Skctemiieb 15, 1881. 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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129 



B3~, IV Ktown. 27; J. Miller, S3; E. Brisket, 35 ; E. Rump. 

 31. Sept. 'i J>. Brown, 35 j S. Preston, 45; 13. Rump, 31; 

 S. Browuy 58 ■. .1. liOThweil, 5* ; C. Gaff, 81: K. Rump, 



53; J. Miller, 40; E. Harris, 54: .1. Rhdads, 107. Sept 10, 

 i 'I, SJ : Li. Harris, 44; BarrlesOn, 55; T\ Brown, 

 35: S. Preston, 35: R. Rump. 40; C. Coff, 40: J. Piestort. 

 35 : N. Ruu.p, 43 ; B. Brown, 40; J. Miller, 81. 



Jons Gopf. 



Aiturmos Gun Cum.— The annual meeting of the Audu- 

 p Gun Club, for the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year, was held last Monday evening at their club rooms, 31 

 Moffat, street, Brooklyn, the following officers were elected : 

 President, Robert T. SablB : Yiee-President, P. J. Sckarfou- 

 Berg; Secretary, Henry Eger; Treasurer, Prank X Gehr- 

 ling. The club also held their twelfth monthly and final 

 competitive contest for the club medal last Thursday, at 

 Newtown, L. L Twelve members participated in the match, 

 which, toward the finish, grew quite exciting, from the fact 

 that a tie shoot took place between three members, of whom 

 two, Messrs. P. Post and R. T. Sabin, had each won the 

 medal three times during the year. Finally, after four lies 

 bud been shot off, Mr. Post won the medaL— La Cazv.. 



The Soaeoity or Bay Sxipb.— Your correspondent " L," 

 in issue, Sept. 8, wishes observations on the growing BcaiG'rty 

 of bay snipe and pluver, Each succeeding year for the past 

 twenty five years has shown a decreas ', and the past ten years 

 the decrease has been very rapid. Spring shooting and breech 

 loaders are especially to blame, but egging at Cobb'B Island, 

 " writing up " shooting resorts by hotel keepers and enthusi- 

 astic amateurs, who "give away" the places dear to sports- 

 men, establishing watering places along the coast and shoot- 

 ing by the coast life-saving crews are the principal causes of 

 the diminished numbers of bay birds. -Men and boys tramp- 

 ing about the meadows and sand-bars instead of shooting 

 from ambush, also tend to frighten the birds from our shores. 



£-{ I BLEW. 



General Surkldan's Pakty. Chioago, Sept. 10. — Gen- 

 eral Phil Sheridan and party, consisting of General Strong, 

 Colonel M. V. Sheridan, Colonel Gregory, Edwin B, Sheldon, 

 and Inspector-General Sackett, of this city, returned Ian 

 Tuesday from a big hunt and exploring expedition, which 

 extended through Wyoming, Montana.,' and Idaho. The 

 parly's line of travel was through the Black Hills, then over 

 the Sn iw Mountains, and then down to the Yellowstone 

 National Park. The country traveled through was full of 

 game, and all the elk, antelope, bear and small game was 

 killed that they could make use of. General Sheridau re- 

 ports the streams well slocked with trout. Ducks and 

 as are very numerous here at present.— "Ten Boise." 



In tiii: Days op Muzzle-Loaders many ludicrous mis- 

 takes in loading were made when the abundance of game 

 prompted to haste. Our. correspondent "Deli" tebs of ' such 

 an cxperienc: " In my frantic haste I got both loads of 

 p iwder in one barrel and both loads of shot in the other. 

 An old gander now came directly over my head, about tea 

 fest above, and I took careful aim, and the result was a 

 Hinged goose, but he got away, minus nearly all his feathers. 

 The next shot was a double, and, as will be imagined, 1 

 stood drawing the fhot from my left barrel with a look of 

 mortification on my face, for the larger one of the pair raised 

 a short, s'artled "honk," and winked one eye at me as he 

 soared but a few feet above my crazy head. 



Tub Hackessaok Rait, Season — New York, Sept. 8. — 

 1 notice in your correspondent's account of rail shooting on 

 the Haekensack that he states that rail are not so plenty as 

 last season. I have been out every first day for the last ten 

 years and never saw rail so plenty as on. the opening day of 

 this season. We only pushed over a little bit of the ground 

 and most of it had been shot over. I brought in forty-five 

 birds that day and since then larger bags have been made. — 



W. HOLBBKTON. 



"Left-eyed Shooting." — Will you be kind enough to 

 "Invidius' 1 to inform him that, if be will try the experi- 

 ment he has mentioned with his left hand, he will find him- 

 self "right-eyed" according to his theory. Evidently he 

 used his right hand before, which made him "left-eyed." 

