Nov. 7, 1898. 
FOREST AND STREAM^ 
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Rockland Beagle Kennels' b., w. and t. dog Buckshot, 
Jr. (Buckshot— Blanche), whelped Jan., '95, handler, S. 
Z, Demarest, with Geo. F. Reed's b. , w. and t. dog Mil- 
lard R, (Millard — Haida), whelped July, '95, handler, 
owner. 
D. F. Summers's b., w. and t. bitch Belle S. (Clover — 
Lucy S ), whelped March, '95, handler, owner, with Geo. 
F. Reed's b. , w. and t. bitch Scorcher (Wanderer — Tri- 
umph), whelped AprU, '95, handler, owner. 
D, F. Summers's b., w. and t. bitch Minnie S, (Clover — 
Lucy S ), whelped March, '95, handler, owner, with How- 
ard Altny's b., w. and t. bitch Miss Quinn (Diamond — 
Nancy Lee), whelped Aug , '95, handler, owner. 
Buckshot, Je. — Millard R,— The latter proved to be 
the better hound in hunting out his ground and driving 
his game. He is also the possessor of a sweet, tuneful 
voice, a point which is overlooked by most of our breed- 
ers. Down 1 hour. 
Belle S. — Scorcher, — The former was an easy winner. 
Scorcher appeared indifferent. The small rabbits are new 
game to him, as he has always been hunted on white 
hares. Down 45 minutes. 
Minnie S.— Miss Quinn,— The latter gave a pretty ex- 
hibition of trailing and won without difficulty. Down 48 
minutes. 
Second Series, 
Millard R.— Miss Qoinn. — Millard had more speed 
and as good a nose as Miss Quinn and won. Down 12 
minutes. 
Millard R.— Belle S.— A pretty race in full view of 
the spectators was run by this fine brace. Belle won. 
Down 25 minutes. 
The value of the stake was $75.50. The judges gave 
first prize, $30.20, to Belle S ; second, $18.88, to Millard 
R. ; third, $11,32, to Miss Quinn; reserve to Minnie S. 
Ten per cent, of the Futurity, $7.55, went to D, F. Sum- 
mers, the breeder of the first winner. 
Champion Stake. 
There were but two entries in the stake: Pottinger Dor- 
sey's b., w, and t. dog Pilot (Imported Chimer— Belle of 
Woodbrook), handler, owner; and Rockland Beagle Ken- 
nels' blue-ticked dog Buckshot (Deacon Tedd — Daisy), 
handler, S, Z, Demarest. 
Pilot— Buckshot,— They were put down for fifteen 
minutes, and as ho start was made were ordered up to go 
down again. 
Friday. 
A good hunting day. The trials were finished. 
Pilot— Buckshot. — Neither hound was under good con- 
trol. Two rabbits were started, and Pilot proved himself 
to be the better hound in casting and hunting his ground. 
In speed they were about equal. Down 1 hour and 
23 minutes. The judges awarded first prize to Pilot, and 
second to Buckshot. 
Pack Stake. 
Three packs were run, and the stake was an interesting 
one. 
Hesipstead Beagles.— Tyrant, Trueman, Messenger 
and Leader made the pack. They were under good con- 
trol, and had the best voices heard at the trials. A rab- 
bit was started and quickly lost. Down 45 minutes. 
Summers's Pack.— The pack was composed of Lucy S., 
Minnie S., Belle S. and Summers's Fly. The drive was a 
long, hard one, and a fine example of beagle work. The 
hounds packed well, worked merrily, and were snappy 
and active. Down 1 hour and 25 minutes, 
Rockland Beagle Kennels' Pack. — In the pack were 
Buckshot, Buckshot, Jr., Blanche and Zillah. A rabbit 
was quickly put up, and after a short run was lost at a 
road. Down 30 minutes. 
The judges gave first prize to Summers's Pack, second 
to Rockland Beagle Kennels, and reserve to Hempstead 
Beagles, 
The conclusion of this stake brought to an end a very 
successful trial. J. A. B. 
Continental F. T. C.'s Trials. 
