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FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 

 Fish Culture, the Protection of Game, Preservation of Forests, 

 and the inculcation in men and women of a hjsaltht interest 

 in Out-Door Kbckeation and Study : 



PUBLISHED BY 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1877. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, intended for publication, must be ac- 

 companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith, 

 and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 

 Names will not be published if objection be made. No anonymous con 

 tributions will be regarded. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 

 . Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions. 



Nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that may 

 not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



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 remitted to us Is lost. No person whatever is authorized to collect 

 money for us unless he can show authentic credentials from one of the 

 undersigned. We have no Philadelphia agent. 



t&~ Trade supplied by American News Company. 

 CHARLES lTAXVLOCK, Editor. 



T. C. BANKS, 

 Business Manager. 



. S. H. TURRILL, Chicago, 



Western Manager. 



No More Yellow Fever in Florida. — Jacksonville, Fla., 

 Dep. 1. — Thermometer 29 degrees. Ice two mornings. Disease 

 ended. Health proclaimed over the land. Au Feesco. 



Blooming Geote Park Association Reception. — A re- 

 ception and ball will be given by the Blooming Grove Park 

 Association to the founder and former President, Mr. Fayette 

 8. Giles, at the Hoffman House, New York, Tuesday evening, 

 Jan. 8, 1878. The Floor Committee are : Dr. E. Bradley, 

 Dudley Field, John Avery, Geo. H. Glenney, Hamilton 

 Busbey, Josepb Dore', Geo. A. Reed and J. W. B. Hughes. 

 Reception Committee : John Avery, Dudley Field, Ed. Brad- 

 ley, Geo. II. Glenney, Sanders D. Bruce, Hamilton Busbey, 

 Chas. Hallock, E. A. Buck, Joseph D ire", A. H. Wellington, 

 E. R. Wilbur, T. W. B. Hughes, C. H. Read, Simon Sterne, 

 P. M. Wilson, M. B. Browne, Geo. S. Greene. Tickets can 

 be obtained of the following gentlemen: Dr. E. Bradley, 

 Hoffman House ; Dr. Geo. H. Glenney, 45 W. 31st; Chas. 

 Hallock, 237 Gates Ave., Brooklyn, and of members. 



Auction Sale of Angling and Sporting Wokes.— The 

 Messrs. Leavitt will sell on Wednesday and Thursday even- 

 ing, Dec. 5th and 6th, at Clinton nail, a remarkable collection 

 of angling and sporting works. Not only are all the modern 

 writers on fkhing topics to be found, but there are rare copies 

 of the oldest writers. Among them we may mention Blome 

 on Hawking, Fowling, Fishing, of 16S6; Oppian'sCaialogue of 

 Fishes (very scat ce), 1722; a superb Scrope, with lovely prints, 

 1843; and, most notable of all, a Belloni, Be Aquatilibus,ot 1553. 

 This rare old copy formerly belonged to William Penn, and 

 bears his autograph, with notes of an early date. The whole 

 field of natural history and of sporting is represented at this 

 sale, and amateurs should not miss the opportunity. 



— Messrs. Tiffany & Co., who always produce everything 

 with the most exquisite taste, have just issued a pretty little 

 brochure, which is suggestive of ""What shall we buy for 

 Christmas and New Year's?" In this dainty book may be found 

 the. whole catalogue of the many beautiful things exposed for 

 sale, by Messrs. Tiffany & Co., at their extensive establish- 

 ment on Union Square. Will you purchase a gorgeous dia- 

 mond, the rival' of the Koh-ri-noor? Tiffany & Co. will sell 

 it you. Do you want a simple napkin ring ? at Tiffany's you 

 will find it. Somewhat curiously inclined (from the pages 

 of their pretty book) we make this alphabetical index: You 

 can buy, Amethysts, Bon-bon boxes, Candlesticks, Diamonds, 



Emeralds, Fans, Gems, Hymnals, Ivory combs, Jet orna- 

 ments, Knives, Liquor flasks, Marine glasses, Nail boxes, 

 Onyx jewelry, Pearls, Q'riosities, Rubies, Silver sugar 

 bowls, Teapots, Urns, Vinaigrettes, Watches, X'tra fine 

 plated sets, Yacht prizes, with Zeal on the part of the most 

 attentive employees in the coantry, who are desirous of pleas- 

 ing all tastes and purses. 



GERMAN SPORTING LITERATURE. 



WE beg to announce to our readers, especially our nu- 

 merous German fiiends, that Mr. Fr. von Ivernois, so 

 well and favorably known to them as the editor of the German 

 sporting paper, the Waidmann, has purchased the controlling 

 interest in the Deutschen Jagdzeitung, and has assumed its edi- 

 torship. 



The first two numbers of the Deutschen Jagdzeitung, an illus- 

 trated journal devoted to the sports of the flood and field, pre 

 now before us. Our confrere, who is not enly a Bportsman 

 of rare merit, combines with the soundest practical knowledge 

 a positive amount of scientific acquirements, which enables 

 him to discuss, a fond, questions of Natural History. The 

 illustrations in tne Jagdzeitung have that peculiar exc -Hence) 

 with faithfulness as to details, which only German artists can 

 execute. 



