FOREST AND STREAM 
be a union prize given to the winning yacht in each class 
on time allowance; the yachts of the club reserving the 
right to compete for the union prize in addition to the club 
prize. 
The course for the first class (schooners) and second 
class (cabin sloops) to be from a stake boat off the Club 
House to and around the Southwest Spit buoy, rounding 
the same from west to east; thence to and around the buoy 
at Gedney’s Channel, rounding the some from south to 
north; thence to the home stake boat, passing to the west 
of Bonier Shoals Beacon and Fort Lafayette, and to the 
east of the West Bank buoys, both going and returning. 
The course for third class (open boats) to be from the 
stake boat off the Club House to and around the South¬ 
west Spit buoy, on Robbins reef, rounding the same from 
north to south; thence to and around a stake boat off Bay 
Ridge dock, rounding the same from south to north; thence 
to and around l lie home stake boat, rounding the same 
from east to west; thence again over the same course in 
like manner, finally passing to the east of the home stake 
boat. 
All yachts to pass to the starboard of the home stake 
boats. | 
All yachts to be in line by ten o’clock sharp on the morn¬ 
ing of the 18th, tlie first and scond class in line one hun¬ 
dred yards south of the third and fourth class, and fifty 
yards apart. Position will be assigned each yacht in the 
order of arrival by the regatta committee. 
First gun to get ready, second gun for the first and sec¬ 
ond class to start, and “third gun for the third and fourth 
class to start. 
If any yacht in either class sails the course over within 
eight hours it will be considered a race for each class. ' 
Regattas to be sailed under the regulations adopted by 
the Long Island yacht club. 
—The annual regatta of the Philadelphia Yacht Club 
took place on Monday, June 15. The perfect calm that 
prevailed marred the beauty and excitement of the con¬ 
test. The race was a drift one from the buoy at Delanco 
and half way on the return, when a breeze sprung up 
about 4 p. in., and the yachts came in as follows:— 
Isf Glaus —Albert T. Eggleton, Albert Doger, Geo. Hoff, 
Chas. S. Austin, Willie Kleintz. 2d Class— Ricbd. F. 
Riddell, Jno. B. Brewer, Chas. Able, S. A. Mariner, Jos. 
H. Leary. Owing to the violation of the rules of the race 
by several of the yachts, the decision of the judges was 
postponed. 
—The city of Boston has appropriated $1,500 for a sail¬ 
ing regatta, and $1,500 for a rowing regatta, to take place 
on the coming ninety-eighth anniversary of American in¬ 
dependence. These regattas, which are annually given 
under the auspices of the city on each recurrence of the 
“glorious Fourth,” are open to all, and have always been 
successful, and attract crowds of spectators. 
Tlie Committee on the Sailing Regatta have arranged 
the following programme :— 
First race, for sloops and schooners-measuring thirty- 
eight feet and upwards on the water line; prizes—for 
sloops, first prize,-$150; second prize, $75; for schooners, 
first prize, $200; second prize, $100. 
Second Race—For centre-board and keel sloops and for 
schooners measuring 25 feet and less than 28 feet. Prizes— 
For centre-board sloops, first prize; $90; second prize, $50. 
For keel sloops, first prize, $90; second prize, $50. For 
schooners, first prize, $90; second prize, $50. 
Third Race—For centre-board and keel boats measuring 
20fe.et_and less than 25 feet. Prizes—For centre-board, 
first prize, $70; second prize, $70; third prize, $25. ■ 
For keel boats—First prize, $70; second prize, $35; third 
prize, $25. 
The sub-committee on the rowing regatta decided to have 
five races, beginning at 3 o’clock P. M. The programme 
will he as follows : 
First Mace —For single-scull wherries; distance, two miles. 
First prize, $150; second prize, $50. 
Second Bace —For Whitehall boats; distance, two miles. 
First prize, $50; second prize, $25. 
Third Race —For double-scull boats; distance, two miles. 
First prize, $75; second prize, $50. 
Fourth Race —For four-oared working boats; rowed on 
the gunwale; distance, three miles. First prize, $100; 
second prize, $50. 
Fifth Race —For four-oared boats (lapstreaks or shells)— 
with outriggers; distance, six miles. First prize, $350; 
second prize, $100. 
The prizes amount in the aggregate to $1,000. 
