AravsT 25, 1881.]] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



73 



ROGERS' VfSHWAY. 

 TotheEdUorof Toresl and 



Silt— Ah therfl lire liiBnv inn," "■* made to. nic by lotlci IS to II. c 



; improvi •- bj my ney QBhway on the old 



nn-tl!.xlH, inn! 



have thought 

 would bo of i 

 may li.ivc- the 

 i :n i ■ ■' < - 1 ■■<->: o 



the country a 



vi.iirU public importanco, I 



B 01' 



II HB ).0 



Fig. 1, as above, is n sitio vm of th'.> structure, tlio temporary 

 opening in tho side, showing tha into) mil construction, The crib- 

 bing or logging on the SidesiB firmlv bolted and ballasted, to afford 



.1 stow a 



■f it. 



protection a. 

 h lotion of t 

 ajainat wllio 

 buiH Bumcie 



tube laddi 



li 



to 1)1' 



ihould 



FIG. 1. 



the dam, and it was nee 

 and to locate them to met 

 ties of the place, while tl 

 licull.es, particularly on 

 knocked to pieces or badl; 

 and descending ice, and ' 

 annoyance to all concerns 

 meet or overcome all thos 

 felt. It iR not a Novo Bc< 

 has never until I 

 them all, it "fills tho bill, 

 single dereet or weataoBi 

 Milton, Queens County, aft 

 Fig. 2 shows tho low 



thoir form of construction 

 r circnuiRtances or diflicul- 

 i but partlallv met the dif- 

 . where thev wore either 

 lostoverv war by freshets 



which 



nld-w 



sally bc< 



which 



i trouble but . 



fully met, This Bshway fully 

 1 challcugo any man to point out one 

 unl I point with confidence to those at 

 r two years of successful trial 



p to be at the base of the dam, 



toll at a passage up stream, 



liking, and as no water is 



they can be built for fron 

 stances, height of dam, el 

 are being built, costtn ; fri 

 successful at Dial, Thoc 



importau 



ictic 



:7.-. to |86D, according to tin: ciieum- 

 „ etc. In the United States lishways 

 :1) £1,000 to •rlo.iiiiii, and onlv psrtiallv 



•■(, therefore, couaideriug the value and 



, should not lor a moment retard their 



i just 1 



d from the fishery 

 Milton is to the effect that salmon, alewn 

 dailv passing up tho lishwav abundantly im 



'J'iiero can no longer be aiiv doubt as 'to t 



uflic 



nd othc 



I at 



try control. \ouis. vol v respoetfnllv, 

 ■ . A\ ,\. July 7, 1881. 



nd othe 



silv. 

 •:.:ip...il,isueceni.>f 



poolBivor 

 is to get them into 

 o may rest assured 

 have this effected. 

 ii w:-.v. ami beyond 

 w. II. Roobbs. 



REVOLVING SCUEKN FOB POND OtfTLETS— Screens at tho 



intluts of ponds often bfcomu clogged by floating leavis, especially 

 n autumn. The water then rises lii the p.md high enough to Mow 

 >V0V the obstruction and usually bursts the screen and lets the fifth 



Th 



late : 



<] M 



Thompson claims to have originated it. It is simply a cylinder < 

 wife cloth, about a foot ill diiuneler anil two feet long, with an ii 

 side frame to hold it to the axis. This is placed over tho edge of 

 a plank, which forma the dam over Which the water flows, leaving 

 a space of a quarter of an inch between the plant and cylinder. 



The water being two or more inches deep on top of the plank 

 causes the cvhndi '• •(.. revolve and while water goes through it, all 

 leaves and riff-raff go under and puna out. Tho lish, when at- 

 tempting to pass down, dodge back as soon as their fins come in 

 contact with the revolving wire cloth. To prevent the wliuol from 

 being stopped in the night, a board ie lot down edgewise in the 

 water in front of tho wheel whicli holds all things on the surface 

 until morning. This is not patented, and .Mr. Thompson gave us 

 permission to publish it. It appears to work well aud we were 

 pleased with it. 



Mr. Thompson's ponds are tastefully laid out aud he has ex- 

 P-ml'd much money in fitting up as a popular resort aud is visited 

 by many people who an joy ihe groves, cool water and a stroll in 

 his park. Ho does not sell eggs nor fry but occasionally serves 

 trout dinners, and bis charming place is 'well-worth a drive from 

 Sag Harbor, Southampton, or I be m ighhoring towns. A large 

 mill pond bi low his ponds which contains many acres, and is 

 twenty feet deep. Mr. T. contemplates stocking and allowing the 

 public free iiahing in it. 



