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AGRUISER'S CABIN.—The Godolphinis a cutter built on the eas 
eoast of Scotland, and measures seven tons. Sheis 82ft. long by Sft. 
beam, is fully decked, with small watertight well, and draws about 
6ft. of water. * * * * The cabin is 14ft. long, having the sine qua 
non of a comfortable cruiser, a perfectly watertight deck; there are 
two folding iron hammocks in the after part, and broad bunks for- 
ward, making four comfortable beds: there are also plenty of lockers 
for grub and clothes. The forecastle is latge with good head room, 
and hasan iron-framed hammock for cook or crew when such is 
carried. The cooking (a,most important element for eruising) is 
done very handily with a large paraffin onl stove, having twofour and 
oné quarter inch burners, and an oven capable of roasting a four- 
pound joint.—Aunt?s Yachting Magazine, 
FAILURE OF A SHIPBUILDING FIRM.—Messrs. Ward & Stan- 
ton, of Newburg, N. Y., lately made an assignment to Mr, Jas. Begg, 
of New York, their liabilities being about $100,000. The firm, which 
was established in 1872, have a yard just below Newburg, and for 
some years past have built iron vessels, the yachts Polymia and 
Namouna being constructed by them. They also built the Rhada, 
Vedette and Henriette, besides many tugs and ferryboats. Two years 
ago a fire occurred in the yard by which the firm lost heavily, 
which was the cause of their present embarrassment. The work at 
present under way will be completed by the assignee, and the firm 
will probably be able to resume, 
MISCHIEF IN THE CUP RACES.—Several small lithographs of 
Mischief in one of her races with Atalanta in 1881 have been published, 
showing her balloon jib set witha pole on the foot, and one has 
lately been sent to us with the inquiry whether the pole was ever 
carried in the manner shown, In this race a watch tackle was made 
fast to the stay, about 6ft. above the bowsprit end, by which tackle 
the fore end of the booming ont pole was hauled out, so that its 
position was not, as shown in the pictures, at the bowsprit end, but 
on the stay, about six feet up. 
MR. WARREN'S 40-TONNER.—The Shipping World again states in 
the February number that Mr. Warren will challenge for the Cup, as 
follows: ‘‘lt will be with considerable interest, and deep expressed 
hopes of success, that we shall follow the fifth attempt to recover 
the America Oup. to which the well-known Liverpool yachtsmen Mr, 
Warren has pledged himself.” 
YONKERS Y. C.—At the meeting on Jan. 8, Commodore A. J. 
Prime was reélected, but declined to serve, although ballotted for 
three times, Mr. Jas. Martin was elected Vice-Commodore; John 
Dickson, Fleet Captain; Gabriel Reevs, Secretary; Join Nesbitt. 
Treasurer; J, Howard Clapp, Measurer: A. W. Serrell, Trustee; W. H. 
Veitch, Steward. 
ECLIPSE Y. C.—The annual meeting of the Eclipse Y, C. was held 
on the 5th inst., and the officers chosen forthe coming year were 
Peter Krumeich for Commodore; Joseph Strobbell, Vice-Commodore; 
Edward Hammer, Rear Commodore; James MeClymont, Secretary; 
Thomas Calvert, Treasurer, and John Calvert, Measurer, 
ANOTHER CUTTER FOR AMBRIGA,—Mr. G, L. Watson has just 
contracted with the Culzean Shipbuilding and Hngineering Co. for the 
construction of a 20-ton fast cruiser to be built of wood. She will be 
sent to America on the deck of a steamer, a mould for her keel going 
with her, to be cast and boited on here. 
REMOVAL.—Mr. BH. L. Williams, late of Lowell, Mass., removes 
this week to South Boston, foot of Hast Ninth street, where he has a 
new shop. Mr, Williams will devote himself mainly to sm all cruisers. 
We will publish soon the lines of a craft of the Fendeur type, built by 
him last season. 
SAN FRANCISCO.—The Pacific yachtsmen have had greatness 
thrust upon them in the shape of a double page cartoon in the local 
eomic journal The Wasp. The fleet are represented as starting to 
recapture Honolulu. 
HARLEM Y. C.—The second annual reception of the Harlem Y. C. 
will be held at Lexington Avenue Opera House on Jan. 20, The com- 
lin. 