 As he can thus prove himself to be both " right-eyea " and 

 " left-eyed," he must blame the gun or the game for his 

 bad shooting. I believe it is always safest to blame the gun 

 or the charge.— I). (Girardville, Pa.) 



Dicks in Sullivan County. — Wild ducks, such as wood 

 ducks and black ducks, are here in great numbers. 1 have never 

 known them so plenty before. Some good shooting can now 

 be had, and here is the place — via Erie Railroad to Sboliola 

 Station. My bouse is six miles from Shohola, and I will 

 meet all parties on appointment. Address J. M. Bradley, 

 Eldred, Sullivan County, N. Y. 1 have boats, dogs and 

 guides. 



Vbemont Woodcock — I East Townshend, Vt. — A part of 

 our grounds are well stocked with the woodcock, and I think 

 I am the only one that knows what they are. Ruffed grouse 

 are thick, and up to the present time are not wild and the 

 flocks are not broken up any. Ducks are not plenty, but 

 there is a flock now right in front of my window of fourteen 

 redheads, and full grown. — H. T. E. 



Kentucky Gaits Notes— Mt. Sterling, Ky., Sept. 9.— Part- 

 I'ldges are plenty. The first ha'ebing Cull-grown and strong, 

 the second hatching still gray, but doing finely. There is a 

 numerous second crop, it linvingbeen dry and nothing to pre- 

 vent full broods. The hawk bounty has been a blessed suc- 

 cess, so this fall let every club offer a bounty, and we can 

 fiave many more birds to put in bag.— Van A. 



WboncoiK in Pennsylvania. — A Philadelphia corres- 

 pondent reports that the springy swamps Of Lehigh County, 

 Pa . were taken possession of this year for housekeeping pur- 

 poses by a greater number of woodcock than ever was known 

 before. Just before cold wea' her will be the lime to catch 

 these fellows in that section of th 1 country. Ruffed grouse 

 may be come across on nearly the same grounds at the same 

 time. 



American Quau. tn Pnoi. and. —Several aUeulpls have 

 b en made to introduce "' Boh VVbltO" into I'lngland, several 

 thousandaof the birds having been at different times im- 

 ported into that couutr> All of these importations were un- 

 successful. 



We have received from Mr. J. Page Fisher, 112 N. 12th 

 street, Philadelphia, a copy of his "Pocket Edition of the 

 Game Laws of New York," New Jersey, Penney vauia, Dela- 

 ware and Maryland." 



NEWPORT NotBS — Newport, R. L, Sept. 5, — Plover, rail 

 and some snipe are shot on the marsh every morning. Black- 

 fish, bass and bluefish are the principal fish sought for, and 

 good catches are made every day from the piers, rocss and 

 boats. 



mierea harmless and more refreshing with llop Bit- 



|*» and §iver ^ginhm^ 



HSJ1 l\ SEASON l.\ SEVTEJIBEIl, 



i ■,::■:.- 1 1 WATKB. 



Grayling-, Thymallus tricolor and I Yellow Perch, rerca fluviatiiu. 



grutum, etc. I 



SALT WATER. 

 Sea Bass, Centroprititin atrariun. I Wcakfl 

 Sinned Hass or Kocktlsli, K«.whs | remit 



lUieatm. ■ La loo. n 



WMte Perch, iloront americani. 

 Blueiisli or Taylor, I'omatomtui Channel 



saltatHx 

 Scup or l'orgle, Stemtomus arn;i- i - 



Pollock. I'r.tiarhiuiirnrlfiijrh'*. ' Kli'.sriisli 



Tautojc or Blaekllsh, TaufqgQ I nrbtth.-.-t, 



otiitia. 



Spanish Mackerel, Cyliium vtacu \ 



latum- I 



iU or Squetague, (fynoseyon 

 lie or Spot, Uostomwstim- 

 l Boss, spot or Eedtfsh, 

 lead, Archo9argw& probata- 

 Barb, Mentieirrus 



.. i ■>■.- people r.ialti 



Struggle for ueallli, pl&i e 



kinit Father lias so bourn 



.V'ieel lust which wemtsstli 



iping fresu ant 

 boyhood, t baveever ran 

 angling, for In my mature 



oi,|,,ymeni i hati any other 

 my boyish days R hl'h liai 

 jey like this. .\i '.,eli r 

 BpilDg flushes tltfl niapli 

 -. ,;> i .-, i ptal the ang 



oil 



■■it : 



I ling ardor 

 •o which a 

 ich, by ne- 



inle; 



suit an 

 pliant 



How, and to try 

 hid flies their all i 



dtnst shoes, with creel oVr his shoulder and 

 P, he is permitted to rei Istt the bright familiar, 

 former trromphB) to listen to the music of its 



more it his right hand has lost its cunning o 

 n. - hetUr (a lliwl. \. . 



