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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[March 10, 1887. 



BROWN'S DRIVING PARK, Long Island, March 5 —Despite 

 raw atmosphere and some mud this was the scene of great shoot- 

 ing to-day, when the Oollington- Nichols- Perry match came off. 

 Several hacks, with passengers largely in excess of their seating 

 capacity, and a few private carriages, brought the contestants 

 and their friends to the grounds. The Wall street contingent In- 

 cluded some well-known clnbnien, and a celebrated sportsman 

 and traveler, well known to the readers of the old Forest and 

 Stream, Gordon Gordon, who, after some discussion between the 

 principals, was selected as referee. Your correspondent was 

 chosen to score. Captain Brown handled the traps very satis- 

 factorily. Before the match of the day was commenced Mr. 

 Nichols, on a wager, killed twelve birds straight. Some of the 

 shots were marvellous exhibitions of skill, and young Brown's 

 dog, Robin, retrieved the birds, and his master bageed the "get-a- 

 ways" skillfully. Mr. Oollington used a hammerless L. and C. 

 Smith (Tibs. l2oz.), while Messrs. Nichols and Perry shot with 

 hammerless Scott guns (71bs. 4oz.) Ail used 4dr. powder, lV.i shot. 

 The birds wore very strong and swift. Fifty birds, 30yds. rise 80yds. 

 boundary, both barrels. (The figure 2 indicates second barrel: 



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WELLINGTON, March 5.— There was a good attendance at the 

 grounds to-day, and some good shooting was done at blue rocks 

 and clav-pigeons. In the medal match Ames won in Class A, 

 Ward well in Class B and McCoy in Class C. Following were the 

 winners in the several events to-day: 1. Six blue rocks— Cobb 

 fia't, Button, Sanborn and Swift second, Stanton third, Short 

 fourth. 3. Six clav-pigeons— Sanborn first, Stanton second. Dutton 

 third, DeR-oehemont fourth. 3. Six tin birds— Stanton, Evans and 

 Button first. Swift, Warren and Sanborn second, DeRoehemont 

 and Wilson third, Shumway and Hutchinson fourth, 4. Six blue 

 rocks— Evans and Shumway first, Swift and Button second, Short, 

 Stanton and Sanborn third, Warren and Hutchinson fourth. 5. 

 Six clay-pigeons -DoRochemont first, Swift second, Evans, Ward- 

 well and Short third. Stanton fourth. 6. Six blue rocks— Button 

 and Wardwell first, Lawson second, Cobb third, Evans fourth. f. 

 Ten clay-pigeons— Stanton and Swift first, shumwav .Wilson, Ames 

 and Short second, WardweU third, McCoy fourth. 6. Six tin birds 



Swift, Wilson and Short first, Stanton second, Warren third, 

 Br;ui street and DeRochemont fourth, it. Three pairs blue rocks— 

 Nichols first, Adams and Wardwell second. Lawson and Evans 

 third, Swift fourth. 10. Six tin birds— Stanton, Swift. Evans and 

 Sanborn first, Reed aud Wardwell second, Nichols third, DeRoche- 

 mont fourth. 11. Six blue rocks -Stanton first, Short, Sanborn, 

 Snow second, Lawson third. 12. Six clay-pigeons- Lawson first, 

 Wardwell second. Nichols third, Sanborn and Cobb fourth. 13. 

 Eive clav-pigeons. si raightaway— Sanborn and Wardwell first, 

 Swift second. Short and Cobb th ; rd. 14. Five blue rocks - Stanton 

 and Wardwell first, Law and Baxter second, Copeland third. 15. 

 Six clay-pigeons— Stanton and Wardwell first, Shortand Copeland 

 second, Baxter and Morse third. 



