FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Feb. 19, 1891. 



WHITE SQUALL'S '88 CRUISE. 



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WE arose early nest morBing hut took our time atont getting 

 breakfast and making a start. As we headed toward the 

 channel, on the eastern side of Oromocto Island, we noticed a 

 blue streak ruffling the water a mile ahead, in a manner that 

 shattered all hope of a fair wind. By the time we had paddled a, 

 mile the choppy head sea was very pronounced, and long before 

 we reached the head of the island it was a terror and as rough as 

 the face of a rasp. It very much resembled hard, back-breaking 

 work, the forcing of that long, heavily-laden canoe against the 

 wind and current, yet, as I look back on that forenoon, I some,- 

 bow carry the impression that it passed pleasantly. If the seas 

 were boisterous om- spirits were keyed up to match and we saw 

 fun in nearly everything. We found a large "pike-hand-spike" 

 and a pike-pole that some of the lumbermen had lost. 



Both shores, from the head of Oromocto Island to Frederlcton, 

 are lined with booms. This district constitutes the great "round- 

 up" of the lumber on the St. John waters, for there are many 

 points of resemblance between the pioneer industries of prairie 

 and forest countries, viz , ranching and lumbering. Their effect 

 on the fortunes of their followers, the type of man they develop 

 and their gradual death as the country becomes settled, are 

 almost identical. The rope is to the cowboy what the pike-pole 

 la to the lumberman. Then the latter has his brand and his "out- 

 ting out" in the great boom round-up. There are also "rustlers," 

 who change the brands on the lumber, and it would make a com- 

 mon, every-day citizen laugh himself sick to see how the good old 

 deacons and church eiders, along the river, will scramble over 

 one another to possess themselves of a "maverick" log. 



Should the professional flash rider, or "bronco buster." think 

 there is no skill in the lumber husiness analogous to that which 

 enables him to sit out the antics of a bucking cayuse, he might get 

 rid of the idea by watching the "jam cracker," "white water 

 man," "foam walker," "bubble rider" (you can take your choice 

 of terms) a.t his work. The steed of the latter is the untamed tor- 

 rent, and his saddle, on which he stands erect, a log, often neither 

 large nor buoyant. Should he get "bucked off" it means death. 

 Yet he will run a seething rapid, studded with rocks, skillfully 

 swinging the log end to the current by a stroke of his pole, or 

 springing into the air to avoid being pitched forward as it butts a 

 rock, and will display as little concern as if he were on the deck of 

 a Cunarder. 



The booms render it impossitiletoland between the above points, 

 except at a few places, unless you would call tjing up your canoe 

 to the boom and running over a hundred yards or so of loose lum- 

 ber, a landing, and if so, £ will not dispute the definition, but will 

 merely caution the inexperienced aeainst undertaking the feat. 

 About 9 o'clock we were allowed to take refuge from a heavy 

 squall behind a wangan (pronounced wong'-un), a sort of house 

 built on a scow. Scarcely had we resumed our course, when we 

 saw a black cloud rising in the west, that meant much wind, if 

 not rain. We lied the canoe up in a "jog" in the boom, on the 

 Lincoln side of ihn river, and making our way over a lot of lum- 

 Iber, took refuge in a large wood scow belonging to the tug Ada Cr. 



The squalls, accompanied by fine rain, followed one another in 

 quick succession for the next three hours, with sufficient force to 

 render neadway under paddle an impossibility. As the sides of 

 the scow were Cf t. high, and the rain was driving very nearly on a 

 plane with the surface of the river, we did not get wet. 



After dinner we stood over to the "intervale side" of the river, 

 where another squall drove us to shelter in a nook in the rafted 

 logs. We watched the little tug Melbourne snaking the joints 

 of logs together and waited. The next lull enabled us to reach 

 Lincoln. Here we watched three hands with a scow and differ- 

 ential pulley derrick breaking up the burned steam tug Relief 

 and got a good lesson on the way to put in ten minutes over two 

 minutes' work. The undersigned also got all the water he could 

 drink. 



