I, Martin, J. Bailey, T. F. Budlong, Gain L. Fay, 

 W. K. Gilmore, E. Z, Wright, A. H. Ballou, James G. 

 Hunt, W, E. Lewis, Wm. Townsend, T. V. Leroy, W. 

 Dimbleby, John Peattie, James Roberts, M. H. Griffith, 

 W. Jerome Green, J. N. Hays, Fred A. Westcott, J. G. 

 Cessford, H. C. Macy, John Gissible, Geo. H. Scran ton, 

 John D. Kernan, W. M. Stons, John G. Brown, Chas. H. 

 Childs, F. E. Hutchinson, E. T. Manning, Wm. B. Sut- 

 ton, O. F, Golden, J. Gomph, J. J. Flanagan, W. F. 

 Boynton, Geo. Westcott, M. J. Brayton, W. C. Harris. 

 C. W. Shapley, D. Sabine, W. J. Dickinson, James G. 

 French, H. W, Dunlap, E. H. Divine, John Gomph, R. 

 O. Jones, I. J. Gray, Chas. H. Carr, F, H. Lowery, Geo, 

 A. Reynolds, Hon. J. Thos. Spriggs and H. D. Pixley. 



These gentlemen, with many others, were present at 

 the gathering at Bragg : s Hotel, Utica, and at the very 

 outset of the new organization stamped its character. 



Mr. W. T. Dunmore said that the need had long been 

 felt of a society which should look to the strict enforce- 

 ment of the law, and which should take enough interest 

 in the cause to employ its own officers in the detection 

 and prosecution of offenders. The Secretary of the 

 meeting, Mr. Fred. B. Divine, said that the old State or- 

 ganization was in disgrace, as conducted the past few 

 years. Mr. J, J. Flanagan followed with the statement 

 that local club& could find no encouragement from the 

 State Association to persevere in their efforts, and that if 

 a society meant business it must withdraw entirely from 

 any connection with that body. Chairman Hutchinson 

 suggested that the Long Island sportsmen, under whose 

 auspices the State Association tournament was to be 

 held, had it in their power to effect a reform in these 

 matters ; and Mr. Flanagan added that, from his knowl- 

 edge of the Tastes and character of the Eastern gentle- 

 men, he believed that they would effectually modify the 

 character of the annual meeting. 



Several practical and definite plans of action wore dis- 

 cussed and acted upon, and after an informal discussion 

 the meeting adjourned. 



This action of our Utica friends is a direct and natural 

 outgrowth of the dissatisfaction — long felt and recently 

 culminated — at the lack of any concerted action in pro- 

 tecting the game and fish of the State of New York. 

 Besides their good intentions in this work, the members 

 of the new association possess abundant good sense and 

 determination to insure success in their undertaking. 



Just what attitude the new society proposes to sustain 

 toward the New York State Association for the Protec- 

 tion of Fish and Game, we are not at the present mo- 

 ment clearly informed. Two courses are open to it. 

 One of these is to conduct its own affairs entirely inde- 

 pendent of the State Association, thereby withdrawing 

 from the latter all the local support of sportsmen who 

 are earnest in their endeavors to fulfill the work implied 

 in its name. The other course is to cooperate with the 

 State Association— to infuse into that body its own spirit, 

 and by uniting with the other right-feeling sportsmen 

 of the State, who are numerous and powerful, to deter- 

 mine the future character of the State Association. 

 Whichever of these two courses the Utica society may 

 adopt, the support of the Forest and Stream will be 

 given to its right protective measures cordially, fully and 

 unflinchingly. But for the good of the sportsmen 

 throughout the State, we should much prefer to see the 

 gentlemen, whose names have been mentioned in this 

 article, present at Brooklyn next year, adding their forces 

 to the ranks of those who will be gathered there then. 

 We need local societies ; they can do, and do do, what 

 a State society cannot accomplish ; but we should not 

 give up the general State Association, nor withdraw 

 from it the support of the local clubs. 



We are not of those who would seek to organize a 

 general protective society in New York independent of 

 or in opposition to the already existing Association. This 

 latter, reformed and restored to its original character, 

 would be stronger than any new society could hope to 

 be. If it be found practicable then, let the friends of 

 game protection hold to the present society ; if this be not 

 practicable, by all means let the other action be taken. 



Abel Crook, Esq., the President of the State Associa- 

 tion, is at present engaged in a codification of the game 

 laws, and, with other members of the Society, is put- 

 ting into action a comprehensive and well-defined plan of 

 systematic effort to perfect the law and the agencies 

 for its enforcement. We shall shortly lay before the 

 sportsmen of the State the details of the work now in 

 progress. 



THE AMERICANS AT WIMBLEDON. 