THE HOTEL TOURNAMENT.— The Atlantic Ammunition Co., 

 of this city, mean to give everybody a chance to show his skill at 

 the trap during the coming summer, and to that end have in- 

 stituted a prize for hotel guests. That great army who rush out 

 from the cities only, too of ten, to make themselves expensively 

 miserable, When they find so little to do and so much spare time 

 to do it in. The Atlantic Co.. touching on this point, say: "The 

 wearied city toiler who seeks recreation in the country, at the 

 >.>;! shore or In I he mountains, soon tires of the reading room, the 

 billiard room, the piazza and the ball room. The desire among 

 gentlemen, and we might also include the ladies, is growing 

 stronger every year, for out-of-door sports; athletic games and 

 pastimes that call into play new emotions. Boating, fishing, shoot- 

 ing and the like are more and more sought after. Such sports be- 

 ing invigorating, and calling forth new energies, cannot fail to be 

 popular. Then, " 'tis English, von know." Thousands of city men 

 Shoot; these men are always ready and anxious to find something 

 to shoot at, be it only a sand snipe or a big grasshopper. Many 

 thousands of shotguns are now owned in this city alone. Thou- 

 sand:: of young men, and business men, are anxious to learn how 

 to shoot. The immense increase during the past few years in the 

 number of shooting clubs, and individual sportsmen; the millions 

 of flying targets now used, and the constant inquiry whereto 

 shoot and how to learn to shoot, plainly indicates that trap shoot- 

 ing is the coming craze. Several hotels bought traps and targets 

 last summer and furnished this amusement to their guests, find- 

 ing it so profitable as to induce them to greatly increase their 

 facilities for this year." The hotel prize for 1887 is a solid silver 

 pup, to cost not less than §100. 



WESTMINSTER VS. RIVERTON.— Riverton, N. J., March 8.- 

 Match at live birds, S&OOO 1 81,000 each) between t eams of the West- 

 minster Kennel Club, of New York, and the Riverton Gun Club, 

 of Philadelphia; teams of 5, 50 birds at 80yds. rise, 50yds. boundary: 

 Westminster Kennel Club. 



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NEW 7 ARK, March 3.— The Essex Gun Club had a team shoot at 

 live birds to-day at Erb's grounds, under Hurlingham rules. C. M. 

 Hcddeu bossed one team and Dr. Nicholas the other. Each team 

 consisted of six men and each man shot at 10 birds at 25yds. rise. 

 The Hedden team won. The individual scores were as follows: 

 Hodden 10, Breintnal 9. Quinlan 10, Heritage 8, Terrill 7, Hayes 8; 

 total 52. Br. Nicholas 8, Kiusey fi, Unger 9, Whitehead 9, Roberts 

 9. Freche 5; total 40. ... Yesterday Frank Class, of Montclair, and 

 W. W r . Lever, of Elizabeth, shot a pigeon match at Erb's, at 30yds. 

 rise, 35 birds a side, Class was shot out on the thirty-first round, 

 when Lever had 24 down to his opponent's 19. R. H. Breintnal 

 was referee, and the match was witnessed hy a large gathering of 

 well-known trap shooters. Hurlingham rules governed the shoot- 

 ing, the birds were lively, and the stakes were $100 a side. 



A COLLEGE TROPHY— The rhetorician of the Atlantic Am- 

 munition Co. has excelled himself in inviting the college men of 

 the country to compete for the college trophy of 1887, which is to 

 be a solid silver cup, costing 3100, and to be given for the highest 

 score made during 1887 by a college team of three men. The cup 

 to be held for one year. Open to competition unless won twice 

 consecutively by tiie same team. 



M AHANOY CITY, Pa., Feb. 28.— A gun club and game protec- 

 tive association was organized here to-day with twenty-five mem- 

 bers' * ' 

 cers: 



Parade v: "Assistant Secretary, M. Smith; Treasurer, Wm. D.Rey- 

 nolds; Executive Committee, MaeMillan, Thompson, and Davis. 

 Clay-pigeons were adopted for the year's practice.— B. A. C. 