From here to Fredericton we only made one stop, and that was 

 to give Horace a chance to look up a soring. I spent the time in 

 watching an expert young boom man drive ratlin wedges. As the 

 day was nearly at a close we used oar paddles most vigorously, but 

 though the city of Fredericton was in sight it seemed as if we 

 would never get there. We landed on a little green below the 

 cathedral and your humble servant was dispatched to the near- 

 est grocery for a supply of canned goods. On my way back I met 

 an equestrian dude dressed in a suit of light check and riding a 

 low-set, lumpy-gaited little horse. He was tv\ ing hard to imitate 

 the Eugllsh riding school "bob," but his stirrups were so long 

 that when he rose in them he was deprived of the forward lever- 

 age of the knee joint and could not steady himself: and the horse 

 would lurch from under him, sending him bumping back against 

 the cantle, when the rebound wouhi land him ou the pommel. 

 That he could steady himself by knee-pressure never seemed to 

 strike him; and the compression of the jaw on the slightly b*irned 

 cigar, the end of which was tilted up at an angle of 50^. attested 

 to the amount of enjoj-ment he was getting out of the ride. The 

 memory of this picture kept me in good humor for the rest of the 

 evening. 



We hoisted sail and ran over to the mouth of the Nashwaak, 

 where we made our camp on the beach a little above high water- 

 mark. It was dusk ween we commenced to set up our tent; and 

 all the while we were preparing supper we were regaled by music 

 from the Infantry School Band, a little less than a half-mile away 

 —just about the right distance to soften the blare of the instru- 

 ments. Horace liked the Fredericton serenade much better than 

 that of Oromocto. 



We were camping on almost the identical spot occupied one 

 cold night in Octootr, 1696, by Ohurch, the hardy New England 

 captain when he was gunning for that old French pirate, Ville- 

 bon, who had a fort on the opposite bank of the JSashwaak. But 

 though we were obliged by the nature of the ground to sleep with 

 our heads to the fire, a very favorable position, I should think, for 

 the conjuring of departed spirits, we were unmolested by the 

 shades of any of the Frenchmen or Puritans who came to grief in 

 that short, sharp tight. 



The next morning dawned still and warm with signs of rain; 

 and we loaf ed around" waiting patiently for the day to show its 

 hand. Oaot. Belyea, of the deal-boat A. Gibson, a mammoth that 

 carries 15()M. of lumber, rowed by on his way to the Gibson Mills 

 for a deal-raft. He said a hea\'y N.E. rain storm svas very near; 

 and though we could not claim any previous acquaintance with 

 him, he insisied on our going right on board his vessel and stop- 

 ping till the weather faired. Tiiat's the kind of boatmen we have 

 on the St. John. 



I suppose, were I to do the square thing to my readers, I would 

 describe the tree-embowered city of Fredericton,, with its level, 

 floor-like,situation; and the village of Maryaville, on the Nah waak , 

 a monument to the enterprise of Alex. Gibson, New Brunswick's 

 lumber king and most successful business man, but the consider- 

 ation of space forbids. 



About 8 A. M. the weather faired. We broke camp and sailed 

 over to Fredericton. All the morning our every movement was 

 watched by an old darky, who stood leaning against a willow on 

 the opposite bank of the Nash waak, looking, Horace said, "like a 

 derelict hieroglyphic inscription from some Egyptian monolith." 

 As we stowed sail for our paddle along the city front, we saw him 

 walking slowly toward his cabin, no doubt sorry that there no 

 longer existed any excuse for his not going to work. At the aorth 

 end of the city we made fast our canoe to a deal raft and went 

 ashore on a blind trail of one of Forest and Stbeaji's sub- 

 scribers, whom we failed to find. However, we met an acquaint- 

 ance, a hoise dealer, who seemed to value otir society very highly, 

 if we may judge by his unwillingness to part from us; but we 

 could not shake off the suspicion that it was less on account of its 

 refining aEd elevating influence than the number of points he 

 could pick up about some animals in our section that he thought 

 of buying. 



