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NEW YORK, THURSDAY", SEPTEMBER 11, 1879. 
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Patronage of Summer Hotels.— It is an agreeable 
coincidence and pleasant to relate, that all the summer 
resorts, at the Sottfh as well as at the North, have enjoyed 
a most successful Beason the present year. All have 
made money. One reason assigned is the very material 
reduction everywhere in rates. A Capo May Hotel was the 
first to close (Sept. 1st),but the great majority will keep open 
until the first of October. Those resorts which are located 
near hunting grounds will receive a liberal patronage 
throughout the fall from a class of sportsmen who have 
postponed their vacation until the shooting season: and the 
number of gunners is legion. Several of these are men¬ 
tioned in our advertising columns. There are many lines 
of railway also reaching to these resorts, which are des¬ 
ignated in our columns. The Old Dominon line of 
steamers gives access to some of the best snipe, woodcock, 
quail and ducking localities ill Maryland and Virginia. 
As for Coney Island and the beaches, they are being pa¬ 
tronised hy hundreds and thousands who have beeu spend¬ 
ing the summer in the mountains, and now finish up the 
season near home. This is demonstrated hy the fact that 
while warm days continue there is little apparent diminu¬ 
tion in the number of visitors at these attractive seaside 
resorts. All tliiB is new and welcome experience to the 
landlords of hotels who have hitherto been accustomed to 
close their doors on the first of September, and regard the 
season at an end. 
Pure Air.—-W eston, the pedestrian, has requested that 
there shall be no tobacco smoke allowed in the building 
at the coming walk. This will rob the match of one of 
its charms, hut it is a good temperance point. We read 
much of the wonderful endurance of the 0-reek athletes, 
but had an Olympio games winner been confined in the 
atmosphere of Gilmore's Garden at one of the last winter 
walks, he would have perished as suddenly and ns 
miserably as a mouse in an air pump. It has taken four 
centuries to evolve the tobacco smoke inhaling, man, 
woman and ohild of to-day. In this, at least, we are 
a, head of Greece. 
—William Wertenbaker, Librarian of the University of 
Virginia and Secretary to its Faculty, is an octogenarian. 
Mr. Wertenbaker i3 the only person now alive who had 
the privilege of meeting Mr. Jefferson, and he holds his 
office by direct appointment from Jefferson himself, who 
at its date was acting as Rector of the Board of Y r isitors 
to the University of whioh he was the founder. 
—Gen. Grant is expected on the steamship City of 
Tokio, whioh will arrive at San Francisco about the 21st 
inst. The vessel Bailed from Yokohama the 3d inst. 
RESULTS OF THE NATIONAL ARCHERY 
MEETING. 
I T is always difficult to foretell the effect of a great 
public meeting, but the anticipations of the originators 
of the first Grand National of American Archers have 
been fully realized. Our archers were timid; they ueeded 
to meet each other in public contest before they could re¬ 
alize the fact that all were starting upon the same plane of 
low scoring, one having very little advantage over an¬ 
other. Since the scores published by several clubs were 
generally their best, chosen from many poor ones, the 
archers reading them imagined that they were ordinary 
averages, and came to the conclusion that shooters were 
extraordinary bowmen. The national meeting swept 
away many of these erre 
scored 300 points at this meeting upon the Double Y'ork 
Round may easily attain to 000 points by the next meeting. 
Many will make a far greater advance in the coming 
year. 
Another thing has been very satisfactorily taughtus by 
this meeting, and that is that it is one thing to make a 
good score in private practice, and another thing to get a 
similar score at a public meeting, where the natural em¬ 
barrassment of exhibiting one’s skill is added to the ner¬ 
vousness attendant upon anxiety, and where all the sur¬ 
roundings are strange. Almost every archer fell thirty 
per cent, below his average score, and many even 
more. 