THE INTERNATIONAL MATCH.— Macon, Ga.. March 4, 1887.— 

 Lt'lHur Fmrst and Ht rerun: WiQ you kindly announce in your trap 

 column the withdrawal of the projected Third International 

 Shotgun Wing Shooting Tournament at Boston, June 1, 2, 3 and 4, 

 lsS'.', under the auspices of the National Gun Association. This 

 step is rendered necessary by non-acceptance of the challenge to 

 a British team, published in your columns last winter and open 

 until March 1.— F. C. Ethbridge, Sec. Nat. Gun Ass. 



THE BIG. JUNE SHOOT.— The committee in charge of the 

 world's trap-shooting carnival, which is to be held at the grounds 

 of the Wellington Gun Club from May 80 to June 4. inclusive, held 

 a meeting at the Quincy House last evening to further the ar- 

 rangements. Among the many valuable prizes already offered, is 

 si si. 000 oil painting from a New York artist, which is to be con- 

 tested for by amateurs only. The committee will have the official 

 programme ready on April 6. 



EMERALD GU/N CLUB.— Tile annual meeting of the Emerald 

 Gun Club was held on March 3. The following officers were 



THE CAPITAL CITY GUN CLUB, of Washington, D. C, 

 elected the following officers at its annual meeting, March 8: 

 Edward L. Mills. President; J. A. Goldsborough, Vice-President; 

 James A. Green, Treasurer; Seymour Cunningham, Secretary. 



Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Forest and 

 Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of 

 their clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and 

 report of the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are 

 requested to forward to Forest and Stream their addresses, with 

 logs of cruises, maps, and information concerning their local 

 waters, drawings or descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items 

 relating to the sport. 



FIXTURES. 



MAY. 



38-30. East. Div. Spring Meet, Had dam Island. 



June. 



18. Brooklyn, Annual, Bay Ridge. 



July. 



18-31. W. C. A. Meet, Ballast Island. 



August. 



12-26. A. C. A. Meet, Lake Champlaiu. 



A violent cough continued through the winter often brings 

 consumption in the spring. Soothe and tone the irritated and 

 weakened lungs with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, and 

 the cough yields and the danger disappears. Pike's Toothache 

 Dbops cure in one minute.— Adv. 



THE A. C. A. REGATTA PROGRAMME. 



THE following correspondence between Vice-Commodore Gibson 

 and Mr. W. G. MeKendriok, of Toronto, discussing several 

 points that have come up in connection with the regatta pro- 

 gramme, explains itself. The letters were not intended for publi- 

 cation, but we have both writers' permission to use them; 



Toronto, Feb. 13, 1887.— .My Dear Gihmn: 1 was not a little sur- 

 prised when I saw your comment on the A. C. A. programme in the 

 Forest and Stream, i suppose after reading what I said about 

 it you will see that wo are not on the same tack. However, in a 

 thing of this kind it all depends upon whose spectacles you look 

 through, so I would just like to borrow your glasses for a short 

 time to have a peep at things from your side of the fence, and 

 at the same time unload myself of a few questions I have to 

 ask you. First, why do you consider the "open canoe with a sin- 

 gle blade" an excellent experiment? In writing about the 75ft. 

 limit you say that "the 75ft. rig is generally conceded to be a fair 

 moderate amount," Now I claim that for such canoes as win the 

 75ft. limit, race, Pecowsic, Venture, etc., that that amount of sail 

 is all they can conveniently carry in an ordinary breeze. That 

 being granted, what chances then have fellows who build canoes 

 to carry over 100ft. in the no limit race'/ You say, "Why should the 

 crew sit inside, as well stipulate, that he should smoke, etc.?" I say 

 "Wliy should we be limited to 75ft., as well stipulate that I should 

 carry a heavy hoard or ballast?" And I think my argument is as 

 reasonable as yours, don't you? It all narrows down to this: what 

 kind of a craft do you wish to encourage, because among the most 

 active clubs their canoes are buili to take the best possible stand 

 at the A. C. A. meets. You hear about the clubs who have never 

 been to the A. C. A., and 1 think over one-half of their members 

 own canoes of a beam from 34 to 40in., and they get more solid 

 comfort (not excitement, mind) out of them than we do out of ours. 