We resumed pole and paddle against wind little less boisterous 

 than that of the preceding day. We worked our canoe through a 

 crowd of bathers who seemed surprl sed that we did not try to 

 run some of them down. I remember that we were distanced by 

 a pair of Indians in a light canoe, and ho w Horace made big eyes 

 at a young lady who came out on the balcony of a house that was 

 very near the shore; and that is all that occurred till we reached 

 Spruce Hill. 



We were now very thirsty. Noticing three hoys in the costume 

 of Adam before the fall playing on the shore we asked if they 

 could show us a spring. One stopped to put on his coat and all 

 three struck a three-minute gait up the beach. We landed at the 

 spotwhere they halted, and ihere within 2ft. of the water's edge 

 was a stream of ice-cold water as thick as a man's arm gurgling 

 up otit of the ground. Our guides proved to he three Fredericton 

 school ijoys out on a sort of picnic of t heir own; and after asking 

 us if our canoe was a Bob Roy, and satisfying their curiosity by 

 various other questions they disappeared in the bushes near the 

 spot where we first saw them. 



A heavy thunderstorm was now in progress about six miles to 

 the north. An extended experience had taught us that when one 

 of these get started no one can accurately foretell its course; so 

 we got up our tent and made everything snug with all possible 

 dispatch. The wind being N. W. it shotUd have passed us far to 

 the eastward, but no sooner was the tent pitched than it seemed 

 to see and head straight for ue. There is a surpassing sense of 

 gatiefactioa when with very little, and perhaps indifferent appa- 



ratus at your command, you pit yourself against the elements 

 and come off victorious. Thus it was that the meal of bread, 

 tinned beef and a few oranges that we ate here, and washed down 

 with cold water, while the rain was vainly knocking for admit- 

 tance on the outside of the little tent, was one of the pleasantest 

 experiences of the trip. 



While we w^ere waiting for the weather to clear we discussed the 

 situation and resolved to head the canoe for home. For my part, 

 I was heartily tired of wavc-butting and current-ramming under 

 paddle. I know this sentiment will not find an echo in the hearts 

 of many canoeists, but I spend about forty-four weeks of the 

 year in one kind of drudgery, and seven of the remaining eight 

 in another sort, in which my muscular power is tested beyond its 

 ability, and therefore I object most decideldy to making my one 

 little week of outing of one piece with the rest of the year. For 

 this reason a day and a half of hard paddling make a heavy enough 

 dose for "this deponent." 



Between showers, Horace took a walk down the shore. Half an 

 hour later he showed up with a comical expression on his counte- 

 nance. I gave him a sort of out-with-it look, and he said: "We 

 thought those naked boys who piloted us here were preparing for 

 a swim; but they live < hat way. Yes, sir, it is a fact. Happening 

 to notico a small bough camp on a little green down there, I went 

 in, and there the three of them were stark naked, I asked them 

 where their clothes werp, and they sa.id that they had carefully 

 rolled them up and stowed them in a hollow log, where they 

 would get neither dirty nor wet— they didn't propose to arrive in 

 Fredericton that night with a bedraggled toilet. If they got 

 dirty, they could wash themselves; but they could not do the same 

 with their clothes." 



If the outer who in his manner of life comes nearest to that of 

 the primitive man. is the most successful, I think these boys should 

 he awarded the palm. 



About 3 P. M., when we started down river, there the three of 

 them were getting together logs to mike a raft on which to float 

 down to the city. One, whom the rest called Rob, advocated the 

 selection of nothing but cedar— a proposal to which the other two 

 demurred. Just as we were opposite them, he filed the following 

 minority rep'^rl; "Cedar is the best; it's light; It's buoyant; and a 

 raft of it would be easily manaeed." But his measure, like many 

 another sensible one, w.is voted down by a less intelligent major- 

 ity; and we saw them rolling in spruce, hacmatac, hemlock— any- 

 thing. 