We believe that among our German citizens throughout the 

 United States Mr. Von Ivernois' Deutsche Jagdzeitung will have 

 a wide circulation. In its well written pages will be found 

 many admirable records of hunting ; and it must be pleasant 

 for its readers to compare thus intelligibly the hunting events 

 of their Fatherland with similar scenes in the count ry of their 

 adoption. 



To Herr Von Ivernois we are ourselves indebted, not only 

 for a great deal of sound information, but for many acts of 

 courtesy. The Jagdzeitung is published in Eilenburg, Prussia. 



REMINISCENCES OF THE CINCINNATI 

 ANGLER'S CLUB. 



PLEASANT is it to recall the history of a famouB club 

 which was formed in Cincinnati as long ago as 1829, and 

 was called the Cincinnati Angler's Club. Eighteen huudred 

 and twenty-nine ! Then John Quincy Adams was president. 

 Sometimes, in looking back almost half a century, it is neces- 

 sar}' to get at some fixed historical date in order to appreciate 

 the time long since past. Now, just fourteen years before 

 this club originated, Waterloo had been fought and Europe 

 was still feeling the effects of this mortal shock. Men were 

 hale and hearty then who, as members of the Cincinnati Ang- 

 ling Club, had fought with Old Hickory at New Orleans. 



It was Lewis Howell, an excellent angler, a good merchant 

 and an honest man, who was the first president. Let us look 

 over the names of the honorary member-'. We find in the 

 list, Gov. McArthur, of Ohio, Hon. James Hall, the Hon. M. 

 Bibb, General Leslie Combs (still alive, and grandfather of 

 Mr. Bruce, of the Turf, Field and Farm), and grand old Daniel 

 Webster. Here is a letter of Mr. Webster's, preserved in the 



archives of the club : 



Boston, October 3, 1831. 

 Dear Sir— I had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 27th of 

 August, transmitting the official certificate of my membership in the 

 "Cincinnati Angling Club." I pray you, my dear sir, to present to 

 the members uiy thanks for the honor of this admission among thtir 

 number. It I should ever accomplish a purpose long entertained of 

 visiling Ohio, it will give me pleasure to try the quality of their sports. 

 Meanwhile, should any Cincinnati "brother of the rod" visit these 

 risings of the sun, he would And glad companions for a day's exercise 

 among the granite brooks of New England, or on the bosom of its 

 greatest boundary. With many thanks for your personal civility and 

 kindness, I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, 



Daniel Webster. 



Of course, as fishing and hospitality go hand in hand, and 

 seeing much water produces great hunger and unquenchable 

 thirst, a grand dinner had to be given under the auspices of 

 th8 Cincinnati Angler's Club in 1830, on the occasion of its 

 anniversary. If the great constitutional expounder had gone 

 to that dinner undoubtedly he would have fed well, and more 

 lhan one bottle of rare old Madeira would have fallen to his 

 share. It was Mr. Benjamin Drake, an invited guest, then 

 publisher of the Cincinnati Chronicle, who made the speech, 

 and a famous discourse it was, and "Honest Old Izaak Wal- 

 ton " was spoken of with reverence. This association of gen- 

 tlemen, held together by those pleasant bonds which always 

 unite anglers, had, in 1857, another notable event. Fishing 

 and feasting were in order, and the junkeling took place at 

 White Water, some twenty miles from the City of Cincinnati. 

 Three hundred and fifty-three bass and salmon trout were 

 captured. Certainly the dinner was a good one, for we learn 

 that the ichthyologieal piece de resistance was a noble bass 

 captured by the president of the club. 



It is an original member of the club who sends us various 

 cuttings from contemporaneous Cincinnati journals telling us 

 the story of this good old club, and from these sparse data we 

 have written. Every now and then, amid the accounts of the 

 fishing and jollity, there appears this paragraph— alas ! too of- 

 ten repealed : "This was said, or done, by our late lamented 

 fellow member, whose death occurred some years ago ;" and 

 so it goes, records of life and death mingled together. As 

 with cheerful and sad feelings we read then the story of this 

 club, we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that, for a 

 brief period iu life, these brave old brethren of the rod had a 

 good time of it. It is, then, with pleasure that we give the 

 records of a good old club, whose memory, we trust, will not 

 pass away. 



A Game Dinner.— They had a famous banquet in Chicago 

 the other day, the savory odor whereof was sniffed as far East 

 as the New York World office, and its olfactories being agree- 

 ably tickled that journal is moved to publish the bill of fare : 



The excellent Mr. John B. Drake, proprietor of the Grand 

 Pacific Hotel at Chicago, perhaps better known before the 

 great fire to travelers as the manager of theTremont House, baa 

 for the past twenty-two years given an annual "game dinner " 

 which has gro wn from a supper for a small parly of friends up to 

 a Banquet ot 500 covers, with guests prestnt from every part 

 of the country. The position of Cuicago ou the prairies and 

 within easy reach anke of the seaboard ana the great plains 

 gives her gastronomes exceptional advantages, since she can 

 command at once the oysters of New Jersey and New York 

 # Tir . ot ' Marylaild ' the prairie chickens and wild turkeys 

 ot Illinois— Judge Caton has, we believe, succeeded in domes- 

 ticating these birds-and the ventsonof the Rooky Mountains 

 Here is the menu of the last game dinner, given'a lew days 

 ago, without the vegetables, salads, pastry and desert, as an 

 illustration of the resources of this country in the way of fish 

 and game: J 



Oysters in shell. 



