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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[July 3, 18S4. 



port tack, then tacked around the mark 3m. 30s. ahead of her, increas- 

 ing it to 3m. 41*. on the short run home. Wenonah and Huron had, in 

 the meantime, started baek, working short lacks further up tbe bay, 

 the former increasing her lead to the finish. 

 The times of the finish were as follows: 



FIRST CLASS SCHOONERS. 



Finish. Elapsed. Corrected. 

 Fortuna... 3 5.9 48 3 54 25 3 54 25 



SeCONR CLASS SCHOONERS. 



OliO ■ . 4 09 52 4 06 34 3 57 32 



Harbinger 4 12 08 4 09 57 8 59 59 



Adrienne 4 18 46 4 16 01 4 05 17 



Rebecca - 4 45 05 4 4114 4 34 34 



Sylph 4 57 58 4 54 SI 4 36 44 



FIRST CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Bedouin 3 49 07 3 39 07 3 29 35 



Wenonah 4 07 07 3 57 07 3 43 06 



Huron 4 18 21 4 08 21 3 52 50 



Tieen 4 20 25 4 10 25 3 56 58 



Hesper 5 0J 38 4 5138 4 32 05 



SECOND CLASS SLOOPS AND CUTTERS. 



Shadow 4 34 03 4 19 03 3 5101 



Hera 4 37 49 4 22 49 3 55 17 



Maggie 4 43 46 4 28 46 4 03 OS 



Clvtie 4 53 50 4 38 50 4 09 16 



Lapwing 5 02 05 4 47 05 4 18 33 



Fortuna. wins first prize in her class, $250; Olio first in her class. 

 $150, and Harbinger $75: Bedouin $150 and Wenonah $75. Shadow $75 

 and nera $85. 



MINES AND CUTTERS. 



Editor Forest and Stremfrl 



Last batch of papers reached our camp through several feet of 

 snow in safety, and depend upon it they were read with avidity around 

 our sheet -iron stove, with bacon and flapjacks pleasantly sizzling 

 after a hard day's work timbering up 80ft. of shaft, which is to take 

 us down to mineral arid wealth, and of course finally evolve a full- 

 fledged cutter. I was glad to find the candid admission quoted from 

 the He-raid in relation to the changes effected during recent years in 

 model and rig, which promise to lead up to a final type of which all 

 good sailors can he proud for other qualities than speed only. The 

 letter or report signed by Com. W. H. Dil worth and Mr. E. A. Stevens, 

 which you appropriately head ••Another Blow at the Sand baggers, Ms 

 thoroughly on the right" tack, and will not fail to influence for good 

 the small classes about New York, in whose welfare I always felt 

 special interest. 



The hills and mountains in this neighborhood for miles around 

 ha ve been stripped so bare of timber for'mining work that little ov 

 no game is to be met, though there is good trout fishing in Twin 

 Lakes, some twelve miles away to the southward. I look forward 

 with great expectation to the" June races, and whatever the result 

 may be, feel certain that the cutters will now receive full credit for 

 their good qualities, whether they win or not. Kacing has always a 

 large share of luck in it, and this may go against the cutters as long 

 as they are still in the minority. Leadville is pretty dull just now, 

 recuperating slowly from sundry bank failures, but the future prom- 

 ises to see the mining industry put upon a stable and lasting basis. 

 Success ro Forest and Stream, the first paper in America to make a 

 specialty of yachting twelve months in the year. 



C: P. Kunhardt. 



Florence Mine, Leadville, Col., June 21. 



LYNN CITY MATCHES. 



A SERIES of open matches will be given by the city of Lynn on 

 July 4, the races being started at 8 A. M. so as to allow the boats 

 to enter the Boston open matches. The races are in charge of a com- 

 mittee from the city and the Lynn and West Lynn Y. C. The classes 

 and prizes are as follows, the measurement being water-line length: 



First class, all yachts 20 and not over 27ft. water-line; second class, 

 all centerboard yachts 17 and not over 20ft. water-line; special class, 

 all keel yachts IT and not over 20ft. water-line; third class, all yachts 

 12 and not over 17ft. water-line. 