There is a craft, locally known as the punt, which is common 

 on the St. John. It is a lapstrake boat bod.y, with a good deal of 

 rocker to the flat bottom, and square, scow ends, set. however, at a 

 less obtuse angle with the bottom board than those in a scow. On 

 our way up in the morning we had noticed that some man was 

 the happy possessor of about 8ft. of 1 he bow seotioD of one of these 

 craft, which had been sawed off, and a straight biscuit-box stern 

 nailed on. We had scarcely passed the boys when we saw a man 

 and a boy out in this craft, trying tr< set a net. The man was 

 standing in the stern, and the boy, facing the stern, w^as seated 

 on the bow-board wielding a paddle on alternate sides with a sort 

 of "stern all" motion, that, while not unskilful, was very funny 

 to look at. At last they reached the desired point, and the man. 

 balancing a killick stone attached to about 10ft. of rope, attempted 

 to throw it ashore. Just as he threw it the stone slipped from the 

 noosed rope, and he unable to recover, alighted on his feet in 

 about 2ft. of water. Though the single word he uttered could not 

 by any amount of twisting be construed as profanity, its Intona- 

 tion, as well as its commonly accepted menning, were as sugges- 

 tive of disgust as anything I ever heard. When the *'bre_ad tray" 

 was relieved of the man's weight the stern flew in the air, and it 

 spun around on its bow end, like a top in its last staggering revo- 

 lutions. 



Luckily, we were assisted in the stifling of our laughter by what 

 might be styled a diversion. We were going about a six-mile gait 

 wifh the wind on our port quarter. 1 was reclining amidships 

 with my hack against a blanket roll. Chancing to glance utider 

 the main boom, I saw directly ahead, and within thirty feet, a 

 boat with a whole salt sack for a sail, and a grinning hoy as pilot. 

 There was no time to think of rules of the road, passing to lee- 

 ward, etc. The Squall luffs like lightning; it was "hard-a-lee, 

 quick." and Horace responded without the usual preliminary 

 wriggle of the tiller in the opposite direction that most persons 

 give when confronted by a quick order. Had our knife-edged 

 cutwater rammed that squat stern fairly, the dinners of both 

 crews would have been shaken down some. A little below the 

 railway bridge we tied up to a wharf and the undersigned strolled 

 up to the post-office to mail a pack of postal cards. Queen street 

 (the principal thoroujjrhfare) looked dull and drowsy. Pedestrians 

 were scarce, and carriages an unknown quantity. The wind had 

 taken one of those sudden drops so common on showery days, and 

 about the only sounds that could be caught without effort were 

 the "fifteen love," "fifteen all" of the umpire in a lawn tennis 

 game on Barrack Square, and a rather subdued contralto voice 

 accompanying a piano in the upper story of one of the houses 

 fronting the street. I depo.«.ited my cards, and sauntering on 

 around the block, halted for a moment at the gate of the barracks, 

 T always liked to watch the maneuvers of the military, hut this 

 afternoon there seemed to be nothing in that line to look at, and I 

 watched the quick, nervous tread of the very neatly attired but 

 undersized sentry. 



All at once a vague, indistinct memory of a musical air came 

 waltzing through my mind; then like a flash it stood out sharp 

 and clear in the form of a single line; ''He was a little tin soldier." 

 It was a line from the song that came floating through the window 

 down street a few minutes before which I had unconsciously 

 caught. The human memory is a queer machine, and I was sensi- 

 ble that mine had played me a scurvy trick, so I spent the remain- 

 der of the walk in self-abasement by recalling the details of how 

 a young man of the sentry's size and build had once laid me on 

 my back three times in five, "side holts." L. I. Flower. 



[to be CONCIiXJBED.] 



BROOKLYN C. C. 



AN important meeting of the Brooklyn C. C. was held at the 

 residence of Mr. Frank L. Dunnell, 186 Joralemon street, on 

 Feb, 11, (Jom. Joseph Rudd, Jr., presiding. The date of the club 

 regatta was selected for June 27, when sailing races will bo held 

 for utilimited, junior and eaooe yawl classes. A committee com- 

 posed of the officers and house committee was appointed to take 

 charge of the hoisting sail competition on June D. Com. Rudd 

 presented the club with a handsome trophy, to be known as the 

 Brooklyn C. O. paddling trophy, which will he a challenge cup for 

 perpetual competition. It is in the shape of a birch bark canoe on 

 a fancy ebony base, with small silver plates on the sides for the 

 names of the winners. 