SOOT. 



Gam <>- Bouillon. 



FISH. 



Baked red snapper. Broiled whitefisb. 



BOmED. 



Leg of mountain sheep. Hatn of b!aok bewv 



Buffalo tongue. Wild turkey. 



BOAST. 



Saddle of antelope. Loin of butfalo. 



Loon. Woodchnck. Canvas back duok 



Prame chicken. Wild goose. Black duck. 



t>, , u Green " winged teal . Bedhead <luck. 



Black bear. Blue-winged teal. Spot ted grouse. 



t> « , Blue-billed widgeon. Wild turkey. 



Buffed grouse, Opossum. Ler of elk 



Saddle of black-tail deer. B \ 



BBOH.ED. 



Jack snipe Quail. Fox Squirrel 



Gray squirrel. Heed bird. Paririd-e 



Plover. Sand snipe. Redsouinel. 



KNTKEES. 



Squirrel, saute, port wine sauce. 



Buffalo steak, with jelly. Vsubou pie, hunter style 



Stewed terrapin, en caisses. 



Fricassee of rabbit, anx champignons. 



Eecaloped oysters. Wild pigeon compote. 



, Salmi of game, with olives. 



COLD OENAMJSNTAIi DISHES. 



Wild turkey, en nid. Boast hare on socle. 



Quail in plumage. Prairie chicken, au natu>-6l 



Boned partridge in feather. Duck, trnffe on socle. 



Fox squirrel. Blackbird in plumage. 



Galantine ot grouse. Snipe in marsh. 



Stuffed coon, au nature!. 



Sustain Established Sporting Papees.— There are 

 now in the "United States five sporting journals which 

 have been in existence four years and upward, and 

 "may therefore be reasonably considered as established and 

 permanent. They are recognized as the representatives of the. 

 especial interests which they severally espouse, and as 

 authority in all matters pertaining to them. By push and 

 pluck and self-denial, by study, acquisition and experience, by 

 much outlay of money, by inculcating out-door tastes and cul- 

 tivating patronage, by personal intercourse and familiar cor- 

 respondence with leading intelligences in all the States and 

 Provinces, they have succeeded in securing the confidence of 

 their constituents and the public, and placing themselves upon 

 the firm basis which they now occupy. If there is any 

 specialty in the field of sport, or physics, or uatural history, that 

 some one of these journals does not occupy, we are too blind to 

 discover it. If there is any field of occupation that some one 

 of these is not qualified to fill, we fail to see it. If there is 

 one intellect so brilliant, or one mind and body so versed and 

 habituated by travel and familiar converse with Datura! and 

 physical objects, as to be able to eclipse the luminaries that 

 now shed their light over the sporting world, it has not yet 

 appeared. The star in the East certainly has not risen. 



The field of journalism is precarious, and especially of 

 sporting journalism, which bears the same relation to our 

 business economy that luxuries do to necessities. The demand 

 ceases when the want is supplied. If we estimate the number 

 of sportsmen's clubs in the country, and the numbers of mem- 

 bers thereof ; if we calculate thewi umbers of those persous who 

 merely travel for recrea ion, and add the very considerable 

 class whose tastes are no more than aesthetic, we may approxi- 

 mately reach the extent of the constituency upon which our 

 present established papers have to depend for support. We 

 can prove that it is scarcely large enough to yield each paper 

 a livelihood. A test of ten years of joint experience long 

 since convinced the proprietors of the Rod and Gun and 

 the Fokest and Stkeam that the field was not wide enough 

 for them both. One representative journal of their peculiar 

 class at the West and one at the East we felt ought to suuply 

 all WTmts in their direction ; so they united. 



But other minus more perspicacious think differently, it 

 seems. Within a month no less than six (!) sporting journals 

 have been started as bidders for a division of the patronage 

 bestowed upon the old papers. We have no particular ob- 

 jection to their darting, nrr to their learning the lessen which 

 experience has taught wiser men before them. The fittest wilt 

 certainly survive. But unless Ihere is positive assurance or 

 reason to believe that any of the new aspirants will till the bill 

 better than the old papers, then it is impolitic for sportsmen 

 to take from the old to give to lhe new, for it makes the first 

 poorer and the other it does not enreb. Does the public 

 actually have more faith in the glittering promises of the 

 new ventures than it does in the tried performances of fixed 

 facts? If so, how nisny years is it willing to wait for the 

 proof that their judgment is sound and their confiderce cor- 

 rectly bestowed? Journals are net established in a day, and 

 success is as rare as gold nuggets in a placer. 