The prizes are: First class— First prize, 825; second prize. $15; third 

 prize. $10, and fourth prize, $5. Second class— First prize, $20; second 

 prize, $15; third prize, $10, and fourth prize, $5. Special class— First 

 prize, $20; second prize, $15: third prize, $5; there is no fourth prize 

 for this class. Third class— First prize, $15; second prize, $10; third 

 prize, $7, and fourth prize, $5. 



The first course for first, second and special classes is from judges' 

 liaeoff eiub house to flagboat off Point of Pines, leaving it on port, 

 thence to Western Lobster Rocks Buoy, leaving It on port, thence to 

 judges' boat, passing between it and the flagboat; distance, five 

 miles. 



Second course for third class: From judges' line off club house to 

 flagboat off Point of Pines, leaving it on port, thence to Sand Point 

 Buoy, leaving it on port, thence to judges' boat, passing between it 

 and flagboat: distance, three miles. 



The following are the rules and regulations: No restrictions in re- 

 gard to sails. Measurements shall be the length on waterline. In all 

 other respects the rules of the New England Yacht Racing xVssocia- 

 tion shall govern the race. The decision of the judges shall be final. 

 All yachts intending to sail must be in position before 7:45 o'clock A. 

 M. 'All yachts will come into line without regard to size as follows: 

 First class between two flags bearing the number 1; second and 

 special classes, between two flags bearing the number 2 and the third 

 class between two flags bearing the number 3. A gun will be fired on 

 the. judges' boat at 7:45 o'clock A. M., which will be the signal for all 

 classes to form in line. At 8 o'clock it will be fired again, which will 

 be the signal for the starting of the first class. Five minutes later it 

 will be fired again, which will be the signal for starting the second 

 and special classes. Five minutes later it will be fired again, which 

 will be the signal for starting the third class. The committee will 

 consist of Alderman W. B. Moulton, Councilman F. E. Wright and 

 I). H. Taylor for the city; W. B. Newhall, F. S. Newhall. Walter 

 Hawkes and W. M. Rand for the Lynn Y. C, and B. W. Rmvell, 

 Lorenzo Poor, Charles S. Coodridge and William F. Walsh for the 

 WestLvnnY. C. The judges are: For the city, Joshua C. Eldrecl; 

 for Lynn Y. C, William B. Newhall, and Benjamin W. Roweil for the 

 West* Lynn Y. C. The judges' boat will be for the exclusive use of the 

 judges, regatta committee, press and members of the city government. 



TORONTO Y. C— The Toronto Y. C. race for five-tonners on Satur- 

 day proved quite a success. A finer day could not have been chosen. 

