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FOREST AND STREAM. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
,;±<ish Culture, the Protection op Game,Preservation op Forests, 
and the Inculcation in Men and Women op a healthy interest 
in Out door Recreation and Study : 
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10 per cent, will be made; over three months, 20 per cent; over six 
months, 30 per cent. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JUNE 4,1874. 
To Correspondents. 
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All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 
correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub¬ 
lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 
All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 
Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
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, as it is the aim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful ana reliable information between gentle¬ 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re¬ 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise¬ 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department o the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail service, if 
money remitted to us is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES HALLOCK, Managing Editor. 
VVILLSAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE CUR¬ 
RENT WEEK. 
Friday, June 5tb.—Hartford vs. Mutual B. B. C. at Philadelphia— 
Cambridge City Agricultural Society, Cambridge, Ind — Hampden Park 
Association, Springfield, Mass.—Great Falls Association, N. H. 
Saturday, June 6th.—Hartford vs. Mutual B. B. C. at Brooklyn— 
Boston vs. Chicago B. B. C. at Chicago—Yale vs. Knickerbocker B. B. 
C. at New Haven—Harlem River Boat'Club’s practice day—Prospect 
Park Cricket Grounds, practice day--Jerome Park races, Fordliam.N. Y. 
—Dorchester Yacht Club Regatta. 
Tuesday, June 9ih.—Valley City Association, Grand Rapids, Mich.— 
Howard county Society, Kohomo, Ind. 
Weinesday, June 10th.—Match day, St. George’s Cricket Club, Ho¬ 
boken—Penn Yan Driving Park Association, N. Y.—Valley City Asso¬ 
ciation, Grand Rapids, Mich.—Howard county Society, Kohomo, Ind.— 
Sullivan county Park Association, Claremont, N. H.—Boat race, Argo- 
nauta vs. Buffalo, on the Kill von Kull. 
Thursday, June 11th.—Sullivan county Park Association, Claremont, 
N. II.— Penn Yan Driving Park Association, N. Y.—Valley City Associ¬ 
ation, Grand Rapids, Mich.—Howard county Society, Kohomo, Ind. 
WOODCOCK ON TOAST. 
A stern friend of protection of game writes to us some¬ 
thing as: follows : 
New York, June 1. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
On the occasion of the late Washington wedding, the 
nenu, as printed on cream-colored silk, included Wood¬ 
cocks on Toast—decorated (ufa New York Herald , May 
22d). While the strict observance of tlie game laws 
throughout the country is of general interest, and as a 
matter of principle, woodcock, owing to its migratory 
nature, is a bird in which every sportsman North and 
South has a direct interest. Wrongfully killing woodcock 
makes us all losers, and by loud and indignant protests 
from all sections of the country, the practice of creating 
a, demand for birds out of season must, in even the high¬ 
est or the happiest of occasions, be censured. 
Yours very truty, 
Gruz. 
We perfectly agree with Gruz. General Grant, even on 
this auspicious event of the marriage of his daughter, 
ought not to have had ‘ ‘woodcock—decorated” at the nuptial 
feast. Of course the President is responsible for all the 
actions of his Cabinet, and we sincerely trust that, with 
Richardson and Sawyer, his chef d 1 Hotel and head cook 
will come in for a severe wigging. We mail General 
Grant a copy of our close season. 
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ATHLETICS A LA MODE. 
O UR American athletic season may now be said t© have 
fairly commenced. In other countries, where the 
climate is less rigorous, where in winter the weather is less 
severe, and in summer the heat is less distressing, there are 
certain advantages for sport throughout the year. Our 
own rational exercises are in fact limited, with the ex¬ 
ception of skating, to some six spring and summer months. 
When we do commence it may be safely stated that in the 
short period allowed us we do our best. Our columns give 
full evidence of the increasing zest our young men are tak¬ 
ing in out-door amusements, and in the respective depart¬ 
ments of Forest and Stream may be found the full 
development of this season’s yachting, rowing, cricketing, 
and base ball playing. Even that high and lofty portion of 
society, the club men, seem to have for the nonce,left their 
elegant lounges by the club mantle-piece, and are indulging 
in walking performances. Central Park for some time past 
at early morning, when usually visited by young ladies and 
children, seeking their constitutional walk, has had its 
walks occupied by certain stalwart gentlemen, who, by this 
time, are quite familiar with the quarter and half miles on 
the paths, and the restaurant keeper receives many orders 
over night from accomplished trainers for beef steaks un¬ 
done, stale bread and English breakfast tea, which go to re¬ 
fresh the inner man of hungry pedestrians. Elegant 
athletics now declare that walking a mile in the nine or 
even ten minutes is a delightful excitement, when a month 
or so ago a lounging gait across the street was declared by 
them to “be a horrid bore,” and they are not only sur¬ 
prised but delighted to find what an amount of “go” was 
in them. 
