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FOKEST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural Histort. 

 plbucultitre, tiie protection ok (iamu, preservation of forests. 

 and tub inculcation in men and women ok a healthy interest 

 in out-doou recreation and study: 



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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



Friday, Oct. 19.— Trotting : Mystic Park, Medford; Cincinnati, O. 

 Massillon, 0.; Fleetwood Park, N. Y.; Sharon, Pa. Running meetings: 

 Nashville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N. C. Base ball: Alaska, of New York, vs. 

 Chelsea, at Centennial Grounds ; Boston vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati. 



Saturday, Oct. 20.— Trotting : Fleetwood Park, N. Y.; Sharon, Pa. 

 Base ball : Boston vs. Cincinnati, at Cincinnati ; Alaska, of New York, 

 vs. Princeton, at Centennial Grounds. 



Monday, Oct. 22.— Running meeting at Nashville, Tenn. 



Tuesday, Oct. 23.— Trotting : Dallas, Texas. 



Wednesday, Oct. 24— Trotting : Cynthiana, Ky.; Dover, N. H.; Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. Running meeting: Baltimore, Md. Base ball : Boston vs. 

 Picked Nine, at Boston. 



Thursday, Oct. 25.— Trotting as above, also at Merideo, Conn. Run- 

 ning meeting as above. 



Our Advertisements. — We are constantly in receipt of 

 queries asking if this or that advertiser or his ware is reliable^ 

 We are possessed of as fair a share of knowledge perhaps as is 

 allotted to man here, but we have not 3 r et become so omni- 

 scient as to know all that passes in this world, or to be per 

 sonally acquainted with every man, woman or child that may 

 have a dog, gun, patent medicine, mineral water, orange 

 grove, etc., to sell. While we do not willingly allow any 

 fraudulent advertisement to appear in our columns, we can 

 not he expected to stand as god-patents to our advertisers, 

 therefore we may say that it is a waste of ink and paper to 

 write us asking as to thejreliability of any nostrum or patent 

 preparation for man or beast that may appear in our columns. 

 The very fact that any article bears the impress of secret 

 composition is enough for the reader to judge from without 

 invoicing our aid. 



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— Several inquiries having been addressed to us with regard 

 to the Southern estate, advertised for lease in our columns by 

 , ' Sportsman," we are prepared to say that it is no less a pLce 

 than Palmetto Island, formerly the Gibbs plantation, near 

 Port Royal. It comprises three hundred acres, and is one of 

 the most desirable winter resorts which we have ever hail the 

 pleasure of visiting. It affords fine wild fowl and quail shoot- 

 ing and good fishing, is very accessible by steamer, and used 

 to be considered one of the ftnesj sea.-side places in the South, 



VACATION RAMBLES IN MICHIGAN, 

 WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA. 



BY THE EDTTOB. 



October 18th, 1877. 

 "piiETHREN: On the 1st of August, nearly three months 



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ago, when I reluctantly left our beloved journal in the 



fare of those gentlemen who have since proved so capable, 

 the midsummer sun was fervid in the West, ripening the 

 golden grain, whose promise of abundance has been made more 

 than good in these later days, gladdeniog the hearts of the 

 long-suffering and much-grasshoppered grangers. All over 

 the land of theOjibewas, Winnebagoes andDacotahs, (poetic 

 license allowed by actual present occupants,) the cereal wealth 

 lies garnered in barns, or piled in huge heaps, whose market 

 value is $1 per bushel, with buyers for all that is offered. 

 And wherever the harvesters have raked, the gopher disports 

 in the stubble and the prairie chickens come forth for their 

 morning and evening meals. Yea, verily ! and the Western 

 sportsman is aware of the fact. 



In the charming lake country of Michigan, and on the 

 hardwood ridges of northern Wisconsin, the acorns and hazel 

 nuts have long since shelled out from their cases, inviting the 

 deer, squirrels and the timber grouse to the "free lunch" 

 which the winds and the frostshave rattled down, and thither 

 also the hunters have wended their blilhsome way. There 

 arc ducks in the many lakes and sloughs, and the voice of the 

 wild goose is heard in the fields, and overhead, going south. 

 All through the Indian Summer, and into the grey and blus- 

 tering months of the waning Autumn, until [the water-courses 

 and reservoirs are closed by ice will there be ample work for 

 the gun, and abundant exercise for the dog. Happy the man 

 who taketh advantage of his knowledge thereof. 



