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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[llAROH 5, 1891 



A NEW RIFLE MODEL. 



BaI/TIMORE, Feh. 26.— Editor Foirst n»r? Stream: In Mr. Sneider's 

 gun store one day this week, T had the plcaEure of examining his 

 new model magnzine rifle, wliichi think is far superior to any- 

 thing in the line of a repeating rifle that 1 have ever seen and I 

 believe am pretty well acquainted with all the diflTerent systems 

 of repealing arms, nearly all of which require a movement of the 

 arm from 6 to lOin. or even more, whinh in this newrifle is entirely 

 done away with, requiring only a motion of the trigger finger of 

 abour IJ-gin., lever being in forward end of trigger guard in shape 

 of a ring, tiiereby allowing a much steadier aim In rapid tiring than 

 is possible with a gun having so much swing of lever in loading 

 and ejecting The model wasao'cal. of 13 sh^ts, magazine attached 

 to right side of barrel, ejects empty shells on left side, works 

 very smooth and without any perceptible jar. Another advantage 

 it can by turning small lever on left side be taken apart lo an in- 

 stant without the aid of a screw driver or tool of any kind and 

 can then be packed away in a very small space, when to be u^ed 

 can be just as rapidly put together again. H. A. A''. 



THE TRAP. 



Scores for publication should be made out on the printed blanh& 

 prepared by the Forest md Stream, and furnished gratig to cluh 

 secretaries. Correspondents who famr us toifh club scorn are par' 

 ticularly requested to write on one side of the paper onL]j. 



FIXTURES. 



If you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send in notice like the following:: 



IMarch Si 2tj. — Detroit Tournament, assisted >iy the Inter-8tate 

 Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association. 81.000 guaranteed. 



April 28-30.— New Loudon (or New Haven) Jnter-State Associa- 

 tion. 



May 5-6.— Algona (la.) Gun Club Tournament. Open to all. 

 John G. Smith, Sec'y. 



May 5-7.— Pittsburgh Tournament. Open to all, Elmer E. 

 Shaner, Sec'y, 



May 19-3L— Washinston (D. 0.) Capital City Gun Club, assisted 

 by Inter-State Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association. Club 

 gives $1,000, Association guars ntees Sl.OOO, total $2,000. 



June 3-5.— Saratoga Gun Club Slioot. assisted by the Inter-State 

 Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association. Association guarantees 

 $1,000. club adds §3,000. total $3,000. 



June 15-19.— Thirty-third Annual Tournament of the New York 

 fitate Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, at Home, 

 N. Y. M. Pi,. Bingham, Sec'y. 



THE ILLINOIS PIGEON-SOOTING BILL. 



CHICAGO, 111.. Feb. 33.— A pleasant little party met at Wat- 

 son's Park, Burnside, this afternoon, for the purpose of cele- 

 brating in becoming manner the birthday of Mr. Washington, 

 wMch really fell on Sunday, yesterday. Messrs. Messrs. Donald, 

 Lord, Burton, Willard, Smith, Kent, IBabeuf, Foss, Kent and 

 one or two others. jSIr. H. W. Jenney, of the Jenney & Graham 

 Guu Co., went along, but couldn't be coaxed to shoot. Charlie 

 Wlllard hadn't any gun, so took a Colt out of the slock. It was 

 too crooked, and he spent most of his time in trying to build a 

 comb on it with leather and old newspapers. Some very decent 

 shooting was done, Mr. Kent appearing to bold 'em pretty well 

 for a young one. Mr. Hollister got a considerable many, making 

 some good twc-bartel kills. Mr. Donald distinguished himself 

 also. I have carefully disguised Mr. Donald under the pseudonym 

 of "Donagbue," so ttiat tbe imblic will not know his real name in 

 case he wants to get on an important match. The birds were 

 good at first, but felloff. When tbe shooting began a tremendous 

 wind was blowing, and the birds went like rockets. It veered and 

 fell ofl: a little toward the close. The following are tiie scores of 

 the sweeps: 



Sweep No. 1, 10 live bii-ds, $3, Illinois State rules: 



F C Donaghue 2000132010— 5 F HoIliPter . .1223120122— 9 



CS Burton 0122011112- 8 C E WiUafd 1002111212— 8 



HPoss 1012222221— 8 H Smith: 2002002311-6 



C R Babeuf 2221112123-10 Win Kent 3220111001- 7 



Babeuf first, Hollister second. Two moneys. 



