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jj Watkins, of Nashville were the only two who killed 
oil the birds. In shooting off the ties at three double birds 
each the men were placed three yards farther back. Mr. 
Watkins killed his six birds while Mr. Taylor killed but 
flve This result was owing to one of Watldn’s birds 
alighting, as the other one was missed by him, consequently, 
hv'the club rules he had a fresh pair as his single miss does 
not count against him, and is ruled “no birds. 1 ’ Having 
killed the pair substituted he won the first prize. The fol¬ 
lowing are the scores:- 
J. M. Taylor—11 11 11 U 11—10. 
W E Watkins—11 00* 11 11 11 11—10. 
Wm Bowles-10 00* 11 11 11 00* 11-0. 
j h. Dew-11 11 10 11 00* 10—8. 
W A. Wheatley— 11 11 11 01 10—8. 
D. D. Saunders-11 01 11 00 11 00* 10—S. 
A. Gibson—01 11 H 11 01—8. 
J. H. Erskine—11 11 11 11 00—8. 
R, W. Lightburne—11 10 00* 11 11 10—8. 
THE TIES. 
For the first prize, Messrs. Watkins and Taylor shot at 
: three double rises, 21 yards. The score was: 
Wathins—11 11 00f 11—G. 
Taylor— 10 11 11 — 5. 
W. Bowles Jr., won the second prize and J. H. Dew the 
third prize. Judges, Messrs. J. A. Cockrill and Horsefall; 
Referee, H. C. James. 
—Trap shoot at Honeoye Falls, N. Y., May 2d, 1874. 
Twenty-one yards rise, eighty yards boundary, one and a 
quarter ounce shot: 
W. M. Locke.10 111111111 10 out of 11 
R. Wilton . 1111111110 1 10 out of 11 
A. Valentine. 10011011011 6 out of 11 
T. Wilton.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 out of 11 
Chas. Davis.1 01 0001 1 1 1—6 
Thos. Wilton. 101111011 1—8 
ANOTHER BREECH-LOADER. 
Cincinnati, O., April 14, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Your correspondent “Wanderer,” in yonr issue of the 9th, gives an 
account of Sneider’s breech-loader, which is his beau ideal of a fine gun. 
Now I don’t mean to say that the Sneider is not a good gnn; but do say 
that it is a poor gun in comparison with certain English guns—one 
In particular, the Dougall Lockfast. He claims that the coming gun 
: would be an American gun.” Perhaps it may, but America has not, as 
yet, turned out a gun that could equal the Dougall in workmanship, 
J mechanism, or finish. He says the great popularity of English guns is 
1 became we are apt to suppose that nothing is first-class except it is im- 
5 ported. This is to a certain extent the truth; but the great secret of 
■ English gunmakers is their power of iron working. Mr. Sneider him¬ 
self was aware of this fact, or he would not have gone to Europe for his 
, barrels. Passing on to a description of the gun itself: In all brcech- 
: loaders (except the Dougall) the breech is a smooth plate against which 
the rear of the barrels, when closed, must rest. But the Dougall is diff- 
••erent. This gun has two discs or projections upon the face of the false 
, breech. These discs fit into the barrels when closed, and hold them be- 
, yond the possibility of moving. The action is an eccentric by which the 
- barrels are carried forward before they are dropped. The eccentric is the 
only piece of machinery in the gun. There are no wedges, bolts, grips, 
or springs. The discs correspond to the hooks of the muzzle-loader, ex¬ 
cept that in the muzzle-loader the hooks are in the barrels and fit into 
the breech. In this gnn the hooks are on the breech and fit into the bar¬ 
rels. As was said before, the eccentric is the only piece of machinery in 
the gun, so that if one should by friction, or any other manner, wear 
out (which I never knew to happen), five minutes would only be neces¬ 
sary to enable you to insert another eccentric. The barrels of the Dou- 
' gall are acknowledged to be the finest in the world. They are called the 
>ell bore” because of their resemblance to the shape of a bell. The 
finish of the guns is superb. Gloan, in his work, the “Breech-loader,” 
says of the fine work on a gun: “To my mind there should be something 
more to a sportsman in hisgun than a mere tool wherewith he works. It 
\ should be something higher to him than a mere matter of wood and iron. 
