FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 11, 1886. 



the sliore, we could see the water In the hoat was getting alarm- 

 ingly near the level of the water on the outside. The bow striking 

 with a shock, the water rushed back on the old man sitting m tlie 

 stern. Tlie increased weight fiUed the craft, wh'ch hesitating for 

 a minute, the rear occupant remaining the while immovable, 

 gently settled to the bottom, immersing our aged friend to the 

 armpits. The expression on nis face was so agonizingly imploring 

 and the entire alfair so farcical that we rolled on the ground in 

 laughter. 



After leaving Narrowsburg we came to a part of the river of 

 which, to save narrowing memories, 1 would say as little as possi- 

 ble. The flow was swift; and the bed, though not much broader 

 than before, for what reason, whether evaporation and absorption, 

 were greater than the supply furnished by tributaries, would be 

 hard to say, contained less water than any prcNaous place. The 

 rocks were large and numerous, causing continual striking and 

 sticking of tJieboat and conseg.uent jumping out and In; but as a 

 slight compensation the stones were all padded with a thick growth 

 of water weeds, thereby saving the canoe. After the vexations of 

 several miles of this kind of thing, after constant wading, pulling, 

 and shoving, after cracking our paddle and our shins as well, we 

 came to a place so attractive that it required no persuasion to 

 make us decide to stop for the night. The spot was a beach of 

 white and smooth sand, such as is seldom found away from salt 

 water. Above this was a growth of shrub willows, overtopped by 

 afringe of trees, guarded in the rear by a meadow; on the opposite 

 side a steep hill, densely wooded, crowded dark against the rest- 

 less river. As a consequence of tlie lumber business, it is seldom 

 diflicult to tind wood on the banks of the Delaware; and oiu' 

 camping ground was specially favored. 



We determined to have a conflagration. Several hours were 

 spent in collecting logs, stumps, planks and limbs, many more 

 being occupied in watching and enjoying the effect. We are ac- 

 customed to impressions made upon us by objects seen in the day- 

 time; these things beheld by moonlight appear entirely different. 

 If, liowever, the liglit is that of a big fire, the sense of sight seems 

 to betray us, the distinct ocular registrations of a short time ago 

 are merged aud confused, inanimate nature now assumes the 

 attributes of life, trees nod and sway, stones and fences play hide 

 and seek in the shadows or grow large and small by turns. Such 

 a blaze as we had and in such a place obliterated the day world 

 and the night world; all effects were changed: moon and stars 

 were swept out of existence. As we reckon time by comparing the 

 intervals between like occurences of the same thing, and as we 

 had never seen the like of tlus before, the element of time also 

 seemed removed; in fact by this wild glare, transposing and dis- 

 torting the land and the water, we had drawn a weird— a new and 

 magical— world about us. Gazing in trance-like fascination on 

 this scene, sound aided sight in adding to the spell. We had called 

 up the visible spirit worla, and the inhabitants were now talking. 

 The fire grew less, the logs popped, they popped on this side of the 

 river and then tliey noisily proclaimed themselves from the o^o- 

 sitebank; they seemed to crackle and burst from all directions. 

 A whip-poor-will lit not far away; he sang to us from his perch, 

 and at the same time his notes emanated from the woods across 

 the stream. We lent our voices to the sound, producing the same 

 multiplex effect— we had unwittingly located in a nest of echoes. 



The water growing deeper, leaving behind the troubles of the 

 previous afternoon, we continued with little difficulty. The de- 

 scents ^ralually became heavy and boisterous. It began to rain. 

 Within vuree miles of Lackawaxen we arrived at a rapid of the 

 same pattern and general appearance as "Foul Rift." The rush, 

 containing three falls, two of them about 5ft. high, and the rocks 

 were even more appalliug; but the boat channel was straighter 

 and more distinctly defined. 



In our bare feet, tliat we might not wet our slices, we deferen- 

 tially walked over the rocks all along tlus rapid, carefully noting 

 the dangerous places. As a boatman cannot see what lies below 



until too late to change his course, going over a fall In the right 

 place is entirely a work of remembering information gained by 

 previous inspection. We might have backed out as before, but 

 rain preventing a portage, we had to face the music. Getting up 

 a big nead of steam, we shot o^-er the verge of the first two falls 

 like an arrow. Some distance beyond the third and worst, in the 

 middle of tlie stream, was a partly submerged rock, and, though 

 carrsang out our preconcerted design by paddling with all our 

 might on the same side, as we dashed over the last of the series in 

 spite of our efforts we were caught irresistibly in the grasp of the 

 current, forcing us against the obstruction. Our momentum being 

 so great and the boulder being slanting, though badly shaken up 

 we kept an unaltered course; but we appreciated more fully than 

 before that a current swift enough to float iron is not a thing with 

 wliich to trifle. 



This was for many miles our last exciting experience with the 

 Delaware. The hills grew steeper and the valley narrower. Now 

 succeeded unusually long stretches of quiet water, indicating the 

 proximity of the Lackawaxen Dam. This dam is built to supply 

 water for the Delaware and Hudson Caaal, which strikes the river 

 here and follows it some thirty miles to Port Jer\as. It is, owing 

 to the lumber interests, the only artificial obstruction we encoun- 

 tered, and is so constructed that rafts of logs, at high water, can 

 pass over without much danger. But as the river was low, flo^ving 

 over the top in few places, we skirted the dam to ascertain where 

 It would be best to portage. It had been raining most of the day, 

 and now, when least desired, we were favored with a deluge. 