The meeting then became a social session and an enjoyable 

 evening was spent. It was the third winter rally, as the meetings 

 are called, the two preceding being held at the club house, on Mon- 

 tague street. 



Mr. Dunnell opened the evening's entertainment with a lantern 

 slide exhibition, showing some new views of the last meeting of 

 the American Canoe Association, which was held at Jessup's 

 Neck, L. I., last summer, as well as some taken last spring in the 

 West Indies. Messrs. Dwight Holbrook and Jerome W. Simpson 

 of the YonkersC. C. played several duets on banjo and piano. 

 Arthur W. Hurst sang several solos, and many camp choruses 

 were joined in by all present. In the rear parlor was an artistic 

 exhibition of catioe and camp pictures, loaned by Messrs. 8. R. 

 Stoddard, of Glens Falls, N. Y., and Lafayette W. Seavey, of New 

 York city, and numbering in all nearly one hundred. Here were 

 shown the evolution of the canoe, from the aborignal solid tree 

 trunk canoe through the dugout birch, open and decked, until 

 the beautiful little clipper of the present, with its white sails and 

 fancy totem, with its captain sitting balanced far out on his slid- 

 ing seat, the latest canoeing wrinkle. At a late hour supper was 

 served, after which "pipes and tobacco" was whistled and another 

 hour passed pleasantly. 



The evening's entertainment •was in charge of Messrs. F. L. 

 Dunnell, M. V. Brokaw and Vice-Corn. M. M. Davis, the com- 

 mittee of the club. Among those present were Com. L.B. Palmer 

 and Capt. W. J. Stewart of the lanthe C. C. of Newark, N, J.; T. 

 S. Oxholm and H. L. Quick of Yonkers: W. S. Elliot t, W. H. H. 

 Warren, Thomas G. Buddington, Charles P. Weekes, H. 0. Ward, 

 D. A. Nash, of Brooklyn; C. V. Schuyler of Arlington. N. J.; W. 

 H. Cammeyer, R. Liptrof, T. Drew Dtinnell, .James W^. Dunnell, 

 Paul E. Vernon, W. E. Edwards. 



At a late hour the evening's entertainment came to an end with 

 the annotin<;eraent that at the next rally an informal talk on field 

 and camp accidents wotild be had— Brooldyn Eafjle. 



ST. LAWRENCE RIVER SKIFF, CANOE AND STEAM 

 L.lUNOH CO.— We have received the spring catalogue of the 

 St. L-1 wrence River Skiff, Canoe and Steam Launch Co., of Clay- 

 ton, N. Y.. the successors to the business established by Dr. Bain 

 some years since. The catalogue contains a large line of boats of 

 all varieties, from a. pleasure launch down to the smaller row- 

 boats, including the famous St, Lawrence skiffs, open and decked 

 canoes, canoe yawls, cruisers and sneakboxes. The firm makes a 

 specialty of St. Lawrence skiffs, both for racing and for fishing 

 and pleasure tise. The catalogue is very well iUuetrated by the 

 lines of the boats. 



BOATS AND THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



MR. fRBDERIOK L. OLMSTED, landscape engineer of the 

 World's Exposition, has been suggesting some of the pos- 

 sibilities lying within water transportation by means of "omnibus 

 boats" plying oni!he lake, and mentions the good effects possible 

 in a gathering here in actual use specimens of the boats of all 

 nations and tribes. He remarked: "1 asked Mr. Burgess if he 

 would be willing, upon a commission from the d1 rector j% to build 

 a sample boat suitable for the purpose and provide all its outfit. 

 He replied in effect, that he would do so, with much interest and 

 pleasure. The plan for such a boat having been prepared by Mr. 