—We are indebted to ex-Commodore Alex W. Scott, of 
the Royal Halifax Yacfft Club,for the following programme 
of events for the current season; 
June 13—Opening cruise from Club house, through Eastern Pass 
age, round Me Nab’s Island and back. 
2. June 22—Opening matches for Challenge Cups. 
3. July I—Corinthian matches, 
4. July 11—Harbor cruising under orders. 
5. July 18—Cruise to outports. 
3. August 1—Race for Prince of Wales’ Cup. 
<• August 3—Annual dinner. 
8. August 15—Harbor cruise. 
9 ' August 22—Race for Governor General’s medals. 
10- September 5—Harbor cruise, 
fi- September 12—Harbor crui se. 
12. September 26—Corinthian match, Flag Officer’s prize. 
13. October 3—Harbor cruise. 
14. October 10-Harb r cruise. 
5- October 21—Closing matches for Challenge Cups. 
. „ George M. Gr^er, Secretary. 
Llub Bowse, 29th May, 1874. 
vrT ac ht Marcia, Capt. VFarder, arrived at Halifax, 
tA+i ’iT St Thursday, 28 days from Gibraltar. She belongs 
the Roy a i Yacht squadron. The Earl of Charleville is a 
Lawre^ 61 P rocee( i 011 a cruise to the Gulf of St. 
r 77*4' special meeting of the Dorchester Club has been 
‘ heel for Friday evening, June 19tli, at the request of the 
a t own ers of the Volante, Gleaner and Bristol, to take 
ball° n 0n a motion to abolish the rule forbidding shifting 
duast. The motion was carried at the last regular meet- 
the club, but must receive a two-thirds vote at the 
shiff meetan S before going into effect. The question of 
( fi r :in S ballast has long been a bone of .contention in the 
nia t second of the championship regattas is to take 
Face Jane 20th, at 2.30 P.M., at Commercial Point. 
"•The Arlington is the name of a new club just organ- 
ized near Boston. It sailed its first regatta on May 30th, six 
yachts competing. The 'prize flag was won by the Clara, 
Capt. Peabody, in 38 minutes 20 seconds. Distance, three 
miles. The Arlington is a promising and energetic club. 
_—The C. B. Sloop Yacht Era, which has been laid up in 
Pierce Bros. Yard, at So. Boston, since last season, has 
heei purchased by Commodore W. TI. Bangs, of the Dor¬ 
chester Yacht Club, of Jos. A. Jasagi, Esq., who is going 
to Europe. She is to be ready for the Dorchester regatta 
next Saturday. 
—Gen. Butler’s yacht America got aground at low water 
on Ram’s Horn Spit, Beverly harbor, last week, but was 
got off on the following day by a steam tug without serious 
injury., 
— The Atalanta rowing club have recently moved into 
their new boat house on the Harlem River. It is built upon 
a scow of 160 tons burthen, and is two stories high. The 
upper one is handsomely furnished, and contains, among 
other things, a piano for the use of the members of the 
club. The lower floor is fitted up as a boat house, and is 
perfectly arranged for the varied collection of boats of all 
kinds and sizes. Having a floating foundation, it can, of 
course, be towed to any water front should a change of lo¬ 
cality ever become desirable. The Atalanta club was or¬ 
ganized in 1848, and has at present eighty-four active and 
forty honorary members. The following is a list of the 
officers of the club: - President, Ransom Parker, Jr.; Vice 
President, William TI. Webster; Recording Secretary, J. 
W. Edwards; Financial Secretary, William H. Manirand; 
Treasurer, W. H. Sproull; Captain, George Spingsteen; 
Lieutenant, George Rohr. 
—The following boating crews entered for the regatta of 
the Schuylkill Navy, open to all amateurs, which began yes¬ 
terday and is continued to-day at Philadelphia:— 
Four-oared Shells. —Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Atalanta, 
New York; Quaker City, Philadelphia; Vesper, Philadel¬ 
phia; Friendship, New York; Crescent, Philadelphia; Ar- 
gonauta, Bergen Point, New Jersey. 
Pair-oared Shells. —Nassau, New York; Undine, Phila¬ 
delphia; Atalanta, New York; Philadelphia, Philadelphia; 
Vesper, Philadelphia; Gramercy, New York; Friendship; 
New York. 
Double Scull Shells. —Crescent, Philadelphia; Nassau, New 
York; Argonauta, Bergen Point, New Jersey. 
