FOREST AND STREAM. 



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rock, and lie is always among the most reliable of rifle- 

 i. His brilliant scores have been brought about by hard 

 ■ork, combined with good judgment. 

 Score at 800 yards, 143; 900 yards, 144; 1,000 yards, 134 

 'otal,431. 



ISAAC 1KR0Y ALLKU. 



This gentleman is a New Yorker, and is now in his thirty- 

 fth year. In rifle shooting he now occupies a most dis- 

 nguished position. In coolness, absence of flurry and 

 ;e adiness he ha9 no equal. His build is slight, but he is well 

 at together, and has clear blue eyes. Mr. Allen's position 

 i the recumbent one, with the butt of his rifle under his arm, 

 le left hand grasping his barrel. 



Score at 800 yards, 141; 900 yards, 139; 1,000 yards, 139. 

 otal, 419. 



UEKUERT S. JEWELL. 



Mr. Jewell, like the majority of the team, is a New Yorker, 

 ad is to-day about, thirty-three years of age. In height Mr. 

 ewell is some, five feet six inches, weighs about 150 pounds, 

 ad has blue eyes, with light hair. Mr. Jewell is Major of 

 he Second Division N. G. S. N. Y., being Inspector of Rifle 

 'ractiee. Mr. "Jewell's labors in rifle shooting have been long, 

 ndthe position he has assumed among leading American 

 tflemen is due to steady practice. 



Score at 800 yard3, 143; 900 yards, 131; 1,000 yards, 145. 

 -<tol, 419. 



FRANK rr*T>E. 

 Mr. Hyde was born in Connecticut, and has a height of 

 iTne six feet four inches, weighs 220 pounds, and is about 

 Tljy-two y ear a f age.. Mr. Hyde was once engaged in 

 iiwnalism, and when the civil war broke out, enlisted in the 

 ifth Wisconsin Volunteers. Mr. Hyde has had a good deal 

 • practice, and is counted among our steadiest shots. Very 

 Wl and deliberate, misfortune has no effect upon him. Mr. 

 [yde's scores are invariably excellent, and he can always be 

 ilied upon for a high average at all distances. 

 Score at 800 yards, 143; 900 yards, 138; 1,000 yards, 133. 

 Total, 414. 



W. H. JACKSON. 



Mr. Jackson entered the service of the United States, April, 

 i861, as Lieutenant in the First Battalion of Infantry, which 

 ifterwards became the Thirteenth Regiment Massachusetts 

 Volunteers. For personal bravery Lieutenant Jackson was 

 tromoted to a Captaincy. In December he took part in the 

 mgagements at Winchester and Sugar Mountain, at Rappa- 

 jannock Station and Thoroughfare Gap. Mr. Jackson was 

 lischarged for disability in March, 1863, and returned to his 

 profession of civil engineer, going to Colorado in 1864. Re- 1 

 Jinring to Boston in 1868, he has ever since been engaged in 

 engineering duties. Mr. Jackson first commenced rifle shoot- 

 ing in the spring of 1876, at 200 yards, off-hand. His long- 

 range practice only dates from the spring of 1877. Mr. Jack- 

 son is six feet and one-half inch in height, and weighs some 

 215 pounds, has dark hair and dark eyes, His age is about 

 forty-five. Bib physique is superb, and Mr. Jackson is among 

 our steadiest riflemen. 



Score at 800 yards, 139; 900 yards, 135; 1, 000 yards, 133. 



Total, 407. 



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WHERE WE DIFFER FROM COL. PEEL. 



We beg to call attention to some oversights in Lieut. -Col. 

 C. L. Peel's letter of the 8th October, which we copied from 

 the Volunteer Service Gazette, and which letter appeared in 

 our last issue. The gallant executive officer of the English 

 N. R. A., we are pretty sure, makes several mistakes in this 

 paragraph. Perhaps Colonel Peel was wrongly informed : 



They (the Americans) load their cartridges on the gr -,und. 

 inserting the bullet, which has a lubricated paper ? iapper, 

 but tto wad, very slightly (l-16th of an inch only) into the 

 shell. Old shells ate considered the best until they get out of 

 shape. Some men prefer, for match purposes, those that 

 have been used twice, others thrice ; and some, I understand, 

 use the same shell over and over again. 