Sweep No. 3, same conditions: 



Donaghue 2O0020202-4 Waiard ..... 0021812113-8 



Burton 0211211222—9 Kent........ .... .-.,0121123211—9 



Foss 1020013201—6 Hollister OOM123102-7 



Babeuf 0H111O222-8 Smith ....... .......0111113112—9 



Ties on first carried on to next shoot, second dtv. by Willard and 

 Babeuf. 



Sweep No. .3, same conditions: 



Willard 1201220111— 8 Smith 1020220201— 6 



Babeuf 1211012021— 8 Kent 3D3132112— 10 



Foss 1121311202— 9 Donaghue 0000102031— 5 



HoUister 2312002211— 8 Bun on 2201121021— 8 



Kent first in sweep No. 3 and No. 2, lj"oss second. 



Miss and out, |1: WiUard 131. Babeuf 213. Foss 31, Hollister 21, 

 Smith O.Kent 111, Donaghue 20, Burton 10. The birds were ex- 

 hausted when the score stood as above. 



To-day the shootors of Chicago, threatened by the Humane 

 Society with a bill suppressing pigeon sliooting. as being a cruel 

 and wanton sport, hRve read in the despatches of all the great 

 morning dailies the folLowicg, which is respectfully submitted to 

 the gentlemen of the socipty: 



"PHiLADBLPHi.i, Pa., Fel3. 23.— Special.— The Supreme Cnurt to- 

 day delivered a decision reversing the judgment of Judge Yerkes, 

 of Bucks county, and bolding ihat the shooting of pigeons liber- 

 ated from a trap, provided that it is done not wantonly and 

 cruelly, but as a test and training in marksmanship and with 

 proper attention paid to the immediate killing of wounded birds, 

 is a justifiable sport and not cruelty to animals." 



This decision is worthy of note and comment. There are many 

 who do not believe in shooting pigeons at the trap. Some of these 

 are honest and some are not in their expressed belief. They 

 should be equally honest in opposing every form of field shoot- 

 ing, which is more cruel, because it sees more crippled birds 

 which escape to suffer. In trap-shooting very much fewer crip- 

 pled birds escape. The killed ones are often killed as quickly as 

 if [heir heads were cut off and they are sold for food as much as 

 turkeys whose heads have been cui off. Thpre is only one feature 

 about pigeon shooting which goes to make it repugnant and that 

 is the fact that the bird has been already reduced to possession. 

 Given the bird wild and free, and there is in most men the 

 savage hunter's desire to kill it, to reduce it. This is a savage 

 and not a Givilived instinct. Therefore, there rests against the 

 shooting of pigeons from the trap simply the weight of a repug- 

 nance which is founded not upon a civilized but upon a savage in- 

 stinct. Have all the gentlemen of the Humane Society attended 

 pigeon matches as conducted to-day? Do they really know what 

 they are talking about? 



The sportsmen of Chicago would like nothing so much a-s to have 

 the members of the Humane Society come and see a pigeon shoot 

 for themselves. If they should still wish to abolish such .shoot- 

 ing, the sportsmen will ask them to extend their efforts also to 

 the abolishment of all field shooling. Tlie main thing is to be 

 fair. Each side should try honestly to see the validity of tbe 

 other's standpoint. A week or eo ago I wrote some severe things 

 about Mr. Shortall, from the standpoint of the shooters of Chicag'->, 

 yet after all I was probably unwise, unkind and unjust in doing 

 that, and violator of a principle all men too often and too easily 

 forget— that of trying to see the other man's side of the case, and 

 not accusing him out of hand of sheer unfitness to ".live and 

 breathe because he doesn't happen to agree with one. The "pigeon 

 bill" will not be passed. Let us hope that out of the agitation 

 there will simply arise a better understanding between the two 

 elements here arrayed against each other. If the Humane Society 

 has been seeing pigeon shoots wtiich were barbarous and brutal, 

 let us hope honestly that they will succeed in abolishing all such 

 forever. None will be gladder to see that done than the real 

 sportsmen of this city and Slate. But not all pigeon shoots are 

 such, and this the sportsmen who oppose Mr. Shortall's measure 

 know very well. If Mr. Shortall and his Irienda do not know 

 this, it is time they were becoming far more wise. 