RAINBOW T1KHT IN NI'.W VOIIK. -Twenty thousand 

 bow trout. Sr limn iridtu, were placed in tributaries of Salmon 

 Kiver. below the Groat Falls, this week. Thev came from the N. 

 \.rl;l eh Commissi. .... They were sent b\ rail to Pulaski to Mr, 

 I fosfl, who met them with a wagon, from which thoy 

 were distributed to North Branch Spring Brook, Middle Bra: 

 Spring Brtiolt, South Branch Spring Brook. Trout Brook. Tuttlfl 

 Brook, in Salmon liiver, near Bennett's Bridge, and ill the south 

 brand of the river.— Jons. 



allowed to fal 

 iug, no matt 

 pass up. 



To meet the great 

 stroanis at different 

 aide, so as to aceommc 

 milling the water iuto 



IfB Cast— belli iug il. 



years, aud mil rarely. 



Jf^w/ jfJjnbUcxtionf, 



A HALF-HOUR WiTH" THE MAGAZINES. 



BIBBS AKI> FlBE-AJtMS. 



BORROWING the ring of Canaco for a little while, the other 

 dav, I obtained, throngh its magic agency, much curious 

 gossip afloat in the feathered world. Among othor results of my 

 eavesdropping, I ascertained that every winged creature, from the 

 eagle to the titmoiire, ha.- strong convictions on tho subject of 

 (ire-arms and the posterity of Nimrod. I was not so much i 

 ... i.-e. I at tb*s infoi mation, since it completely tallied -with all 

 previous observation* and surmises. Had 1 not. frequently no 

 the hysterical outcry of my old friend, the robin, at tho report of 

 nan's pistol, not so very close at hand, and certainly 

 not in itself a more ominous sound'.than many constantly occur- 

 ring in the neighborhood . The rambler who carries a Hold-glass 

 with him, and n-es n u, pursuance of a closer acquaintance with 

 tin- birds, may have observed that he becomes the object of uni- 

 versal suspicion. Thev doubtless imagine bo is leveling some now 

 destructive patent at their BiUy heads, the tradition of the "optic 

 glasH" being slow to obtain against the older tradition of the shot- 

 gun. Disarming his eye of thu offensive instrument, he is fre- 

 quently permitted to push his investigations much mora familiarly 

 and successfully. 11 is n well-known fact that sportsmen, when in 

 the vicinitv of a covey, keep their guns out of sight until the mo- 

 ment of requisition, a fact whicli would indicate a precocious in- 

 telligence and wariness in the bird's-eye view of tho situation. 



If tho birda have not this tradition of fire-arms among them, 

 are not suspicious of sporting proclivities in every member of tho 

 human family, why should they not manifest the same distrust 

 and shvness in their association's with the row and tho horse and 

 other large auimalsV It is plain that the bird of the air is on 

 terms of exceptional confidence with tho beast of the field. I eau 

 readily believe tho somewhat apocryphal story Herodotus tells of 

 the amiable and obliging conduct of tho trochilus toward the 

 crocodile : also tho modern traveler's story about tho little bird in 

 the African jungle that warns i.i- leonine friend of the hunter's 

 approach. Klsewhero I read significant testimony in the account 

 of a traveler who had penetrated to a portion of the Ethiopian in- 

 terior which, it was believed, had never before been visited by 

 man. Ha found the birds and other small animals, Usually ac- 

 credited with a large share of cautionary instinct, absolutely with- 



I fancy, if bird-shooting were to become a lost sport, that an 

 Orpheus of quite indifforoDt miihical accomplishment would be 

 able to gathi t Hie buds about him. When the kingdom of Arcadia 

 comes (bb in that, virginal, mid-African region), there will be no 

 fear of the fowler or of the trapper. -.-irco.'s . 



ncidaths' ''stilt, iiiini.' 

 ing book. "Old Times in the Southwest, ' of 

 given in the September Appfcton**, Rev, 11. \V. 

 i count of tho old-time methods of 

 cilitical office. lie says : The method of pri- 

 : by going from house to house, or attending 

 natfeiided bj an Opponent, was called okc- 

 " " int. In pursuing the wild game ..I those 



i-o- I on lid- end born-, and pursued and 



se public aid noisv demon-trations. At 



done and quietly through the fields and 



game noiselessly, and killed it by stealth. 



;alled by the pjtoplo " the still hunt," In 



us had two methods of electioneering, as 



: j public gatherings and by fuib- 



i was by those more private and quiet 



they appropriated this old phrase from tho 



. and called "Ibe still hunt." I remember mi 



e two candidates for tho office of sheriff ad- 



peud upon them t 



.i of the 



i the 



uth. 



