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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Novembbr 8, 1881. 



greater the gt't, lb*- more clue the giver when the recipients 

 themselves &\k pvtlaichcs. The woid potlatch signifies a gift, 

 or to give; thus, P,»lU)tch = it is a gift; JSHka putlatih mika, 

 = I give it to you. 



The Blxir s of Valdes Island, at its southern end, slope 

 gently up fnmi the water and are grassy or dotted with 

 groves of Douglas !ir {Pwn&ttsuga Dougla si. Cirriere). but 

 soon after passing th's vi laje they become much more bold 

 and rise si a' ply from the water in cliffs fifty or sixty feet in 

 height. Iu ttie cr mnies an I creviees of the rocks the pigeon 

 guillemot were breeding iu con- iderable numbers, and it was 

 a pretty s'ght to behold them, darting in and out among the 

 cliffs, sometimes clinging swailow-like with fluttering wings 

 and wid^ spread tail to some little projection of the rock, or 

 again flyiug without a piuse int » the little ho'es which 

 seemed much too small to receive them. They were con- 

 tinually passing to and fro from the feeding grounds to their 

 nests. Those returning to the wa' er would fly horiKon'ally 

 out fifty or sixty yards from the shore, and would th-n drop 

 ver ically into the waves with a great splash and at ouce be- 

 gin busily fishing again. Great numbers of Bonaparte gulls 

 were seen on and over the water and a few Eittiwakes. 

 Eagles and ravens w, re busy along the shore, so that the 

 bird life here though not rich in species was extremely so in 

 individuals. 



Passing on we ran Seymour Narrows — a narrow channel 

 through which the tide boils at from 8 to 10 knots an hour, 

 making eddies, whirlpools and tiderips, through which it was 

 hard to Fee how a small boat could live. Of course the tide 

 was with us; hid it been otherwise we should have been 

 obliged 10 land and wait its turning. We went through 

 without any trouble, and it was quite an exciting pull— the 

 meu all bare-he ided and working with all their might a 1 the 

 paddles, each one pulling every pound that he was good for. 

 It was essential, of course, that we should keep steerage way 

 on the cauoe, for if she once got caught, in one of the whirl- 

 pools and begin to twist arouud the consequences might be 

 alarming if not disastrous. An occasional "Mamook" from 

 Hamset, the bowman, kept us up to our work, and we darted 

 by the shore at what seemed to me railro id speed. Oa the 

 other side of the Narrows we met opposing currents against 

 which we pulled for I think half an hour without, so far as 

 I could see, making the slighest progress, but at last we 

 overcame them and camped about two rui'es beyond the 

 Narrows in a 1 tile bight which we called Fatigue Bay. 

 Alter dinner tie Admiral and I climbed a thousand feet or 

 so up on to the hillside and enjoyed the lowly view which 

 lay before us up and down the channel. Berries were 

 abundant here, and we saw some fresh bear trails. I noticed, 

 among the trees, Audu ons and the b'ack-tbroated green 

 warbler and the L uisiana tanager. Huffed grouse were 

 hea d drumming, and tue next morning one was brought 

 into camp by Hamset, and pr ved, as might have been ex- 

 pected, a lyp cal Bttnasa umbelhis sabinei. On our return to 

 camp we foun I that ths Sergeant and the Professor had been 

 fishing ant had secured some ' rockc d," Sebattamus, curious 

 red or black fish with great starinir eyes, which are ouly caught 

 at gnat depibs— 100 fathoms, it is said -feeding on tue bot- 

 tom. Wh n ! roiigid to ibe surface by the hook tlieair bladder 

 expands and is f reed up into the throat; and mouth of the 

 fish, which is then unable to siuk, and if taken from the 

 hook and i brown back into the water struggles about and 

 can easily be- rec p ured. Yo. 



Camp on, Jemi* Inlet. 



PAUL MORPHY, TUB CHESS FLAYER, 



New Orleans, La., Oct. 15. 