 A hght breeze from the east enabled the yachts to cross the line with 

 a free sheet, the course being from an imaginary line off the club 

 house, out through the western channel, thence to a buoy off Gibral- 

 tar I'oint hack again to the. Queen's wharf, thence to a buoy off Fish- 

 erman's Island at the extreme east end of the hay, and back to the 

 club house. There was a great deal of speculation as to the result 

 of the race, owing to two of the boats entered being very closely 

 matched, and both having new canvas just bent. The entries included 

 the sloops Iris and Mischief, the double lugger Midge and the single 

 lugger Mascot, The start was made at 1 P. M., and they all got off 

 well together, with the wind directly aft, which enabled a large 

 spread of canvas. The buov at the Queen's wharf was rounded in 

 the following order: Iris, Midge, Wisehief and Mascot. After haul- 

 ing their wind, the Iris gradually drew away from the rest of the 

 fleet, and the Mischief u ok second place, and the buoy at the point 

 was rounded— Iris, Mischief, Midge and Mascot, which positions were 

 kept to the finish, with the exception of the Mascot, which gave up 

 the race, she being too far behind to hope for a place. The Iris 

 crossed the line a winner at 5:13:30, beating the Mischief by nine min- 

 utes and a half. The prize was a very handsome telescope, presented 

 by tbe Vieo-Commodore. Mr. John ('osgrave, and to be won three 

 times before being retained, which will keep up the excitement for 

 some time yet, It is proposed to have a race for standing keel yachts 

 belonging to the club of seven tons and under on next Saturday. July 

 5, the prize a set of flags, presented by a mem her of the club.— 

 Tartmto Mail, Jwfte ; 8Q, 



QUINC'Y Y . 0. The entries in the second match of the Quincy Y. 

 G. on Monday were very few, but nine boats going over the course. 

 The day was clear, with a light wind. The times were as follows: 



FIRST CLASS. 



Length. Owner. Corrected. 

 Queen Mab 22.08 E. L. Burwell 1 14 40 



SECOND CLASS. 



Pet 20 01 J. W, McFarlatid 1 13 27 



Spray 18.04 H. M, Faxon 116 55 



Joker 20.05 George Coffin .117 46 



Parole 18.10 H. S. Bowers 1 30 50 



THIRD CLASS. 



Mirage 17.10 .A.J.Clark.. 59 48 



Rocket 16.67 A. F.Bass 1 03 13 



Elsie 16 09 C.F. Hard wick 1 1» 88 



BOSTON V C. LADIES' DAY. -Saturday, June 28, was the first 

 "ladies' day" of the Boston Y. C, and nearly three hundred ladies 

 turne t out to honor the occasion. A number of the club yachts were 

 on hand in the afternoon, among them the schooners Adrienne, 

 Brenda, Tempest, Princess, Lorelei and Alice, cutlers Edna, Vayu 

 and Ella May, sloops Echo and Nimbus, and tbe steamers Galatea, 

 Annie S., Marianna. Gracie, .Tuella and Nereta. The ladies were 

 taken on board tae yachts and the fleet started down the Bay, with a 

 light southwest wind, returning at 6 P, M, to the club house, where 

 supper was laid, after whtch the evening was spent in dancing. 



EASTERN A'. 0. BOOK, 1184— The. club list of the Eastern Y. C. for 

 this year shows a fleet of 92 yachts, composed of 13 steamers, 86 

 schooners, 26 sloops and 17 cutters, of which 37, Or nearly 58 per cent, 

 of the sailing craft are keel boats. Of the new vessels added this 

 year. King Phillip, Rondina and Ileen are keel boats, and the Harbin- 

 ger is a centerboard. The club numbers 456 active members, tbe 

 officers being Commodore, Henry S. Hovey, schooner Fortuna: Vice- 

 Commodore," J. Malcolm Forties, schooner Harbinger; Rear Commo- 

 dore, Wm. F.Weld, schooner Uitaini; Fleet Captain, das. Parker; 

 Secretary, Edward Burgess; Treasurer. P. T. Jackson; Measurer, 

 Edward Burgess. Regatta Committee, Geo. A. Goddard, Daniel 

 Applet on, E. B. Haven, Henry B. J«ckson. Frank E. Peabody. The 

 book contains a full signal code, rules Cor colors, signals, etc , and the 

 acts of Congress pertaining to yachts, besides the signals of the club, 

 and table of time allowances. We notice on page 92, under the letters 

 M. and P. of the signal code, an expression 1hat has evidently been 

 overlooked by the compilers of the book. 