 Well now. we do not want to encourage a canoe. 30in. wide, and we 

 have made our class rule that prevents it. Now 1 think our Class 

 B full size is plenty small enough for a general purpose canoe, and 

 I think we should encourage it, but the 75ft. limit immediately 

 knocks it in the head, because a fellow with a smaller canoe than 

 the full limit has just double the chance in the annual races, and 

 what is the outcome of it; Pecowsic and such like cockle shells. 

 This year will see tweut y Pceowsics where last year there was one. 

 In fact, I'm designing a half Pecowsic myself, and Leys is getting 

 one; it is not because I would, but because 1 must, to keep away 

 from t he tail end of the race. Now don't you see the outcome of 

 that clause and the end toward which it is working? That race is 

 never won hy a cruising canoe now, and I believe that is what it 

 was given for. I would like you to answer this in full, and give me 

 your own opinions on the question, looking at it from the stand- 

 point of developing a good, safe, comfortable fleet of A. C. A. 

 canoes. When lam astray in reasoning, kindly correct me and 

 believe me, a true friend of the canoe, Will G. McKendrick. 



Alii any, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1887.— My Dear McKendricli: You are an 

 exceptional man to desire to see things through other people's 

 "glasses:" and 1 willingly "lend you mine." This is not a world 

 of absolute justice, all we can hope for is the least harm to the 

 fewest number; so 1 do not look for a completely satisfied A. C. A. 

 until we reorganize in the happy hunting grounds. The single 

 blade is t he legitimate paddle of the open canoe, and I think ought 

 to fairly handicap the lighter boat. Of course, such a rule must 

 not be evaded by canvas or muslin decks; your objections require 

 careful attention. The single blade ought to be retained somehow 

 in the A. C. A. races. The 75ft. limit was started to remedy an 

 obvious injustice long ago. It has always given satisfaction, has 

 been adopted in clubs where it was not known until the A. C. A. 

 took it up, and yours is the first definite proposal I have seen to 

 abandon it. True, a small boat in a very light wind gets a little 

 favor, but that does not amount to much, we want to favor small 

 boats, nor does it alter the fact that 75ft. is a good, fair average, 

 safe rig, quite large enough for cruising on any such boat as the 

 race is for. You are wrong in saying that the limit race is not won 

 by cruising canoes, all wrong, look at the records. Just four years 

 ago the cruisiug boats, light and large, took their place in the pub- 

 lic favor and still hold it. There is no such desire for small boats 

 as you talk of. Even Pecowsic is not such a small boat as was in 

 general use five years ago. Now about big boats. All you big 

 boat men (I am sorry to see you join them) forget that the A. O. A. 

 has become what it is because it had small craft easily carried by 

 train and boat; hence our traveling privileges. Just as soon as 

 rowboats and sneukboxes are allowed to intrude upon the privi- 

 leges accorded to and earned by canoeists we shall find they will 

 be withdrawn. Let the fellows that want big boats do their own 

 lugging and swearing. And let them try to get railway's to carry 

 them free. I object for one to this wearing out our hard-earned 

 privileges. We do not want them. I have never plumped out in 

 public about these big boat men and hope it won't be necessary. 

 Big boats have a place. I enjoy them and expect to buy a new one 

 this summer. But 1 would as soon think of taking a hog to a din- 

 ner party as of claiming a right to take it free by train as a canoe, 

 bet those men with 34 to 40in. canoes take all the solid comfort 

 they want. I shall not disturb them even if they do stay out of 

 the A. C. A. Yours most cordially, Robert W r . Gibson. 



P. S.— It would have been just as well to have'eontinued the sub- 

 ject in the Forest and Stream as it is not a private one. If you 

 like I will send yours and you mine and we can see what other fel- 

 lows say. 