THE series ofplays, that have taken place in this city lat- 

 terly, between the experts of the h cal club and 

 eminent plaieis of oihi r places, indicate a vast and increas- 

 ing interest, as we 1 as improvement iu this classical and 

 elegant game. Some of tue performances "ill forever re- 

 main on record as specimens of singular skill and remark- 

 able intelligence of mode-n day players. There have not 

 been any of the phenomenal f • atures that marked the play 

 ano character!^ cs of the old-'ime prodigies, like Morphy et 

 als , bit ►kill, study mid acuten ss of intellect and the culti- 

 va'iou of memory are more used in making the combination 

 of plays that are' marvelous examples of that ma hematic 1, 

 ex | iiruieeB and clear-headed tbnkig, which stands forth as 

 the most prominent features of present time chess playing. 

 This is iu s-ich dinct c mraat to the former m- thud, by 

 which merely intuitive performers became nOUd for their 

 I crfurmances, that the mat er is worthy of record. 



In this connection it is apropos to mention the c nditi n 

 and pecu iariti' s of Paul Morphy, in whose name and career 

 the woild of chess p ayers will alwavs take a lively and in- 

 te. se interest. Daring ibe d»ys of the toufuaraenb, Morphy 

 occasionally passed under the gallery of the club, or on the 

 opposite side i f the street, stavrng up toward the open win- 

 dows the while talking rapidly to him elf — soun t mes in a 

 quarrelsome way, and auon as if demonstrating some rare 

 problem in his mind, but usual'y smil ng and then walking 

 rapidly away, shaking his head as if desirous of evading 

 temp'ation. 



His habits are comparatively methodical, and his presence 

 has become daily one of the most familiar objects on Canal 

 street. He is small in stature, has a large head a notable 

 face, wiih swarthy, bilious comp exion, heavy jiws, soft, 

 brown, restless eye', that never look ar anything morn thin 

 a moment. His frail body is nervously supported by 'he 

 thinnest, attenuated legs tnat you could flint iu an hour's 

 travel, and as he wears the tightest of pants, their shape and 

 ethereal proportions are p dnfu ly apparent, not withstanding 

 their a 1 roost invisible materialism. He walks iu a si ewy 

 and re tk-ss, ta a uu a-like way, that shows wonderful vital- 

 ity and much muscular strength. A f w years ago he dress d 

 With exq isite taste and skill, wearing: the nobbiest of coa's 

 and bate, the most fashionable trousers and bods, aod 

 always was inseparable from his little walking stick, that 



was eternally kept in motion. Now he is comparatively 

 shabby, often appears unshaved, and is rapidly taking on 

 those impressive signs of xge and quiescence of mental 

 work, which makes a nonentity of a person. He continues 

 his erratic perambulations daily on the streets, and seems 

 constamly defining a law or chess problem, the details if 

 which a e never uttered to any one but himself. His whole 

 mentality a- d life are enwrapped iu tbe idea t hat he is the 

 grea est lawyer on earth, aud has iu charge the most im- 

 portant legal case that ever demanded the finest tient of the 

 age to solve. So he goes about, defining to himself an 

 imaginary court and jury, and the various problems and 

 poiuts of the case. His eccentricities have become familiar 

 to every one that knows him, and h> nee his foibles are not 

 noticed by them. But those who do know him. or those who 

 do not, dare not say a word to him on the Minjoct of chess. 

 The mere pr position to him to play sets him wild with 

 transports of anger. He, however, retains the most wonder- 

 ful ui-mory of great events and plays in the past, and, if 

 referred to for opinion or authontv, seeing to take pride and 

 pleasure in recounting the incidents and features of any 

 famous game that he or others have played. 



There >s no doubt his mind is wrecked, and it is merely a 

 matter of time to develop the utter annihtl dion of his in- 

 tellect, ; yet we believe that it is nm irretrievable, and that if 

 he could, hy any means, be biought to take interest in chess, 

 aud kept from becoming exe'ued on th'i subject, only using 

 it as a restorative means of relieving and resting his brain, 

 he might be returned to a comparatively uii fill life in some 

 sphere of action among ihe world's busy workers in the hive 

 of human industries. With his brain, ru-ting in all of its 

 channels and cells, and dormant in its once best developed 

 features, we cannot expect him to ever be anything else 

 than a flighty, wrecked angel, hovering on the confines of 

 eirth, and iu that mysterious sphere of partial insanity, a 

 condition which is neither life nor death 



De. I. E. Nagle, Editor Planter's Jwrnal. 