We want to invoke one particular aid for this newer life, 
which our men have just discovered, which must, in time, 
make them stronger and better, both m body and mind, 
and that is, that our ladies, the mothers, wives, sisters, and 
sweethearts should encourage the renaissance of the athletic 
movement in the United States. The insipid, weak-strung, 
effeminate being of a time that is passed, could never 
have been a natural or even an acceptable creature. A 
woman wants a man to protect her when the time of danger 
may serve. Physical attributes in the age we live in, as in 
all ages, have and will assert their power. The material,the 
corporeal forces have their worth, and are better appreciated 
when in conjunction with the mental and intellectual 
faculties. May not a gentleman, in the true sense of the 
word, paint a picture well, or model a statue, or write a 
sonnet, or be deep in Arabic, or learned in natural history, 
or be well up in his business, and at the same time be able 
to run his mile, or pull his boat, or hold his bat with some 
one who has the thews and muscles alone and nothing else 
besides? The age of the admirable Crichton may have in a 
measure passed away, but still it is one of the most marvellous 
of mortal creations. It is essentially a distinguishing mark 
in a man to be good for every thing. What we want then, 
not the least in the mawkish sense, is to see athletic sports 
becon e in men an object of interest to women. Ten thou¬ 
sand i dmirable trials unknown to-day, even impossible to 
describe by us, will be then developed. Habits, which 
have been confirmed in the wrong way, will be broken up. 
That certain increased morbidity of disposition, the result 
of mental exhaustion so common in this country, possibly 
brought on from our commercial application, will in athletic 
exercises, find its cure. The matter then wants to become, 
if we must express it more a la mode, among all classes of 
society. We have before this mentioned a boat club where 
the ladies, the wives, mothers and sisters take a strong in¬ 
terest in the amusements of its members, and to the im¬ 
mense advantage in every way of all concerned. In Eng¬ 
land, athletic contests are patronized extensively by the 
fairer sex. Some time ago, we even noticed it mentioned 
in one of the leading journals, that in the highest walks of 
life men seemingly were becoming spoiled from the 
over petting they were receiving from the ladies. Then we 
ventured to remark that we only wished there might be 
some of this same attention extended in the United States 
by our ladies to those of the other sex who were fond of 
athletic amusements. A good example must undoubtedly 
bring forth its fruit. The athletic movement would then 
find in women new friends. If the men had their foot 
races, their hurdle races, and their cricket matches, and 
were encouraged by our women, on tlieir side, archery, 
and a score of other exercises, would naturally be entered 
upon by them. 
To hear the Diva in a stuffy loge of the opera throw off 
her highest la, or the tenor skyrocket out his ut de poitrine 
is one thing, but to be in God’s fresh open air, on a grassy 
mead, and to see the victor, all magnificent in bis shapely 
form,built like an Apollo, coming in at the foot race, gives 
a pleasure which is quite as great and far more natural. 
Museum of Natural History.— On Wednesday June 
3rd the corner stone of the American Museum of Natural 
History was laid at four o’clock, with imposing ceremonies. 
As the"object of the Trustees is truly a national one, the 
President of the United States laid the corner stone, 
Robert L. Stuart Esq., President of the Museum, made an 
opening address, setting forth the objects of the Society, 
and H. G. Stebbins spoke in behalf of the Department of 
Public Works. The Governor of the State also made an 
appropriate speech. 
The ground on which the new Museum will stand, wjis 
originally intended for a zoological garden, but the 
property owners having objected to the project, the idea 
was abandoned, and the land was turned over to the Trus 
tees of the Museum, who will in time to come cover the 
whole area with suitable buildings. The collections will 
be bought and cared for by moneys contributed by the 
Trustees individually and the public, but the building now 
in progress will be erected at the expense of the City, which 
has already appropriated $500,000 for this purpose. The 
land covers about eighteen acres, and lies between Eighth 
and Ninth avenues and Seventy-seventh and Eighty-first 
streets. The building has been so designed that it can be 
erected in sections, and thus always be practically complete 
and yet ultimately occupy the whole area. The building 
of which there will be only one section now in course of 
erection, will, when completed according to the plan be 
larger than the British Museum. The object of the museum 
is two-fold: First, to interest and instruct the masses; and 
secondly, and especially, to render all the assistance possi¬ 
ble to specialists. 