My Dear Gihsrm: 



Your favor of the 15th inst. came duly to hand. I might say I 

 have no objection to having my last and this sent to Forest and 

 Stream for publication. Thanks for the loan of those glasses, 

 though they were very misty; in fact the fog of prejudice or some- 

 thing else was so thick on them that they were of very little ser- 

 vice to me. With reference to the open canoe question I would 

 say that the single blade was the legitimate paddle of the open 

 craft before the A. C. A. was established, but since then, in pad- 

 dling as well as sailing, a great many legitimate things have been 

 ruthlessly discarded for the sake of speed, and the single blade is 

 one of them. In '83 all the open canoes hut two at the A. C. A. 

 meet, used the single blade. Now go to the '80 meet and count 

 them and you will not find a single blade used in the races 1 here. 

 You see the chickens are coming home to roost, when the A. C. A. 

 should have given races for open eauoes and single blades to en- 

 courage that class of craft they didn't do it and the open canoe- 

 men were obliged to adopt the double to keep up with the times. 

 Now as one who has tried them you must admit that the open 

 Canadian canoes are good cruisers, are safe, light, neat and last 

 general purpose canoes, and because thev are light and fast you 

 want to handicap them. I will have to twit you with inconsistency, 

 for when writing about Pecowsic in Forest and Stream, you 

 say: "It is provoking, but if a rival will not go as slow as we do 

 we must try and even up by going as fast as he does. We don't 

 want to hold him back; that isn't the way at all." What you were 

 preaching on Oct. 28 you go back on now and say we do want to 

 hold the men with fast open eauoes hack, they are too fast, i. ' .. 

 you want to so fix the races that the slow canoes win (Now, I 

 wouldn't mind letting the slow canoe win if it was a better cruis- 

 iug canoe, but it isn't). So you say we'll make them carry the 

 single, again, and the result will be that they will deck their canoes 

 with light cedar or c anvas and you will have spoiled one more good 

 cruising craft for the sake of speed. 



Now, "Snake," old fellow, if I know any thing of your make up 

 you arc not the man to do a thing of this kind when it is pointed 

 out to you. You want to see the single blade retained . Now, I 

 want to see the open canoe retained, it is of more consequence 

 than tire paddle, though I think it would be wiser to have a spe- 

 cial race for single blades, but do not try to force them to race 

 with single against the double, it is coercion of the worst kind. I 

 would suggest a full paddling programme as follows: 



First— Do away with Class I. canoes, there are only about three 

 of them in the Association that race, and they are neither of use 

 nor ornament. 



Second— Have a race for Classes A and B, sailing canoes only, 

 i. c, fittod with a centerboard and sails, any paddle. As I said 

 before, the Class A man is generally smaller than B, and it will 

 make a very even race. A sailing or general purpose, canoe should 

 not be -compelled to race against a purely paddling craft as they 

 were before. 



Third— Combine Classes II. and ILL together, they are practically 

 the same, the ill. man has the advantage of a foot more length, 

 but he has to take with it 2in. more beam which makes them very 

 even. Also let Class A, sailing, into this if they want to. As this 

 would be for purely paddling craft the decked paddling boat would 

 have to look after itself. Let them use any kind of paddle, as it's 

 a paddling race the fast paddling canoe should win. 



Fourth— Class IV., paddling, any paddle, also let the sailing 

 canoes. Class IV. into tins; of course they will be at a disadvantage, 

 and so they should, be just the same as an open or paddling canoe 

 would be at a disadvantage sailing with the decked or sailing 

 canoe. 



This would give a very short list of paddling races— First, Classes 

 II. and III.; secoud. Class IV.; third, Classes A and B, sailing 

 canoes; fourth, a special race for open craft with singles if it is 

 necessary— and I think places the canoes where they should be. 

 What say you? Then if as before, you offer the best flags for the 

 all round record, it will stimulate the general purpose craft at the 

 expense of the purely paddling and purely sailing canoes. 



With regard to the 75ft. limit without a cruising load, you say it 

 was started to remedy an obvious injustice long ago. Yes. and the 

 obvious injustice has disappeared long ago, and the 75ft. limit 

 should have gone with it. You can't do away with a badthingtoo 

 quickly. It has served its end and should either he abolished or 

 the cruising load carried with it. 