In the first place, as a rule, ninety-nine times in a hundred 

 cartridges are not loaded on the ground. The bullet has not 

 a lubricated paper wrapper, it is the barrel which is lubri- 

 cated, and not the paper. Again, Col. Peel says there is " no 

 wad." In the International match Messrs. Jewell, Blyden- 

 burg, Allen, Bruce and Hyde all used wads, and always use 

 them. Again, Colonel Peel says, "Old shells are considered 

 the best until they get out of shape. " The opinion of all the 

 leading American riflemen is that new shells are the best. We 

 have not just now the opportunity to find out how many of 

 the team used old cartridges, as some of the gentlemen do not 

 reside in New York; but we are quite positive that those 

 using old shells were very much in the minority. We know 

 that Messrs. Jewell arid Blydenburgh used new shells. The 

 b<»t shooting with a Remington is supposed to be brought out 

 with new shells. But a Sharp can use old shells. Mr. Allen 

 did use old shells. The use of old shells is rather exceptional 

 than general, where great accuracy, as at a match, is wanted. 

 We think it is Mr. Rigby who says that the American 

 breech-loader is a kind of hybrid arm, loading at the muzzle. 

 We suppose this statement has its origin in the fact that Mr. 

 Webber did load in this way at the muzzle. The reason for 

 this was because Mr. Webber had had no time to prepare his 

 cartridges. 



We advance these statements with no idea of finding the 



least fault with Colonel Peel's admirable letter, but m that 



we may throw all the possible light we can on the subject. If 



ever a new match takes place, which we sincerely trust may 



- we want our:; r . all if armed 



J 



nn every point. The ■ question of dirty powder, very much 

 commented upon by English experts, is truly stated. We do 

 use, and purposely, a slow burning powder, which leaves its 

 traces behind in the barrel. And why ? Because it not only 

 produces the best effects, but is cheap. It makes no matter 

 of difference in our breech-loading system what kind of powder 

 is^used, because, with a great deal of practical good sense, our 

 breecb-loading rifle manufacturers make arms which can be 

 easily and thoroughly cleaned. Absolutely accurate scientific 

 rifle shooting, in which we excel, necessitates one system of 

 loading with peculiar charges, while a military arm wants some- 

 thing else. Our breech-loading military arms, we can inform 

 Colonel Peel, can be fired an indefinite number of times, and 

 are made on the same principles as the Remington and Sharps; 

 and they never clog. We do not entertain the idea that 

 American target rifles have any lower trajectory than the 

 Rigby or Metford, but we do behove that the improved 

 Springfield rifle, such as are furnished to our regular army, 

 has a lower trajectory than the arms used by the British Regu- 

 lars. Certainly our ordnance officers think so, and have pub- 

 lished statements to that effect, not in so many words, but in 

 their reports on the various trajectories made by the different 

 rifles used in foreign service. 



$e& and ^iver <$ishitig. 



FISH IN SEASON IN DECEMBER. 



Slaok Bass, Nit ropterm salmoides; Yellow Perch, Perca fimesccm. 



M. nigricans. Bea Bass, Scicenop* oedlatns. 



PUfe or Pickerel, Esox luciua. White Perch, Morone americana. 



Fish in Market.— Bass, large, 25 cents per pound ; small, 

 20; smelts, 20; bluefish, 15; salmon, frozen, 30; mackerel, 

 30; shad, fl.50 cents each; weakflsh, 15 cents; Spanish 

 mackerel, 30 ; green turtle, 20; terrapin, $15 a dozen; frost- 

 fish, 8 cents per pound ; halibut, 18 ; haddock, 6 ; codfish, 6 

 to 8 ; blackfish, 12 to 15 ; flounders, 12i ; eels, 18 ; lobsters, 

 10; sheepshead, 25; scallops, $1.50 per gallon ; soft clams, 

 per 100, 30 to 60 cents ; whiteflsh, 20 ; pickerel, 15 ; sunfish, 

 10; salmon trout, 18 ; hard crabs, per 100, $3.00. 



