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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[May 13, 1886. 



RIVERSIDE Y. C— At the regular meeting of the Riverside Y. C. 

 of Jacksonville, on April 30, there were four new members elected. 

 A new;set of by-laws was submitted and accepted. Quite a considerable 

 amount of money was raised among the present members, which will 

 be used in improvine the club house. Steps were also taken in refer- 

 ence to buying the 35ft. sloop yacht Cheemauu. a well-known boat in 

 and around New York. She is considered one of the ablest and fastest 

 boats of her length. At present she is owned by Mr. Will Fred Porter, 

 who is a member of the R. Y C. and ex-measurer, but has returned 

 to New York, his old home, to live. The yacht Arthur B., owned by 

 Mr. W. L. Davids, was sent to New Berlin, Fla., to he overhauled and 

 a new set of sails made and an additional storm jib put on her, making 

 her one of the finest looking sloop yachts in Southern waters. The 

 club is making good progress and hopes to be in good condition this 

 coming winter to welcome our Northern visitors as they should be. 

 It is also the desire of this club that all owners of yachts anticipating 

 a visit to our waters this next wiDter will send in their names together 

 with name and rig of yacht, and at or about what time she expects to 

 arrive here; also if said owner or owners wish their names presented 

 for active membership. 



KNICKERBOCKER Y. C. SPRING REGATTA.— The spring regatta 

 of the K. Y. C. will be sailed on May 31, starting from the club house 

 at Port Morris. The iron steamboat Sirius will carry the club's 

 guests. All yachts enrolled in the club will be considered as entered 

 for the regatta, and will be classed as follows: Class 1, cabin sloops 

 and cutters Sift, and over. Class 2, cabin sloops and cutters under 

 31ft. Class 3. open jib and maiDsail yachts, 35ft. and over. Class 4, 

 open jib and mainsail yachts, 21ft. to 25ft. Class 5, open jib and 

 mainsail yachts under 21ft. Class 6, cat-rigged yachts, 21ft. to 25ft, 

 Class 7. cat-rigged yachts 17ft, to 2lft. Class 8, under 17ft. Special 

 class, steam yachts. The course for the 8th class will be to and 

 around Fort Schuyler buoy and return. All other classes to and 

 around Gangway buoy and return. The preparatory gun will be fired 

 at 10:30 A. M. Full sailing directions will appear in programme. A 

 prize will be awarded the winning yacht in each class on time allow- 

 ance. A silk club signal will be given to the sailing yacht making the 

 fastest time over the Gangway buoy course without time allowance. 

 The regatta committee are Messrs. E. E. Brown, A. Yarian and D. M. 

 Winne. 



BUFFALO Y. C— The Buffalo Y. C. have taken a new start this 

 season, and their prospects are much more promising than ever be- 

 fore, as the interest is not confined to a few enthusiasts, but is ex- 

 tending widely among young men. Tbe roll now numbers 75 active 

 and 20 life members, and the fleet includes the schooners May Bell 

 andE. B Jewett, the sloops Curlew, Iolanthe. Ramble, Turk, Lillie 

 R and Alarm; the cutters Vera and Sylvia, and the cat One Such. 

 A new club house is now proposed at the foot of Porter avenue, and 

 it is expected that it will be ready early in the summer. The build- 

 ing, designed by Mr. H. M. Beebe, will be 24ft. square and three stor- 

 ies high. Below will be lockers and houses forthe yawls. Thesecond 

 floor, with a balcony 7^ft. wide around it, will be the club room, and 

 the third will be used for storage. On the roof is an open observa- 

 tory. With a new house and larger fleet the Buffalo Y. C. will he as 

 well settled as any club on the lake, will he in position to devote all 

 its energies to racing and to building up yachting on Lake Erie. 



QUAKER CITY Y. C— The events for 1S86 are: Opening review 

 and harbor crmse. May 23. Annual spring regatta, June 9. Ladies' 

 day, June 15. Review and harbor cruise, June 27. Corinthian cruise 

 and regatta, July 3 to 6. Review, Lazretto, Aug 8. Annual cruise in 

 Chesapeake and'Delaware bays, Aug. 14 to 29. Review and cup race, 

 second cLass, Sept. 6. Closing review and cruise, Sept. 19. 



LARCHMONT Y. C— The spring regatta will be sailed on June 5 

 and the annual on July 5. An oyster boat race, similar to that of last 

 year, will be sailed in August for prizes given by the club. 



JERSEY CITY Y. C— The opening day of the club will be as usual 

 Decoration Day, the start heing made from the club house at 9 A. M. 

 The annual regatta will be sailed on July 17. 



A LAUNCH AT FALL RTVER.— On May 5 there was launched by 

 Read Bros., the Mable F. Swift, designed by Mr. J. Borden, Jr., for 

 Mr. C. W. Anthony, of Fall River. Her dimensions are: Length over 

 all, 43ft,; waterline, 3Sft.; beam, 14ft. 6in.; hold, 6ft,; draft, oft, 6in.; 

 iron keel, 8,290 pounds. The under-water body of the yacht shows a 

 very fair form and promises a speedy boat. The sheer is noticeable 

 from its lowest point being far aft, with a quick spring to the counter. 

 The stem and sternpost are plumb. The boat is very roomy below, 

 with a large cabin, a stateroom to starboard and plenty of stowage 

 room and pantries, while the forecastle is of a good size. In the 

 cabin four berths can be made up back of the lockers. The interior 

 is finished very handsomely in oak and mahogany. The yacht will 

 be sloop-rigged and will enter the local races this summer. 