L. Y. C. CLUB BOOK. — We have received from the Secretary of 

 the Larchmont Y. C. the club book for 1884, a handsrmely -printed 

 little book, appropriately bound in white canvas. The list of yachts 

 includes 114 boats, there being 10 steam yachts. 16 schooners, 8 cutters, 

 1 yawl, 32 cabin sloops, 24 open sloops and 23 catboats, the largest 

 yacht, the Atlanta, being 250ft. long, and the smallest, the Mary, 

 15ft. Tin. The keels number 22 and the centerboards 82: nearly half 

 the fleet being small jib and mainsail and catboats The club has 

 now 3t7 members. The clubhouse and anchorage are at Larchmont 

 Manor, on the Sound, about fifteen miles from New York, the club 

 owning a handsome clubhouse, billiard parlors, bathhouse, etc., 

 while the harbor affords a safe anchorage for large vessels. Good 

 courses are laid out on the Sound for the club races, the longest be- 

 ing tweniy-eigiit miles. A neat map of soundings and courses is 

 given in the book, besidesttiue tables, sailing regulations, instructions 

 as to registry of yachts, United States rules as to lights and signals. 

 and a colored sheet of the club signals. 



THE SEA GTJLL ABANDONED.— The steamer Richmond, Cajpt. 

 Grossman, winch ai rived at this port yesterday from West Point.Va., 

 reports that on Friday morning at 8 o'clock, off Chincoteague, a 

 small sloop yacht in distress was sighted. The steamer ran close to 

 the vessel, and found that her sails had been blown awav and her 

 rudder broken. She proved to be the Sea Gull, owned by Dr. Howell. 

 of Philadelphia, and from that city on a pleasure, cruise. A son of 

 the owner and Mr. K. L. Street, both of Philadelphia, were on board. 

 As there was a northeast gale blowing and a heavy sea running at the 

 time the yacht could not be taken in tow by tbe Richmond, so a boat 

 was lowered, the two men taken off and brought to this port. r Ihe 

 yacht, it was Cant. Grossman's opinion, would be picked up by some 

 passing vessel when the weather moderated.— A r . 1. Herald, June 29. 

 Norfolk, Va. July 1, 1884— The yacht was picked up near Cape 

 Henry by a pilot boat and towed into Hampton Roads. 



BOSTON Y.V';HT[N.L— Rondina has been hauled up and had 1,200 

 pounds of lead removed from inside and let in to her deadvvoods, 

 Messrs. Lawley & Son have nearly finished a little Mersey canoe for 

 Mr. S. W. Burgess, called the Tomboy. She will be decked with 

 waterways, bulkheads fore and aft, full cutter rig, and carries 850 

 pounds o'f lead on her keel. The yawl Fad, building for Mr. Ceo. A. 

 Goddard, is in frame and paitly planked up. The first of the two 

 launches building for Mr. Bennett, from Beavor Webb's designs, is 

 nearly planked up. Her skin is of mahogany, double, the inner plank 

 being laid diagonally, and the outer, fore and aft, with canvas, set in 

 marine glue between them, all being copper rivetted. The boiler is 

 nearly ready, but her engine has not arrived from England. 



SAN FRANCISCO.— SeveraVeruises will be made on the 4th, 5th and 

 6th. The S. F. Y. C. will go to Napa, leaving San Francisco on the 

 4th, stopping at Vallejo for the races, and on to Napa in the evening. 

 On the next day they will tow to Vallejo, sailing home from there m 

 the evening. The mosquito fleet of canoes and small boats will also 

 cruise to Napa, while the larger yachts will go to Santa Cruz. Several 

 changes in ballast have been made lately, Aggie has taken out another 

 lot, %}£ tons, leaving but 17 tons, Whitewing has taken out 1 ton, and 

 Caseo 5, leaving but 25 tons in place of 50 originally. 



CITY OF BOSTON OPEN MATCHES. -These races will be held 

 on July 4, off City Point, there being four classes. Class 1.— Sloops 

 and schooners 38ft. and over, prize, $50 for schooners and same for 

 sloops. Course, 20 miles. Class 2.— Sloops and schooners 25 to 38ft. 

