FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JlTLY 10, 1887 
trainer can correct it by driving a short peg in the ground 
and tying the dog to it, 3 or 3ft. of the rope nearest the col- 
lar being used for the purpose. When the trainer orders the 
dog to come in, he pulls on the rope thereby pulling the pin 
from the ground, and if the dog obeys he thus is not pun- 
ished; for the pin being pulled out he cannot be punished by 
pulling on a taut rope, and if he disobeys the trainer pulls 
him in as before. This is continued till the dog will obey 
promptly and till obedience has become habitual. 
When the collar is taken off, a number of lessons should be 
given in a room or inclosure where the dog cannot escape. 
So long as he shows the slightest hesitation to obey or incli- 
nation to escape, so long should the lessons be persisted in. 
At length obedience will become a habit, and the dog will 
not have the slightest iuclination to disobey. Eext, the les- 
sons should be given in the open field. If there should be 
any disinclination at first to obey promptly in the field, the 
collar should be applied in the same manner. Once this train- 
ing is thoroughly done, it is permanent, and amply compen- 
sates for the little extra trouble required to do it right. 
The reluctant and imperfect obedience given to noisy or- 
ders to come in are in painful contrast to the prompt, quiet 
obedience given to the lightest notes of the whistle or lowest 
tones of the voice which the dog can hear, when he is thor- 
oughly trained to come in with the aid of the collar. 
Modern Dogs. 
A MEW edition of "Modem Dogs of Great Britain and 
Ireland," by Mr. Rawdon B. Lee, is recently from the press. 
Sporting dogs have two volumes devoted to them, a total of 
751 pages. The different breeds are illustrated by the 
masterly art of Mr. Arthur W.ardle. The work contains a 
vast fund of valuable information concerning the past and 
present of each breed. There is not a line which is not 
either interesting or instructive, and of tenest it is both. The 
author's aim is to tell about dogs, and not to fill a certain 
space. Besides the description of the physical characteristics 
of each breed, and the scale of points so formidable in ap- 
pearance and yet zo little in worth, much interesting histor- 
ical information is given concerning each breed, and the do- 
ings of the most distinguished performers in the competitions 
of bench and field. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
The date of closing the Derby entiies of the Manitoba Field 
Trials Club has been extended to July 12. 
Joseph D. Bhotwell, paying teller of the Bowery Savings 
Bank, New York, died on Sunday last at Orange, N J. 
The immediate cause of death was apoplexy, though he had 
been ill a long while. He was an ofiicer of the Collie Club 
many years. George Laick died recently at Tarrytown, N. 
Y. lie was famous as a beagle man, and he did much to 
advance the general recognition of the beagle as a sterling 
and pleasing worker afield. 
heeling* 
Communications for this department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to ths sportsman is jrarticularly desirable 
WHEELING NOTES. 
In New England and the older parts of the country aban- 
doned railroads are sometimes found. The road-beds of these 
railroads are constructed with gradients that would furnish 
luxuriant riding for cyclists used to the ordinary carriage 
road, and, in many cases, a good i^urface can be applied at a 
very slight expense, thus making model cycle paths. The 
abandoned railroad of the Reading Iron Company, leading 
from Danville, Pa., to Cherry Valley, will be so utilized, and 
when finished will piove a model path in every respect. 
In Pateraon, K. J., the street sprinklers are notified that 
they will lose their jobs if they do not leave well enough 
alone and go on sprinkling and re-sprinkling till the streets are 
muddy. Street sprinklers have long been in the habit of 
sprinkling not wisely but too well, but it has remained for 
the present cycling era to put a stop to the waste of city 
water and a condition of the streets which is only in degree 
less undesirable than dust. The Paterson authorities also 
show their level heads by ruling that streets must not be 
sprinkled on damp days or other days when there is no wind 
and dust, and by making provision for unsprinkled strips at 
the sides for the use of wheelmen and wheelwomeu. 
power in the land for the good of the sport which it repre- 
sents. Wheelmen in general owe much to the L. A. W., 
and they can most fittingly acknowledge the obligation by 
sending in their applications for membership and subscribing 
to its principles. 
To meet the demand of angling wheelmen, Messrs. Abbey 
& Imbrie, New York, have put upon the market a special 
bicycle fishing rod. The rod is made to fit within the dia- 
mond of the bicycle, and is provided with an extremely neat 
and well adapted carrying case, which is strapped to the 
frame at three points. The case contains a roomy pocket, 
which will hold a 100yd. multiplying reel or bait box or any 
small articles an angler may wish to carry. Bait and fiy 
rods are made in five pieces, of lancewood or split-bamboo. 
Many bicycle riders with Spartan-like fortitude deny 
themselves a drink when parched with thirst. They argue 
that when one once begins to drink on a hot day he m^ust 
keep it up, for the more he drinks, the thirstier he becomes, 
his last state is worse than his first. But it is possible to have 
too much of a good thing even in abstinence. Thirst, when 
the wheelman rides with his mouth closed, is an indication of 
a demand on the part of nature to replenish an exhausted 
supply, and when the demand is sufilciently pressing, head- 
aches and other indications of impaired vitality are likely to 
follow the refusal to heed it. 