:--t, I 



1 ell.-ct- 



qllitl 



ndiffereut speaker. In a conversation 



oneiusioii of the discussion. 1 told him 



JQOhes, nn. I tin- re-'pooses I bi ; 



it his chances must bo altogether the 



:-.i repairing i- 



large, as. I "Ah." 'said he! "it won't do to judge by the speeches, or to q> 



i an election. My opponent is the bi.'ld- 

 lo Is. at. He is powerful on the stil! hunt,'' 

 candidates displayed most Wonderful industry 



'" method™ Of i-hUiniiccimg also developed and 



!::v (i! great tact mid skill in miiuenciiig; 

 uiud and character. Argument- n. regard to the. 



questions at issue i 



ere o 



ftcn o 



importance in sec. 



mug 



votes. 



of the people in p 



ivate 



aid oi 



them mounted tln-i 



■ hOra 



is and 



as thoroughly as if 







two opposing cant 







Each was anxious 







in his own favor, i 



ml o] 



o of 



started for the di 



taut 



print; 



make a favorable i 



i|.re,-s 





aid in preparing th 



9 cofl'o 



j for tl 



he outdone bv this 



least. 



■-atrokt 



baby with such sm 



ICSS tl 



at he i 



ting it iuto his urn 



g. Tl 



o othe 



Wftlk, will, his well 



Blled 



tater-1 



ing the most affect 







sad lv needed cthoi 







and to bear bin) p< 







glowing words of 



ir&ise 





was set dowu in do 



spair. 



It is 



thecaudidat.-s „ n 



red tl 



e vote 



These candidates 



Willi 



ilways 



of the people. They i 



ere to 



matches, corn-bus 



tings, 





theological discuss 





id all s 



lit f 



old c 



bt together at A cabin. 

 i.iiuene. •" of the family 



. n. book the w.iter-bucket and 

 ii of water, thinking to 

 the hostess by rendering her this 

 nr -upp.r. His opponent, not to 

 of policy, devoted himself to IliO 

 Ml its favor aud succeeded in gfct- 

 candidate returned from his long: 

 ii i... t, to see bis opponent, bestow- 



and kisses upon a baby that very 

 ion of the water he hail brought, 

 ither's charmed ear abundant aud 

 hopeful child. The water-bucket 

 piite unnecessary to say which of 



o be found at all largo gatherings. 

 b( -nn Hi barbeoues, shooting 

 pulling--, basket-meetings, public 

 rta of religious and other gtither- 

 ■ were busy shaking hands with 

 cut to win their votes'.- 



iugs of the people, liere thoy i 

 everybody and using every possible 



nsiiiNo y; THE 'i iiocsano islands. 

 Ono of the greatest attractions of Thousand Islands is the good 

 fishing. The principal catch is pickerel, which can be taken even 

 bv an unskillful fisherman, and ia very plentiful, 1'ickcrO) aro 

 usually taken with a (rolling-line from 75 to 150 feet in length, 

 terminating with what tho fishermen call a trolling-spoon. Thir» 

 consists „f a stout brass wire to which a spoon-shaped piece of 

 polished metal ia fastened so thai it eau revolve around the wire. 

 Just at the end of the spoon are three stout barbs. The boat be- 

 ing kept in constant motion by the oarsman, the line drags aMern 

 lis full length, and this motion causes the spoon to spin around ita 

 wire axis, and present the appearance of a little fish swimming. 