AMY.—Mr. E. D. Morgan’s steam yacht Amy arrived at Bombay, 
after a run of seven days from Aden, on Friday last, and was to leave 
on Monday for Columbo and Singapore. 
MIGNONDETTEH.—The capital sentence passed on Captain Dudley 
and Stephens has been commuted to six months imprisonment with- 
out hard labor, 
CRUISER.—We have received from Mr. Alley the sail drafts of 
Cruiser, and will publish them shortly. 
Answers to Correspondents. 
2" No Notice Taken of Anonymous Correspondents. 
A_N,, Baltimore.—We expect to publish the sail plan shortly, 
J, L., New York.—The lighter sample is strong enough. The other 
seems heavier than the ‘'yaeht drill’> mentioned. 
W.5., Toronto.—The safety of the yacht would depend on her 
model and ballast. She might be safe with the dimensions named, 
SEEKING,—l would like some hints on black bass rods, flies and 
fishing. Ans, Get ‘‘The Book of the Black Bass,” by Dr. Henshall, 
We can furnish it. Price 3,00, 
G. P.—The term “‘sportsman”’ as now used refers to those who 
practice field sports. ‘he other expression “sporting man*’ means 
everything from a turfman 10 a prize-fighter and bunco steerer, 
Hi. P., Columbus, O— With a companion I spent last July, August 
and September in the Territories of Wyoming, Washington and Idaho, 
We caught five varieties of trout, but no brook trout. I claim that 
there is a species or brook trout whicn has no scales. I claim that 
the trout in the tribut ries of Cheat River, West Virginia, have no 
scales visible to the naked eye. Am TI correct? Ans All trout have 
seales. Those on the charrs, to which the eastern brook and lake 
trouts belong, are very sinall, but are plainly visible when the skin is 
dry, They can also be seen in certain lights. but are not only small 
but so covered with mucus thai they are not readily seen- 
H. &: F., Jn., New York.—1. Did not Mr. Harry Prichard make bis 
cast of ninety feet with a rod over a foot shorter and considerably 
lighter than any other rod used? 2. Did not, at the last tournament, 
Mr. Thomas Prichard do his casting after dusk? 3. Was there, after 
the tournament, some amount of money placed, or ready to ve, on 
Mr. Thomas Prichard, to throw against any certain pariy or parties, 
and whether these did not back out? Ans. 1, His rod was 10ft. 444in, 
and weighed eight ounces. All the other rods were 11ft. 6in. and 
weighed as follows: One of 844 ounces, two of 884 ounces, and one of 
10% ounces, 2. No. 3. We have never seen any money wagered at a 
committee are Messrs, Pitzgerrald, Parker, Austin, Baxter and Con- 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
tournament, nor haye we ever known of any being “placed or ready 
to be,’’ on any person, we know nothing of any such transaction. 
A.S§., Troy, N. Y.—The specimen of fresh-water fish sent us arrived, 
but with no indication of the locality where it was caught. The fish 
is well known in some parts of the country. It is frequent in the 
Great Lakes and the Atlantic streams of Virginia. Jts systematic 
name is amia calva. I the Great Lakes it is known as the dogfish 
and mudfish, in the South it is called bowfin, grindle, John A. Grindle, 
and John A. Itis a ganoid and worthless for food, but it is a fierce, 
destructive fish. 
Reaper, New York.—While net-fishing last summer at flood tide, 
in Peconic Bay, we hauled our seine in a creek communicating with 
the sea in which the tide runs at a rate of four or five miles an hour, 
We caught thirteen chequit or wealknsh, the largest of which weighed 
ten pounds. No onein the vicinity eyer caught one of the size men- 
tioned with hook and line. Since reading your paper I am convinced 
that this can be done, Will you be so kind as to inform me as to the 
baifi to be used, the size of line and red, and oblige? Ans, Light bass 
tacide is aboul the proper thing, say an 8-foot bass rod, a reel with a 
hundred yards of fine linen line, 12-thread or smaller; use a leader 
of single gut, a swivel sinker and hooks on gut. For small fish use 
shrimp for bait and menhaden for large ones. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Fiy-I'isHine ror SALMoN, TRouT AND GRAYLING.—The author of 
this work* dares to dispute some of the generaily accepted notions, 
avdin some of his departures from accepted rules we agree with 
him, He writes evidently from experience, and not from memory of 
what he has read on the subject. Although bearing an American im- 
print on the title page, the book is entirely English. The author has 
decided yiews on the habits of fish and of angling, and does not hesi- 
tate to express them, and whether we agree with him on some point 
or not we know that be believes what he says. On the whole, it is a 
good little work, and well worth reading. 