A few bluefish have been taken off the coast of North Caro- 

 lina. They are the first captured this winter. Shad and a 

 few sheepshead are arriving by steamer from Savannah. Cod 

 very plenty off Rockaway. 



A Pound Net.— That our readers may understand just 

 what a pound net is, of which special complaint is made in 

 another part of this issue, we republish the following descrip- 

 tion and illustration from the Winona (N. J.) Advance: 



by the owners with a large boat, which is taken into pound B, 

 the net "pursed up" and the fish scooped out. Immense 

 quantities of fish are in this way prevented from reaching the 

 streams emptying into the bay. 



Movements of toe Fishing Fleet. — The arrivals the past, 

 week have been confined to seven vessels from the Banks, 

 three from Georges, one from the Bay St. Lawrence, and two 

 from off shore mackereling trips. Total number of arrivals," 

 13. The receipts have been about 135,000 lbs. Bank halibut, 

 30,000 lbs. Georges cod, 145 bbls. Bay mackerel, and 35 bbls. 

 Shore mackerel. The Bay fleet are all in, end there is but one 

 more Shore mackerelman to arrive. There are four Bankers 

 still absent on salt trips, and the fleet seeking halibut Is small. 

 — Cape Ann Advertiser, Dee. 7. 



New York— South 'Brooklyn, Bee. 4. — The Warrior Fish- 

 ing Club made their annual fishing excursion to Fire Island 

 to-day, and between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. took 

 100 codfish, aggregating a weight of over 800 lbs. 



Iowa — Anamosa, Bee. 6. — We are informed that n man 

 living near Storm Spring, some distance up the Wapsie, last 

 week speared three California salmon averaging seven pounds 

 each. — The Eureka. 



—We have seen the split bamboo rods advertised by Mr. 

 Holberton, in another column, and, as far as we can judge, 

 they are all that they are represented to be. 



Manufacture of Fish Hooks. — How long ago fish hooks 

 were made in and around Redditch, in England, no one 

 knows, possibly contemporaneous with the manufacture of 

 needles ; certainly for the last two centuries. Redditch fish 

 hooks have been famous, not only for ocean fishing, but for 

 whipping streams for the dainty trout. Quite possibly Dame 

 Berners or Izaak Walton used good Redditch fish hooks. The 

 making of fish hooks has to be a very precise and particular 

 business. After the best steel wire has been cut into lengths, 

 the barb, or, as it is technically called, the beard, is cut with a 

 chisel or a sharp tool under proper guides and guards to pre- 

 vent it going too deep. Then the point is filed, the bend 

 made (and there is no end of bends) and the shank is either 

 marked, notched, flatted or looped. Then the hook is tem- 

 pered, scoured and blued. Does this end the business ? No, 

 not by a great deal. „. Reader, did you ever strike a good sized 

 fish, say a salmon, and feeling your line growing taut, twang- 

 ing like a violin string, suddenly become aware of something 

 limp and loose in your line ? Then when you reel up, and 

 the horrible fact becomes visible that your hook h*s broken 

 in twain ! were you profane on such an occasion ? We tuist 

 not. Well, to guard against any such accidents, all reliable 

 fish-hook makers test hooks, giving to each one a strain twioe 

 as powerful as it is supposed any hook can ever be put to. 

 Just such hooks as we describe are manufactured at Redditch 

 by Joseph Warren at the Eagle Mills; and Messrs. Abbey & 

 Imbrie, 48 Maiden Lane, are the sole agents in the Doited 

 States for the needles, and most particularly for the fish 

 hooks. 



