Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 9, 1886. 



( VOL. XXIY.-No. 24. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Professional Canoe Paddling. 



The Cup Owners and the Com- 

 mittee. 

 The Sportsman Tourist 



A School Meeting in District 13. 



Down the South Saskatchewan. 



Camps and Camping Out. 

 Natural History. 



The White Goat. 



The Romance of Moth Hunting. 



The Nest and Eggs of Swain- 

 son's Warbler. 



Hybrid Wolves. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



On the Arkansas. 



Hits and Misses. 



Still-Hunting the Grizzly, 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Fisherman's Song. 



The First Tarpom on a Rod. 



Muskoka.— ii. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. 



Ganging Hooks. 



Fishing for Siriped Bass. 



Potomac Angling. 



Bass in New England. 

 Fishotlture. 



Transplanting Fishes. 

 The Kennel. 



The Sale of Jester. 



The Kennel. 



Contrarieties of Canine Form. 



The Kennel Hospital. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting, 



Telescopic Rifle Sights. 



The Bullard Trajectory. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Texas State Shoot. 



Augusta Tournament. 



The National Gun Association. 

 Canoeing. 



Rondout C. C, July 4. 



A Portable Canvas Canoe. 



Sailing Canoes. 

 Yachting. 



City of Lynn Regatta, July 4. 



Beverly Y. C. 



American Y. C. Regatta and 



Columbia Y. C. Regatta. 



Boston City Regatta, July 4. 



Eastern Y. C. Annual Regatta, 

 June 30. 



Larchmont Y. C. Annual Re- 

 gatta, July 4. 



Jersej City Y.C. Annual Regatta 



Priscilla. 



Cruise of the Lucille. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE CUP OWNERS AND THE COMMITTEE. 



SINCE it was decided by the Commodore and Vice-Com- 

 modore of the New York Yacht Club (the custodian 

 under the deed of gift from the original owners of the Cup 

 won by the America in 1 851) to build a yacht to defend the 

 Cup against the visiting English yacht, the committee of the 

 club, to whom the details of the new boat were intrusted, 

 have endeavored to keep secret all information concerning 

 her. Beyond the bare statement that she was a centerboard 

 boat of such a length, breadth and depth, they have made 

 public nothing concerning her, and those engaged in her 

 construction and fitting out, have by their orders been 

 equally reticent, so that all that is known of her to day is 

 only that which could not well be concealed. The com- 

 mittee have taken the ground that the Priscilla is a private 

 yacht built by private parties, and that how large she is or 

 how she is rigged is simply nobody's business. If this 

 view is correct they are justified in withholding all informa- 

 tion, but they must first defend the position they have 

 taken. 



The America Cup is a trophy belonging to no club nor set 

 of men, but as an emblem of national superiority it belongs 

 for the time being to the nation who can hold it against all 

 comers, as we have done for thirty-four years. It is in- 

 trusted very properly to the leading yacht club of America, 

 the club whose members first won it and whose yachts have 

 four times successfully defended it ; and on the occasion of 

 another contest the club have intrusted its defense to a com- 

 mittee composed of its most active and prominent members. 

 Two of the flag officers of the club have built and intrusted 

 to this same committee a yacht; not a pleasure toy for a few 

 persons, but as an active agent in the defense of the people's 

 trophy and our reputation as yachtsmen, and to the real 

 owners of the Cup the committee must answer for its de- 

 fense. 



There is no suspicion that they have not done all that is 

 possible, or that the Priscilla is not fully worthy of the task 

 she very probably will be called on to undertake; but more 

 than that is necessary if they would avoid all responsibility 

 in the event of a victory for Genesta or Galatea. There is 

 nothing, it is to be hoped, about the Priscilla, that they need 



be ashamed of, and certainly little or nothing, the knowledge 

 of which could in any way injure her chances; and by mak- 

 ing public all concerning her, they secure themselves from 

 blame in case of failure; while on the other hand, if they 

 keep secret what they arc doing, they must shoulder the en- 

 tire responsibility. 



