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j VOL. XXXVII.-No. 1. 

 (No. 318 Bboadway, New ^ohk. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editobial. ^. 



The Summer C'amp-Fire. 



Bialev and Oreedmoor. 



Possibilities of the Steam 

 Yacht. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Spobtsman Toubist. _ 



Snipe on Chinese Paddy Fields 



A Plea for the Girl. 

 Nattjbal Histobt. 



Taxidprmy and Collecting, 



Some Michigan Bird Notes. 



My Martins. 



Birds of Manitoba. 



Those Grouse Chicks. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Some Reminiscences of Wy- 

 oming. 



A Hunt in Idaho. 



Shawan gunk Wild Hogs. 



Mr. Van Dyke Protests. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and Eivbb Fishing. 



Oa the North Shore.— xn. 



The Catfish of the South. 



An Afternoon on the Saco. 



How to Preserve Fishes. 



Rubber Waders. 



Angling Notes. 



New York State Association. 



New England Waters. 



FlSHCUt-TUHE. 



Wisconsm Fishculture. 



The Kennel. 

 Eczema. 



National Beagle Club Meeting. 

 Explanation for Mr. Wade. 

 Irish Setter Field Trials. 

 Death of Champion Doc. 

 Montreal Dog Show. 

 Some Noted Dogs Change 



Hands. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



RlPIiB AND TBAP SHOOTIHQ, 



Range and Gallery. 

 Revolver Shooting in England . 

 The Bisley Meeting. 

 The Trap. 

 Brooklyn Traps. 

 Shooting at Fan wood. 

 Yachting. 

 Iota. 



Mr. Burgess's Work. 

 Massachusetts Y. C. 

 Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion. 



Mr. Burgess's Funeral. 

 New York Y. C. 

 Club Cruises. 

 Canoeing. 

 The A. C. A. Meet. 

 American and British Canoe 



Answees to Cobeespondbnts. 



BISLEY AND OREEDMOOR. 



THE programme of the American National Rifle Asso- 

 ciation and the telegraphic notes of the British 

 Association meet bring Bisley and Creedmoor into close 

 union in our rifle columns. There should be a closer 

 unity of action by the riflemen themselves. It is now 

 too many years since an international shoot was held. 

 Honors are even as to superiority. American shots hold 

 the Palma for long-range any-rifle work. The British- 

 ers are ahead in the use of the military arm. This last 

 leadership is really the more important of the two, and 

 now with a system of regular military arm drill in so 

 many of the States, it should be very easy to find a team 

 capable of using their regular weapons fully as well as 

 the Volunteers of Great Britain manipulate their Mar- 

 tinis. There ought to be such a match, and it ought to 

 be drawn as to conditions with the broadest possible 

 limits. There ought to be by this time a consensus of 

 opinion that a military arm should not be the most clumsy 

 and cheapest bit of machinery which it is possible to 

 make. Each year the demand is for a finer arm. The 

 sights which were not thought "practicable" over five 

 years ago are now regarded as indispensable to a properly 

 equipped military arm. So of the charges, etc., etc. 

 Nothing is too good for the modern soldier, and he is 

 gradually growing up to the proper use of the finest 

 weapon which the most talented inventor can offer. 



Now, the point is, why cannot the militiamen here get 

 ready to bring the military arm championship over to 

 this side of the water as a companion piece to the Palma 

 trophy, now rusting for want of practice in some saf e- 

 k deposit vault here ? It will be necessary to go after that 

 military lead, a team must visit Bisley, meet the pick of 

 the two thousand or more clever shots there and come 

 away victors. California has a fine showing of distinc- 

 miUtary shots. Her team could go over as the 



American experts. Massachusetts also has the men, and 

 New York, the leading State in its military equipment, 

 ought to furnish an invincible team. Here then are 

 three commonwealths, and to the one who first starts 

 there is a chance of a good time, a pleasing publicity and 

 a glorious victory. 



THE SUMMER CAMP-FIRE. 

