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until now we have tvv enty-eight, some of them almost large enough for 
Cnnarders. Each spring these vessels have attacked the seals in all con¬ 
ditions and under all circumstances. They have killed thousands of 
pregnant mothers, torn the living, breathing and bawling foetus from its 
nest and left it to perish. Thousands of ‘cats’ have been brought in, few 
if any being left for purposes of propagation. In the last four years over 
2 000.000 seals have been brought to port and converted into oil, but for 
each'one so legitimately utilized, at least ten have been slaughtered. So 
that over 20,000,000 seals have been in various ways destroyed the past 
four years. We are now beginning to feel a heavy drain upon our 
funded capital. Our stock of specie has pretty nigh fun out, and this ' 
spring the seals proved to be like the Irishman’s flea, ‘You put your 
fiivmAipon him, but he isn’t there.’ I do not think our catch of seals 
for'the spring will exceed 180,000, and they of very inferior quality—that 
is. too young to pay for the taking. No one regrets the failure, as it was 
i list what was needed to punish the inhuman greed and selfishness of 
our capitalists. We all fervently hope and pray that no steamer will 
ever again get a catch of seals. The Canadian steamers are still very 
unfortunate, but have done better than ever before. The ‘Iceland’ has 
brought in 2,400 and the ‘Greenland’ 5,300, and both have gone on second 
trips.” _ 
the SEAWANHAKA YACHT CLUB’S 
CORINTHIAN CUP. 
W E call the attention of our readers to the circular letter 
of the Scawanhaka Yacht Club which has been sent 
to the owners of ail schooners belonging to any of the recog¬ 
nized yacht clubs in the country, and we trust that it will 
meet with the ready response which the Club so thorougly 
deserves for its enterprise and energy in introducirg in our 
waters the system of “Corinthian racing.” In all yacht 
clubs may be found two distinct classes of members; first, 
those men whose ambition is satisfied with the possession 
of a well appointed yacht, the knowledge that they have it 
in their power to hire competent officers and crew and plen- 
ti fully supply their larder, and to whom the power of dis¬ 
criminating between the bow and stern of their vessels does 
not appear a matter of the slightest possible consequence; 
and secondly, we have men who either are or desire to be 
sailors, and who, if they have captains, are capable of deter¬ 
mining whether the prospective “dusty” weather of said 
captains upon occasions, means engagements ashore, who 
delight in sailing and navigating their own vessels, or if 
they are not fortunate enough to possess yachts would 
volunteer with alacrity to man those of their friends upon 
just such an occasion as will be the race referred to. 
For the first-class, Corinthian racing will do nothing, for by 
their ignorance they are excluded from participating; but 
for the yachtsmen, it will do everything; practice under 
these circumstances will make of them hardy, active, and 
daring seamen. The circular will be found under the 
head of Yachting and Boating and will explain itself. 
West Jersey Game Protective Society. —The Pres¬ 
ident of the West Jersey Game Protective Society has 
kindly forwarded to us the following report of its last an¬ 
nual meeting. We are pleased to see the business energy 
manifested by this society, and to know that it has taken 
the initiative in the important movement of introducing the 
pinnated grouse once more into New Jersey. There is 
much activity displayed by individual members and the 
society is generally in a very flourishing condition, number¬ 
ing 250 members and receiving constant accessions. Mr. 
Rosenbaum informs us that he shall endeavor to get at least 
twenty-five pairs of grouse next fall to be placed in Burling¬ 
ton county, and should the Philadelphia Club do anything 
in that direction we are quite sure that within a very few 
years we shall be able to have fair sport in certain localities. 
Under the new game law no game can be shot in New 
Jersey until November 1, 1880—penalty for killing $50. 
There should be no difficulty therefore, in propagating this 
particular bird, if any attention at all is paid toward looking 
after them after they are placed:— 
Camden, N. J., April 22, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The annual meeting of the West Jersey Game Protective Society was 
held at the West Jersey Hotel, in Camden, on the 15th mat. Quite a 
large number of members were present, the city of Philadelphia being 
largely represented. A marked interest in the object of the Society was 
evinced, and the methods of propagation and protection of game and 
game fish freely discussed. The secretary was ordered to issue 2,000 
copies of the late ‘Act Consolidating and Amending the Game Laws of 
the State.” The following resolution was adopted, and ordered to be 
sent to the Forest and Stream for publication:— 
Besolved , That this Society will heartily co-operate with the different 
Game Protective organizations in any movement looking toward the in¬ 
troduction of pinnated grouse, and that a committee of three be appoint¬ 
ed to confer with the different societies in order to effect that object. 