Now about the big boats. You class me among the "boat" men, 

 but I absolutely ref use to be put with them. Did I not distinctly 

 say we do not want eauoes 84 and 30in. wide and have made our 

 Class B to prevent it; why, then, in the face of that do you pitch 

 me into a 40in. scow? I'll mutiny, sir, and won't go aboard. You 

 must remember that the A. C. A. has not accomplished all the 

 good that it can in this world, and when you see a fellow honestly 

 endeavoring to do what he and others consider would be beneficial 

 to establish a better class of all-round cruising canoes, you should 

 not get on to him with both feel and call him a big boat, rowboat, 

 or sneak-box man: you should look at what he advocates with 

 the light of the present day upon it and see if there is not some- 

 thing that can he made better. Do not come to the conclusion 

 that because the limited sail— without a cruising load— was good 

 fcur years ago, that it is a good thing still. Time has changed 

 tilings greatly the last, year or two and there is now no fear that 

 the heavy "lead mines" will monopolize the first places in our 

 regattas, but that the narrow machine will spoil our cruising 

 craft. 



The canoe that I advocate is the light unballasted general pur- 

 pose craft, just the same as what you built and sailed last season, 

 or, up to the full limit of Class B, i. <:., 10 y. 80, or 15 <3lt4 or 15.6X 

 30%. Now, what I maintain is, that this style of canoe is what 

 we should encourage, it is a good medium, it can he paddled 

 easily and sailed well, and can be cruised in with comfort. Now, 

 the second point I make is that this style of canoe cannot com- 

 pete, with success, against such craft as Pecowsic in the 75ft. 

 limit, without ballast, perhaps not with it. Take the 188!) limit 

 race. Who won it? Pecowsic. Was she a good cruiser? Is the 

 old Venture a good cruiser? I know the Vesper is a good cruiser, 

 but where was she? ten minutes behind in a three mile race. That 

 shows you what chance a cruising canoe has when racing against 

 a small narrow canoe that I, for one, don't want to sec encour- 

 aged by giving it a race that it is bound to scoop every time; be- 

 sides, as has been demonstrated by Pecowsic having as good if 

 not better show than any one else in the unlimited races. In 1885, 

 when chairman of the regatta committee, you wrote a letter stating 

 that you were a cruiser "first and a racer afterward, that Vaux 

 was another, and most of the Mohicans were the same, all one-rig 

 men. Now, 1 know that that big International cup will have a 

 tendency to make many A. C. A. men racers first and cruisers 

 nowhere, or else in a different canoe; that is, building special 

 canoes, but 1 trust that you will not bo among them, but as in 

 days of yore you'll stand by the general purpose canoe and see to 

 it. that it receives a fair show in the races. To do this, it is my 

 opinion that the limit race has to be abolished or, as I before, 

 stated, if it is a cruising rig, make us carry a. cruising load, as 

 when moving from one place to another we. never go empty- 

 handed, we always have a load of truck, duffle, or whatever you 

 like to call it. 



In your last you state that there is no desire for small canoes 

 such as I speak of. I have a point of getting reliable information 

 on this question. I stud last year that where there was one 

 Pecowsic this year there would be twenty, and I find thai; I was 

 correct, as I will now add ten more to it and say there will be 

 thirty Pceowsics in commission next season, and I am very sorry to 

 learn it, as the persons who are getting them must get them 

 simply with the intention of winning races. They cannot be 

 getting them for comfort or for good cruisiug boats. 



Is this, then, not a question for our regatta committee to 

 thoughtfully consider? Do we want our fleet of good, general 

 purpose craft to degenerate into a fleet of narrow, shallow 

 machines, or whatever you like to call them? If wo do not we 

 have to arrange our races so that the cruising craft are not placed 

 at a disadvantage in them; but if any oue lias the preference it 

 should be the craft that is in general use, not the craft that is 

 built just to win races. We. (the canoeists in general) have to 

 thank Mr. Barncv for many of the good points he brought out in 

 Pecowsic, but I trust that he will apply the same principles to a 

 wider craft for next season, and in some way head oft the impetus 

 he has given canoeists to build narrow, shallow craft. 