A very important thing was demonstrated to the ex¬ 
ecutive committee, which was that their arrangement of 
the prize list was very fault}'. When the list was pre¬ 
pared, it was thought by the committee and all the 
archers to whom it was submitted that it was as nearly 
perfect as it was possible to get it, every one supposing 
that where prizes were offered for most golds, reds, blues 
blacks and whites, that the best shots would get most 
golds and reds, the poorer ones most blues and blacks, and 
the poorest most whites, but the result showed that the 
best shots got most hits in all colors. A different system 
ill be devised for the next meeting so that the poorer 
shots will share in the prizes. Some object to this system 
upon the ground that it is setting a premium upon un¬ 
skillfulness, but we do not think so. The desire to appear 
high in the score-list will be sufficient to incite the archer 
to careful practice, and surely the pleasure of a meeting 
will be greater where every one who contends will hope 
fora prize. Much cunning will be required to originate 
a system in which the most skillful will not bear off the 
greater part of the prizes. 
The most valuable result, however, has been the wonder¬ 
ful increase of interest manifested in archery throughout 
the entire country. Everywhere new clubs are springing 
into life, old clubs are increasing their membership, 
matches are being shot between clubs hy telegraph, fairs 
and agricultural associations are offering prizes to induce 
archers to exhibit their skill upon their grounds, and 
people talk archery who before did not know a how from 
a fishing rod. What is needed now is systematic, thought¬ 
ful practice by our archers, the study of archery from a 
scientific standpoint, and ere another August comes 
round we will publish scores of 600 to 900 points at the 
Double York Round for gentlemen, and 600 to 800 at the 
Double Columbia for ladies. That a large number of our 
archers will reach such proficiency we do not doubt. 
THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE FOUND 
AND NAVIGATED. 
Professor Nordenskjold has the satisfaction of being the 
first navigator to make the long talked of voyage through 
the Northeast passage. He has successfully threaded his 
way along the northern shores of Europe and Asia, passed 
from the North Sea to the Arctic Ocean, and thence through 
Behring Strait into the North Pacific, and returned in 
safety to Yokohoma, where Ms arrival was reported a few 
days since. When he has returned to Sweden, via. the 
Suez Canal, he will have completed the circumnavigation 
of the two continents, which is a feat unparalleled. The 
existence, therefore, of a long suspected Northwest Pas¬ 
sage is satisfactorily demonstrated. The question now 
arises : What material service to the world, or what 
profit to the explorer or the merchant, will result. The 
Professor claims that he has found a practicable summer 
route between America and Siberia, the northern portion 
of which, hitherto shut out from the Western coast of tMs 
Continent, is now accessible through Behring Strait ; but 
less sanguine men declare that the Northwest Passage is 
practically useless, since there is no commercial necessity 
for it. 
Pure science has undoubtedly gained much from the 
Professor’s observations. He has, he says, fully accom¬ 
plished the object, of the expedition. He has studied 
the bottom of the sea hy means of dredging: has dis¬ 
covered new marine animals, and found quantities of 
fossil remainshas charted and calculated for the benefit 
of mariners, the location, breadth, velocity and approxi¬ 
mate volume of the Artie and Pacific Polar currents, 
and thus obtained precise and definite information of an 
unknown region. 
Hie to the Woods !— The glorious sport ! Ye delvers 
after the ore of gold, hidden, as it seems to he, in boxes 
of silk or bales of cotton, in bits of paper or leaves of 
ledgers ; ye weary crawlers through the streets of mam¬ 
mon, who think the world is bounded by the four walls 
of your ambition; ye who have been brought up to work as 
though work were the aim of life, instead of the means of 
its improvement; ye who have laid up a few hundred for 
some pet dissipation, a visit to Saratoga, or a fight, 
with the tiger (that man-eater!); and ye who must watch 
every day over your accumulated millions, lest a penny 
slip into a cranny and be lost, goto the woods, where you 
will be surrounded by the sombre trees, where the rocks 
will be your companions, and the wind whisper, aud the 
streams prattle to you. 