* Recollections of Fly-Fishing for Salmon, Trout aud Grayling, with 
notes on their haunts, habits and history. By Hdward Hamilton, 
ee F\L.S., ete. Ulustrated. New York: Orange Judd Company, 
1885, 
PUBLISHER’S DEPARTMENT. 
Deer hunters should read Judge J. D. Caton's ‘“‘Antelope and Deer 
of Amerieca,”? For sale at this office. Price $2.50._Adv. . 
N. W. Aver & Son, of Philadelphia, publish a yery complete, use- 
ful and well arranged directory of American newspapers. We have 
had occasion to use it ourselves and can testify to its merits, 
AnTHONY’s PHOTOGRAPHIC BULLETIN is now edited by Prof, Chas. F. 
Chandler, of Columbia College, and is issued semi-monthly. The 
Jan. 10 number appears with a handsome colored cover and contains 
a portrait of Prof. Chandler. The Bulletin is published at $2 per 
year by Messrs. E. & H. T. Anthony, 591 Broadway, New York. 
PANTHERS ON THE McCLOUD RIVER. 
Editor Forest and Stream: . 
A panther which for seyeral weeks had made himself par- 
ticularly obnoxious as well as familiar about both the 
McCloud fishery stations, California, was shot in the month 
of September, 1882, After the killing of this panther the 
rest kept away from the settlements to some extent, and we 
did not see much of them till about midsummer of this year 
| (1883), when they began to come around again. In the lat- 
ter part of July of this year (1883) Mr. Radcliff came sud- 
denly upon three panthers not far from the fishery, on the 
Copper City trail. Not long after a large panther crossed 
the same trail in the daytime, just after Mr. Barber had 
passed along on horseback; and about the middle of August 
“Short Jim,” one of our Indians, saw a panther in the midst 
of a herd of cows trying to carry off a calf, but the cows 
‘horned at it” so, to use the Indian’s expression, that the 
pauther had to give up the undertaking. Jim had his rifle 
with him, but said that he could not shoot at the panther 
without endangering the cows, A day or two after a pan- 
ther came down to Mr. Barber’s house in the evening, and 
being chased by his dogs, ran about the vicinity for a con- 
siderable time, and crossed the garden twice with the dogs 
after him. He cuffed one of the dows finally, and soon after 
disappeared. This was peculiar conduct on the part of the 
panther, for usually when chased by dogs they will almost 
immediately take to a tree. We have not yet ascertained 
for a certainty whether the panthers ever have or ever would 
molest the trout in the trot ponds, though the presumption 
is that if they thought they could take the trout with safety 
they would do it, as they will, notwithstanding the cat’s 
proverbial dislike to wetting its feet, frequently get into the 
water of their own accord, and it is not an unusual thing 
for them to swim the McCloud River. We think it best, at 
all events, to be on the lookout for them, as well as for wild- 
cats, lynxes, ’coons, minks, otters and other fish-loving ani- 
mals. We were not troubled much with panthers again 
until the following spring, when Mr. Barber treed three at 
one time close tu his house. ‘Treeing three panthers at once 
is such an unusual citcumstance that 1 yenture to send you 
the following very interesting account of it, written by Mr. 
Loren W. Green, superintendent of the United States trout 
ponds on the McCloud River, and next-door neighbor of Mr, 
Barhour: 
“The farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs, A. J. Barber was a few 
nights since the scene of wild excitement. Their residence 
is situated half a mile above and across the river from the 
U. 5. salmon fishery. 
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“Tt was about 10 0’clockin the evening—the family had 
not yet retired—when they were somewhat startled by what 
sounded like the heavy tramping of feet. Mr. Barber re- 
marked to his wife that the cattle had probably come down 
from the mountains, and went to the door. The dogs rushed 
out in a terrific manner, and he could plainly see by the dim 
light of the moon three huge California lions; they were 
skipping and leaping around playfully until the three dogs 
came upon the scene when, taken completely by surprise, 
they started for the bills, making two or three leaps, and all 
three ascended a large oak tree standing about thirty yards 
from the door. With the exception of the small children, 
Mr. and Mrs. Barber were alone; but something must be 
done, and for Mr. Barber to go out alone with his torch and 
rifle seemed useless, so Mrs. B. bravely proposed taking the 
torch, and getting onein readiness, Mr. B. examined his 
faithful old rifle, and finding it cocked and primed, staried 
for the scene. The dogs were under the tree, barking and 
biting the bark in a furious manner. It was a live oak tree, 
the trunk large with heavy limbs, but not very high. The 
leaves and darkness prevented the monsters being seen read- 
ily, and it was necessary for both to get up close, when Mrs. 