AN ANGLING DAY. 



a rushing river ; 

 e birds and daisies ; 



ALONfi by the t 

 Along, alone, 

 The birds that sing, 

 And the daisies Unit -mil \ 



That mem'ries bring 

 The sou) to beguile, 

 That such things may be forever. 



Alone by the banks or a rushing river ; 

 Along, alone, with the past and future ; 



t last forever. 



W. II. IlASBROCCK. 



AN IOHTHYOPHAGIST COMES TO GRIEF. 



ONE of the most daring of the ichthyophagi is Mr. Thomas 

 J. Murray, Steward of Glen Island. He dives into the 

 water (this is a rigger of speech, a? A. Ward would say) and, 

 if he does not pluck up drowned honor by the locks, he at 

 least briugs up things most strange to himself • for be it 

 known, and not at all to his disgrace, that the accomplished 

 caterer of this famous summer resort, with his great interest 

 in the fish-eating club with the hard name, is no zoologist. 

 We have embalmed in our columns how he has dared to 

 experiment with the despised starfish, and pronounces them 

 excellent in a bisque of his own making. And hoy we re- 

 cord what we are glad has not turned out a tragedy, al- 

 though every morning we are prepared to read in the daily 

 papers that the Coroner's jury have decide 1 that Mr. Mur- 

 rey came to his death by eating of some fiendish and dia- 

 bolical marine monster, whose name and habits are un- 

 known to the said jury. The facts nre these. Last week 

 we received a letter as follows : 



"Stakin's Gi.ks Island, Sept. 10. 

 " To the Scientist of the relithyoplmgifw Club: 



"I am in trouble at hist through my propensity to ex- 

 periment with the unknown inhabitants of ihe vasty deep. 

 I inclose you a shell or outer habiliment, of the individual 

 which made this trouble. 1 don't know the name of it, but 

 presume that it is familiar toyou. I made a stew of the mol- 

 lusk who wore this stony overcoat, and I ate the stew. Then 

 began the trouble alluded to Shell-bearing mollusks, I need 

 not tell you, are not noted for the swiftness of their move- 

 ments in life; but the way that stew ' traveled' was mar- 

 vedous. What in thunder is it? T. J. Murrey." 



The she'l iu question is one commonly found ou the out- 

 side of oysters, scollops and other shells. It is a univalve 

 and is known to science as Qrepidvia furiikatn, and the chil- 

 dren who pick up the empty shells along shore call them 

 ■'boat shells " and " lady slppers." 00 account of the trans- 

 verse partition in the middle. We arc greatly pleased to 

 know that the daring experimenter has met with nothing 

 Worse than wdiat might be calh d " dissolving views" in his 

 researches after the eatable among the neglected mollusks 

 of our coast. 



FISHING NEAR NEW ORLEANS. 



A WRITER in the New Orleans Democrat says that the 

 fi-h are coining in now. That salt water fish come 

 into Lake Ponchartrain freely because of the absence of Mis- 

 sissippi River water to freshen it, he says : 



" Since the low water in the river and the cessation of the 

 flow of water through Bonnet Carre Creek, the increase in 

 the number of fish in Lake Pontchartrain has been tenfold. 

 The water in the lake is once more assuming its transpar- 

 ency, and again the needle fish and mullet play around the 

 whaif. Sheepshead have been caught off the old break- 

 water outside Milneburg, and flounders on the flats near 

 West Eud. This return of salt water fish is hailed with de- 

 light by all (hose living along the shore, and they are all 

 united in hoping for the closure of the crevasse. 



"One fisherman in speaking to the reporter said t 'You 

 don't know, sir, how much the people of New Orleans would 

 be benefited by having that crevasse closed up so that no 

 river water could pass through. As it once was the fishing 

 smacks could bring their red fish, red snappers, and other 

 fish caught outside in deep water, alive and kicking right up 

 to the city. Since river water has been running into tho 

 lake all the fish supply must come either by rail on ice or 

 from Terre-aux Eourfs in wagons, or from Eara) aria. Fish 

 transported in that manner cannot be good. With the cre- 

 vasse stopred we can bring fish alive iu the wells of our 

 smacks right up to West "End, and they will be alive on 

 reaching market.' 



1; ' We have the best fish country (?) in the world, audit is 

 a pity that on account of a little break in the river a whole 

 city lias to have its fish supply brought to it On ice. I don't 

 believe it's healthy. Why, I can remember the time that 

 sheepshead, croakers, red fish, flounders, sea trout, and nu- 

 merous other good eating fishes were most plentiful in the lake. 