 Course, 14 miles. Prizes for keel sloops $40 and $25. centerboard 

 sloops $40 and $25. schooners $35 and $20. Glass 3.— Keels and center- 

 boards, 20 to 26ft. Course, 8 miles. Keels $40, $25, $15, $10, and snme. 

 amounts for centerboards, 



HULL Y. C— The start for the annual cruise will be madeat9A. M. 

 on July 4, the fleet, starting at a signal from the flagship, will pass in 

 review, leaving the. flagship to starboard, and heading southeast, 

 saluting as they pass, a second gun at 9: 15 signaling to get under way 

 for the cruise. The first point .will be Marblehead Harbor, leaving 

 there next morning. 



YACHTING AT GLOUCESTER, -A yacht race will he sailed off 

 Annisquam in Ipswich Bay on July 4, starting at IP. M., for two 

 classes of boats, 20 to 26 and 15 to 201t, There are now near 100 small 

 yachts on the Annistpiam River and Gloucester Harbor, mostly sloop 

 or cat rigged. 



SALEM BAY Y. O— The first championship match of this club 

 will be sailed on July 4, the second on July 25, and the third on Sept. 

 4, the open matches being on Aug. 14. 



ORIENTA.— This steam yacht blew out both cylinder heads last 

 week, off Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay, and was towed into 

 Bristol by the tug Narragansett. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Representative London Journalists.— We have received from R. 

 Hoe & Co., through Root & Tinker, the publishers, a copy of this 

 engraving. The journalists whose portraits are given are: John 

 Walter, Times; H. Labouchere, Truth; Edmund Yates, World; W. 

 H. Mudford, Standard; J. R, Robinson, Daily News; J. L. Latey, 

 Illustrated News; F. C. Barnard, Punch: Frederick Greenwood. St. 

 James Gazette; William L. Thomas, Graphic; G. A, Sala, Daily Tele- 

 graph; Edw. Lloyd, Daily Chronicle. 



Safe Retreat for Mad Doos.— A terrible scare was created by a 

 mad dog on Main street on Wednesday. He disappeared at ten 

 o'clock on Wednesday morning and though thoroughly sought for, 

 was not found till nine this morning. It seems that the brute, with 

 the cunning of a mad dog, had run into a Main street store, the 

 proprietor of which never advertises, and had lain down directly 

 under the cash drawer. This morning a clerk took in a nickle from a 

 stranger, and on going to put it. hi the drawer the dog was discovered. 

 The strangest thing was that the dog showed no signs of hydrophobia 

 when found. Physicians all agree that the perfect rest and quiet 

 that he found in this store where they didn't advertise, had entirely 

 cured him. He was allowed to go undisturbed, but his grateful 

 owner has presented the keeper of the store wherein his dog's life 

 was saved, with a brand new pair of buckskin pants, which were. 

 highly appreciated, as the seat of the ones he was wearing were 

 worn entirely through.— Evansville (Lid.) Argus. 



The great pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minne- 

 sota are beginning to show the signs of exhaustion, There is 

 a shortage of produccion this year in these States footing up 

 about 600,000,000 feet. The average of "first quality" lumber 

 has run down from 12 per cent, ten years ago to 2 per cent, 

 last year, showing the rapid deterioration of stock which is 

 brought to the mills. The quality of the logs is much poorer 

 than ever before, as many have been put in from land once 

 cut over, and new land has been cleared of everything that 

 will make a cull board. The improvident lumberman, who in 

 the past only cut the choice pine and left the remainder to be 

 devastated by fire, now saws down his trees close to the root 

 to save an axe kerf, scrapes the ground with a fine-tooth rake 

 to get every log that will make passable mill culls, and will 

 discharge a foreman that leaves on the ground a log six inches 

 in diameter. — Northwestern Lumberman, 



"You know that pond near Chester that Charley Potter 

 stocked with carp in 1878?" "Certainly. The scheme failed 

 and—" "So every one thought.'' interposed Mr. Benton. 

 "Well, last fall, Charley sold the place to a Dutch gardener. 