Trusting that you will receive these remarks as good-naturedly 

 as thev are sent', and look at them as thev will affect our grand 

 institution, the A.C.A. (may she not degenerate), 1 beg to sign 

 myself, sincerely yours, Will G. McKsndrick. 



Toronto, Feb. 18. 



P. S.— As I said before, 1 cannot be present at the next A.C.A. 

 meet, so that this question does not personally affect me, and it is 

 just mv love for the sport that prompts me to raise, my voice 

 against our taking a step backward. W. G. McK. 



MOHICAN C. C. 



THE icy condition of their native element, the river, does not 

 deter the Anawares (Iroquois for Turtles) from their usual 

 winter occupation of chinning, both by sending up many winged 

 words into the snowy air and by sending down into their bread- 

 baskets and potato boxes as many of the good things as the table 

 of their host, pro tern., can carry. They demonstrated this double 

 quality at the last meeting held at the house of a comparatively 

 young Turtle, crawled cut of its shell only last year, W.Edgerton, 

 who promises this sumoier to make Lake Champlaiu resound with 

 the war cry of the Mohicans, as of old. The membership of the 

 club was increased by the election of six new men, who promise 

 to be all active canoeists and canoe owners. They are John F. 

 Rathbonc, Gotfr. Luudberg, H. C. Littlefield, Dr. W. Ncllis, 

 Charles V. Winne, and John T. Norton. The principal business, 

 requiring the more serious chinning, was on the subject of the 

 summer club house. It was decided to build a palace on stilts 

 costing $500, about six miles below Albany, opposite to Van Wie's 

 Point. The house, for which Commodore Architect B. W.Gibson 

 has made the plan, will stand on the somewhat elevated eastern 

 shore near somo ice houses; the little passenger steamer Lotta, 

 plying between Albany and down river towns, will land there 

 upon signal, and all the brethren of the paddle will be made wel- 

 come when they stop on their way up or down stream. 



That most enthusiastic of cruisers, B. S. Oliver, is heating up 

 recruits to follow him on another Delaware trip. This time he in- 

 tends to start from Port Jervis in order to be fresh when he 

 reaches Little and Great Foul Rifts, so vividly described in the 

 Boston Pilot, by John Boyle O'Reilly, some time ago. Who will 

 follow? Feruow is lamenting that his invalidity shuts him out. 

 from much actual canoeing, but he and W. W. Duraut wdl fly the 

 Mohican and A. C. A. flags on Lake Raquette,inthe Adirondacks, 

 this summer, where Fior da Lice is trying to get now, but is 

 hemmed in by snow drifts on the banks of the upper Hudson. 



Commodore Gibson's new canoe, built by Piepeubrink, is on ex- 

 hibition, with Iter sails set, in the show window of a large dry 

 goods store here. She is a beauty, and makes other biped craft, 

 sailing past on the sidewalk and scudding over the ice. snow and 

 slush, mighty jealous. She will, it is hoped, prove an excellent 

 turtle and go an-a-ware. .... 



The Mohican C. C. will soon have to advertise a "clearing-out 

 sale" of canoes, or build additional store room, for the older mem- 

 bers are duplicating their bottoms and the newly-elected ones 

 have ordered their first pieces of water furniture. The meeting 

 and following camp-fire at Turtle Edgerton was a success in every 

 way, even the melodious sincing was pleasant to those who helped 

 swell the. chorus, how the neighbors and the invisible hostess may 

 have enjoyed it and the nerfume of stale smoke next morning, 

 this child is not able to tell. Fior. 



RONDO UT C. C— On Feb. 28, the Rondout C. C, held a house- 

 wamiing in their new club house- 