Single Shells. —Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Nassau, New 
York; Argonauta, Bergen Point, New Jersey; Harlem, 
New York; Bachelor, Philadelphia; Quaker City, Phila¬ 
delphia . 
—The Dartmouth college boat crew are at Enfield, New 
Hampshire, for a ten days’ training on Mascoma Lake. 
The have the same boat used in the race at Springfield last 
year—a Spanish cedar shell, fifty feet long, twenty inches 
wide, 150 pounds weight, built by Elliott, Brooklyn, New 
York. He is budding a new one for them to use in the 
race at Saratoga, which is to be similar to this in most re¬ 
spects. This year’s crew is as follows:— 
Name. 
State. 
Pos'n. 
Age. 
H'qht. 
Wgt. 
Class. 
Charles O. Gates.. 
stroke. 
21 
6 ft. 1 
174 
1874. 
F. W. Mitchell... 
.N. H. 
No. 5. 
22 
6 ft. 
174 
1876. 
Charles W r . Eager. 
.... N. H. 
No. 4. 
19 
6 ft. 1 
165 
1877. 
B. F. Robinson... 
.... N. H. 
No. 3. 
22 
6 ft. 
145 
1877. 
W. F. Westgate... 
.... N. II. 
No. 2. 
22 
5 ft. 11 
166 
1875. 
W. G. Eaton.. 
_Mass. 
bow. 
20 
5 ft. 1H 
155 
1875. 
The captain 
of tlie i 
crew, Gates, is 
the only one 
that 
rowed in the Dartmouth crew last year.— Boston Journal. 
—The stakes have been deposited for the great boat race 
between Scharff and Ten Eyck, which is to come off at 
Peekskill, on the Hudson river, next Wednesday, the 24th 
inst. The race is for the championship of the United 
States and $1,000. Com. Benj. F. Brady is the referqe. 
Scharff is matched to row George Brown, the champion of 
the British Provinces, for $2,000 in gold a side and the 
championship of Canada and the United States, at Spring- 
field on July 8. 
—In the rowing match on Monday on the Raritan river, 
at New Brunswick, between the Raritan Boat Club and the 
Rutgers College Rowing Association, Raritan won in 17.38; 
Rutgers, 21.01-J. Course, two miles. Messrs. Neilson and 
Griswold represented the former, and Messrs. Warren and 
Jane way the latter. 
—The Patapsco navy review on the waters of the Patapsco 
last Friday, was a decided success. 
—The annual opening regatta on the Potomac Boat Club 
will take place on Thursday afternoon, the 25th inst., at 
3.30 o’clock. There are six races down on the programme. 
—The Brooklyn Yacht Club held its annual regatta on 
Tuesday. The following were the courses and entries:— 
SCHOONERS. 
(Around the Lightship and return—forty miles). 
Name. Owner. Club. 
Tidal Wave.William Voorhis.Brooklyn. 
Fleur de Lis.J. S. Dickerson.Brooklyn. 
Meta.G. A. Beling.Brooklyn. 
Comet.William Langley.Brooklyn. 
Eva.E. Bnrd Grubb .New York Yacht Club. 
Cornelia.Dr. J. H. Vondy.New York Yacht Club. 
Gypsy.H. Livingston.>.. .Brooklyn. 
FIRST-CLASS SLOOPS. 
(Same course as schooners). 
Undine.Fowler & Brasher.Brooklyn. 
Kate.Robert Dillon.Brooklyn. 
T. B. Asten.Platt & Allen ..Brooklyn. 
SECOND CLASS SLOOPS. 
(To Gedney’s Channel Buoy and return—Thirty-two miles). 
Joe Jefferson.J. Varian.Manhattan. 
Qui Vive..S. Clapham... .. Brooklyn. 
Dudlfey.E. Williams..Brooklyn. 
Schemer..C. H. Hall.Brooklyn. 
Genio.G. Haight.Brooklyn. 
Elizabeth.T. Turner.S. Y. C. 
Flying Cloud.W. P. Smull.Brooklyn. 
Kaiser Wilhelm.Norris & Greenleaf.Brooklyn. 
Linda.John W. Stout.Brooklyn. 
Seline.H. S. Wood.Brooklyn. 
Nimble.John N. Dimon....Brooklyn. 
Emelye.J. C. Crawford.New Jersey. 