 Look what it is now, or what, it was a month ago. Nothing 

 but cats. You'd bait your hooks out on the croaker banks, 

 get a bite, and haul in a nasty little cattish. You just go 

 around and ask the people living on the lake shore about that 

 crevasse. Ask the captains of schooners. They will tell you 

 fish are driven away, the lake is shoaling, the oyster beds 

 outside are being ruined, and all for the lack of a little money 

 to shut that plaguey thing up. There ain't any use in look- 

 ing to the government to do it. They don't care for Lake 

 Pontchartrain, but we fishermen do, and the people of New 

 Orleans ought to. You j ust tell some of them chaps with 

 plenty of money, who like good eating, to help close that 

 crevasse up and they will have fish what is fish. The 

 Democrat can close it up if it pushes it, for the people will 

 when they see it in the right light, back up the paper with 

 the stuff.' 



"The fisherman went on much in the same strain for 

 some time as he tarred his seine." 



GULF FISH AND HOW TO COOK THEM. 

 [From a Tract issued by the Pensacola Ice Company.] 



UED SNAPPER. 



This fish, varying in weight from three pounds to thirty, 

 should be either boiled and dressed with drawn butter and 

 egg or oyster s-iuce ,- baked, stuffed with oyster dressing or 

 plain; broiled after slicing lengthwise, removing the back 

 bone ; fried, clip the slices in corn meal and cook in hot 

 pork fat, Cape Cod style. 



BLACK GKOTJPEB. 



This fish, with flesh similar to halibut, should be skinned, 

 then cook same as snapper. 



BED GROtfPBK. 



This fish has a distinct lobster flavor. Skin and cook 

 same as snapper: requires more cooking, as the flesh is 

 harder : when well done, will suit the palate of any lover 

 of good eating. 



bltje fish. 



Eat this fish broiled, fried or baked. Prepare for baking 

 by stuffing, and score with a sharp knife to backbone, unci 

 insert thin slices of fat pickled pork. For broiling, split 

 open down the back ; clear fire and only one turn. 



POMPANO. 



Split down the back, clear through the head ; dry with a 

 clolh; broil over a clear fire ; be careful not to burn; salt 

 only after the Bide is cooked and turned up ; dress with a 

 little good butter and the fourth of a good lemon dropped on 

 the flanks and centre : when hot it will permeate and develop 

 its unsurpassed nutty flavor. Lives there a man with soul 

 so dead, etc, 



JUAEELL (PRONOCNOKD "WARRELI..") 



This fine fish is best adapted to the pan. Clean and score 

 to the backbone with four cross cuts, fry in sweet pork fat 

 or olive oik and you will be able to emulate the secretary of 

 a certain corporation, who a'e five at one silting on board 

 one of our smacks and theu quit only in consideration of the 

 feelings of the fish. Raked similar to the bluefish it is rich 

 and highly flavored. 



silver wuitiso. 



This fish, equal to the speckled brook trout, treat in a simi- 

 lar manner. Sheepshead, spadefish, s.ilt-water trout, bass 

 and blackfish, ditto. 



SPAKISH MACKEREL. 



Cook same as the pompano. 



Mum. — In alt cases a hot fire and clean di-h. Of the forty 

 varieties iu use "from the depths of the sea," we commend 

 all for varied qualities of mil ri ion and flavor. 



Some of our friends iu the inttrior who submit them to 

 the trying ordeal of "frying in warm lard" over a slow fire, 

 never will discover that they are other than "almost as good 

 as cat" until they treat them with good cooking and common 

 ser.se. Ey order of Neptune's " Chief Cook." 



The Great Lakes Fisheries.— The fisheries of the great 

 lakes lying within the United States arc confined to eight 

 States, and form an important industry. A forthcoming re- 

 port from Ihe Census Office will show that in 1879 the bti-i- 

 ness employed 1,050 vessels, of which 10 were sic am lugs, 

 and r>,05l) fishermen. The annexed table gives the number 

 of men aud the amount of capital contributed by each State 

 engaged in the fisheries and the value of the product which 

 accrued to each : 



Flshermea. Capital. Frefluet. 



Minnesota - B3 ■ m.m, t o 



'.'. Is >on Sll I 



MTclusran - US! ,fii ' 



mint Is S«] >n,J(i:> 



!imi o-i aa, ic.d 



oni'i .. - !,'■"'. . :, K %\ .'-'■ 



Pennsylvania tn b.tni M,4S0 



New Twk .- H23 60,05(1 L5J,SHI 



Total.. sjoaj pr,345,9i 