 \ THIN column of smoke seen rising lazily among 

 -'-^ the leafy trees and fading to a wavering film in the 

 warm morning air, or the hotter breath of noon, a flicker- 

 ing blaze kindling in the sultry dusk on some quiet shore, 

 mark the place of the summer camp-fire. 



It is not, like the great hospitable flare and glowing 

 coals of the autumn and winter camp-fires, the center to 

 which all are drawn, about which the life of the camp 

 gathers, where joke and repartee flash to and fro as 

 naturally and as frequently as its own sparks fly upward, 

 where stories come forth as continuously as the ever-ris- 

 ing volutne of smoke. 



Eather it is avoided and held aloof from, held to only 

 by the unhappy wretch upon whom devolves the task of 

 tending the pot and frying-pan, and he hovers near it fit- 

 fully, like a moth about a candle, now backing away to 

 mop his hot face, now darting into the torrid circle to 

 turn a fish or snatch away a seething pot or sizzling pan. 



Now and then the curious and hungry approach to 

 note with what skill or speed the cookery is progressing, 

 but are content to look on at respectful distance and to 

 suggest, not interfere with aid. 



The epicurian smoker, who holds that the finest flavor 

 of tobacco is evoked only by coal or blazing splinter, 

 steals down upon the windward side and snatches a re- 

 luctant ember or an elusive flame that flickers out on the 

 brink of the pipe bowl, but most who burn the weed are 

 content now to kindle it with the less fervid flame of a 

 match. 



And yet this now uncomfortable necessity is still the 

 heart of the camp, which without it would be but a halt- 

 ing place for a day, where one appeases hunger with a 

 cold bite and thirst with draughts of tepid water, and not 

 a temporary home where man has his own fireside, 

 though he care not to sit near it, and feasts full on hot 

 viands and refreshes himself with the steaming cup that 

 cheers but not inebriates. 



Its smoke drifted far through the woods may prove a 

 pungent trail, scented out among the odors of balsams 

 and the perfume of flowers that shall lead to you some 

 pleasant stranger or unexpected friend, or its firefly 

 glow, flashing but feebly through the gloaming, may be 

 a beacon that shall bring such company to you. 



In its praise may also be said that the summer camp- 

 fire demands no laborious feeding nor careful tending, is 

 always your servant, seldom your master. 



POSSIBILITIES OF THE STEAM YACHT. 



THE August number of the North American Revietv 

 contains a most interesting paper on the possibili- 

 ties of the steam yacht, by Mr. Lewis Herreshoff, a 

 brother of the designer of the now famous Gloriana. 

 The writer, who is well qualified to speak on such a sub- 

 ject from his connection with a firm which stands at the 

 head in the construction of fast steam yachts, reviews 

 briefly but very clearly the different factors that go to 

 make up a fast steam yacht or torpedo boat, his conclu- 

 sion being as follows: "From a general view of the sub- 

 ject it would appear that no marked gain in speed can 

 be reached by confining the attention to any one ele- 

 ment or factor of speed ; but by a constant devotion to 

 the details of construction, particularly with a view of 

 lessening weights, much can be done to increase the 

 speed of yachts and other vessels, even with the mate- 

 rials now obtainable." 



This statement, which holds true in sailing as well as 

 steam craft, is especially important just now as applied 

 to the new Gloriana, whose wonderful success is to be 

 accounted for almost entirely through the perfection of 

 detail, and not through the long ends above water which 

 have been so much over-estimated by the majority of 

 critics. Mr. Herreshoff points out first the new use to 

 which the steam yacht is being rapidly adapted in 

 this country, as a convenient and luxurious means of 

 transit from home to business, from Wall street to the 

 shores of the Sound and Hudson, for which purpose a 



I speed of at least 20 miles per hour is demanded. The 

 factors oi speed are divided by him between, the hull in 



model and construction, the motive power, including 

 engines, generator and fuel, and the means of propul- 

 sion, the screw and paddle, 



In regard to model, when the highest speeds are re- 

 quired, the writer places the general proportions first, as 

 of more importance than mere refinements of form , while 

 lightness of construction is rated as the second factor in 

 the hull. Until the list of available metals shall show 

 something less liable to corrosion than thin steel, wood is 

 placed first as the principal material for the hull. The 

 importance of better and smoother coating for the bottom 

 is also much to be desired. 



