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FOREST AND * STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



Friday, Sept. 1.— Trotting: Minneapolis, Minn.; St. Petersbug, Pa.; 

 Quincy, 111.; Mystic Park, Boston ; Amenia, 111.; Winchester, Va.; Dav- 

 enport, Iowa. Base ball: St. Louis vs. Rhode Island, at Providence; 

 Osceola vs. Volunteer, at Poughkeepsie ; Q.uickstep vs. Amity, at Man- 

 hattanville ; Witoka vs. Press Nine, at Capitoline Ground ; Defiance vs. 

 MoClung, at Philadelphia ; Rochester vs. Allegheny, at Allegheny, Pa.; 

 Rochester vs. Indianapolis, at Rochester. Boston Dog Show, at Music 

 Hall. 



Saturday, Sept. 8.— Trotting : Minneapolis, Minn. Running meeting 

 at Newport, R. I. Base ball : Chicago vs. Boston, at Boston ; St. Louis 

 vs. Hartford, at Brooklyn ; Louisville vs. Cincinnati, at Cinci nn ati ; 

 Montlcello vs. Alpha, at Jersey City ; Crystal vs. Winona, at Brooklyn ; 

 Lafayette vs Atlanta, at Astoria, L. I.; Winona Clipper vs. Milwaukee, 

 at Milwaukee; Athletic vs. Mutual of Norristown, at Philadelphia; 

 Rochester vs. Allegheny, at Allegheny City. New York Athletic Club 

 GameB, at Mott Haven. 



Monday, Sept. 10.— Trotting : Dubuque, la.; St. Joseph, Mo. Run- 

 ning meeting at Newport. Base ball: Rochester vs. Standard, at 

 Wheeling, W. Va.; Browns vs. Louisville, at Terre Haute, Ind.; St. 

 Louis vs. Resolute, at Elizabeth, N. J. Creedmoor: National Rifle 

 Association. 



Tuesday, Sept. 11.— Trotting : Edenburg, Pa.; Long Branch, N. J.; 

 Fort Wayne, Ind.; Pottstown, Pa.; Beacon Park, Boston; Albany, N. 

 T. TJase ball : St. Louis vs. Hartford, at Brooklyn ; Winona Clipper vs. 

 Milwaukee, at Milwaukee; Rochester vs. Standard, at Wheeling, W. 

 Va.; Browns vs. Louisville, at Terre Haute, Ind. Creedmoor: National 

 Rifle Association, Union Regatta of the South Boston Yacht Club. 



Wednesday, Sept. 12.— Trotting as above ; also at Toronto. Creed- 

 moor : National Rifle Association. 



Thursday, Sept. 13.— Trotting as above. Base ball: St. Louis vs. Bos- 

 ton, at Boston ; Chicago ;vs. Brooklyn, at Brooklyn. Creedmoor : Na- 

 tional Rifle Association. 



— One of the Metropolitan journals evidently has an eye to 

 business, as it advertises for exchange "An Iron Clad Incu- 

 bator, Artificial Mother Poultry Dentist's Lathe " for a kind, 

 sound, family horse. Here is a chance for the man with the 

 "Patent Extensible, Reversible Kampticulon Hammock, Deck- 

 Awning Carpet, with Watering pot attachment." We trust the 

 opportunity to procure this lathe will not be allowed to 

 escape by the dental profession. 



-The St. Charles Hotel of Scranton, Pa., is the sportsmen's 

 headquarters for northern. Pennsylvania, Try it. 



STRAY NOTES FROM THE EDITOR. 



Reed Citt, Mich., Aug. 28, 1877. 



SINCE my last communication to Foeest and Stream I 

 have boated it through nearly all the inteiior lakes and 

 water courses of Northern Michigan that arc easily accessible 

 by outside steamboat communication, or by the extraordinary 

 interior facilities afforded by the Grand Rapids and Indiana 

 Railroad, to which this section owes so much of its present 

 development and prosperity. The writer here is more than 

 surprised by the extent of the inland -water communica- 

 tion. The country is filled with clear lakes, big and 

 little, most of which are connected by natural chan- 

 nels, artificially improved. Through these little pleasure 

 steamers constantly ply, affording the widest opportunity for 

 visitors to enjoy the charming scenery, and fish in the limpid 

 waters, which aboimd in black bass, trout, grayling, pike and 

 muscalonge. I use the word " abound" in its broadest sense. 

 I came here on purpose to investigate the sporting resources 

 of this region, and can testify. Much of the wilderness is un- 

 broken, and the fish and game are as tame and confidiDg as 

 the tenants of Eden were before Adam bought his 10-bore 

 breech-loader. Black bears pester the settlers. Deer cross 

 the streams at their leisure, and stop to stare at us as we float 

 by in our canoe. Pike jump at anything that glitters, right 

 alongside of us ; and the young mallards and wood ducks, 

 which the law protects here until September, scarcely fly 

 when disturbed. 