The familiar apothem of the Philosopher Greeley— "Go West 

 3 r oungman,"— hasof too valuable and truthful significance to be 

 cavalierly treated. The Western country is vast ; its distances 

 look short on paper, but they are long to travel over, and 

 every mile traveled enlargeth a man's ideas, and mcreaseth 

 his respect for his fellow men as well as for himself. When the 

 wonderful cereals of the Kansas department of the great Cen- 

 tennial Exposition were displayed, the wise men of the East were 

 astounded,audthe wisdom that was in them became a3 naught 

 in the stronger light of their new revelation. And yet we have 

 tall corn in the East ! So also have we game animals and 

 birds ; and the gunner goeth forth for the same, and scouring 

 a township returneth at evening with a bag of two dozen brace, 

 but the Western chicken shooter harnesses his two-horse team, 

 and ranging over a hundred miles of prairie, bringeth home a 

 wagon-load. [Just estimates are obtained only through com- 

 parisons.] Because the grasshopers have ravaged portions of 

 States at times it does not follow that they have become an 

 engrafted and perpetual institution of the entire Western 

 country. Maps of the United States are not made nowadays 

 as they used to be a half century ago. The scale of miles is 

 different. One man cannot live all over the "Western country 

 at one time any more. A single sportsman may have suffered 

 disappointment by the scarcity of birds which the burning of 

 the grass in springtime has destroyed, or midsummer drouth 

 driven off to more favored places ; yet the whole West should 

 not be condemned as barren of game. Doubtless game has 

 disappeared by various causes from localities where it once 

 abounded ; but, nevertheless, it exists in widespread abund- 

 ance and in remarkable variety "all over." The woods, 

 grass, lakes and streams are "full of it," Having myself 

 gone through several States with the express purpose to spy 

 out the land, every facility being afforded by the railroad and 

 steamboat companies, I do not hesitate to repeat our frequent 

 admonition to everybody to "go west," if with no other ob- 

 ject than to see that new section of "our great and glorious 

 country," and enjoy the intercourse of the high-minded and 

 hospitable people who dwell there. If a man have health and 

 contentment at the East, let him abide there and seek no per- 

 manent settlement elsewhere; he is most likely to find it beneath 

 the skies of the Western sun. It is true I did not return from 

 my expedition as full-handed as did Caleb and Joshua from 

 Canaan ; I brought no testimony of the grapes, but I did take 

 many trout and grayling on the Jordan, and shot some game 

 in the promised land, including one poor rabbit, the tragedy 

 of whose death I may hereafter relate ; and if our readers will 

 only take my word for it, they may be as easily convinced 

 that th ?re is still some sport left in the West as the old time 

 unbelievers were that some good could come out of Nazareth. 



To reach the West are many and expeditious routes whose 

 comforts are as numerous as their scenery is varied and charm- 

 ing, but of all those I have travelled, none are excelled by the 

 grand old Pennsylvania Central, the great railway artery of 

 the United States. It is grand in its construction, equipment 

 and management ; grand as respects the wild mountain scenery 

 which it traverses; grand in its far-reaching connections; grand 

 in its vast pecuniary resources, and grand in its ability to 

 withstand stupendous losses without wincing. To the 

 traveler its inimitable road bed is a solid and continuous 

 assurance of safety throughout the entire length of its 

 extended line, just as the beds of its luxurious sleeping 

 cars are of comfort to the body worn by wear and tear 

 of protracted journeys. In its hotel cars excellently-cooked 

 meals are supplied at not exhorbitant rates by a civil 

 steward and well-trained colored servants. Whatever objec- 

 tion may be made to eating, sleeping and living in the same 

 apartment, 1 feel that the advantages outbid the disadvantages ; 

 and though sometimes taking the wayside eating house by 



way of a change, or when they enjoy an exceptional reputa- 

 tion for the excellence of their tables, I usually stick to my 

 post, and am fed, washed, shined, dusted and tucked into my 

 little bed by my assiduous attendant, who "gets" to know us 

 all before the journey comes to its end. One cook, whose 

 name I believe is White, although he is very black, (perhaps 

 it is Wright, but this spoils the antitheses) is not only a moat 

 excellent cook, but a most patient and pains, taking person. 1 

 never spoke to him, and he may may never know his obliged 

 admirer. Still the praise is due, and the man is worthy of 

 the bestowal. I'll take future chances on my beefsteak being 

 damaged by faint praise. 