Oct. 24:.— Editor Forest and Stream: The Continental 
Field Trials Club and the dog owners and handlers of 
America are placed under renewed obligations to the 
Mobile" & Ohio Railroad as the letter herewith inclosed, 
just received from its efficient General Passenger Agent, 
Mr. E. E. Posey, will show. In all of my dealings with 
and trips over the road I have invariably found the offi- 
cials and employees gentlemen in every sense of the 
word; I have found the road bed firat-claas and the train 
service perfection. It always appeared to me that the 
trainmen considered it a pleasure instead of a duty to 
cater to the wishes and comfort of their passengers. I 
therefore take pleasure in recommending the Mobile & 
Ohio road to the traveling public. P. T. Madison. 
COPY. 
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 20,— P. T. Madison, Esq., Sec'y- 
Treas, Continental Field Trials Chib. — Dear Sir: I am 
advised by Mr. J. N. Seale that you recently favored him 
with a few days on our line, and that you have selected 
Tupelo, Mies., and vicinity for the field trials of the Con- 
tinental Club next season. 
I regret exceedingly that I was not advised in advance, 
so that I could have joined you and Mr. Seale on your 
trip of investigation, as I would have enjoyed greatly not 
only the outing, but the pleasure of meeting you, and 
would have been pleased to have had an opportunity to 
show you some personal courtesies. 
I congratulate you upon having selected Tupelo as a 
location for your field trials, and predict that it will mean 
not only permanent location with you, but success, pleas- 
ure and satisfaction to your members and those interested 
in your trials. You will find the people hospitable, and 
the railroads (the Mobile & Ohio prominently) are willing 
to do everything they can to afford your members, 
friends and other visitors to your trials every facility 
and accommodation that we can in rates and service. 
You will also find birds as plentiful in this section, if not 
more so, than in any other, which is the most important 
point, and a country that is just suited to the sport at the 
proper season of the year. 
In making your arrangements for your field trials, be 
certain to advise me fully in advance, giving particulars, 
and we shall be glad to cooperate with you in any way 
we can to properly take care of your people. Have train- 
ers and handlers communicate with us in advance, so we 
can arrange to take care of them in good shape. I shall 
make a special effort to be present at your trials this win- 
ter, and hope sincerely to have the pleasure of meeting you. 
Again congratulating you and assuring you of my 
great pleasure at your selection, and extending to you 
our heartiest welcome, and an earnest assurance of coop- 
eration on the part of the Mobile & Ohio R. R, in all 
de|;ails that go to make field trials a success, I beg to 
remain, Yours very truly. 
E. E. Posey, G. P. A. 
The Water Fowl Club of America. 
East Orange, N, J,, Oct, SI.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: By same mail under separate cover I send you 
a copy of the Water Fowl Gluh catalogue, You can 
gather from it that the membership is not a large one, 
still they are a pretty nice set of fellows and are banded 
together purely with the hope of doing something for the 
industry generally. I therefore trust you will help us as 
much as possible by giving us any publicity within your 
power. T. Farree Rackham, 
No Thanksgrivlng' Show in Newark. 
Will you please announce that after the most strenu- 
ous efforts to hold another show at Newark Thanksgiving 
week, it has been finally decided to abandon it for the 
present. Edwin H, Morris, Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
Under date of Oct. 30 we have received from Mr. Old- 
ham, sec'y of the Metropolitan Kennel Club, a report of 
the club's meeting held on Oct. 21, but while such prompt- 
ness is most commendable it still is too late to be of value. 
Mr. S. C. Bradley, secretary of the E, F. T. C, informs 
us that he will arrange for the entertainment of visitors 
at the club's forthcoming trials (Nov. 16) aside from the 
main interest, the competition; and for that purpose will 
have traps and clay pigeons for those who care to test 
their skill in that manner, so do not neglect to take your 
gun. Other diversions will also be provided. On behalf 
of the club, Mr. Bradley extends a cordial invitation to 
sportsmen to visit the club's trials. It is the oldest club in 
the country, and has weathered all the ups and downs of 
field trials through all the years. 
KENNEL NOTES. 
Kennel Notes are Inserted withont charge ; and blanbs 
(fumlslied free) will he sent to any address. Prepared 
Blanks sent firee on application. 
SALES. 
F. L. Cheney has sold 
One dog puppy to Mr. Jas. B. Blossom. 