There should be an element of fine art in it; a fine gnn is the work of an 
W. L. 
mist.’ 
TIME 
OLD TIME SCORES BY OLD 
P SPORTSMEN. 
r Editor Forest and Stream~ 
It mar be interesting to the readers of the Forest and Stream to 
^ ICCiU-Ulo U1 lliU UvytVtiioL ills LI KJ 1 J.'ijQjAJ lL HJ 
. now of some remarkable scores at pigeon shooting from a ground trap. 
, jua e by amateur sportsmen twenty or twenty-five years ago, arid per¬ 
il' 1 '' aps few Philadelphians to-day are aware that such exhibits were then 
||j>,shown by gentlemen, and which even now would be capital work for 
professionals. 
1 ^ n< * er ar >d Mr. Charles Wolbert, at Suffolk Park, met in 
an 7 c ,/ C ° nteSt to ^ ec ^ e " ho could kill the most birds at 21 yards rise 
yards boundary, and the result was as follows: 
|!> rtr Krider shot and scored 52 pigeons out of 54, and Mr. Charles 
;1 iti ertscore< i 51 ont of 54, losing by i bird. I give this as a fact, and 
on <5 f n< T an< ^ recor( * ec l as such. Although Uncle John is waxing old, 
/8 * 11 ^ the 25th of April, at the social meeting of the Philadelphia 
bravi^h S ' 1)e prove( ^ “ he was i ust as young as he used to be” by 
Bgthe storm and toeing the scratch in the driving rain. 
jilE “Homo.” 
e wtor Forest and Stream:— 
& 8 P°rtsman’s Club of Taunton 
, ‘ y the union of the Tannt-nn shn 
Taunton, Mass., May 11, 1874. 
was organized on Friday evening 
■ Then of tlle Taunton Shooting Club and the Nimrod Club. 
iJ’re'tidp T'ij" officers were elected:—Pi evident, S. D. Presbrey; Vice- 
[w n ’ ^ Atwood; Secretary, J. Y. Anthony; Treasurjr, J. M. 
/Sampson ’ EX8CativeCoimnittee ’ Wm ’ H * Bent ’ J - L Merigold, J. S. 
Jseasoa assoc ’ at * on numbers thirty-five members. During the present 
Vd it is ? eC « al Care b e given to the shad which abound in our river, 
iga cces*f 0 . ae ntly hoped to have some good fly-fishing for them. If 
ssriu will inform yon. ™ 
R. 
Troy, N. Y., May 9, 1874. 
f-* F0REST AND Strea m:~ 
'7°om s Tluf* a* ° f ttle M °hawk Game Club, of "West Trov,, held at their 
Adopted- FSday even i Q g lasfc > the following resolution was unanimously 
;; the 1'oRwm the thanks of this club are hereby tendered 
Hlad tables o'’ A | XD Publishing Company for the Handsome cora- 
: :e «elpt of froa^gaid (f a ' 0l:1 ' i, C0 Pi es ®f which they beg to acknowledge the 
Vary truly, &e., H. P. Schuyler, 
t .Sec. M. G. Club. 
Washington, D. C., April 23,1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The following named gentlemen have been elected officers of the 
National Sportsmens’ Club, of Washington, for the ensuing year; Pres¬ 
ident, Col. C. M. Alexander; Vice President, Col. J. R. Morehouse; Sec¬ 
retary, M. A. Tappan; Treasurer, A. N. Marr; Attorney, R. K. Elliott'; 
Board of Directors, C. S. Wheeler and S. M. Bootes. Reports of secre¬ 
tary and treasurer show the club to be in flourishing condition. 
J. N. Davis, Jr. 
Inditing nnd Ranting. 