That their views are not shared by at least one of the gen- 

 tlemen most concerned in the Priscilla is shown by the per- 

 emptory dispatch from Commodore Benuett that a represen- 

 tative of the Herald should be present on the trial trip, which 

 the committee intended to keep as secret as possible. There 

 can be no question of the widely spread and intense interest 

 felt by the American people, not merely by yachtsmen , in 

 the coming contest, and they will look directly to their rep- 

 resentatives, the committee of the New York Yacht Club, 

 for the retention of the trophy. 



PROFESSIONAL CANOE PADDLING. 

 17' OR the twenty years that canoeing has lived and grown 

 *- it has been entirely free from any tinge of profession- 

 alism, and since the formation of the American Canoe Asso- 

 ciation, and the increased interest in the sport, extra efforts 

 have been made to exclude such a professional element as 

 has worked so disastrously iu rowing; and thus far with 

 perfect success. Canoeing depends for its success on various 

 elements that are not compatible with extreme speed, the 

 only end and aim of professional racing, and the sport really 

 offers little inducement to the "sporting man," compared 

 with rowing, as the latter must always be speedier. Among 

 the many races sailed and paddleO in America none that we 

 know of, except a few among Indians and Canadian woods- 

 men, have been in any way professional; and none thus far 

 have been attended with the gambling, quarreling, and bad 

 faith that have brought rowing from the place it held in 1875 

 to that it now has, and it is with regret that we notice the 

 following in a San Francisco paper: "A member of the 

 South End Club, who is an acknowledged expert with the 

 paddle, is desirous to make a match for $100 or so, the race 

 to be paddled over a suitable course in canoes of equal speed 

 and dimensions." A similar race was talked of in Canada 

 last fall but did not come off, and we hope that the canoeists 

 of the Pacific will discourage the present attempt. There is 

 now ample incentive to competition in all localities where 

 canoeing is established, in the rivalry among members and 

 the prizes offered by clubs, while at the same* time the re- 

 strictions imposed by building rules and cruising necessities 

 prevent the building of paddling shells. Of course the pro- 

 fessional camper or general canoeist is an impossibility, the 

 only branch of the sport that is available being paddling. 



Racing for valuable stakes can encourage but one end, the 

 one that canoeing is directly interested in discouraging, that 

 of mere speed. The main advantage of canoeing at the pres- 

 ent day is that it is a sport to be enjoyed at one's leisure; 

 that a man gets in a canoe nine times out of ten, not to go 

 somewhere in a hurry, but for rest from business, leisurely 

 loitering, and a temporary escape from the unending hurry 

 of modern life. Take this element away and canoeing can 

 no longer be what it is, a sport for everybody, but must 

 follow the downward course that rowing has pursued for 

 thirty years. From a standpoint of mere speed, boats, oars, 

 fittings and crews have taken an enormous stride forward, 

 well illustrated by the comparison of an old inrigged wherry 

 with a paper four or eight of to-day, but no one can say that 

 rowing is as healthy or as accessible to every one as it was in 

 the earlier stages. It would seem that the many, with 

 neither time, strength nor desire for racing, might still find 

 their pleasure in wide and comfortable tubs with an easy 

 stroke, leaving the outriggers and racing to the few who can 

 enjoy them ; but curiously enough, there is an unalterable 

 natural law by which when a certain standard is set up, no 

 matter how distant and unattainable or how undesirable, all 

 men must aspire to it, and either work to attain it or aban- 

 don the sport entirely. Oarsmen have set up a standard of 

 speed, the taking a shell of lightest possible construction 

 over two, four or five miles in the least possible time, re- 

 gardless of every other consideration, and that standard 

 exerts an influence on all varieties of rowing. 



Thus far canoeing has been free from such evil influence; 

 the only end sought has been true recreation, and racing has 

 been encouraged only to an extent that will add additional 

 interest and promote improvements in the boats; while its 

 development has been carefully guarded by retrictions that 

 encourage cruising and pleasure paddling, rather than speed 

 only. Under these conditions it meets the wants of an im- 

 mense number as no other sport yet has done; but only let 

 the standard of fast paddling be set up by a few, and we may 

 expect to see canoeing follow the same course as rowing and 



with similar results. No one can explain why this should 

 be so, but few will deny that it will; that the tide once 

 turned in that direction will carry all before it, and ulti- 

 mately destroy the very features that now make canoeing 

 enjoyable. It has been so with many other sports that have 

 been improved to death, or as some one has expressed it, 

 have "died of their own too muchness." 