 Burgess, in conference with us, and approved by the directory 

 the boat would be built under the supervision of Mr. Burgess, and, 

 after trial next summer, and, having been improved in any man- 

 ner that trial should suggest to be desirable, would be the type 

 and model in all respects of the entire fleet of omnibus boats for 

 the Fair. Contracts would then be made with the boat-builders 

 and manufacturers of electric plants for furnishing them equal 

 in all respects to the model. The cost of such boats would, Mr. 

 Burgess though, be under .81,000 each, or less than the price of a 

 good hackney coach carrying four, 



"Small canoes, more especially of the tj pe commonly used by 

 our canoe clubs, of which there are now great numbers m the 

 United States and Canada, might also be admitted to the waters. 

 They would be small, would have but one, or at most two, 

 occupants, would be propelled by the paddle, the paddler looking 

 forward. But this would not be safe except with skilled canoe- 

 men, I should propose that no one be a.llo^ved to tise the smaller 

 canoes except members of the Canoeing Association. You know 

 that this association meets every year, when large numbers of 

 elegant canoes are brought together. 



"Venetian gondolas and many other curious and interesting 

 boats to be propelled by sctilling, not by rowing, would be admis- 

 sible. 



"That is all I need say about the practical boat service of the 

 interior waters of the Exposition, but I wish to add that it would 

 seem to be most desirable to make a display of certain other 

 marine features, especially to obtain from Spain a full-sized 

 specimen of the kind of craft in which Columbus made his voyage. 

 This would be to all men interested in maritime affairs an object 

 of great curiosity. 



"It would be interesting also to secure an exhibition of various 

 sorts of quaint foreign water craft in contrast with our own. I 

 mean such as Malay proas, catamarans, Arab dhows, Chinese 

 sanpans, Alaskan war canoes, the hooded boats of the Swiss lakes, 

 and so on. All these are small. They could be kept afloat near 

 the big warship if desired without being in the way^ of our 

 omnibus boats, and aU could be procured readily and at no great 

 cost." 



MARINE AND FIELD CLUB REGATTA.-A joint canoe re- 

 gatta of the Marine and Field and Manhattan Athletic Club will 

 be sailed oft' the former club's station at Bath Beath on June 20, 

 Mr. W. F. Elliott, directer of canoeing of the M. A, C, will have 

 charge of the arrangements, 



A. C, A. MEMBERSHIP.— Central Division: Rowell M. John- 

 ston, Albany, N. Y.; 2^. G. Dannell, E. A. Leet, Ticonderoga, N. Y. 

 Atlantic Division: Edmund C. Hill, Trenton. N. J. 



WINTER CAMP-FIRES.— The usual Friday camp-flre will be 

 held at 19 West Twenty-fourth street, on Feb. 20. Air. F. L. Dun- 

 nell will give an exhibition of lantern views. 



No Notice Taken of AnonymouB CorreBpondenta. 



A. S. F., Little Falls, N. Y.— You are right about the tracks. 



B. L. D.— You can doubtless dispose of your dogs by advertising 

 them in this paper. 



Constant Reader.— Questions to be answered mtist be accom- 

 panied by your name and address. 



J, H,, Manchester, N. H.— Please inform me of the name and 

 address of the owner of the red Irish setter champion Chief? 

 Ans. Max Wenzel, 89 Fourth street, Hoboken, N. J. 



N. T. L., New York.— Will you kindly let me know, at your 

 earliest convenience, whether there has been a new law passed pro- 

 hibiting spring duck shooting on Long Island? Ans. No. 



W. H., Colchester, O.— Will you please give me the pedigree of 

 pointer bitch Fanchon. She is about three years and six months 

 old and is said to be registered. Ans. She is not registered. 



J. A. D., Thessalon, Ont.— The rods you inquire about are well 

 thought of by many people who have used them, but of course 

 they do not please every one, You had better write to the manu- 

 facturers for their testimonials. 



D. B. M.. Lockport, N. Y.— There is a scheme on foot to stock the 

 county with quail. I am requested to write you and find out if 

 possible the address of some reliable persons of whom 1 can pur- 

 chase live quail. You will confer a favor if you will let me know 

 at your earliest convenience. Ans. See our advertising columns. 