This is a jarring and discordant woild. There is none guiltless 

 In it, and none without tbe mote. But cannot the Humane So- 

 ciety, if we grant it and its ofiieials to be animated only by the 

 purest of motives, do more good elsewhere than among pigeon 

 shooters? Their efforts should be toward lessening the greatest 

 amount of suffering in the most immediate manner. Are they at 

 this here? The streets of this city reek and groan not only with 

 individual cases but with whole practices and customs of unmiti- 

 gated cruelty to dumb creation. There is work to be done. Not 

 long ago a Chicago & Atlantic train struck a team of horses at 

 one of the street crossing.?, and crippled both the horses. Word 

 •was at once sent to Mr. Donald, then general passenger agent of 

 that road, who at onf^e telegraphed to the Humane Society to go 

 to the scene and ha,ve the horses killed to end their sufferings. (In 

 capes of this kind the HumanelSociety steps in between the owner 

 aod .tii§ jiaUway, as^ ase^mes tt§ respoasibllity for poaaipje 



damages, and kills the injured animal, thus leaving the owner's 

 right of suit unimpaired.) No satisfactory reply could he had, 

 though Mr. Donald telegraphed repeatedly. The Humane Society 

 sent no agent; To destroy the horses now meant, of course, to 

 make his company directly responsible for their value, or was in 

 law an edmittance of damages without defense, yet Mr. Donald 

 could not await the convenience of the Humane Society, whose 

 business is to mitigate suffering, and therefore took the responsi- 

 bility and had thi^ horses destroyed, for humanity's sake. 



There is one instance of a corporation with a soul. Mr. Fred. C. 

 Donald, the official wl'O couldn't get the society's agent to act, is 

 a well-known shooter. He was last year president of our St.!).te 

 association. I have seen him shoot a great many pigeon=. How 

 about the comparative humanity in this case? Who has it, the 

 shooters, or the Humane Society? Now, the point I want to make 

 is that, until the Humane Society has its work so systematized 

 that it can promptly and efficiently handle some of these glaring 

 cases of ammal suffering, it is working wrongly and out of its 

 sphere when it wastes its already inadequate energies by attempt- 

 ing a thing whose performance is not sanctioned or inspired by a 

 rational and just humanity. It is effort like this last, leaving its 

 proper fielti to go into a less fit and less urgent labor, which is 

 drawing upon the men behind this proposed pigeon law the ready 

 epithet of insincerity, which I confess has been all too quick 

 upon my own lips. Let us be more fair than that, more just, 

 and, if need be, more charitable. Let us not call this anti- 

 pigeon Dieasure insincere, but only ill-advised, unwise, unfit, un- 

 seemly, and foredoomed to failure. 



Fel). ^G.—ln tbe de.='patcbps I find another case on this question 

 of cruelty: "Mattoon, 111 , Feb. 2^.— Special re(cfiij'am.— Sheriff 

 William Checkley, of Coles county, keeps a pack of hounds and 

 two tame deer. On Friday last he and bis friends enjoyed the 

 luxury of a chase. Parties at Windsor had the Sheriff arraigned 

 upon the charge of cruelty to animals. The case was called at 

 Windsor this evening and was dismissed. The spectators made 

 tip a purse to cover the Sheriff's expenses." Comment on this is 

 difficult, because the full facta are not known. Queen Victoria, 

 of some notoriety in England, is at much annual expense to keep 

 the Royal Buckhounds, a pack employed for just such sport as 

 this. As a sport it may not be bigh. Perhaps the Windsor mag- 

 istrate holds that a Queen or a Sheriff can do no wrong. 