We would not be understood as depreciating rowing in 

 any form, recognizing the part it now takes among the out- 

 door amusements of the day. The changes that have arisen 

 in the course of years, whatever their result, are simply 

 natural, and what must be expected in these days of progress; 

 and freed from the evil influence that has of late retarded it, 

 there is no nobler sport for the athlete. Canoeing, however, 

 appeals to a different and larger class, which the introduc- 

 tion of such improvements would soon exclude as the form 

 of the sport varied. The cinder track and the sliding seat 

 still offer a large field to the budding professional, and we 

 hope for many a day he will leave the paddle to those who 

 are better able to appreciate its many good qualities, and put 

 it to its proper use. 



The German Shoot.— The trip to Bingen on the Rhine 

 of the independent New York German riflemen has roused 

 no end of enthusiasm in the quiet little German town. 

 There were marksmen and orators and warriors in the party. 

 There has been some shooting, much talking, no end of 

 wine drinking, and altogether a capital time. The visitors 

 made the place particularly lively on the Fourth of July and 

 America was boomed in every respect. There was some 

 shooting at the usual eagle, and it was dismembered and 

 divided around as follows: Weber, middle crown; Bruns, 

 right crown; Bergman, left crown; Gramm, right wing; 

 Weiler, left wing; Schuhniacher, righthead ; Kiigler, lefthead ; 

 Witt, right neck; Koerben, left neck; Boeswald, imperial 

 eagle; Schwarz, sceptre; Bopp, German flag; Stein, Ameri- 

 can flag; Nehrbas, right claw ; Zuschlag, left claw ; H. Weber, 

 right thigh; Wassung, right wing; Berndt, left wing; Crous, 

 tail; Roedler, body. Roedler became rifle king. In the after- 

 noon the American riflemen made an excursion to the 

 Niederwald and the New Yorkers placed a wreath on the 

 pedestal of the statue of Germania. In performing this act, 

 Mr. William Weber, secretary of the Schuetzen, said: "The 

 independent New York riflemen, in the name of the Ger- 

 mans of the United States of America, place at the feet of 

 the symbol of the reestablished German Empire this oak 

 wreath, in testimony of their unbroken love and attachment 

 to their old Fatherland." The coronation of the SchlUzen 

 K6nig Roedler followed with high festivities. 



Toy Pistol Day. — The toy pistol did its deadly work on 

 the recent national holiday. The laws are against the little 

 pest, but the small boys are friendly to it, and the small boy 

 wins every time in the preliminary tussel. When it comes to 

 his later set-to with the toy itself, the lad is not always so 

 successful. Into a bit of flimsy machinery, made only to 

 fire off the inoffensive blank cartridges, the youthful gunner 

 pokes a ball cartridge, or perhaps a charge of nails ; and then 

 comes the ruction, and the youthful experimenter parts com- 

 pany with a finger and thumb. One or two good test cases 

 made against prominent dealers in the prohibited articles 

 would do more in checking the sale and distribution of these 

 nuisances than any amount of general talk or writing. There 

 are plenty of officers paid to do this very work, and when 

 grief and sorrow have been brought into many more house- 

 holds perhaps some real restrictive work will be done. 



National Gun Association. — At the meeting of the 

 National Gun Association at Philadelphia last week, Mr. J. 

 E. Bloom resigned the position of general manager, and Mr. 

 A. W. Du Bray, of Newport, Ky., was elected to fill his 

 place. The next tournament of the Association will be held 

 at Augusta, Georgia. 



Deer Law Posters. — It is important to make the new 

 law known in every part of the North Woods. We have 

 prepared a poster giving the text of the law, with the names 

 of the State game protectors for the Adirondack counties. 

 These will be mailed free of charge upon application. 



The World is Small. — One of the curiosities of the 

 news of the day is to be found in our angling columns, where 

 it is stated that the tackle su pply of American anglers is to 

 be affected by the ravages of the cholera in Spain. 



Weehawken.— The guns of the Algonquin Gun Club, at 

 Weehawken, N. J., opposite New York city, wake the 

 echoes among the bluffs that once answered back to Burr's 

 pistol shot when he killed Alexander Hamilton. 