W. B., Mahanoy City, Pa.— Can you procure a patent for any 

 part of a gun on drawings and model of th." part to be patented, 

 or must I produce drawings and model of gun comiJleteV Aus. If 

 it is a part to be applied to a gun we presume only drawing and 

 model of part need be shown. Write to Commissioner of Patents, 

 Washington, D. C,, for circular of information. 



OijD SubsCribbh, Staten Island, N. Y.— Could anv of your read- 

 ers inform me of some village or small town in Georgia or the 

 Caroliuas, or the neighborhood of some such place, where it 

 would be pleasant to reside, where there would be some bird 

 shooting (preferably quail>, where the people ai'e genteel and hos- 

 pitable and where the climate would be tolerable if one wished to 

 spend the summer or part ot it? 



E, S,. Manchester, N. Y.— When you take the cars to go into the 

 North Woods at Carthage (the Carthage and Adirondack R. R,), 

 which is the best point to stop at, and how far will you have to go 

 from the R. R. to find plenty of deer? Can wagons be procured 

 to carry camp equipments, etc., as far as wanted, and are there 

 places where parties i-an camp and not be molested? Ans. From 

 Oswegaichie station, 39 miles from Carthage, you can go 6 miles to 

 Fine, and thence by boat to Cranberry Lake, whicli is said to be 

 the best hunting ground in the neighborhood. There is a hotel on 

 Cranberry Lake. Airs. E. J. Bishop keeps it. Belter write her for 

 information. There is plenty of room to camp in this region we 

 are told. 



L. R. S., Scanton, Pa.— In your paper of two or three weeks ago 

 appeared an article by T. B. Wilson, of West Va., with a note oy 

 the editor. Now as you have been there, would you be so kind as 

 to write me in regard to the trout fishing to be had there, and are 

 the reports of T. B. Wilson to be relied on? I am looking for just 

 such a place as that appears to be, but wish to be sure before going, 

 so anything will be thankfully received, Ans. Mr. Wilson's state- 

 ments as to game we know to be trustworthy from personal expe- 

 rience. "As to the trout fishing his accounts are corroborated by 

 several correspondents who have fished the streams. Their com- 

 munications will be found in past issues of Forest and Stream. 

 The region is full of interest for the sportsman and naturalist, 

 and the people are always glad to share the hunt withlvisitors. 



Baron L., Dajimeretz, Germany.— The Standard Natural His- 

 tory gives description and figures of three species of American 

 hares. We have no true rabbits— i. e., burrowing members of the 

 family Leporfdce— in America. The "rabbit" or "cottontail" of 

 our literature is Lepus nylvaticus. We have also in eastern New 

 England and the North a larger hare, L. amerimnufs inrginianus, 

 and in the South and West many other kinds, in all more than 

 twenty species and varieties. We doubt if any of our hares 

 would be available for breeding in iuclosures, though possibly 

 the Western jack rabbit (L. carnpest/Hs and allied form?) might 

 prove so. Certain coursing clubs are said to be experimenting in 

 this direction in the West, we do not know with what success. 

 The Indian troubles are over. They were brought about by mis- 

 management and bad faith on the part of the U. S. Government. 



C. H. B., Boston.— I should like a little advice through your 

 valuable paper in regard to stocking some terricorr in northern 

 Alassachusetts with some species of hare other than the indigenous 

 cotton-tail "rabbit," which is already very plentiful there. I am 

 told that the Eastern white hare has already been tried but has 

 not mtdtiplied, perhaps owing to the northern location or to some 

 undiscovered enemy. Would you advise trying them again or ex- 

 perimenting with the English species, which 1 am informed are 

 very plentiful in some parts of New Jersey? If the latter, where 

 can I obtain the animals? Ans. We would suggest trying the 

 Eastern hare again. It is common in northern Alassachusetts and 

 in parts of New York and Pennsylvania, and would be more likely, 

 we should think, to do well than any other species. Experiments 

 with the European hare In this country are reported not to have 

 beea satisfactory, See answer to Baron L. In this issue. 