The following gentlemen were thereupon appointed that committee: 
B. W. Richards, 524 Walnut street, Philadelphia; Henry G. Smith, 
Philadelphia, and W. B. Rosenbaum, Malaga, N. J. Hastily yours, 
West Jerset. 
Herewith we append some remarks from our valued 
correspondent “Homo,” respecting the co-operation of the 
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Sportsmens’ 
Clubs, in the purchase of the pinnated and sharp-tailed 
grouse: 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Before the Sportsmens’ Clubs and Game Protective Associations of 
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, move further in regard to re¬ 
stocking our eastern barrens with pinnated and sharp-tailed grouse, it 
behooves the New Jersey Society to so modify their law as to allow 
those clubs joining and furnishing their money in the joint enterprise, 
to have free access, in proper time and season, to the game their friends 
have purchased, and to modify the present non-resident tax on sports¬ 
men, especially as to shooting p.airie chickens. 
It stands to reason there can be no co-operation of the societies unless 
they are one in the enterprise, and I fear without a mutual arrangement 
can be made (I do not speak officially) the Philadelphia Club will feel 
more like -‘planting” their birds in the Pennsylvania, Pocono, and York 
barrens, where the pinnated grouse once, thrived as well as they did in 
New Jersey, than consenting to attempt it in the latter State at all. Bur¬ 
lington county, outside of the jurisdiction of the West Jersey Society, 
would be chosen. 
To illustrate how one-sided the matter would be if a free license 
*would not be granted to the Philadelphia Club for the shooting of 
grouse, I would mention that our Philadelphia law gives members of the 
New Jersey Society permission to shoot all game, in proper season, in 
any portion of the State, and which would include prairie chickens and 
sharp-tailed grouse, when we re-stock our own barrens. We might say 
to the West Jersey Association, “Come, brother sportsmen, help us with 
your money to purchase grouse for Pennsylvania, and join us freely in 
the sport of shooting them. We will assist you in like manner to stock 
your grounds, but do not, we pray yon, ask us to.pay a license for what 
is already half our own.” 
We are all deeply interested in the proposed project, and read the let¬ 
ter of W. C. H. in the week before last issue of the Forest and Stream 
with great pleasure. I am sure he would be a faithful guardian and pro¬ 
tector to the grouse in his section of the country, and woe betide the 
“Arab” or pot-hunter caught by him overstepping the line of duty. 
Dr. F. Jenkins Purnell, of Berlin, Worcester county, Md., has proven 
that the pinnated grouse can thrive in his region; from the breeding of 
only two pair the first year he has now two thousand, if not more, in the 
neighborhood of Snow Hill,.but it required a stringent law to protect 
them, and the making* of every man and hoy a watchman, as it were, 
over them. 
The sharp-tailed grouse would breed fully as well with us as the pinna¬ 
ted, being a covert-loving bird, and hardy; our scrub oaks would suit 
them exactly. Therefore, in the enterprise, let not this superior game be 
forgotten and. have as much attention paid him as to his larger cousin— 
Tetrao cupido. An equal number of each should be purchased. 
“Homo.” 
Pipe Smoking by Machinery. —Tlie following commu¬ 
nication, in regard to a new patent and approved method 
of accomplishing that most desirable thing, which is in fact 
the chief end and aim of some men’s lives, viz: “How to 
color a meerschaum,” comes to us apparently anonymously. 
But a peculiar fine latent flavor of green seal Perrique which 
hangs about the paper, on which this wonderful secret is 
written, discloses its author. Think of a pipe coloring itself ! 
Wo trust the Scientific American will not consider that we 
are poaching on its grounds, in giving to the world this 
method of coloring a pipe, without going through the for¬ 
mality of a patent right. As it is, we suppose Kalembourg, 
our greatest pipe maker, will try it staight, and sell his 
customers his sea-foam pipes, colored with the richest 
amber and chocolate hues, all shaded to a nicety by the new 
process:— 
I know, Mr. Editor, that like all right-minded editors, you are averse 
to anonymous communications, but I must aBk cf you to relax your 
rules in my favor, for fear of the “water rates” restraining me from giv¬ 
ing you my name and address. 
I presume that Forest and Stream may have among its readers men 
like myself, combining two possessions, viz.: patient disposition and a 
fine meerschaum pipe,on which they would like to see now the mahogany 
hue,which ordinarily can be produced only by long and patient smoldng. 