A TRANSFORMATION SCENE ON BARNEGAT BAY. 



YEARS ago — I was going to say in its infancy, but, the 

 Forhst and Stream never had any babyhood ; one 

 day it appeared and tbe nexi it « as a grown-up newspaper. 

 At any rate, in its early days I used to enlighten, or rather 

 try 'O do so, its leaders upon the subject of wild-fowl shoot- 

 ing in Barnegat Bay. having for a quarter of a century made 

 semi-annui pilgrimages to that locality in search of ducks, 

 geese and snipe. Indeed, a part of my school days having 

 been passed under the tutelage of "Frank Forre ter" of fra- 

 grant memory, I bed bee me so thoroughly imbued ( heoreli- 

 cally, I mean) with the love of sport from hearing him in- 

 terpolate his lectures upon trie classics with his experiences 

 in the field, that as soon as I emerged from bis scholastic 

 rra'ning I became an enthusiast, if not au adept, in a'l that 

 pertained to sportsmanship, as Mr. Herbert in his Field 

 ■>ports (then, as now, an accep'ed autnoriu) devoted much 

 space to will-fowl shooting in Barnegat Bay, I naturally 

 selected that locality, to use an Irishism, as my hunting 

 ground. 



By wayof ditression, let me here state that I have felt 

 greatly agrieved to noiice among recent sporting writers a 

 disno ition to cast obloquy upon the memory of "Frank 

 Forester," and rather to parade his shortcomings than to do 

 justic to his wonderful talents aud to the eleciic effect 

 which his writings have had in inspiring young me i to seek 

 recreafon rather in tue field and by the river and the brook- 

 side than in the drawing- roun or the club. Aud here let me 

 nss«rt, aslhav- often before asseitid, that as a classical scholar 

 or as a cultured and accomplished gentleman, demy William 

 Herbert had few equals aid no superiors ; while as a sports- 

 man or a sporting writer his reputation is too well esiabiishe I 

 Tor any "knight of the quill" to altacji him successfully or 

 «ith impuni y. 



Mais rivenous, we started out to tell of th». changes in Bar- 

 negat Bay made during the past few years, so here goes, and 

 we promise that our garrulousness shall not again "shunt " 

 us off tne track. 



In the good old days there were but four or fiva hou-es 

 on Squan Beach from Point Pleasant to the Inlet, a distance 

 Of thirty mihs — "JaUey Herbert's." "John Mason's," 

 (subs quentlv kept by his son-in-law, Bill Chad wick) "Ort- 

 ley'r," "Band'n" anil "Grant'!"," and their occupants sub- 

 sisted chiefly upon the products of se ne and gun or an occa- 

 sional "wrck," supple uented by the money left by sports- 

 men who came down in the spring, autumn and summer to 

 shoot ducks, gee se and snipe. Of eduo .lion these people had 

 none; the nauie of the D. ity they simply profaned with in 

 attaching any significance to it; aud as lo the affairs of the 

 outer world, they were as profoundly ignorant as if they were 

 Apache Indians. Still they were manly, honest and truthful, 

 and full of courage and hospitality, as many a shipwrecked 

 crew C"uld testify. 



The sh K)li< g in early d'ys was simply superb— sixty miles 

 of shoal water, with endbss acres ot feeding ground, har- 

 bored millions of geese, brant, ducks and sn'pe, and thirty 

 fowl to a "point" was a gunner's fair avera;e i ay's shooting 

 in fall or spring; and the snipe shooing was uo^u' passed. 

 Of cause the number of sportsmen was small, for in those 

 d iys it took as long ro reach John Maxon's from New York 

 as it would now take to go to Charleston, S C. Three hours 

 on a steamboat to Key Port, and a day and a half's drive 

 via Freehold— tbe Band hub deep— iu a Jersey wagon to Point 

 Pleasant, and thence down the beach seven miles, with may- 

 hap a nor'-wester whistling about your ears, or, still worse, a 

 south-easterly gale eating out your very vital-. As years 

 wore on, however, the bay became more accessible by means 

 of the Jersey 8 in hern, an old rattle trap railway, wh ch 

 brought us from New York, via Sandy Hook to Manchester, 

 and theuceten miles by sta^e to Tom'--* Riv r, doing the 

 whole thing in about six hours. From the River we had to 

 sa 1 seven miles to reach M axon's ; but in spiie of t>eir ledi- 

 ousness, these journeys were always a source of gr at plea-i- 

 ure, and are among my pleasant reminiscences. Sportsmen 

 art always socially inclined; indeed, "bnhommie" Na 

 part and parcel of their stock in trad , and the " masonry " 