E. Hough. 



Feb. S5.— Score made here to-day by tbe Lake County Shooting 

 Club in practice match at live pigeons, Illinois State rules: 



Col Bond 1022101110-7 



*Wilcox 2023131101—8 



♦Parker 0110011001-5 



Col Bond 1013112010-7 



*Wilcox 1301020002—5 



W J Edbrooke 1111213221-10 



H Koehler 2012202100- 6 



Nic Ford 1101010113- 7 



No. 2: 



W J Edbrooke 1032tlfl]312-7 



H Koehler 0201201120-6 



Nic Ford 1101010112-7 



♦Not members. 



Feb. 26.— Scores made her to-day for the Herald medal and Jen- 

 ney & Graham trophy, at live birds, Illinois State rules: 



George Klfcinman 02120010131221110100—13 



R B Wadsworth 20222222113223212320-18 



M J Eich 01011002101323211112-15 



J E Price 2222020!I020222111112-15 



A W Reeves 1110U000111Ilim22-]6 



*0 Von Lengerke 02102110011012310112-14 



*Not a contestant. Wadsworth having won the medal and 

 trophv three times they become his personal property. 



Feb." 2S.— Scoi-es at live pigeons. American Association rules, 

 except Reeves shot at 29yds. with 12ga, gun, four lots of birds, 50 



^exTLoyd 22111011321111021101012210111110222011131110111002-40 



A W Reeves 121101102,2112120011110202322120012111121020112113—40 



The result being a tie, both agreed to shoot a similar match at 

 some other timeto decicie it. 



The Gun Club of Chicago for live pigeon medal, Illinois State 

 rnle«, with several sweep? included: 



P F Rock 1102111010-r F Willard 0132111200-7 



F Place 23200001 13- 6 .1 0 Brien 0032223010-6 



C E Willard 1112120001-7 W Kent U12110120-8 



H A Foss 0210122222-8 A F Lloyd 2112112130-9 



Geo Deiter 1211121220-9 Ed Steck 2112320320-8 



Loyd wins medal, Steck second, C. E. Willard third. 

 Same club's blackbird merial: 



F WillardlOmilllllOOOllllll-16 

 G Dei ter..OOH11111111100111 11-16 

 K A Foss. 1100011111111101 0010— 14 

 C WillardOOllOlOOllOOOOllOOOO- 7 

 E Steck... OOOlOOllUOOlOOOOOll- 8 



W Kent. .10101101111111111111-17 

 JO'BrieD.OOlllilllllliOOllOllOO-ll 

 P Rock. . ..lOOlOOlOlUlOimUl— 14 

 F Place.. .00010011011100111110-13 

 Ra.vbi.kiqg. 



PATERSON, N. .1., Feb. 2&.— The Eclipse Club shoot took place 

 at Martin's club house, 68 Wavne avenue; 10 glass balls, Huber 

 Trap. 18vds. rise, Huber rules, S.50 and $35 prizes: 



Geo Doremus 1101111111- 9 JDavies.... ; 1100101011— 6 



Chris Raflerty. . . .0111111111-9 J Walker OlOlOOw. 



H 'l urner 1111001111- 8 S Smith 1000011110- 5 



S Monks lOOIlOlOOO- 4 J Cartwright 1011111110- 8 



Fred Anderson ....1111111111—10 J Bustara 0111101111— 8 



R Radcliffe lllOUlOlO- 7 J Byrnas 0101111010- 6 



LCoons 0001010100 - 3 J Stevenson. . .. ..1111011000—6 



J Post 0010101110— 5 T Bogers 0010001111- 6 



H Devine OOlUllllO- 7 



Match for 850 a side, at 10 I've birds, 3lyds. rise, old Long Island 

 rules: 



T C Wright 0011111111- 8 Geo Doremus OllOOlOlOl- 5 



M. WiLLOY Sec'y. 

 WATERTOWN, N. Y., Feb. 36.— South S'de Gun Club, weekly 

 shoot, badge match (handicap), at kingbirds, 5 traps, unknown 



O'Connor (23 birds) 11001111111111110111111—20 



Taylor (23 birds) 10111111111011101111111-20 



Kingsley (23 birds) 1100101101101101111001 -14 



Avres (21 birds) 110101011111111111111 —18 



Ties, miss and out: O'C^nnnr 3, Taylor 4. Taylor wins the 

 badge for the third time. Team shoot at kingbirds, 5 traps, un- 

 known angles: 



Tavlor 1010111111— 8 O'Connor 1111111111-10 



Tailett inilOllU- 9 Ayers 0111111111— 9 



Kingsley 1110001011— 6-23 Knapp 1111110111— 9—28 



Winners challenged to another shoot. 