The library presented to the Museum by Miss Wolfe will 
be placed in the upper portion of the building. This 
library, with a large collection of shells, also donated by 
Miss Wolfe to the Museum in memory of her father, who 
was its first President, was purchased by her at a cost of 
$35,000. The other collections at present in the temporary 
Museum are valued at $250,000. A rare and newly complete 
series of American birds, and many fine birds of Paradise 
and pheasants, now in the collection formerly belonging to 
Mr. D. G. Elliott, will be added. The Trustees have pur¬ 
chased the collection of Prince Maximilian, of Neuwied, on 
the Rhine, above Bonn, and a large number of specimens 
belonging to the late Edward Verreaux, of Paris. Large 
donations of shells, corals and minerals have been received, 
as also a collection of 20,000 insects. 
The building when completed w r ill be a credit to the 
nation, not only for its exterior appearance, but for the 
valuable collections which it will contain. The library and 
collection will attract many students of natural history, 
while the exposition rooms will be thronged by thousands 
of visitors. The inauguration of this princely temple of 
science, is the first grand step made in New York towards 
the advancement of the study of Natural History. 
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The Introduction of Singing Birds into the Country. 
—The Cincinnati Society of Acclimation still continues its 
good work. In the winter of 1872-73 it received a large 
shipment cf birds from Europe, and set them at liberty in 
the spring of last year. Of these birds, the Secretary, 
Armin Tenner Esq., informs us,, several species built their 
nests last summer in the neighborhood of Cincinnati, some 
staid all the winter, and within the last four weeks even 
such as left their breeding places last fall have returned. 
The present year will show whether these European birds 
can be introduced into the good State of Ohio. The birds 
set at liberty consisted of red breasted robins, wagtails, sky 
larks, starlings, dunnocks, singing thrushes, black birds, 
red wings and nightingales. Quite lately the agent having 
arrived from Europe, the following additions were made:— 
Goldfinches, siskins, great tits, Dntch tits, dippers, Hunga¬ 
rian thrushes, bullfinches, cherry birds, nestel thrushes, corn 
crakes, crossbills, &c. Some $8,000 has so^ far been ex¬ 
pended by the society. The main object of the association 
is to foster the introduction of foreign useful insect eating 
and singing birds, and to urge proper legislation for their 
preservation. 
There is something exceedingly beautiful in the idea of 
citizens of foreign birth being desirous of surrounding them¬ 
selves with the most pleasant associations of their mother 
country, and as the conception is a German one, it re¬ 
dounds to their credit. If it was considered among the old 
Romans and Greeks, as pleasing to the gods to give liberty 
to caged birds, there still remains in the present race of 
men, some thousands of years older, this same kindly 
touch of nature. It would be pleasant for us to record 
that similar associations were being organized in other 
States. The President of the association, A. Erkinbrecher 
Esq., with the Secretary, A. Tenner Esq., state their will¬ 
ingness to give all information to those proposing to intro¬ 
duce foreign birds into the United States. 
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The Coming Convention at Oswego.— The Hon. A. 
C. Mattoon, the President of the New York State Associa¬ 
tion for the preservation of game and fish, writes us the 
following:—“We are having some little delay in procuring 
pigeons, but are confident of final success; two of our mem¬ 
bers are now with Mr. Henry Knapp in Michigan securing 
birds for us. I think the 15th of June will be the day ot 
the meeting of our convention.” 
In this connection it may be not improper to mention 
that the Publishers of Forest and Stream will present to 
the Association a Silver Vase with an appropriate design 
beautifully executed by the Gorham Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, to be shot for by the Association under its rules, as 
follows:— 
The shooter to stand with his back to the traps, and at 
ffie word “Pull,” wheel and fire, from five traps, five yards 
apart, 21 yards rise, 80 boundary. Number of birds to be 
left to the Committee on Pigeons. This prize will be snot 
for only once, and become the absolute property of the 
gentleman winning it. 
An elaborately finished engraving of the Silver Yase wi 
appear in our journal, at the time the presentation prize is 
shot for and won. 
Sending Money to us. —As on several occasions of late, 
money sent to us by letter has not come to hand, we wou t 
advise all our friends to use either checks made payable to 
our order, or what is better, post office money orders. 