Such vagabondizing as I am indulging in does not admit of 

 frequent use of the mail service. Besides, one who is con- 

 stantly on the move becomes demoralized for a correspondent. 

 However, I have taken copious notes, and shall use them in 

 due time. For the present what few scraps of information I 

 can give at odd moments must necessarily be of a desultory cha- 

 racter. Summarily speaking then, this is eminently a country 

 for a sportsman, be he angler or gunner, be he hunting for 

 profit or pleasure. Routes of access are numerous and made 

 easy, and the hotel accommodations everywhere are the best I 

 ever saw in a new country, and this is scarcely five years old. 

 Five years ago there were but eleven houses on the lands 

 granted to the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad comprised 

 in a strip twenty miles wide by double that length. Now, 

 possibly, there are 30,000 people. Villages are numerous all 

 along the line, as I have already stated in another letter, and 

 the soil and crops are such as to encourage new settlers to fol- 

 low those who have gone before them. Fruit trees yield abund- 

 antly, and the forests are a lasting source of revenue and 

 wealth. Brick takes precedence in construction, and what is 

 done seems to be done with a view to durability and perma- 

 nent establishment. 



Just*now grayling fishing is in its prime, and the more 

 valued by anglers because the trout season closes on Sept. 1st. 

 There seems to be a great abimdance of grayling in the Man- 

 istee and Au Sable rivers, but excessive fishing is liable to de- 

 plete them as it has done other rivers in this section. To-day 

 two gentlemen brought in a couple of hundred from the Man- 

 istee. The lot weighed about twenty pounds. Grayling do 

 not run much above a quarter of a pound each, although they 

 are sometimes taken weighing two pounds. We are to have 

 a grayling supper to-night at the Morton House, whose table 

 is reputed to be one of the finest in the United States. The 

 other day no less than 2,000 (!) grayling were brought into the 

 Bancroft House, an equally good, if not better, house, at East 

 Saginaw, kept by Farnham Lyon, one of the proprietors 

 of the Morton. They were caught in the An Sable River, 

 Aug. 22, by S. H. H. Clark, Gen'l. Supt.; E. P. Vining, 

 Freight Agent ; S. A. Kent, H. C. Nutt and son, all of Chica- 

 go, and W. N. Brainard, of Evanston, and indicate the char- 

 acter of that stream sufficiently to encourage anglers to fish it. 

 A few days ago I had the pleasure of capturing some fine gray- 

 ling in the Jordan River, which were once multitudinous in that 

 stream, but are now T few and far between. There are a few 

 also in the Hersey branch of the Manistee, and a good basket 

 can be obtained from it right on the line of the railroad, at 

 Reed City. In the Pigeon, Sturgeon, Deer and Maple rivers 

 are an abundance of grayling. In fact nearly all the streams 

 that run north from the dividing ridge or water shed that 

 traverses the northern part of the State contain trout or gray- 

 ling — sometimes both, though not often, but the streams that 

 flow to the south do not. The entire fluvial geography of this 

 region has been most accurately delineated in Mr. J. H. 

 Page's pamphlet, entitled "The Summer Resorts of Michi- 

 gan," printed in the interest of the Grand Rapids and Indiana 

 R. R., and to be obtained from the company. This railroad 

 traverses the whole peninsula from north to south, while 

 the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad bisects it east and west, 

 both roads intersecting each other at Reed City. Travel on 

 these routes is made very comfortable, and trains run on fast 

 lime. The Woodruff sleeping coach of the Grand Rapids and 

 Indiana road is the most comfortable and luxurious of all 

 sleepers, as the beds are wider, the space above more ample, 

 and the whole arrangement so contrived ns to preclude any 

 risk of one being shut off in his berth in case of accident and 

 smothered or buried. Too much praise cannot be given to the 

 pioneer landlords of this still unreclaimed and stump-dotted 

 region. Their beds are generally good, and the food clean, 

 fresh and well cooked. Here is a list of hotels which I can 

 vouch for, and recommendation is given without fee or hope 

 of reward . The Morton House and Sweet's, at Grand Rapids, 

 (the first having a most enviable Western reputation); 

 Cutler House, at Grand Haven; Bradley's Occidental 



Hotel and the Cushman House, at Pctoskey ; Fountain City 

 House at Charlevoix; Harsha House at Elk Rapids, kept 

 by three young men (brothers), who deserve patronage and 

 encouragement in continuance of well doing; the Lewis 

 House, at Torch Lake, whose comforts are scattered all 

 over the premises (cottages for families are attached to the 

 premises) ; the Traverse. City House, kept by the same pro- 

 prietor, Frank Lewis ; the Old Mission, Astor House, Lake. 