Tavlor 1111111111-10 O'Connor 100111111,1— 8 



Tailett 1110111111- 9 Ayers .0011101111— 7 



Kingsley 0111111100- 7—36 Knapp 1101111101— 8— .23 



Shoot at 5 pairs doubles: 



Tavlor 10 11 11 11 11— 9 Ayers 11 11 11 11 10- 9 



O'Connor 01 11 11 11 00- 7 Kingsley 01 00 11 10 11— 6 



Tailett 11 01 11 10 10— 7 Dcstem. 



MONEY VS. BROKAW. -Bergen Point, N. J., Feb 27: 

 Capt Money .... 3220212121- 0 W G Brokaw. . .3?02322o02— 7 

 3032121211- 9 131o23ll21- 9 



3132212023— 9 3223212212—10 

 2220223231— 9 3333o22222- 9 



2212212132—10 ;J3232o2o23- 8 



2133112330- 9 2332222233-10 

 0002220310— 5 .230221oU22— 7 



2222211133-10 033122o222- 8 



2322320222— 9 122222o210 8-76 



1012002122— 7-88 10 birds scored as dead 10—36 



NEW HAVEN.— The Fast Dav tournament of the New Haven 

 Gun Club will be held on the West Chapel street grounds Friday, 

 March 27. AH are invited. Any person wishing to shoot for the 

 targets onl 5 can do so. Four moneys in all events except No. 5 

 and 8.— T. J. Beers, Pres.; W. H. Hazel, Sec'y. 



PATERSON, N. J.— Eclipse Gun Club, 68 Wayne avenue, match 

 at live birds, old Long Island rules, $25 a side: 



Geo Fritz 1011111101-8 A Kercbner 1000011000-3 



The next matcb will be on March 20, between Hugh Devine and 

 George Doremus. 



Short Line to Katjsas Citt.— That is what tbe Chicago, St. 

 Paul & Kansas City Railway announces to readers of this paper 

 regarding the completion of its own line into the cities of Leaven- 

 worth and Kansas City on Feb. 1, 1891, forming the most direct 

 and expeditious route for passengers and freight traffic between 

 principal commercial centers and the great States of Iowa, North- 

 ern Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas and tbe 

 West and Southwest. Its splendidly equipped Southwest Limited, 

 with brand new coaches and the celebrated vestibuled compart- 

 ment sleeping cars and dining cars, is beyond comparison with 

 the advantages off'ered by any other line. Information regarding 

 this popular route, and particularlv the new features it has re- 

 cently added to its service in the interest of the traveling public, 

 will be oheerfuUv furnished by its agents.- ^c7i'. 



Names autd Pobtbaits ov Bibds, by Gnrdoa TrumbuU. A 

 book particTxlarly interesting to gunners, for by its use they can 

 Jdentfiy without question all tlie American game birds which 

 they may kllL dotb, 800 pages, prlo« Sa.60. For e«l« by Fobibt 



AMSSSBIAM. 



Modii Fachtfi and Boats. Their design, making and sailing, with 

 designs and worKino drawings. Postpaid, 



Yachtsmen who do not see what they -want under this heading 

 will please lookunder the hatches of ihe Canoe, peep into the 

 Kennel, squint down the barrel of the Bifls, open the Fish Car and 

 Game Bag, inquire of the Sportsman Tourist, and if their yearn- 

 ings are still unsatisfied, push their explorations into the Fditoriai! 

 and Adveyrtisin^ Departments. 



FIXTURES. 



, Pa vonia. Annual, New York. 

 , Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 

 , Hull, All Classes. 

 . Dorchester, Club, Dorchester 



APRIL. 



Excelsior, Ann., New York. 26. Corinthian, Opening Cruise, 

 San Francisco. 