One dog puppy to Mr. Jas. Wrinkle. 
One bitch puppy to Mr. Jas. Wrinkle. 
Alice Kent to Mr. Jas. Wrinkle. 
Communications for this department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is particularly desirable. 
WHEELING NOTES. 
In the United States Signal Service a number of bicycles 
are in use, principally among the linemen. Though Gen. 
Miles has spoken so strongly in favor of the wheel for 
army use and recommended the equipment of a regiment, 
no official purchases have been made. The cycle corps of 
the Twenty-fifth Infantry were equipped with wheels 
secured by Lieut. Moss from a public-spirited manufac- 
turer, and those used in the courier service and cross-coun- 
try runs are the property of the individual riders. 
While the sentiment is distinctly in favor of the bicycle 
for army use, our Government apparently does not pro- 
pose at present to follow the example of foreign Govern- 
ments in the matter of outlay for this purpose. 
It takes the spur of emergency to make the Government 
cognizant of any good thing, and in ordinary times that 
red-taped abstraction is content to let others experiment, 
justified, no doubt, by the knowledge that when the emer- 
gency comes the nation will rise equal to it. 
At the annual field day of the Second Regiment of the 
Massachusetts Militia at Sugar Loaf Mountain, South 
Deerfield, Mass. , the bicycle was put to a severe test under 
unfavorable weather conditions. 
A reconnoissance was made by corps from three com- 
panies with a total strength of ninety men. Fifty-four of 
the men were under command of Capt. McDonald, of Com- 
pany B, of Springfield, while the other detachments in- 
cluded twenty-four members of Company C under Lieht. 
Gilmour, and twelve men from Company D under Lieut. 
Field. 
The soldiers made a very rapid scout through the sur- 
rounding country, and in a short time reported on its 
condition topographically, and with reference to its abil- 
ity to sustain troops by means of foraging. From these 
reports Capt. McDonald was able to make a very fair map 
of the region, 
The reconnoissance was completed in much better time 
by the wheelmen than it could have been accomplished 
by cavalry, and the results were so eminently satisfactory 
that Adjutant-Gen. Dalton will probably have similar 
maneuvers introduced in the field days of other regi- 
ments. 
The French soldiers just now are developing the possi- 
bilities of their folding military bicycle, and the general 
verdict is that the wheel is a complete success. In the 
recent army maneuvers the bicycles were packed and 
loaded on the soldiers' backs fifty seconds after the order 
for dismounting had been given, and at the end of a 
march on foot the wheels were ready for use in forty 
seconds. On one occasion a company of bicyclists were 
dispatched to turn the flank of opposing cavalry by using 
a hilly path through woods, impassable- to the latter. 
They made their way successfully to the place assigned, 
surmounting or clearing away obstacles to their progress, 
and opening fire on the opposing cavalry force, forced it 
to abandon the position it was holding. The use of 
bicycles for the rapid transportation of troops to the 
flanks of an enemy's army will undoubtedly be one of 
the features of modern warfare, and no general can 
afford to leave it out of his calculations. 
The old lines affectionately descriptive of G, W. might 
almost be applied to the bicycle — first in war, first in 
peace, and first in the hearts of our nineteenth century 
civilization. 
The bicycle corps will be the future military com- 
mander's right bower, a flying power for offense or de- 
fense, bringing its men on the field fresh and spirited 
where infantry would be fagged and worthless, easily 
handled because the same number of men can be gotten 
under way in a tenth part of the time that it takes with 
foot soldiers. 
In peace the bicycle leads by reason of the magnitude 
of the industrv from a financial point of view, and con- 
cerning the affectionate regard in which it is held there 
can be no question as to its supremacy. 
Babies nowadays cry for bicycles. Children demand 
them for Christmas presents, where they used to ask for 
watches or other less necessary things that they are apw 
content to dispense with, and older people of all ages, 
sexes and conditions are its devotees. 
Redress for Wheelmen. 
John P. Haines, the President of the American Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, has mailed an 
open letter to all New York State bicycle clubs, calling 
the attention of wheelmen to Section 661 of the Penal 
Code, which reads as follows: 
"A person who willfully throws, drops or places, or 
causes to be thrown, dropped or placed upon any road, 
highway, street or public place, any glass, nails, pieces of 
metal or other substance which might wound, disable or 
injure any animal is guilty of a misdemeanor." 