In engines and generators the line of improvement in- 

 dicated is in the direction of lessened weight in propor- 

 tion to power, with the present general forms of the 

 quadruple expansion engine and the tube boiler, both of 

 improved detail rather than general plan, and of some 

 material superior to steel. Mechanical stoking and liquid 

 fuel are looked to as further sources of improvement, the 

 present progress in both being by no means satisfactory. 

 In the methods of propulsion the paddle is considered as 

 not yet out ol the race for comparatively high speeds 

 under certain conditions, but the twin ecrew is placed 

 first; the improvement in the screw itself being indicated 

 in the direction of material rather than form. 



The author's conclusions are that "It would not be 

 wise to place an actual limit on possible speed, but we 

 can only admit that, as progress has been made in the 

 last decade, raising speeds from 40 to 50 per cent. , it is 

 not unreasonable to expect a still further gain, though 

 not so marked a one. It is surely within the bounds of 

 reason to say that by the opening of the new century 

 steam yachts having a speed of 35 miles an hour will be 

 no uncommon thing; and it is also to be hoped that with 

 the improvements of materials of construction, there 

 will be a like strengthening of human tissue, both in 

 nerve and muscle, for both will be taxed to their utmost 

 in the management of machinery and the guidance of 

 vessels under such conditions." 



SNAP SHOTS. 



UNFEELING critics have sometimes found fault with 

 the writers of sporting sketches because of their 

 proneness to chronicle their emotions on sitting down to 

 the first meal in the woods, to expatiate on the savory 

 qualities of the camp food, and to aver as a meritorious 

 claim that the party "did full justice to" the cook, the 

 cooking or the food. As we have pointed out, the secret 

 of this is that one finds in the forest an appetite and a 

 relish for food, which any sensible doctor would declare 

 to be unerring indications of improved physical condi- 

 tion. In the year book of the Bisby Club we find a sug- 

 gestive note in the statement of exi)enses for the year. 

 "The cost of living in the woods," says Gen. R, U. Sher- 

 man, the author of the report, "is not to be Cotimated by 

 its cost in the settlements. The fact is well established 

 by experience that the consumption per head is, at least, 

 double in the woods what it is outside." And when a 

 man finds in his camp a new stomach and a new palate, 

 a new capacity and a new appreciation of food, why 

 should he not be given the privilege of relating his good 

 fortune and putting it in the permanent record as among 

 those things in search of what it is worth while going 

 fishing and shooting? 



The President has appointed Professor Mendenhall, of 

 the U. S. Coast Survey, and Dr. C. H. Merrriam, of 

 the Agricultural Department, Commissioners to investi- 

 gate the status of the fur seals in Bering Sea, and these 

 gentlemen sailed from San Francisco for the North in the 

 U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross last Saturday. 

 The Commissioners for Great Britain are Dr. G. M. Daw- 

 son, of the Canadian Geological Survey and Sir George 

 Baden-Powell, and these four gentlemen will no doubt 

 succeed in collecting during the ensuing season a great 

 deal of valuable information on the subject to which their 

 attention is to be given. Incidentally the subject of marine 

 reservations in the Bering Sea may, it is hoped, receive 

 some attention from our own Commissioners. 



From Mr. Starbuck's account it appears that the North 

 Shore is a tempestuous country where fish and gales are 

 measured out with impartial hand ; and it is manifestly 

 no place for a tenderfoot. 



We have received through Mr. W. Wade, for the Helen 

 Keller fund, $10 from Mrs. E. A. Walter, of Allegheny 

 CSty,Pa.,aJid^fiom.Mrs. A. G. Wallace, same place. 