MAY. 



Cor. Mos. Fleet, Larchmont. 30. Corinthian, Annual, San 

 Rochester, Open, Sodus Bay. Francisco. 



JtTNE. 



Rochester, Review,Charlotte 

 Lynn, Lynn. 



Quincy. 37. 



Phila., Ann., Del. River. , __ 



Hull, Under 21ft. 27, Lynn, Lynn. 



Roch.. Ladies' Day.Charlotte 37. Quincy, First Championship 

 Cor. Mos. Fleet, Larchmont. 



•JULY. 



Rochester, Cruise, Oak Orch. 17. Lake Y. R. A., Queen City, 

 American, Naphtha,Milton's Toronto. 



Neck. 18. American, Steam, Milton's 

 Larchmont, Ann,, Larchm'r. Neck. 



American, Sailing, Milton's 18. Hull, First cham., 1st and 2d 



Neck. classes. 



Dor Chester, Club, Dorchester 18. New York, Ann., New York. 



Hull, First Cham., 3d, 4th, 18. Riverside, Annual. 



5th and 6th classes. 20. Lake Y. R. A., Rochester, 

 Lynn. Lynn. Rochester. 



Quincy, Ladies' Day. 30. Rochester, L.Y.R.A., Charl. 



Lake Y. R. A., Hamilton, 23. Lake Y.R.A..Oswego,Oswego 



Hamilton. 35. Dorcbester,0 pen, Dorchester 



Lake Y.R.A., R. C.Y.C., Tor. 25. Quincy, Second Cham. 



AUGUST. 



Hull. Second Cham., 1st and 13. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 



3d claFses. 15. Hull, Ladies' Race. 



Indian Harbor, Ann., Green- 19. Hull, Ladles' Day. 



wich. 30. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 



Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 23. Quincy. 



Hull, S cond Cham., 3d, 4th, 26. Dorchester,01ub, Dorchester 



6th and 6th classes. 27. Rochester, Club, Charlotte. 



Lvun, Lynn. 29. Hull, All Classes. 

 Quincy, Third Cham. 



SEPTEMBER. 



N.y.Y.R.A., Ann., New York 13. Lynn, Cup, Lynn. 

 Lynn, Open, Nahant. 



THE TREGURTHA SAFETY YACHT BOILER. 



THE accompanying illustrations show the safety yacht; boiler 

 made by Murray & Tregurtha, of Boston, builders of marine 

 and stationary engines and of pipe boilers. The boiler is built in 

 sections, one of which is shown in tbe smaller cut, which may be 



removed or replaced readily. Each section, consisting of a verti- 

 cal pipe and a series of circulating tubes, is connected at the base 

 to the horizontal side pipe.°, or mud drums, and at the top to the 

 steam drum, through which runs the dry pipe S. The feed enters 



at F, at P (? is tbe steam gauge, and at G, G, O, the gauge cocka. 

 The casing is of sheet iron, lined with asbestos. Among the ad- 

 vantages claimed are reduced weight and floor apace, safety from 

 explosion, quick steaming and freedom from priming, and 

 economy of fuel. The boilers are tested to 400]bs. and designed to 

 work up to 250. 



SATAN.— The centerboard is to be represented in the new 46ft. 

 class by a Burgess boat, the owners being Mr. Chas. A. Prince, 

 former owner of Helen. 40ft,, and Shark, oOft.. Dr. John Bryant, 

 owner of Shadow, and two other Bo.aton yachtsmen. Captain 

 Crocker will have charge of the boat. She will be 16ft. beam. 7ft. 

 6in. draft, and of light construction, with no cabin fittings, beinjf 

 intended solely for racing. Her name will be Satan, and the 

 rather lurid statement has been made that she wiU be painted red 

 above water. Lawley & Co. will lay her down, but as they are too 

 busy to build her, the work will be done by Frisbie, of Salem, who 

 built the Helen. In such good hands the centerboard will have a 

 very good chance to show what it can do beside the keel; but the 

 results in the SO and 40ft. classes show that tbe keel boat la the 

 faster, and the sftms ie likely to be true in the 4fif t. class. 