Mary.P. H Hill,.Jersey City. 
Emma T.J. Treadwell.Brooklyn. 
THIRD-CLASS SCHOONERS. 
(To Southwest Spit and return—twenty-four miles). 
William T. Lee.C, A. Cheever.Brooklyn. 
Eclipse....Union. 
Brooklyn.Ira Smlt i.Long Island. 
Bismarck...Long Island. 
The first class boats got away at 11:16:30, the second 
class started at 11:21, and the third class at 11:23:45. There 
was a stiff southeast wind. The following were the win¬ 
ning vessels:— 
Schooners—Tidal Wave, winning the flag, officers, and 
club prizes, beating the Comet 2 min. 50 sec. The Comet 
won the Union prize. 
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In the first class sloops the Undine won the first prize, 
beating the J. B. Asten 22 min. 55 sec., the latter taking the 
Union prize. 
In the second class sloops the Schemer won the first 
prize, beating the Kaiser 4 min. 56 sec., the latter taking 
the Union prize. 
In the third class sloops the Wm. T. Lee won, coming in 
44 seconds ahead of the Brooklyn. 
Yesterday, 17th, the fleet started on its annual cruise. 
Cincinnati, June, 1874. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
On Saturday last (June 6) the long looked for boat race came off. The 
day was excessively hot, the thermometer standing at 90 deg. in the 
shade. The two contestants, Fred. Wolff and John Tucker, were ready 
at the proper time. The course was from Schmidt’s Boat-house to a 
point H miles up the river and return, making in all three miles. Wolff 
came in about two lengths ahead of Tucker in 27 minutes. Wolff was 
much elated at his own time, and immediately issued a challenge to any 
one who would row him for a purse of from Sou to $5100, over the same 
course. John Barbour has accepted :t, and the match is to come off 
within four weeks after the signing of the articles. Tucker also issues a 
challenge to Charles Weeks for a purse of $200. It has not, as yet, been 
accepted 
The Cincinnati Boating Club is getting along swimmingly. Their new’ 
four-oared paper shell has just arrived. W. L 
JMcw $1ub lten turns. 
The Maritime Monthly Review for June. Saint John, N. B. 
We have been in receipt for some time of the numbers of this excellent 
Review, and before this should have given it the notice it so fully de¬ 
serves. Conducted under the auspices of an association of gentlemen, 
and edited by II. L. Spencer, Esq., the Maritime Monthly Review is not 
only most intelligently written, but is especially interesting, as it con 
tains a special literature both novel and fresh in character, descriptive of 
the locality from whence the Magazine emanates. Tf the extreme limit of 
Western America should find expression in the “Overland” from the 
Pacific Ocean, we are only too glad to have a balance from the uttermost 
Atlantie side in the Mantime Monthly. Among a variety of excellent 
matter we note “The Chronicles of Punch Bowl,” in which the fortunes 
of a hardy fisherman, Job Cobbiduclc, are told with a great deal of humor 
and force, and how Mrs. Hurlbut, the parspn’s wife, tried to reform his 
hard ways, but how a school of herrings tempted him, and finally how he 
came to grace through the medium of a big cuttlefish, and was taught to 
sin no more in breaking the Sabbath. Such descriptions, purely local, 
are admirable in character and give a cachet of originality to the Mari¬ 
time Monthly which makes it most welcome. Already in its third vol¬ 
ume, this Magazine seems as if its career would be a lasting one, and it 
is a most interesting feature of the good taste and literary, ability of our 
friends in the good province of New Brunswick. We notice among its 
corps of contributors Mr. J. N. Wilson, a frequent writer for Forest 
and Stream. 
The Frontier Series. ’ Illustrated. A Thousand Miles 
Walk. Nathaniel H. Bishop. Third edition. Lee & Shepard: Bos¬ 
ton and New York. *1873. 
This is a most pleasantly fresh and ingenuous description of a long 
journey taken on foot some years ago by a brave American lad, who 
tramped it away across the Pampas, from Buenos Ayres on the 
Atlantic side, over the Andes to the coast of Chili. One great charm of 
the book is its truthfulness. Descriptions of life as seen by the narrator 
when in company with the guachos are novel, and we believe have been 
rarely written up before, save by hearsay. The pluck of Mr. Bishop, his 
endurance, must have been immense, as it is almost certain that his life 
must lrave been endangered moi’e than once. In reading it one is struck 
with the sad and worthless characters of the men who inhabit the central 
plains of South America, and how their lives present pictures of greed, 
superstition, cruelty and depravity. Mr. Bishop’s narrative, written 
some seventeen years ago, is still as fresh as if produced only yesterday, 
for manners and customs must never change in Central America, and 
civilization makes no further progress there than in Central Asia. That 
the book is appreciated is evident from its being now in its third edition. 