The S. ]?. C. A. seeks to secure the cooperation of wheel- 
men throughout the State in the suppression of attempts 
to injure animals as well as bicycles; and Mr. Haines 
points out that this section makes it possible to fine vio- 
lators $500, or to impose a sentence of one year in the 
penitentiary, or both. He adds: 
"The original purpose of the law was to protect ani- 
mals from wanton or needless injury, and more particu- 
larly horses, which traverse the public roads and streets 
by the hundreds of thousands, and are exposed not only 
to needless suffering, but also to a frightful death by 
lockjaw by the practices which this law is intended to 
suppress. It is evident that the throwing upon public 
places of any substances which might wound or disable 
an animal may result in injury to the pneumatic tires 
now in universal use as a necessary part of the bicycle; 
but I would call your attention to the fact that, under 
the general law, there is no adequate or certain remedy 
for injury to the owner of a wheel which may be injured 
in that way, since it is always necessary for the injured 
party to prove that the injurious article or substance was 
placed upon the road or street with malicious intent to 
injure proi>erty, while the court may go so far as to re- 
quire proof of an intent to injure the particular wheel 
which has been damaged. The result of this difficulty is 
that many wheelmen submit in silence to a malicious 
wrong which interferes with their pleasure and injures 
their property rather than undertake the trouble and ex- 
pense of doubtful prosecution." 
Hare and Bicycle. 
While galloping through a bottom along the North 
Platte River in 1886, my horse stepped on and killed a 
small cottontail rabbit that did not get out of his way 
quick enough. One of the late issues of the London Field 
tells of a hare being run over and killed by a bicycle 
rider, and another instance is given where the same thing 
was only averted by the quickness of the animal. The 
latter incident is described aa follows: "On Sept. 30 a 
hare was running toward me, in a straight line with my 
bicycle, jumped into the air with a side wriggle, and 
cleared my front wheel, landing just at my pedal as I 
swept past. I was just prepared to see my wheel, and 
perhaps myself, go over it when it achieved this wonder- 
ful performance." B. 
A SPECIAX meeting of the New York Y. C. will be held on. 
Nov. 5 to pass for a second time upon the amendments to 
the racing rules accepted at the last meeting. A new amend- 
ment will be introduced providing that existing yachts, 
while exempted fu-om the draft limits as they stand, shall 
not be allowed to increase their draft by alteration beyond 
the limits. 
On Oct. 80 the steam yacht Intrepid, Lloyd Pboenix, re- 
turned to New York after a voyage of some 18 000 miles to 
the Mediterranean and European ports, having left New 
York on March 20. The voyage is rather a remarkable one 
for a large steam yacht, in that both owner and captain 
crossed the Atlantic both ways in the yacht instead of in an 
"ocean greyhound." 
The present time is the most favorable opportunity for the 
enactment of new and improved rules that has ever existed in 
American yachting since racing was established . In the classes 
above 30ft the old boatsare so completely outclassed, andhave 
so generally withdrawn from the racing, that they cease to 
represent that bugaboo of progress, vested interests. In the 
single-stick classes the only boats that have kept up a pre- 
tence of racing are Queen Mab, Wasp, TJvira and Norota, 
not one of which will have a lighting chance against a new 
boat built to the limit of her class. In the schooner classes 
are just thiee boats which can be said to represent live vested 
interests as being new and still in the racing; Colonia, Amo- 
rita and Quissetta. The other schooners, Ariel, Lasca, Mer- 
hn, Iroquois, Marguerite, Quickstep and Volunteer, no 
longer represent vested interests in that they have no chance 
of winning from the three named; and Emerald may prob- 
ably be included in the latter lot rather than the former. 
The various measures for the improvement of the rules 
now before the various clubs are all based on the assumption, 
which we hope and believe is well founded, that there is to 
be a marked revival of building this wmter; among the new 
yachts confidently promised are at least one or two schooners, 
some new cutters of 70ft, racing length, and four or five of 
5Xft, It is in every way essential that the new boats ahould 