1 colored one meerschaum beautifully by lending it to a Dutch shoemaker 
and supplying him with the weed; but he supplied his visitor s, other 
Dutchmen, and returned the pipe with a vilianous odor . I have no 
Dutch cobbler now, though, nor do I need one. My pipe is coloring 
now in the third story, locked up in a room by itself, and I am in the 
parlor telling about it. 
The river—we’ll say Croton—is at work for me, and works well. My 
pipe sets in a block fitted to its shape. In its Dowl is a good-sized tin 
funnel, holding a half pound of cut up plug. From its mouth-piece a 
hit of india-rubber tubing connects it with the machine, which is this: 
A tin tube a foot long, f inch diameter, closed at the upper end, air tight, 
is standing in the hole in a stationary wash basin about three inches from 
the top. An shaped tube connects with the water cock. Two inches 
above, on the. opposite side, another little tube at right angles receives 
the india-rubber tube from the pipe. Water is started, rushes down 
through tube, produces vacuum in upper end; air draws through the 
funnel, pipe and rubber tube, goes down with the water, brings the 
smoke with it, smoke, water and air discharge through the sewer; it 
works. In three days I have browned up that pipe in a way that will 
give me much future pride, when complimented by those who don’t 
know how it was done. Smoker. 
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LETTER FROM MAJOR LEECH—THE 
IRISH TEAM TO BE COMPOSED OF 
S!X. _ 
T HE following- letter from Major Leech will be read 
with interest. The Irish team will he represented hy 
six men. We would have preferred eight, hut it must he 
recollected that it is difficult at any time to bring together 
or to cross the Atlantic with a great many men. We be¬ 
lieve that Mr. Leech has done all in his power to meet our 
views:— 
Irish Rifle Association, ) 
Dublin, Monday, April 13, 1874. j 
Dear Sir: —On the 18th ult. I had tlie pleasure of writing 
to you in reply to your favor of the 4th ult., and I some¬ 
what anxiously pressed upon you the acceptance of my 
proposal as to the number of our team being not less than 
four or more than eight at the same time stating my hope 
to be able to make it eight, both these letters were some 
what ex-officio, as I believe you kindly wrote to prepare 
me for the decision of your committee on tlie subject, a 
courtesy for which I thank you. In your subsequent letter 
of tlie 11th ult., you announce the acceptance hy tlie 
Amateur Rifle Club of New York, on behalf of the Ameri 
can Riflemen, of the programme folwarded to me, with tlie 
single exception of the number of competitors, which they de 
sire should not be less than six for each country. Of course 
I am well aware that so small a team as four would neces¬ 
sarily exclude many who might be quite as deserving of re¬ 
presenting America as the gentlemen actually chosen, and 
the disappointment thus caused you naturally desire to re¬ 
duce to a minimum. I and my friends are desirous as far 
as we can to meet your wishes, and have resolved upon ac¬ 
cepting tlie amendment of the programme suggested by 
your committee, namely, that the team shall be not less 
than six, and I congratulate you upon the conditions being 
thus finally agreed upon. Perhaps, therefore, you will 
please to send me the programme in duplicate as amended, 
one signed in behalf of America, and the other for my sig¬ 
nature, which I will bo happy to perfect and return to you. 
I hope we shall go to America as winners of the Elclio 
Shield again in July next at Wimbledon, but the odds 
against us are so great that our being champions for two 
years in succession is almost more than we can hope for; 
still, the scores of the Irish team, when that match takes 
place, will, I am sure, be such as to induce you to believe 
that we are not unworthy to compete with our American 
friends. 
I have the honor to remain, 
Yours very faithfully, 
Arthur B. Leech. 
Chairman of the Counsel Irish Rifle Association. 
To Colonel G. W. Wingate, President Amateur Rifle Club 
194 Broadway, New York. ’ 
S OME of our English contemporaries, in whose columns 
matters appertaining to the turf have the greatest 
prominence, devote a portion of their advertising space to 
notices of a peculiar character. Advertisements of Com¬ 
mission Agents, Subscription Lists, or Turf Agencies, are 
there displayed in imposing capitals. When we come to 
read them we find that these places of business are in Scot¬ 
land. Of course our readers, or at least some of them, are 
familiar with their character. They represent gambling 
offices, where tlie odds can be bought or sold on the various 
horses likely to run in England during the racing period. 
Prior to 1853, when an act was passed for the suppression 
of betting houses, such establishments—true dens of 
thieves—existed- in England. Driven from England in 
1853, they opened their nefarious business in Scotland. 