 View House, Island House at Mackinaw (the first and last 

 named the most in request), the Bancroft, at East Saginaw, 

 and the Fraser House at Bay City. Many of these are very 

 large and pretentious edifices, which make an Eastern man 

 wonder to behold ; others arc surrounded by spacious grounds 

 and pleasure attractions. Besides, there are Mrs. Webster's 

 cottage on the Jordan, a solitary gem in the woods five miles 

 up the river; Wrikel's Jordan River House, situated at its 

 mouth, and the new pine-floored, bat uncarpeted, cabin of 

 citizen Francois Contois, on Mullet Lake, and Smith's Lodge, 

 on Indian River. Perhaps I shall take occasion to enumerate 

 these in their order when I take the reader with me in com- 

 pany upon my round trip. This information is worth know- 

 ing. We suffered so much from niggardly or ignorant 

 frontier landlords that it is a comfort to know that most of 

 those in the Michigan wilds know how to keep a hotel. 



Some of these will no doubt close for the season when the 

 subsidiary inland little steamers are hauled off, as they will 

 be soon ; but the tourist or sportsman can go expeditiously 

 almost anywhere with row-boats or sail-boats, and two of the 

 very best months in the year still remain. Grayling, bass 

 and pike may be caught until November 1, though trout are 

 prohibited after September 1. Deer and bears are abundant 

 all through the woods. As for ducks, the Indian River be- 

 tween Bush and Mullet Lake is in reality a water-course 

 running through a swamp of wild rice, where mallards aud 

 teal congregate in vast numbers. If any sportsman 

 has not yet traced out his map for the fall 

 campaign, I know of no place which will more certainly yield 

 him honorable spoils with so much comfort and so little ex- 

 pense. At Charlevoix are three good guides that we know 

 (and possibly others nearly as good), who are available for 

 the lake and river system that is included within an area of 

 some forty miles around about. Their names are George and 

 Mel Thompson and Ed. Aldrich. Services, with boat and 

 provender, $3.50 per day. 



I find I have already spun a long yarn. It "grows upon 

 what it feeds." Perhaps it is better not to give too much 

 pork for a shilling. 



I must not omit to mention that through all my travels I 

 have been accompanied by A. B. Turner, Esq., the veteran 

 editor of the Grand Rapids Eagle. His reputation as a trout 

 fisherman is wide spread, and although the fish fear him, they 

 love him. He can catch more fish with bait than any other 

 man. Brother Turner was the only first-class fisherman left 

 out when the twelve disciples were chosen. If he had been liv- 

 ing at that time, the omission could not have been put down as 

 an oversight. His luck would knock the spots clean off Peter's, 

 who simply once caught a fish with a sixpence in its mouth, 

 whereas Brother Turner often takes them with silver spoons 

 in theirs. Such is his avidity for angling that he fishes to the 

 very final close of the season, and yet so little content is he 

 that he keeps a Fisher constantly on salary at his office, and in- 

 duces this Fisher's wife to row him around in a skiff when 

 fishing is out of the question, just to keep his hand in. He 

 has a very fine rod, and he deserves it. Hallo i ee t. 



THE JOLLY CLUB. 



IT is jolly, sensible and peculiar. We cannot learn that 

 claims to be either literary or artistic in its aims, yet we 

 are confident that its membership renders the poet's thoughts 

 better understood and the artist's conception more fully 

 comprehended. Surely no one can be so stupid as to 

 imagine that it is of a political character. Such societies do 

 occasionally lapse into a certain very grim kind of humor, but 

 w T ho would ever think of calling them " jolly V" Least of all 

 is the Jolly Club an association of hail fellows well met in an 

 elegant club room to quaff nepenthe, and in the sweet reveries 

 of the dream-compelling Havana sink into blissful oblivion of 

 the outside world ; for whatever may be our own private 

 and reserved opinion, we should never have the temerity to 

 incur the displeasure of our gentler readers by commending 

 an institution whose benefits are exclusively enjoyed by the 

 lords of creation. On the contrary, one of the strongest 

 claims we can urge in favor of this club is that its benefits ex- 

 tend to all, man and woman, old and young. 



The Jolly Club is a New England institution. The dough- 

 nut, the mince pie and Thanksgiving dinner are New Eng- 

 land institutions. But the millions of doughnuts now annu- 

 ally consumed are confined to no State nor section ; the mince 

 pie is found wherever the flag floats, and the benign influences 

 of Thanksgiving dinners are confined only by the parallels 

 that bound ihe republic. It is with faith engendered by 

 contemplating such triumphs of New England institutions 

 that we hold up the Jolly Club as a bright and shining exam- 

 ple to be known and imitated of all good people North, South, 

 East and West throughout the land. 



Jutting out into Lake Gbamjplain from the Vermont shore 

 is a beautiful headland still covered with the primitive forest. 

 Away to the North and East, its waves now laughing and 

 rippling in the sunshine, now dashed to fury by the storm, 

 stretches the expanse of water, dotted here and there by sail 