 of their craft would render it impossible for two or three to 

 be thrown together for anytime without being mutually at- 

 tracted ; consequently, as we slowly creDt over those dreary 

 pine and >-and waste-*, or beat about the stormy waters of the 

 bay, we rapidly fraternized, and worlds of sportsm n's lore 

 were unfolded, aud many a song aud story beguiled and 

 shortened our journcyliigs. We generally so managed to 

 reach our gunning house in the evening, so aa to be ready for 



the early morning shooting, and our welcome hy gunners and 

 epopsuien, women, childien and dogs was as boisterous as it, 

 was hearty. 



Again, as we write, we are, in imagination, in Ihe little old 

 bar-room, surrounded by friends of by-gone days, sitting 

 round the o'd galley stove — a prize from a forgo ten wreck. 

 There sit Thorn and Hackett, and Stuart and Gov. Gil 

 Davis, and Cornell and Post, and J m Clark and Lillie, and 

 Roosevelt and ihe re-t, while in the ou er c ; rcle a-e thsir 

 gunners— (barley Stout, John Gaunt, P te Supheu, John 

 Harbor and Jimmy Loveland, scarce discernible tbroiuih the 

 tobacco smoke; the three ga'e roaring wi hont, and the 

 heavy surf tumbling with deafening ro r up Ihe beach— the 

 picture is as well defined as if painted on yonder wainscot- 

 liug as they sit inspecting guns, clad like Norwegian pirates, 

 e-ch and all armed wi h glowing pipe and flanked with 

 smoking glass, while nestling attheir feet, or lovingly wedded 

 between their knees, are their faithful canine friend'-". Van 

 Dyk or Ru 'ens would have reveled in the lights and shades 

 thrown upon the scene by the uncertain glare of the old bin- 

 nacle lamp or the fitful flame from the fire, as it roared up 

 th»- great chimney. 



Yar8 pass by. Most of the old party have gone to the 

 happy hunting grouud, while ihe writer, srickcu down, can 

 only take down his old fowling pieces, and while seeing that 

 they are in condi'i-m, dream of the old days, while his hoary 

 (id setter as if in sympathy walksover to him, and, thrusting 

 his nose into his hands, give-t a responsive groan, and then 

 stretches himself on his mat before the Are in christian resig- 

 nation. 



New sportsmen succeed the old, and increased facilities 

 hiing more gunners and less sport, and now tho desire once 

 more to look upon the old ground grows too strong to be re- 

 sisted. Although the "reed is bent" it is not broken, aud Rip 

 Van vVinkle sets forth to visit the scene of by-gone sport, nor 

 *as the real Rip Van Winkle more astonish d than was f on 

 beh Iding the wond' rful changes 'hat a few years had made. 

 The Central Railroad, of New Jersey, carried me to Point 

 Pleasant in less than two uours. There I found large and spa- 

 cious hotels aud at the b"ad of the bay a large group of cot- 

 tages intersected by streets aud avenues. These houses are 

 exceedingly picturesque, and situated on what wa?, when I 

 last visited it, the most godforsaken sand barren I ever 

 waded through. Between the hay and ocean is a sand spit, 

 thirty miles 1 mg and not a thousand yards wide, yclept 

 Squan B ach, and this "Spit" is now traversed by the "Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad down to a point ten miles south of Point 

 Pleasant, and thence it crosses the bay and goes away across 

 country to Philadelphia, bringing it within less than two 

 hours of two great cities. 