H Conditions fob Bass Fishing. — In a number of your paper 

 dated Nov. 15, "Splasher" recommends sportsmen to give 

 more of their experience in fishing, as to weather, bait, time, 

 etc., and I think he expresses the wish of a large number of 

 your readers who are levers of the sport. In regard to shin- 

 ers for bait, I prefer them during the month of October, but 

 for September, I think helgramites the best, especially in 

 fishing small streams where you can fish the entire stream 

 from the shore. I always prefer to catch my bait as near the 

 fishing grounds as possible, as you are more apt to get the 

 kind of bait the fish prefer. In regard to small versus large 

 minnows, I had a like experience to that described by 

 "Splasher." 



It was about the 1st of September, the water was colored a lit- 

 tle, but not muddy. My minnows, with the exception of three 

 or four, were small, probably an inch long. My largest fish 

 were taken with the small minnows. I used my large min- 

 nows first, but took only fish weighing probably a half pound, 

 although I took some weighing four and a quarter pounds. 



In your answers to correspondents, "Splasher" asks the 

 best way to hook the living helgramite. My method is to put 

 it on the ground with the head toward you, place a finger of 

 the left hand on the cap of the neck, and with the right hand 

 iusert the point of the hook under the cap of neck from be- 

 hind forward till the barb comes through next the head on the 

 same side. If hooked carefully it does not injure the life of 

 the bait. 



Let us hear from other fishermen more about black Ifass, 

 their habits, how to catch them, bait, etc. Enthusiast. 



Worms for Bait.— -A correspondent sends us this memo 

 randum of an enterprising worm seller : "In the summer of 

 1875, when at Lake Tahoe, a large expanse of water 6, 00ft 

 feet above the sea, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains, I observed at a small landing the following in- 

 scription on a sign board : ' Boats and fishing lines to hire ; 

 angleworms for sale at 25 cents per dozen.' " 



MARSH 



The line A represents a. net of about six hundred feet in 

 length, stretched across one of the channels. The dots along 

 the line represent strong wooden stakes, driven firmly into the 

 mud or sand, and upon which a net is supported and extending 

 from the bottom of the channel to the surface of the water. 



B represents a net surrounding a space of probably half an 

 acre, firmly secured to stakes at the end of line A, the net being 

 so arranged as to be drawn up something like a purse. 



C represents the wings of the net, staked out so as to aid in 

 conducting the fish into B. . 



At the junction of the lines A and C there is a small funnel- 

 shaped opening through which the fish are conducted into the 

 pound B, and when in there are unable, to get out. 



Thefish in moving about follow the channels usually, this 

 net being set across the channel so that when the fish are mov- 

 ing up with the flood-tide or flown with the ebb they strike 

 the net on line A, and naturally swimming along to find a 

 place- either to get around it or through it are conducted into 

 ad' B. 



This devsce for the depletion of waters of; Ash is kept for 

 Kionths in place and visited e ?$ry dsy, sometimes twiw 



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The Literature of Advertisements. — A gentleman, high 

 in office in the U. S. Treasury Department at Washington, 

 volunteers to say, casually, in a private letter to the editor : 



By the way, your advertisements are a very interesting feature of 

 the paper. I am certain that I read each one in each issue, not be- 

 cause 1 expect to buy everything or anytliiug, but because It Is a 

 pleasure to know what articles and kinds of articles are made, and 

 where, etc. ^ 



We make no especial reference to holiday goods, as most 

 journals do ; we simply invite a general examination of bur 

 columus. Any person desiring presents for wives, husbands, 

 sons and daughters or mothers-in-law, will find as varied an 

 assortment there as in any other journal whatsoever, and the 

 goods are most invariably of a better quality than those ad- 

 vertised in miscellaneous sheets. 



— " Tis the work 

 Of many a dark hour and of many a prayer 

 To bring the heart back from an infant gone," 

 Bfiigs a poet. Well ? there would be less need of this effort if parents 

 exerrinefl more care in certain little matters. For example, by using 

 B. T, Babbitt's Toilet 8oap they obviate the possibility of certain dis, 

 easea ftat insidiously come in through the skin. The hygienic parity 

 and emoliteEae of this, new toilet soap maKe it a mos^ aestr&hla thing 