All communications from Secretaries and friends should be mailed not 
later than Monday in each week. 
HIGH WATER. FOR THE WEEK. 
DATE. 
BOSTON. | 
| NEW YORK. 
CHARL’ST’N 
h. m. 
h. m. 
h. m. 
May 14. 
9 43 
7 18 
6 33 
May 15. 
10 33 
8 5 
7 22 
May 16.. 
1 11 22 
8 57 
8 11 
May 17. 
noon 
9 50 
3 4 
May 18.. 
I 0 11 
10 *0 
9 58 
May J9. 
1 1 4 
11 34 
10 50 
May 20. 
1 58 
morn 
11 43 
—The Seawanhaka Yacht club will hold their annual re¬ 
gatta on the fourth of July as usual. This will be conduct¬ 
ed according to the regular sailing rules of the club, which 
compel each yacht to be steered by a member of the club 
and limit the number of men to be carried, although allow¬ 
ing a certain proportion of them to be paid. No shifting 
ballast permitted in any of the classes. In order to en¬ 
courage Corinthian yachting, which this club may be said 
to have introduced in this country, the Commodore pro¬ 
poses, for the smaller vessels, weekly races, crews to be 
composed entirely of Corinthians, and the winner in each 
race to receive a silk pennant. At the end of the season the 
Commodore becomes indebted to the extent of a valuable 
silver prize to the yacht having won the greatest number of 
pennants. It is probable that there will be many other re¬ 
gattas and matches in this club on the Corinthian system 
during the summer. 
—During the past week the following yachts have been 
slid off at City Point, South Boston:—Sloop White Wing, 
Mr. E. G. Bartlett, et al, sloop Jennie, Mr. W. H. Bangs; 
sloop Fannie, Com. B. Dean; schooner Leslie, S. W. 
Bailey, Esq, The C. B. sloop yacht Mariqueta, lately pur¬ 
chased in New York by Parkman Dexter, Esq., arrived 
last week from that port in charge of Captain Herbert Bent. 
She will probably join the Boston and Dorchester clubs. 
Messrs. Pierce, Bros., have laid the keel for a new C. B. 
yacht, twenty-two feet six inches long, to be a counterpart 
of tlie Mabel, built by them the past winter and purchased 
by Com. Roberts. She is for a Boston gentleman and is to 
'be ready the first of June. 
—The schooner yacht .Madeleine, Commodore Jacob 
Voorliis of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, is not expected to 
compete in any of this season’s regattas, but her owner in¬ 
tends to hold her open to all challenges for matches twenty 
miles to windward and return. 
—The members of tire Columbia Yacht Club are busily 
engaged getting tlieir craft in commission and intend to holcl 
their annual regatta about the middle of June. 
—The citizens of Cape May have voted $2,500 for prizes 
for their prospective regatta in July and have tendered an 
invitation to the New York Yacht club to participate. 
—The Dauntless, Commodore Bennett of the New York 
Yacht club, is now in commission, and has left her moor¬ 
ings at the foot of Court street, Brooklyn, where she has 
been during the past two years and now lies off Clifton, 
Staten Island. 
—The Alert, Captain Henry Yail of the New r York Yacht 
club, is at Green port, Long Island, preparing for this sum¬ 
mer’s work. No alterations have been made in her case, as 
her very brilliant record for last season gives sufficient 
promise for the future. 
—The sloop yacht Anna, Mr. W. A. Cumming, is at 
present in the hands of Mr. Kirby, at Rye, who, in addi¬ 
tion to raising her top-sides, as we reported in a recent 
number of the Forest and Stream, is easing her water- 
lines aft and fining her run, tucking up her quarters con¬ 
siderably in so doing. 
—The first regatta of tlie Dorchester Yacht Club will 
take place May 21st, at 2 P. M., and will be open by in¬ 
vitation to yachts belonging to the Boston Yacht Club. 