The law in England in regard to betting houses was as fol¬ 
lows:—Any person opening a betting house was subjected 
to a penalty of £100 and costs, and in default of payment, 
to six months’ imprisonment, while the punishment for re¬ 
ceiving money as a deposit hy way of a bet or wager, ren¬ 
dered both principal and agent liable to a fine of £50, with 
costs. A fine of £30 was also imposed, which was to be 
paid in case even the advertisement of such abetting house, 
existing in England, was found in a paper in England. The 
act not extending to Scotland, the gambling business then 
found a new field there. Sir A. Cockburn, then attorney 
general, who fathered the measure, was, however, most 
careful that no interference in betting was intended look¬ 
ing towards transactions carried out at Tattersall’s. In 
fact, as a leading English journal expresses it, “legitimate 
betting was to he tolerated, but the houses, shops, and 
booths of professional gamblers were to be suppressed.” 
In other words, it might be carried on at Tattersall’s, where 
dukes and gentlemen met to wager their thousands of 
pounds on horses, hut in the dingy dens of betting houses, 
where the snobs, or welsliers, or broken down turfmen 
gathered to gamble away their half crowns, the tiling was 
to be put down. Certainly, between Tattersall’s and a 
miserable betting stall there is a distinction, hut hardly a 
difference. In England, however, public opinion—say 
wliat we may about conservatism and all that—is changing. 
To-day, a new act is threatened which goes further than 
the old one. The former was directed towards the houses; 
this new one points towards the men, and will even¬ 
tually close up all the betting establishments, Tattersall’s, 
at least for the present, not included. England is a place 
of strange anomalies, afltl it seems curious how one certain 
place should, like a sanctuary of old, hold high class, stu¬ 
pendous gambling within, free from public interference, 
while in another of less state and pomp all paltry betting 
transactions should be not permissable. The time will 
come when Tattersall’s itself will be considered as preju¬ 
dicial to the well being of the State. Baden, with its rouge 
et noir and roulette , went to Monaco, and from Monaco it 
will go to what the French very politely call le neant . Tlie 
twentieth century, when it does come, is neither likely to 
tolerate, legalize, or keep free from the interference of pub¬ 
lic opinion a gilded temple—be it called Tattersall’s or any¬ 
thing else—which tempts people to waste their patrimony, 
or tends to eventually demoralize them. Men will gamble: 
it is one of tlie frailties of human nature, but it does not 
belong to a positive, advanced state of morals to give any 
class of human beings—he they earls or chimney sweeps— 
immunity from tlie opprobrium in which gambling must 
be held. We write most feelingly on this subject, as we 
notice no end of efforts now being made in the United 
States to introduce all the high and low English methods 
of turf gambling. 
—Who would not like to play at coaching in Ireland, and 
bowl along such a charming country as the Yale of Avoca? 
Why, there is music in tlie very name of it. Think of 
driving out of Dublin with a gay coach and spanking team 
of Irish horses, and rattling along the road. What lots of 
fun; what studies of character! Now there is a gentleman 
in Ireland who, fond of coaching, only wants two other 
good fellows to join him. The capital required is some 
$6,000, and at the end of the season, though the starter of 
the enterprise honestly promises no profit, he frankly ad¬ 
mits that the absolute loss will only be about £100. Can’t- 
we find some retired California gentleman, who lias driven 
some of those teams where an inch one way or the other 
on the road would have settled the business of the whole 
fares (the lynch pin tragedy being put out of the question), 
to take a hand in tooling the tits along the Yale of Avoca? 
Perhaps, if up to sport and with plenty of money, our 
Californian might introduce, at a convenient distance from 
Dublin some peculiarly dangerous places, imitating a gulch 
or a rocky canon; in fact, convert the ride out of the. capi¬ 
tal of Ireland into a kind of stage coach steeple chase. 
The theme is wonderfully suggestive. But we are afraid 
the California stage driver of our fancy might think the 
whole performance trite without the introduction of an 
occasional gang of robbers, who, bringing tlie coach to a 
stand, would deftly relieve everybody inside of their goods 
and chattels, interspersing the amusement with some ex¬ 
ceedingly clever pistol practice. 
—The Field has been singularly embellished lately with 
some most charming descriptions of fishing hy its distin¬ 
guished editor, Francis Francis, Esq. A thorough sports¬ 
man, Mr. Francis writes of what he catches and shoots, and 
he does it in most vigorous style. “A Month on the 
Thurso” lias given ns a most thorough insight into the de¬ 
lightful sport of the Highland country. In his last paper 