Our investigations were cut short by the amount of water col- 

 lected In the canoe; to save it from filling we were obliged to land 

 and invert the boat. After the storm, to avoid all detentions and 

 annoyances of tlie river, which at this point is very shallow, we 

 slipped down into the feeder, finding ourselves in a" few minutes 

 in the canal. 



TORONTO C. O. RAGES.- The last race of the season of the 

 Toronto 0. C. was held on Oct. 30. There were six starters for the 

 sailing cup, but the wind was very light and the race was aban- 

 doned as they could not finish before the limit. Boreas was lead- 

 ing from the start. Neither of the two challenge cups have been 

 won by any of the members so far, although they were given at 

 the close of the 18S4 season. The result to-day is as follows: 



SAILING CHALLENGE CUP. 



Canoe. 1885. 



Will G. McKe ndrick Mac 



Hugh Neilson , Boreas) 3 



Robt. Tyson Isabel 2 



John L. Kerr 1 



COMBINED PADDLING AND SAILING OUP. 



Will G. McKendrick Mac 4 4 



Hugli Neilson Boreas 3 3 



Colin Fraser Kate 10 1 



D. B. Jacques now holds the Mason paddling cup for Class 4, 

 decked canoes, F. M. Jolinson the Class 1 paddling cup, and W. A. 

 Leys the no^nices' sailing medal. Taken altogether the 1886 season 

 has been the best racing year the club has had, and as it is too 

 cold now to go out without an overcoat, the boys gather around 

 the club stove smoking some open-heai'ted member's good tobacco, 

 and talk over the prospect for next season, aud wonder who will 

 bring the first Pecowsic into the club.— Will G. McKendrick, 

 Sec'y T. C. C. 



1886. 

 4 

 

 1 

 



Total 

 wins. 



4 



3 



3 



1 



"We propose ha^dng a game supper at our church next 

 week," exclaimed a spinster at the opera house entertain- 

 ment last night; "now, w'hat kind of game would you recom- 

 mend ?" "Well, if you want to draw all the boys, suppose 

 you try poker," calmly replied Joseph Pickle. — hlmira Oa- 

 zcUe. 



No Notice Taken of Anonymows Correspondents, 



C. A. Pearson.— We will publish the lines of dory shortly. 



R. B. W., Shrewsbury, N. J.— Both dogs mentioned have been 

 good field dogs, and we have never heard that their progeny were 

 gunshy. 



F. W. F., Salter ville, N. J.— Residents of your State are not re- 

 quired to take out a license to shoot; the law applies only to non- 

 residents. 



HiPPiAS, Boston.— Forty feet of %\n. diameter and the smallest 

 size Chester anchor. Mermaid was published in the Forest and 

 STREA31 of March 4, 11, 18, 1886. 



J. W. S., Hartford, Conn.— 1. Do you consider a full blood Irish- 

 setter too headstrong for a beginner to take when six weeks old 

 and try and make a dog of him ? ;J. Do thev make good grouse 

 dogs? Ans. (1 and 2) Yes. 



N. A. H., Williamsport, Pa.— What is the highest score recorded 

 made on a Massachusetts target at lOOvds., off-hand, open sights, 

 (buUseye 4 in.), or 200yds. target reduced to lOOvds. practice ? Ans. 

 The 200yds. record, which has been most carefully kept, shows for 

 the 10 shots off-hand, with any rifle, under Creedmoor rules, a 

 score of 117 in the possible 120 by W. H. Taft, of Brattleboro, Vt., 

 in 1885, and for the Massachusetts decimal target, out of a possible 

 100, ties at 94 by E. F. Richardson, of Boston, and Otto Jaeger, of 

 Wheeling, each in 1885. 



INFORMATION WANTED. 



A friend and myself are talking of taking a trip next season to 

 the French Broad. Can you tell us where we can get information 

 about the stream and country and best place to go'/ Game is not so 

 much of an object as to find a good location to- camp for a few 

 weeks and have a change of air and scenery, ideas aud diet.— Mab. 



Bridgepoet, Oct. 80.— On the morning of Dec. 18, 1857, P. 

 T. Bamum's beautiful residence, Iranistan, was burned. 

 It was the only building of its peculiar style of Italian archi- 

 tecture in America, and cost $150,000. Around it on every 

 side were laid out elaborate grounds and a large artificial 

 pond was kept stocked ^vith gold and silver fish. The 

 grounds passed into the hands of the late Elias Howe, .Tr., 

 whose death prevented the erection of another splendid man- 

 sion on the site of the burned villa. This property is now 

 divided by streets, and Col. C. H. Russell is a recent pur- 

 chaser of the section upon which the pond above mentioned 

 has remained intact. This week Col. Kussell has caused the 

 pond to be filled with earth, and as its limits were gradually 

 lessened large numbers of fish were observed endeavoring to 

 escape from their confinement. Scoop nets were procured, 

 and hundreds of gold and silver fish were taken out. These 

 had survived for nearly thirty years unflistiu-bed, and among 

 the finny beauties were several varieties which evidently 

 were a cross between the gold and silver species. A reporter 

 was told by Mr. Barnum to-day that the pond used to be one 

 of the favorite resorts of his children. The fish were so tame 

 that they would come to the water's edge at the ringing of a 

 bell and partake of food from the hands of the family. If a 

 stranger approached the fish would dart out to deep water. 

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