There you will learn how little it takes to render man 
comfortable and happy; how, but for his reckless pas¬ 
sions and extravagant desires, all might be satisfied, and 
plenty crown the human race. 
There, where Nature speaks to you in her beauty, in 
her grandeur, and occasionally in her stupendous 
power ; where wonders of the universe by day and night 
are ever present, like old friends ; where there is naught 
but the thin air between the Maker and His beings, you 
may learn what will be more valuable some day than any 
treasure of gold or silver. 
Breathe the pure air ; shake off every ill that flesh is 
heir to ; add to your life, if you love it so well, a week 
for each day, and that .a day of never-wearying enjoy¬ 
ment. 
Take rod and gun; aspire to cast the line far, and 
straight, and light: feel the struggle of patience, per¬ 
severance, skill, resolution, with brute strength and cun¬ 
ning ; know the pleasurable anxiety of the chase, the al¬ 
ternated hope and fear, and the final glory of success ; 
learn the woodsman’s art, the " gentle craft of venerie,” 
and wonder at the resources of the wilderness; and on 
your return thank me not, if you can. 
Robert B. Roosevelt. 
Railroad Time. —The Sun has been taking testimony 
from railroad experts and engineers relative to the speed 
of railroad trains. To settle the dispute as to whether 
trains go at the rate of one mile per minute, one corres¬ 
pondent took his place on the engine of one of the fast 
Pennsylvania Railroad trains from West Philadelphia t.o 
Jersey City- He had provided himself with a stop watch 
which recorded seconds and quarter seoonds. The dis¬ 
tances and time recorded by mile-posts and watch were : 
Five miles, 4m. 55js.; three miles, 2m. 36s. Of these last 
three, the first was made in 64s., second, 52s., third, 50s. 
This was the regular daily speed of the train. Many 
other trains on American railroads make equal records. 
According to the London (Eng.) English Mechanic , 
engines of the Bristol and Exeter Railroad have attained 
a speed of 80 miles per hour. In one instance the rate 
was 81.1 miles per hour. 
“Old Judge.” —When Goodwin’s smoking tobacco is 
on trial the “ Old Judge” always renders a verdict in its 
favor. So do the jury. So say all the witnesses. Here¬ 
tofore the adage has been, “May the best win.” Now it 
is, “ May the Good-win.” Ha! ha! That gives common 
folks a chance. Not to say that the “ Old Judge” tobacco 
s common, by any means ; but if its popularity continues 
to extend among the masses of smokers as it has done 
during the past two years it will soon be common enough. 
Ha! ha ! again, and how do you like it? If you don’t like 
it, try it. If you wish to try it, send to 207 Water street, 
this city, and order a sample. Put it in your pipe and 
smoke it. 
—The Commissioners of Parks of New York City have 
been waking up to the fact that the numberless cats and 
dogs which nightly infest Central Park have been des¬ 
troying great quantities of game. A game-keeper has 
been appointed to shoot the felines and canines. He bags 
half a dozen every night. 
—It is stated that Professor Mayer, of Boston, recently 
put a soft-shelled potato bug larva into carbolic acid for 
three days, and then boxed it up and sent it to Europe for 
a zoological specimen,' Nothing daunted by the fifteen 
day’s journey under such disoouraging circumstances, 
when it reached the old country the hug was found able 
to eat potato vines as cheerfully as ever. What would a 
hard-shell bug not have done? 
_It is proposed by the citizens of Baltimore to erect in 
Druid Hill Park of that city a monument to Lafayette. 
We are glad to see monuments erected. They are effect¬ 
ive means of awakening regard for the manly virtues of 
the great men they commemorate. 
Pusillanimous.— The man who is mean enough to say 
one word against the dumb, defenceless oyster is not only 
an arrant coward, but his liver is out of order. Don’t you 
forget it. Poor little oyster: can’t fight, can't do notMng. 
Never opens his shell. 
—It used to be target companies r now it is chowder 
parties. 