 In June the Dutchman drained the pond."' "Did he find airy 

 carp.''" Not a scale. It took five weeks for the mud to dry 

 out. Yesterday she was about right and the Dutchman 

 began to plough. Well, sir, the first furrow the Dutchman 

 ran across the bottom of that pond raised his hair, for the 

 plough turned up four of the biggest, fattest carp you ever 

 saw. Ihe gardener he ploughed another round and got two 

 more fish. Then he carried" the news over to the railroad 

 depot and a lot of people went back with him, and sure 

 enough there were the fish Hopping around on the ground. 

 One of 'em weighed six pounds. He went on ploughing and 

 turned out two and three-pound carp until a couple of dozen 

 neighbors got a mess apiece. '—Pennsylvania Exchange. 



AMERICAN ANIMALS IN ART. 



IN the June number of the Century magazine Mr. Julian 

 Hawthorn writes of the wild animal sculp hi res of Ed- 

 ward Kemeys. A number of excellent illustrations accom- 

 pany the paper and give a very truthful conception of the 

 admirable work of the artist. We extract from t lie article 

 the following: 



"The events of his life, could they be rehearsed here, 

 would form a tale of adventure and vicissitude inure varied 

 and stirring than is often found in fiction. lie has spent by 

 himself days and weeks in the vast solitudes of our western 

 prairies and southern morasses. He lias been the companion 

 of trappers and frontiersmen, the friend and comrade of 

 Indians, sleeping side by side with them in their wigwams, 

 running the rapids in their canoes, and riding with them in 

 the hunt, He has met and overcome the panther and the 

 grizzly single-handed, and has pursued the flying cimarron 

 to the snowy summits of the Rocky Mountains and brought 

 back its crescent horns as a trophy" He has fought and slain 

 the gray wolf with no other weapons than his hands and 

 teeth; and at night he has lain concealed by lonely tarns, 

 where the wild coyote came to patter and bark and howl at 

 the midnight moon, nis name and achievements are 

 familiar to the dwellers in those savage regions, whose 

 estimate of amau is based, not upon his society and financial 

 advantages, but upon what be is and can do. Yet he is not 

 one who wears his merit outwardly. His appearance, in- 

 deed, is striking: tall and athletic, broad shouldered and 

 stout-limbed, with the long elastic step of the moccasiued 

 Indian, and something of the Indian's reticence aucl sim- 

 plicity. But he can with difficulty be brought to allude to 

 his adventures, and is reserved almost to the point of ingen- 

 uity on all that concerns himself or redounds to his credit. 

 It is only in familiar converse with friends that the humor, 

 the cultivation, the knowledge, and the social charm of the 

 man appear, and his marvelous gift of vivid and picturesque 

 narration discloses itself. 



"The studio in which Mr. Kemeys works is a spacious 

 apartment between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, 

 on Broadway. In appearance if is a cross between a barn- 

 loft and a wigwam. Round the walls arc suspended the 

 hides, the heads, and the horns of the animals which the 

 hunter has shot; and below are groups, single figures, and 

 busts, modeled by the artist, in plaster, terra cotta, or clay 

 The colossal design of the 'Still Hunt'— an American panther 

 crouching before its spring — is not now here; it has been re- 

 moved to the foundry at East Twenty-eighth street, where it 

 will be cast in bronze, and will then be placed in its appointed 

 site in Central Park. It will be a monument of which New 

 York and America may be proud; for no such powerful and 

 veracious couceptiou of a wild animal has ever before found 

 artistic embodiment. The great cat crouches vvith head low, 

 extended throat, and ears erect. The shoulders arc drawn 

 far back, the fore paws huddled beneath the jaws. The 

 long lithe baek rises in an arch in the middle, sinking thence 

 to the haunches, while the angry tail makes a strong curve 

 along the ground to the right. Tbe whole figure is tense 

 and compact with restrained and waiting power; the expres 

 sion is stealthy, pitiless, and terrible; it at once fascinates 

 and astounds the beholder. While Mr. Kemeys was model- 

 ing this animal, an incident occurred which he has told me 

 in something like the following words. The artist does not 

 encourage the intrusion of idle persons while he is at work. 