The courses for different classes vary in length, but the 
finish in each case will be the same, passing between the 
judges’steamer and a stake boat anchored off the Boston 
Yacht Club House, which wiil be open to the members of 
the two clubs and tlieir friends. The prize in each class 
will be a solid silver goblet. The following gentlemen 
will officiate as judges:—Wm. H. Bangs, Jr., Wm. H. 
Say ward, Eben. Denton, Samuel L. French, Henry B. 
Jackson; Regatta Committee:—Wm. H. Bangs, Jr., 
Coolidge Barnard, Wm. F. Halsall, Walter Burgess, Wm, 
A. Gilbert. 
City Potnt, South Boston. —Since onr last announce¬ 
ment, the following named yachts have been transferred to 
their summer quarters on the wave:—The schooners Elsie, 
Capt. Martin; Stranger, Capt. Jones; Sloops Fanny, Capt. 
Appleton; Queen Mab, Capt. M. J. Kiley; Fearless, Capt. 
J. A. Woodward; Fire Fly, Capt. Balcli; Mabel, Comd’r 
Roberts; Charlotte, Capt. Peabody; Hope, Capt. Dix ; and 
Water Witch, Capt. Pettengill. There are now upwards of 
sixty yachts at their moorings off the Club Houses. 
—Tlie yacht “ Crosby” arrived at South Boston on Satur¬ 
day last irom Florida, after an absence of six months and 
four days. She is 27 ft long, and was manned by Capt. 
Wm. H. Reed, Jas. H. Stark, and A. R. Temple, who came 
home in the best of spirits and health, and are enthusiastic 
over their nautical trip. 
— The Saratoga four of the Potomacs, Messrs. Truax, 
Coughlin, McBlair, and Carpenter, are practicing every 
day on the river at Washington, D. C. At the Potomacs’ 
meeting list week, Messrs. W. W. Corcoran and George 
W. Riggs were elected inactive members, and each sub¬ 
scribed $500 to the stock of the building committee. It 
was also agreed to accept the proposition of the Tobacco 
Boat Club, of Lynchburg, Ya., and the Nassau Boat Club, 
of New York, for a series of home aud home races. The 
club numbers 80 active and 150 inactive or honorary mem¬ 
bers. 
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. C. A. Minton, Secretary of 
the New York Yacht Club, we are enabled to give our 
readers a complete list of all the vessels belonging to the 
club at the present time. 
Name. 
Alarm 
Ariel. 
Atalanta. 
Clio. 
Columbia. 
Comet. 
Cornelia. 
Dauntless. 
Dreadnaugkt_ 
Editti. 
Eva.■. 
Enchantress. 
Faustine. 
Fleetwing. 
Fleur de Lis. 
Foam. 
Gypeie. 
I is. 
Idler. 
Josephine. 
Madeleine. 
Magic. 
Palmer. 
Peerless... 
Phantom. 
Rambler. 
Rebecca. 
Besolute. 
Restless. 
Sappho. 
Sea Drift... 
Sunshine... 
Tarolinta. 
Tidal Wave. 
Vesta. 
Viking. 
W anderer.... 
Owners. 
lonnage 
old 
Measm't. 
L'g'tli | 
over 
all. \ 
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tag 
SCHOONERS. 
A. C. Kingsland. 
225 77 
| 121 9 
24 
William L. Swan.• 
50 76 
69 
18 
William Astor. 
145 66 
93 6 
23 6 
T. C.P. Bradhurst. ) 
y 
67 79 
76 
18 6 
Thomas B. Asten... ) 
Lester Wallack. 
183 65 
107 11 
25 1 
VV. H. Langley. 
IV 01 
82 
22 
J R.Vondy. 
56 00 
67 10 
17 
J. G. Bennett_..... 
268 00 
120 9! 
24 9 
A. B. Stoclcwell. 
231 62 
117 11 
24 
| George O. Hovey. 