“A Thousand Miles Walk” contains many interesting accounts of the 
birds and animals of the Pampas, and we know that the early taste shown 
by the author when yet but a lad for natural history, has been further 
developed. Dr. Brewer, our well known naturalists speaks of Mr. 
Bishop as “a young and enthusiastic naturalist, whose zeal in the study 
of natural history prompted him alone,unaided,and at the risk of his life, 
to explore the arid plains of South America while yet a mere stripling in 
years and stature, though his observations there exhibit the close and 
careful study of maturer years.” The Bostrom gringo and his book are 
exemplifications of Young America’s pluck, courage and stmdy. 
Lord of Himself. A Novel. By Francis H. Under- 
Wood. 515 pp., 12mo. cloth, $1.75. Boston: Lee & Shepard. 
This is a novel possessing all the requisites to ensure it an enduring 
popularity and extensive sale. It is truly an American story, and pre¬ 
sents a kaleidoscopic picture of society at the South thirty years ago. 
Old Kentucky will be presented to the reader in a new and very interest¬ 
ing net work of characters as they existed, acted and thought in those 
days. Full of true historical facts, this tale is like the sun pictures of 
the daguerreotype, abounding in scenes of the most absorbing interest 
to every one. Mr. Underwood, in this sketch of the Kentucky “blue 
blood,” a true gentleman in every and all places, and always the truly 
hospitable, large-hearted man, has only repeated an historical well known 
fact. As in novels generally, our hero, Beauchamp Russell, after much 
tribulation, becomes acquainted with Miss Adelaide Staelburne, an heir¬ 
ess and a lovely girl, and of course was soon deeply in love with her. 
Upon the many after events and complications of the work all comes 
well in the end, and our cordial approval of this work is given unreserv¬ 
edly in its favor. It is, in a word, a work of great ability and rare excel¬ 
lence, and m a literary point of view we rank it as A No. 1 among Ameri¬ 
can novels. 
Good Luck. By Francis A. Shaw. From the German of 
“Gluck Auf.” Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 
In this work are clearly brought out many of the strong points of Ger¬ 
man character; the life of the peasantry is well sketched, and though 
the author developes much of the fierceness of conflicting ebullitions of 
deep feeling, we find he has done only simple justice to the subject he 
has chosen for illustration. A man of a ruthless, boorish, coarse nature, 
although revelling in wealth, is quite willing to sacrifice to a chimera of 
family pride a young and beautiful daughter to one, even in his circum¬ 
stances, unfitted for her. Every one will be in love with the heroine, 
while they will derive some new idea of German customs and of the Ger¬ 
man character, as unfolded in the pages of this very readable romance. 
Relation of Insects to Man. By A. S. Packard, Jr., 
Editor of the American Naturalist, & c., being No. 3 of the popular se¬ 
ries published by Estes & Lauriatt. Boston. 
This work relates to the habits, &c., of many familiar and well known 
insects, but is treated in such manner by the author that we often be¬ 
lieve we are reading about a new order of insects, and it is not until we 
place this old fellow under a microscope that we see the same old face— 
(see fig. 54.) This is one of the best numbers issued. Among the nu¬ 
merous insects named, the “Trap-door Spider” is finely illustrated, to¬ 
gether with an account of some of the poisonous spiders of warm lati¬ 
tudes. While we believe with our author that “all the animal creation 
is a part, piece and parcel of the Divine plan.” we do not agree with 
other philosophers and some theologians, who even ascribe immortality 
to the animals, and believe that in the hereafter we shall hear the song 
of the mosquito and the hum of the bee and the shrill, rolling drum beat 
of the cicada. In this latter assertion we believe there is more of the 
“lunar” than we care to believe in. These “half hours with insects” are 
well worth thrice the price asked for them. All onr youth should sub¬ 
scribe for them, as they are among the few good books upon every day 
life they can not well do without. 