LAUNCH OF THE CINDERELLA.— On Saturday last, in spite of 

 the rain, the new yacht Cinderella was launched by Mr. Piepgrass, at 

 Greenpoint. On her wet decks were Mr. and Mrs. Iselin. The yacht 

 had her spars and gear in place, topmast on end, and was ready to 

 bend sails as soon as afloat. At 1 :15 P. M. the dog shores were 

 knocked away and she slid rapidly into the water, Mrs. Iselin breaking 

 a bottle of wine over her starboard bow as she left the land. The 

 Cinderella is still at Piepgrass's, hut will go into commission as soon 

 as the inside ballast is stowed. 



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P. M. C, Lawrence, Mass.— Address Wallace Huntington, Wilton, 

 Conn. 



C. F., Boston.— Please tell me the best places in Maine to get good 

 trout fishing in July? Ans. Tim Pond, the Rangeley lakes, or the 

 headwaters of the Aroostook. 



A. B. D., Boxford, Mass.— For compilation Massachusetts game 

 laws, address H. J. Thayer, Secretary Massachusetts Fish and Game 

 Protective Association, No. 246 Washington street, Boston. 



E. S. G., Cleveland.— Please inform me where I can obtain gold fish 

 at wholesale. I wish to sell them again. Ans. Write to E. G. Black- 

 ford, Fulton Market, New York, or to Hugo Mulertt, Cincinnati, O. 



A. D.— Where is the best place on the Hudson to catch shad with a 

 fly and when? Ans. We do not know of any such place. The only 

 spot where fly-fishing for shad is successful is below the dam at Hol- 

 yoke, Mass. 



W. L. B., Randolph, la.— I have a wild goose which has mated with 

 a tame swan this season for the third time. Unfortunately the eggs 

 were broken in 1884 and 1885. Is there any reason why tbe eggs 

 should not hatch? Ans. There is no reason for supposing that the 

 eggs will prove fertile. The birds are of different genera and a 

 hybrid would not be expected. 



Basil, Providence, R. I.— Do they catch shad with a fly? if so what 

 are the best, and what size? Do they fUh in shallow or deep water 

 for them? Ans. Yes. A little later, in July or August, we shall have 

 an article on this topic. The white miller and the coachman are good 

 flies and should be dressed on Nos. 4 to 6 Sproathooks. They fish for 

 them in the swift water of the channel in the Connecticut River below 

 the bridge at Holyone, Mass , and at no other place that we know of. 



Gaucho.— J. C. Bandle & Son give a medal to be contested for by 

 clubs of Hamilton county, O., five men to a team, each man to have 

 been a bona fide member of the club he represents at least three 

 months prior to first shoot. Is it compulsory under these conditions 

 that tbe members of the various competing clubs be residents of 

 Ohio, nothing having been said on that subject by the donor, while 

 he had actually placed a man on one of the teams whom he knew 

 lived in Kentucky ? Ans. No. 



FRANK'S RANCHE; OR, MY HOLIDAY IN THE 



T__ ROCKIES. 

 HE author of this little work, who signs himself E. M. in his dedi- 

 catory letter, is one of those respectable well-to-do citizens of 

 famous London Town, who in common with many of his species 

 carries under his broadcloth an ineradicable taint of the roving blood 

 which, whether inherited from the Norsemen or the restless followers 

 of Hengst and Horsa, is apt to assert itself most unexpectedly. The 

 author appears to have escaped the controlling influence of the 

 disease in his own person, only to transmit it in a concentrated form 

 to his son Frank, in whom it exhibited itself in an aggravated type, 

 which necessitated his being sent to the "Far AVest" for change of 

 air. In both father and son there appears to have been an abiding 

 faith in the old time tradition that if one can only get a piece of land 

 to plant money in, it will return to you in time an increase of forty, 

 sixty, or even a hundred fold, and Frank being started as a 

 farm pupil on a Minnesota farm, both he and his parent were 

 naturally anxious for the time when the young hopeful should be 

 prepared to till his own acres. It took six months before Frank was 

 able to satisfy himself and father that he knew enough of farming to 

 give his preceptor " wrinkles. " and the fates willing it, that at that 

 very period a farm of two hundred acres was thrown on the market 

 a dead bargain, the opportunity was embraced eagerlv, and Frank 

 began to plant his father's dollars in improvements. At the close of 

 the first year the return was not quite what was expected, but just 

 then a splendid opportunity occurred for establishing a creamery as 

 rich in promises as a Senatorial candidate; the fates were further 

 propitious in turning up at the very moment a man without means 

 but with all the experience necessary to the working of a creamery 

 with a moneyed partner. The hand of fate was so distinctly recog- 

 nizable here that when the author received a letter intimating that 

 the farm was sold, the creamery established and an opportunity 

 presented for the profitable investment of more dollars, he not only 

 refrained from exhibiting surprise, but determined not to be eclipsed 

 by his son in the abiding faith which works miracles, and came down 

 with the needful like a man. 



But when a year later the partnership was dissolved, and Frank 

 received as his share the experience only, plus two hundred dollars, 

 while the partner who invested the experience took the creamery 

 and prepared to run it under difficulties, the buoyancy which 

 prompted Frank to the investment was not shared in by the author, 

 whose faith had waxed cold. Frank started for the Rockies, home- 

 steaded a farm at the base of the foothills, and, left to his own re- 

 sources, faced the difficulties of his position like a true descendant of 

 the hardy Norseman. Finally the author determined to come out 

 and see for himself. This visit restored his wavering faith, and Jeft 

 Frank a good start on a five hundred acre ranch on wnich he is likely 

 to prosper, the sanguine dreams of his youth having given place to 

 the well grounded self-reliance acquired in the protracted struggle 

 in which he passed the difficulties of his position. 



The Yellowstone Park and Salt Lake City, Niagara and the Cats- 

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