49 52 
59 10 
19 1 
E. Burd Grubb . 
77 05 
73 3 
22 4' 
J. F. Loubat. 
253 13 
127 
24 1 
G. P. Russell. 
92 07 
79 6 
19 1 
George A. Osgood_ 
206 06 
1(8 
23 4 
J. S. Dickerson. 
94 31 
80 
21 
Shepard Homans. ) .. 
102 01 
81 5 
21 ' 
I. Smith Homans. ) .. 
| 
H. T. Livingston. ... 
51 00 
69 
19 
John W. Brown, Jr.. 
145 41 
104 9 
23 3| 
S. J. Colgate. 
141 32 
96 3 
22 5| 
Lloyd Phoenix. 
143 00 
95 6 
21 0 
Jacob Voorhis, Jr... 
151 49 
106 
24 
W. T. Garner. 
90 79 
81 1 
20 
R. Stuyvesant . 
195 54 
107 1 
24 2 
J. R. Maxwell. 
59 12 
68 
18 9 
W. H. Osgood. 
140 00 
100 3 
2411 
W. H. Thomas. 
233 17 
120 
25 
J. H. Reid. 
77 60 
75 
19 6 
A. S. Hatch... 
206 56 
114 
25 1 
G. G. Haven. 
95 40 
78 5 
20 3 
VV. P. Douglass. 
310 00 
135 
27 4 
Alex. Major. 
64 30 
64 00 
20 
H. J. Hand. 
40 00 
49 00 
15 
■Edward M. Wright... 
71 00 
65 00 
23 
lH. A. Kent. ) .... 
2M 67 
105 06 
22 5 
H. A. Kent, Jr. j .... 
William Voorhis. 
223 00 
120 
25 
Richard Baker. 
201 00 
102 03 
25 
Mahlon Sands. 
154 t‘9 
101 011 
1 23 6 
Louis L. Lorillard_ 
208 16 
122 1 
1 23 6 
iir°£ 
t!i* 
11 |K 
5 3CB 
7 3,CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
2 CB 
K 
K 
CB 
CB 
K 
K 
0 K 
9 K 
CB 
OB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
4|CB 
Aida. 
Alert. 
Alice. 
Ariadne. 
Breeze. 
Christine. 
Dudley. 
Elaiu e. 
Fannie. 
Grade. 
Genia. 
Irene... . 
Josie. 
Kate. 
Sallie E. Day — 
Vindex. 
Vision. 
Vixen. 
Wayward. 
West Wind. 
Day Dream. 
Emilv. 
SLOOPS. 
George Barclay Ward. 
Henry Vail. 
Thomas G. Appleton. 
Theodore A. Strange. 
H. P. Kingsland. 
S. P. Blagden. 
Edgar Williams. 
G. J. Durfee. 
C. H. Mallory. 
John R. Waller. 
G. L. Haight. 
T. D. Harrison. 
R. F. Lo; er, Jr. 
Robert Dillon. 
Nathaniel B. Palmer.. 
Robert Center. 
J. J. Alexandre. 
W. T. Garner. 
W. E. Morris. 
William Iselin. 
STEAMERS. 
|W. H. ARpinwall. 
Tlieo. A. Havemeyer) 
12 8 
8 4 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
K 
CB 
CB 
K 
K 
K 
6 CB 
6 CB 
9 6 
8 4 CB 
7 6,CB 
6 CB 
8 9 CB 
20 00 
18 86 
68 27 
28 41 
25 70 
32 00 
20 00 
37 90 
25 00 
19 52 
30 01 
32 50 
54 34 
58 52 
37 86 
32 00 
22 57 
42 
41 
66 
46 
49 
51 
42 
52 0 
12 
71 
43 6 
70 
44 
52 
47 
62 
66 
51 
47 
49 
13 9 4 lo' K 
14 6j 3 4ICB 
17 6 6 4\ K 
3 6 
3 
4 
4 6 
5 
5 
5 8 
4 4 
5 6 
3 
4 
15 
14 
15 
13 
18 
23 9 
20 6 
14 6 
18 5 
14 
18 
14 
17 
20 
16 
15 5 
15 
8 9 
4 
4 
3 9 
5 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
K 
CB 
CB 
CB 
CB 
Fearless 
Ideal.... 