 though no one welcomes intelligent inspection and criticism 

 more cordially than he. On this occassion he was alone in 

 the studio with his Irish factotum, Tom, and the outer door, 

 owing to the heat of the weather, had been left ajar. All of 

 a sudden the artist was aware of the presence of a stranger in 

 the room. 'He was a tall, hulking fellow, shabbily dressed, 

 like a tramp, and looked as if he might make trouble if he 

 had a miad to. However, he stood quite still in front of the 

 statue, staring at it, and not saying anything, So I let 

 him alone for awhile; I thought it would be tune 

 enough to attend to him when he began to beg or 

 make a row. But after some time, as he still hadn't stirred, 

 Tom came to the conclusion that a hint had better be given 

 him to move on ; so he took a broom and began sweeping the 

 floor, and the dust went all over the fellow; but he didn't 

 pay the least attention. I began to think there would proba- 

 bly be a fight; but I thoughtl'd wait a little longer before 

 doing anything. At last I said to him, ' "Will you move 

 aside' please? You're in my way.'" He stepped over to 

 the right, but still didn't open his mouth, and kept his eyes 

 fixed "on the panther. Presently I said to Tom, ' "Well, 

 Tom, the cheek of some people passes belief!" ' Tom replied 

 with more clouds of dust; but the stranger never made a 

 sign. At last I got tired, so I stepped up to the fellow and 

 said to him: ' "Look here, my friend, when 1 asked you to 

 move aside, I meant you should move the other side of the 

 door," ' He roused up then, and gave himself a shake, and 

 took a last look at the panther/and said he, ' "That's all 

 right, boss; I know ah about the door: but— what a spring 

 she's going to make!" ' Then,' added Kemeys, self-reproach- 

 fully, T could have wept!' 



"But although this superb figure no longer dominates the 

 studio, there is no lack of models as valuable and as interest- 

 ing, though not of heroic size. Most interesting of all to the 

 general observer are, perhaps, the two figures of the grizzly 

 bear. These were designed from a grizzly which Mr, 

 Kemeys fought and killed in the autumn of 1»81 

 in the Rocky Mountains, and the mounted head 

 of which grins upon the wall overhead, a grisly trophy in- 

 deed. The impression of enormous strength, massiv. 

 elastic, ponderous yet alert, impregnable for defense as irre- 

 sistible in attack; a' strength which knows no obstacles, and 

 which never meets its match— this impression is as fully con- 

 veyed in these figures w hieb are not over a foot i n height-, as if 

 vast the animal were before us in its natural size. You see the 

 limbs, crooked with power, bound about with huge ropes and 

 plates of muscle, and clothed in shaggy depths of fur; the 

 vast breadth of his head, with its thick, low ears, dull, small 

 eyes, and long up-curving snout; the roll and lunge of the 

 gait, like the motion of a vessel plunging forward before the 

 wind; the rounded immensity of the trunk, and the huge 

 blindness of the posteriors; and all these features are com- 

 bined with such masterly uuity of conception and plastic 

 vigor, that, the diminutive model insensibly grows mighty be- 

 neath your gaze, until you realize the monster as if he stood 

 stupendous and grim before you. In the first of the figures. 

 the bear has paused in his great sf tide to paw over and -ntitt 

 at the horned head of a mountain sheep, ball buried Irj tin- 

 soil. The action of the right arm and shoulder, and the 

 burly slouch ot the arrested stride, are of themselves t 

 a gallery of pseudo-classic 7enus.es and Roman senators. 

 The other bear is lolling baek on his haunt Ucs, with all lour 

 paws in the air, munching some grapes from ;\ vine •• 