B., looking up, plainly saw three pair of eyes some twenty 
feet above and directly over her, and which shone like balls 
of fire. Mr. B. caught sight of them about the same time, 
and also saw that one of them was about to spring upon his 
wife; but quicker than it takes to tell it, he raised his rifle 
and gent a leaden messenger of death crushing through the 
animal’s back, and he fell a helpless mass at Mrs. Barber’s 
feet, and the faithful old dog, Hunter, was soon at his throat. 
The firing and flash of the rifle excited the remaining two, 
and one of them, before Mr. B. could shoot again, made a wild 
spring at his wife, missing her by about two feet, and strik- 
ing the ground with such force as to jar the very earth. He 
stopped for a moment, but the old dog Hunter was upon 
him, and he fled to the hills with lightning rapidity, the dogs 
following. The third and last one jumped from the tree in 
another direction and made good his escape. The dogs 
brought to bay the one they followed, in a thicket of chap- 
parel, at the base of the lime rocks, and Mr, Barber and 
wife concluded to follow. Arriving at the scene, they found 
the brush so thick that it was impossible to see him. He was 
fighting the dogs, and the brave old Hunter ventured too 
near, and soon returned with some fearful wounds. Mr. B. 
made a large fire, which drove the animal from the brush 
and down toward the river, with the dogsin pursuit. He 
was again brought to bay, this time where the brush was 
not so thick, and while the dogs kept him busy, Barber 
crawled on his hands and knees to within about eight feet of 
him, and as Mrs. B. held the torch, he fired, when the lion 
and dogs went rolling down the hill together. Thinking 
that he had fatally wounded the animal, Barber concluded 
to leave him until daylight, and with his wife repaired to 
his home, which they reached about two o’clock in the 
morning, At daybreak Barber returned to the scene of con- 
flict, but the dogs were so badly wounded that they refused 
to follow. He found the lion dead within a few feet of 
where he had shot him, and dragged him to the house. He 
weighed 150 pounds and measured about nine feet. The 
other, which was a kitten, weighed 120 pounds. The one 
that escaped came around the next evening, but the dogs 
had lost no more lions, and he was allowed to go his way in 
peace and safety.” LIVINGSTON STONE. 
POT LUCK FROM EXCHANGES. 
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided that a domestic 
canary bird is property and may be subject of larceny. The 
learned court was, of course, not ignorant of the Jaw; the 
court erred as to the facts. Judging from his sad bachelor 
condition, Judge Cooper has never chased, at the bidding of 
fair damsel, the vagrant canary through field and forest, 
There are Benedicks on the bench, however, and some one of 
these ought to haye known that there is not a bird or beast 
kept as a pet or for profit or use so absolutely lacking in the 
animus revertendi. We have suspected its small corpus of 
being moved and instigated by thedevil. ltis painful to seea 
learned court fully up in the law thus slipping up on a matter 
of fact.—Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche. 
‘James Hogan, of Danbury, Conn.,” says the News of that 
town, ‘is the owner of a Mexican terrier. The peculiarity of 
this breed ot dogs is that their bodies are not covered with 
hair, but are smooth and much the color of arat. Winnie, 
for such is her name, possesses the most beautiful eyes 
imaginable. being a peculiar shade of green. She is prepared 
to swim, for duck-like she is web-footed. But the strangest 
part of this animal is her appetite and love for fruit. She will 
eat watermelons, tomatoes, apples, pears, oranges, dates, etc., 
and seems to relish them all equally well, with perhaps a 
preference for watermelons. Althongh constantiy in the 
fruit store of her master, she will not touch anything till 
given to her out of her master’s hand.” 
But of all books be sure to read ‘‘Wooderaft.” 
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