Julia 
V 
Thos.J. Havemeyer) 
Jacob Lorillard. 
L’heo. A. Havemeyer,. 
James D. Smith. 
Lurline.. ..Phillips Phoenix 
Mystic.JE. S. Chapin.. 
Wave .j Henry Harley.. 
Wyvern. William Inman 
.Jacob Lorillard 
70 69 
70 2 
30 
200 
53 36 
33 
50 36 
to 
38 
35 
115 
90 
95 
130 
86 
86 
81 
87 
80 
85 
19 
16 
15 6 
20 2 
18 
16 
19 
19 6 
12 
16 
7 
4 0 
4 6 
6 
5 6 
5 
5 6 
5 
5 6 
5 6 
The officers of tlie Club for the year 1874are as follows: 
Commodore, James Gordon Bennett; Yice Commodore, 
William P. Douglass; Rear Commodore, George L. Kings¬ 
land; Secretary, Charles A. Minton; Treasurer, Sheppard 
Homans; Measurer, A. Cary Smith; Fleet Surgeon, L. De 
Forest Woodruff, M. D.; Regatta Committee, William 
Krebs, Edward E. Chase, William B. Bend; House Com¬ 
mittee, Fletcher Westray, George W. Kidd, John G. Brees- 
ford, Thos. T. Lawrence, N. D. White, the Secretary, ex - 
officio. 
Boston, Mass., May, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
A regular meeting of the Dorchester Yacht Club was held at the Club 
House, Commercial Point, May 1st, Commodore Bangs in the chair. 
Four new members were elected, after which the Committee on Uniforms 
reported the changes, which were considered advisable. A proposition 
permitting a change of ballast on the day of a race, (before starting,) was 
voted down, as was also another requiring owners to sail their boats in 
regattas. 
Mr. Conrtland Boynton applied for an honorable discharge^ but, on 
motion, the application was denied and Mr. Boynton, in consideration of 
his services as former measurer, was elected an honorary member and re¬ 
ceived a vote cf thanks. It was announced that the prizes offered for the 
Union regatta, May 21st, would be a solid silver goblet for each class; the 
prizes to be awarded should one boat only in each class, go over the 
ground. The Virginia of the fourth class C. B., 16 ft. 6in. in length, is to re¬ 
ceive a mast 26 ft., was originally ordered 36 ft., but was reconsidered. The 
Bessie of the same class is to receive some slight alterations. The Mabel 
of South Boston, Commodore Roberts, is to have a hollow bored mast. 
These masts are made at Lynn and are bored in the same way pump logs 
are. Binnacle. 
Perth Amboy, N. Y. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
At a meeting of the Perth Amboy Yacht Club on Friday evening last, 
preliminaries were arransred for a race, open to all boats not exceeding 
twenty-eight feet on the water-line, to take place on the 30th instant, 
under the following summarized rules:— 
Entrance fee .—Five dollars. 
Prizes .—Three-fifrhs of amount of entrance money to winning boat. 
Two-fifths to second boat. 
Time allowance—One. and a half minute to the foot between cat-boats. 
Jib-boats to allow cats two and a half minutes to the foot. 
Course. About fifteen miles, triangular. 
Start.—A. flying one; twelve minutes between the second and last gun. 
No restrictions as to ballast. Six hours or “no race.” 
This club is quite a young organizaton, owning but ttiree boats as yet, 
hut numbers about twenty members, most of whom are gentlemen who 
do business in New York City and reside in Perth Amboy. 
The officers are:—Wm. Bell, Commodore; J. L. Kearny, Vice Commo¬ 
dore: W. B. Thomas, Secretary; Evan Thomas, Treasurer. 
Nowhere on the coast can finer facilities for boating be found than here, 
situated as we are at the junction of Raritan River, the Kill Von Kull 
and Raritan Bay. K< 