Possibly not one in ten of the traveling public is familiar 

 with the construction of the hotel car, and so I may describe 

 the vehicle briefly as a paralelogram divided into four sections 

 by three bulkheads. One section contains a wash room.closcts 

 and steam generator. The main section is, like any other 

 sleeper, converted into seats by day and beds at night, and is 

 additionally supplied with adjustable tables, where meals arc 

 served. The incidental conveniences of this room are nu- 

 merous and grateful. The third section takes the ribbon off 

 of any yacht's galley for compactness and convenience. It 

 is divided into a cook-room, pantry, wine closet and refriger- 

 ator, and can easily supply sixty or more different orders a (a 

 carte simultaneously. The fourth section is a smoking room, 

 with sofa and easy chair. The fuel for the cook room is car- 

 ried in a box under the car. In this very comfortable car 

 we travel from New York to Chicago without change. 



As the route of this journey includes the Stales of New 

 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, 

 and a distance of something like 900 miles (the road claims to 

 be 61 miles shorter than any rival route) the objects of interest 

 along the line are very varied and numerous, embracing every 

 sort of commercial, manufacturing, mining and agricultural 

 interest. It begins with the salt water commerce and manu 

 factories of New York, Jersey City and Newark, passing over 

 alternate salt marshes and picturesque ridges of rock into the 

 undulating and bucolic lauds of New Jersey, where the straw- 

 berry, peach and sweet potato grow in their perfection ; thence 

 across several canals, pretty rivers and carefully filled farms, 

 to the great seaport of Philadelphia, with the picturesque 

 scenery of its two tributary rivers ; on through a somewhat 

 broken but most charming and fertile farming country, to Har- 

 risburg on the beautiful Susquehanna River, Then over and 

 through the Alleghany range, with its vast mining interests 

 and flaming forges, to smoky Pittsburgh, where the Alleghany 

 joins the Monongahela to form the Ohio. The intermediate 

 section contains the wildest scenery on the route, includinn- 

 the famous "Horse Shoe Curve" along the face of the moun- 

 tain. Dense forests cover the sides of the mountain, and in- 

 vite the sportsman to seek its sequestered r. cesses ; but wc 

 are told that the sound of the pick and tramway, and the roar 

 of the furnaces disturb the game. Yet we know of many 

 a placs off the main line where the ruffed grouse 

 abound, and deer can be shot without much trouble. 

 At Pittsburgh the Eastern man obtains his first 

 view of the Western river steamboats and barges of varied 

 and grotesque structures. Down the Ohio the railroad fol- 

 lows for many miles, and leaving it at Rochester, a great 

 railroad centre, stretches across the broad State of Ohio and 

 into Indiana, passing through an undulating agricultural coun- 

 try, interspersed with lakes and occasional prairies, whose 

 very name and appearance suggest to the Eastern man that 

 he must be very far from home by this time. The lakes gener- 

 ally afford good hess fishing, and woodcock and quail can be 

 flushed on many a farm. As I stated in a former letter this 

 section is generally posted, but with permission of the propri- 

 etors the sportsman can often fill his bag. Passing into Indi- 

 ana the prairies become more frequent, suggesting "chickens.'' 

 By this time the sportsman begins to talk dog and gun freely 

 with newly made acquaintances, and possibly does not desist 

 until the midnight tr/lin hustles him into Fori Wayne, where 

 he must change cars if he is bound for Northern Michigan, 

 If his destination be central or northern Wisconsin, he can 

 take all rail »«i Chicago and Milwaukee, or to Grand Rapids 

 and Grand Haven via Grand Rapids and Indiana and Detroit 

 and Milwaukee railroads, and there take steamer across Lake 

 Michigan to Milwaukee, a route to which I would give sum- 

 mer preference, as it enables the tourists to see very much of 

 three cities which have a deserved reputation as points of in- 

 terest. 



As I am bound for the northern peninsula of Michigan, to 

 the very end of the route, I shall leave the Pennsjivania Cen- 

 tral here at Fort Wayne. I can lie over until the early morn- 

 ing train, or I can take a day to see the place and hunt up 

 the boys. There is a "sleeper" in case one prefers to go 

 right on through by the night train. 



I have already told you something of my visit at Fort 

 Wayne over Sunday, but I have not told you how I found out 

 the boys. I had never lain over here before, and had Omitted 

 to bring a memorandum of their names. It was an omission 

 that occasioned me much annoyance. An inquiry at the 

 hotel office for the sportsmen's club elicited no information, 

 except that it had disbanded and no one seemed to know who 

 had been members of it. I got no assistance in this direction, 

 therefore. Hunting the daily paper through, I failed t0 dis- 

 cover one single name that was familirr, and as a last resort 

 I slipped into the shade of a second story verandah and began 

 to search through the town directory, page by page, alphabeti- 

 cally, occasionally taking a look at the pretty Opin squaie in 

 front "f me and at passing church goers, quite interested in 

 spite of my loneliness and the niidsuimmr k h6at. Accidental! 