 The pickerel from his hiding-place sees his supposed victim flash- 

 ing through tho water, and with one quick plunge seizes the spoon, 

 barbs and all, in his capacious mouth. It is an exciting moment 

 in the boat. Tho rod bends almost double as the enraged and ter- 

 rified fish dives, with that infernal machine in his jaws, back to 

 his refuge among the tall weeds. Ho plunges madly about, lash- 

 ing the water furiously in his wild struggles for freedom. Often 

 rising to the surface, he bouuds clear from the water many feet into 

 tho air. Will wo land him? If the hooks are not eeourely fasten- 

 ed, the fierce plunges will free him, as bis powerful muscles work 

 against the hue which slowly and steadily draws him in. Some- 

 times he swims with lightning speed up the line, and getting slack 

 line faster than the fisher can take it up. turns suddenly in tho op- 

 posite direction, and gets a momentum which snaps everything, 

 and restores him to liberty with a bad case of face-ache. Ashe 

 nears the boat his struggles' become more desperate ; he darts un- 

 der it. beats his bodv against the keel m sullen rage. Now the 

 work must be carefully done, or he will escape. Slowlv and stead- 

 ily he i„ drawn to the' front', and in a moment more the gaff has 

 struck his side, and he is safe. It is no nucommon record for a 

 slufl containg two persons besides the the oarsman to come in after 

 a day's fishing with a hunilred-wi ight nrmoro offish. Excellent 

 Btill 'fishing can he had in almost anv of these waters, and by this 

 means most of the black bass are caught. But sitting still, in a 

 small boat, at anchor, holding a pole and watching a "bob," is poor 

 sport compared with trolling lor pickerel m and out of bay and 

 cove, skirting rocky cliffs ami grassy slopes, and drinking in tho 

 rare and ever-changing beauties of nature in this (ianlcii ol the 

 Great Father. This may be a sorry confession thatl am an un- 

 scioutiiic fisherman, but "the world nowadays gives its thirsty chil- 

 dren such immense draughts ol science, and Buoh tiny sips of na- 

 ture, that somo of us enjoy an occasional mixture of nature and 

 science more than taking the latter unadulterated— especially id 

 the matter of fish. —Harper's. 



TUP. NANT1VKF.T WUAI.F.ltS. 



Edmund Burke, in one of his speeches, says of the Nantucket 

 whaling men : " Whilst we follow them amidst tho tumbling 

 mountains of ice aud behold (hem penetrating into the deepest 

 frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits: whilst we aro 

 looking for thom within the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have 

 penetrated to the opposite regions of polar cold, that thev are at 

 the antipodes ami engaged under the frozer ' 

 Falkland Island, which' seems too remote 

 lei national ambition, is but a stage and 

 progress of their victorious industry. Nor 

 more discouraging to them than the secun 

 the poles. We know that whilst somo of t 

 strike the harpoon on tho coast of Africa, ot 

 ar.d pursuo thoir gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. >o sea 

 but what is vexed bv their fisheries; no climate that is not witness 

 Jo Ui.ir unceasing toils I" 



Alas I their toils have loug since ceased. Not one whaling vessel 

 iB owned in Nantucket now. This industrv began to decline after 

 the great tire in 1840, which dostroved po'muehof the wealth of 

 Ibciown and island. The diseoverj- of gold in California c.ou- 

 tnbutsd to this decline. Whon the whaling ships touched at tho l'a- 

 cillc coast ports the crews would desert in order to look for gold. 



pent of tho South, 

 romantic an object 

 g-placo in tho 

 ictml heat 



a tlio ei 

 Minted vVintei 



i tho longitude 



Then the ocean became nearly depopulated. V 



ivages, even when 



five or even seven years long, tailed to fill tnei 



baler's casks with 



oil. Soon coal oil was discovered, and, being 



much cheaper and 



more easily procured, took the place n, mine, ii 



dnstries long held 

 kct was 0,712, tho 



by whale oil. In IB* tho copulation tri Nautu 



greatest that it has ever been. Out of this m 



1..1 . i i.el.liv 1,000 



young men. the best and bravest that the islai 

 to California on the discovery of gold 



d produced, went 





In many places, besides California have Nantu 



L'kot men been the 



pioneer-. Peru, Chili and the Sandwich Islaudt 



are full of them. 



They have gone vol v largely to the ports at wide 



h in old limes the 



Nantucket vessels used to stop. At : t] '..In 



•s' celebration bv 



the alumni of the Nantucket High .School, he 



d a few years ago, 



people were present from every State in the (Jul 



ally Cali- 



forma and Colorado, and from Bern, Chili. Bra 



'.il and Venezuela. 



The most remarkable instance of scattering is t 



lat of the children 



of ■• Sophy." a ci .■:■-. . . of tho "c 



" f the 



. me in San I'Yiin-isco, :::'■, 



a .. Peru; and mv 



daughter is in New Zealand. '- /./;./ inanttf. 





Till' YArirn.v; BAZETPE 



publication ofwtileli seu-ral numbers 



.1 uic lei •!,(: ci.ngc ol A. MM. in o,„. Tin- Iniro- 



:■■■■,:. ■ - i i.i. li yet, remain to be 



i lb e standard ■«, 



lonouncempnt that 



;-li yachting ■ n. a -tray column or 



p the readers oi thai iourualwlll be token 



yacht Ing columns 



■1 we |, ,1, ,u; am attempt 10 



ni'l Mr. Kemp irom ihe pinnacle of popularity now 

 K.-mp will p'is- ma ii v icpless nights 