The engineer of the mad courteously invited me to ride 

 wilh htm on an open car, aud pointed out the marvellous 

 changes pr sent and contemplated. Next the "Bayhead 

 Co ," the Directors of the Jersey Central, hive purchased a 

 tract ot several miles, including Jakey Herbert's well-known 

 hostelry, and orders have goneforth lobuld it up. Next we 

 whi-k by "Bill Chad wick's," so close, indeed, that we could 

 have shaKen hands almost with the "gude wife," as shestood 

 over the kitchen-flre, and all along the sea front we see 

 sprinkled a succession of p etty cottag- s. Nov we cme to 

 "Lavalette," a settlement of seaside cottages and of incipient 

 hotels, and thence to "Oitley's," conspicuous for its growth 

 of trees aud for its "Dry flat' on which millions of fowl feed, 

 recently also purchased for development, and thence to 

 "Bailey & Archer's" tract, these are the architects of Atlan- 

 tic City's fame, aod they now a. ek here new worlds (of sand) 

 to conquer. Next we see an army of men with teams and 

 scoops levelling a tract recently acquired by toe Pennsylva- 

 nia Railroad, asa site for excursion houses, etc., for, strange 

 t • say, this is the nearest ocean beach to Philadelphia by 

 many miles, and here comes Seaside Park, where the railway 

 crosses the bay and lakes, the mainland to Philadelphia. 



On ioquir'n g the cause of the unparalleled acivitv we are 

 informed that as a seaside resort it is looked upon as un- 

 equaled, havi g the ocean along its f tout, anil a great bay 

 from three to five miles wide in the rear, consequently every 

 bre ze must be a s a breeze, no sweltering west wind- such 

 as Long Brach is cursed with, and being midway between the 

 two great cities it is expected they will both avail of if. 



But although on land all is changed, we find the great bay 

 just as we left it, the shoal waters precluding the possibility of 

 us ever being navigated by anything larger than a sailboat, 

 it is just as deserted-and just as full of game. (Jlouds of 

 geese and docks rise and obscure the sun almost from the 

 dry flat. Responsive to our whi-tle as we whirl by "Ordey's," 

 and from meadow and shoal, we hear the shrill whistle of the 

 b'g "yeliowl gs," and we sigh to thiuk that, as far as we go, 

 thev may cuack, hawk and whittle to all . termty. 



Asking .id Jimmy Loveland whit effect all these changes, 

 railwa\s aud improvements are going to have on theshooling, 

 the old fellow pipes out. " Why, Capen, be that you ? Why 

 I'd a knowed you among a thousand I I'll take apple, Capen, 

 I a'lus s ick to that. Do you mind hat la t time we sh- 1 on 

 Nor'we-t pint, me and you aud Bill Hoffman? when we shot 

 iiown fourteen canvas backs with two guus, and as mat y 

 more on the s- cond round ; and how Billy Hoffman, he lay 

 thar a snorin' aDd never woke up till after it was all over t 

 Well now, Capen, abut the shooiin', my opinion is that 

 these here doiu's won't nia'ie no differe ce— thi towl will set 

 a little further off thore, perh.ps, but if it com s on to blow 

 fr .m the southa d and wes-ard they'd stool fast enough, and 

 with sixty miles of feeding ground the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road haint got ingines enough to frighten them away, in 

 fact there's more fowl on the dry flat this minit than I ever 

 see atore. No, I won't take no more 'apple,' Cipen, I've 

 got io steer the Blatchford up the bay, and it Is everlastiniy 

 a blowin' from the norwest " Seskx. 



Central Tnbiana. Gams Notes- CI overdale. Ind,, Oct. 20. 

 — Our outlook for game was perhaps never better. It was 

 thought by many that the unusual severity of last winter 

 bad almost exterminated our quad, but happily such is not 

 the case. Being favored by outstanding giain during tbe 

 winter and a remarkably loi g and dry summer, we nave now 

 at the c immencement of the open season plenty of full- 

 fledued ad strong flying bird", which promise to give right 

 royal sport to lovers of dog and gun. Indeed, I believe 

 quail to be more plentiful than for years past, and h >p-r to be 

 able ere long to give you accounts of tnw the fields were 

 fought and won. Squirrels are very numerous, ae easily 

 found and brought to bag. But such shooting does not 

 savor of sport with larg- bevies of quail iu adjoining fields. 

 1 he rabbit "crop "gives promise of an unusually tine one, 

 and will furnish an unto d amount of fun for the irresistible 

 small boy with his nondescript dog and single-barreled muz 

 zle-loader.— La. Bkllb. 