THE team men under Col. Bodine are doing good 

 general work at the great English range, and 

 showing the British riflemen that in individual shooting, 

 as well as in team work, our men are able to hold then- 

 own. At long and short ranges in all the matches into 

 which, by the conditions, they could gain admission, the 

 names of the American riflemen are to be met. and 

 generally about the head of the column. There is now 

 quite a camp of the American riflemen on the common, 

 and rifle factories here cannot complain that their goods 

 are not liberally advertised. 



The event of the meeting, however, so far as the Amer- 

 icans are concerned, is the Halford-Hyde match, to be 

 shot on the 34th inst. It is to be a match with eight 

 men on aside, and the Americans engaged on various 

 teams to go into the match are Farrow, Brown, Scott, 

 Hyde, Rockwell, Dudley, Laird, Gerrish, Clark, and 

 Jackson. This list includes two who will drop into the 

 reserve. It will be a very strong team if it is properly 

 handled, and with any approach to team discipline 

 ought to make a strong fight. 



The only fault to be found with the Halford-Hyde 

 match is that it has all along been sailing under false pre- 

 tenses. It is nothing more than a match shot for the 

 personal gratification and personal aggrandizement of 

 Messrs. Halford and Hyde. Wittingly, or otherwise, it has 

 been forced into prominence as an international match 

 when it has none of the characteristics of such a contest. 

 The men represent nobody but those by whom they are 

 engaged and employed, and all pretensions to a repre- 

 sentative capacity on their part are entirely false. No body 

 or organization on this side the water sent them out. 

 They are under no form of authority, and should defeat 

 visit them it will not form a break in the line of Ameri- 

 can successes. fcJf , as Sir Henry Halford says, the shoot- 

 ing of the present match will help him in his task of se- 

 curing a team of British shots for a Palma contest in 

 America in 1881, then by all means let the match go on. 

 Let it go on in any event. There cannot be too many 

 friendly meetings of riflemen to shoot out their little 

 differences of opinion before the butts, but we do protest 

 against the sly but shallow covering of gun peddlers 

 twisting what should be the most gentlemanly of sports 

 into a means of forcing themselves into public notice. 

 Let the riflemen shoot freely, fairly and frequently, but 

 let drummers take their place behind their counters and 

 stay there. 



Team Discipline.— There has been no end of ill feeling 

 toward Col. Bodine, shown in Boston circles, over his re- 

 jection of Capt, Jackson as a member of the actual 

 shooting six on Dollymount Range. It certainly i lues 

 appear curious that one who stood in the front rank of 

 American riflemen, and who could claim, by his sus- 

 tained record, the title of the best all-round shot in 

 America, should have wasted his strength as a reserve. 

 There is no disguising the fact tliatthe team was the best 

 disorganized team that ever engaged for our side iu an 

 international match. So far as correspondence throws 

 any light upon the matter, there was not much more 

 harmony when Ireland was reached, and Col. 

 credited with being very much of a Sir Joseph Porter, 

 K. C. B., in the opinion of many of his men. It certainly 

 was a great disappointment to Boston to have Capt. 

 Jackson so unceremoniously left out to cold oblivion and 

 but a mere spectator of the fray in which he could have 

 played so strong and important a part. Col. Bodine may 

 expect to hear no end of caviling upon his return here, 

 but he has but to point to the record of his team to si- 

 lence all the grumblers. This is a case, above all others, 

 where the end justifies the means, and that the judgment 

 of the captain of the team was not very far wrong, no 

 better verification than the figures of June 29th need be 

 adduced. 



Mr. Ober's Explorations. — We have received and 

 shall shortly publish the initial letter of a series from Mr. 

 Frederick A. Ober, who it will be remembered is pros- 

 ecuting scientific explorations in the Lesser Antilles. In 

 a note written at the Island of Nevis, June 17th, our cor- 

 respondent gives us some hints of the busy life he is 

 leading, and of the very satisfactory results of his trip. 

 He says : — 



•'Since reaching St. Thomas I have been on a continual 

 jump, or rather a series of jumps, and have hardly 

 settled in one place long enough to collect my .thoughts. 

 The fact is, I have undertaken to do in four months what 

 six would hardly suffice for. Thus far, have been toler- 

 ably successful; have found one new bird, at least, and 

 have carried out my programme to the letter. I am ac- 

 cumulating a lot of material that will keep me busy 

 grubbing for the next six or eight months. I have climbed 

 six mountains, and investigated four craters, and have 

 done more walking since March 5th than I did all last 

 summer and winter. 



"Thermometer slides up and down between eighty and 

 ninety-five, and does this regularly every day. 



"To-morrow I go to St. Kitts, thence to Montsenat, 

 thence to Dominica — the scene of very old exploits — 