Dr. Lucas Championiere, of Paris, an eminent autherity, 
recommends, during exercise, as much drink as the cyclist 
can comfortably swallow, but no solid food. During violent 
exercise the stomach is generally not in fit condition to re- 
ceive food, and the rider should always rest before eating. 
But with drinking it is different. Here the waste in hot 
weather is enormous, and it is very essential that the supply 
be frequently replenished Of course, sweet drinks and 
stimulants are not recommended, and it is advisable to sip 
rather than hastily swallow the hquid. 
A good many years ago some popular proverb compiler 
devised the couplet beginning, "If wishes were horses beg- 
gars would ride. " It was very well known that wishes were 
not horses and that beggars did not ride, and the truth of the 
couplet being so apparent, it had a remarkable run. 
All this was before the days of selling bicycles on the in- 
stallment plan. Nowadays if wishes are not horses, they 
may be bicyles, and the beggars ride as well as the best of us.. 
Cases where people are too poor to pay rent and put their 
landlord off because "Pa has to pay for his new bicycle," are 
common enough, and it is well known that such people will 
submit to being evicted ratlaer than give up their highly-prized 
wheels. 
The ease with which a bicycle may be secured is illus- 
trated by the story of- a Hartford man who hadn't even 
enough ready money to pay the first instalment. He had, 
however, credit at his grocer's ; so he went there and bought 
a barrel of flour, some sugar and other 'standard articles "on 
lick," sold them for spot cash to the first purchaser, and thus 
raised money for the initial payment on his wheel. 
The poor man rides while his creditor walks. 
Reverse the wisdom of one age and you have made a 
prophecy that will see its fulfillment in the next. 
Users of a certain style of spring seat-post complain that 
the nut which holds the spring in position has a tendency to 
work down and fall into the tubing of the bicycle. This can 
be remedied by fitting a hollowed cork tightly into the post 
below the nut. 
A fortune of comfortable proportions awaits the man who 
invents a practical and economical nut lock. There is avast 
field for such an invention among the railroads, bicycle build- 
ers and manufacturers of all kinds of vehicles and rolling 
stock. Although numerous patents have been taken out for 
self-locking nuts, nothing practical seems to have been per- 
fected that will stand the vibration and jarring incident to 
travel 
To be successful the mechanism must be simplicity itself, 
and at the same time compact and neat. 
As the yachting journal of America, the Forest amd Stream is the 
recognized medium of communication between the maker of yachts- 
men'' s supplies and the yachting public. Its value for advertising 
has been demonstrated by patrons wfio have employed its coluvms 
continuously for years. 
The cycle path between Port Jefferson and Patchogue, 
Long Island, has been completed. The path is fifteen miles 
in length, and crosses the island at about the center from the 
Sound to the sea. Port Jefferson is opposite Bridgepoit, 
Conn., and the path will be the means of introducing Con- 
necticut riders to xhe good roads and other attractions of the 
south side of Long Island. 
Cold baths are good in moderation, but they should never 
be taken immediately after a fatiguing ride. The greater 
the exertion the greater the waste of tissue which must be 
gotten rid of by the pores of the skin. A cold bath closes 
the pores and puts a check upon this relief, whereas a warm 
bath would have had a beneficial effect in freeing the system 
of the collected impurities. After a cold bath the heart is 
depended upon to bring about a reaction. When the heart 
is tired by the effects of a long ride it may not be strong 
enough 10 bring about this reaction, and the blood and waste 
material may not be brought to the surface. Internal con- 
gestion follows, wita various unpleasant complications which 
in some cases have been known to culminate fatally. 
If the wheelman has any doubts as to the propriety of 
taking a cold bath after exhausting exercise he may decide 
by testing the rate of his pulse. If this is normal cold water 
may be used, but otherwise it would be very injudicious to 
risk the shock. As a rule, cold baths are advisable only 
when the cyclist's vitality is at the maximum, while at other 
times tepid or warm baths are to be advised, with perhaps a 
cold sponge or shower bath at the end as a stimulant and 
preventive of cold. 
The League of American Wheelmen was organized at 
Newport, R. I , Memorial Day, 1880, and is therefore some- 
thing over seventeen years old. It has now more than 80,000 
members, well organized and capably ofiicered, and is a 
THE YACHT RACING UNION OF LONG 
ISLAND SOUND. 
quarter. She carried a bowsprit about 3ffc. outboard, from 
the end of which to the masthead was a wire stay. On this 
stay a single triangular sail was set, with a boom on its foot. 
The rig was in form a lateen, but of course set in a very dif- 
ferent manner. If it has any merit at all, this race failed to 
disclose it, but then the boat was so small and so much out- 
classed by a 20ft. cat, the winner, that no comparison was 
possible 
As in Saturday's race, three of the thirties each carried a 
lady, Mrs. Duryea sailing on Vaquero III. and Miss Helen 
Benedict on Hera. 
The start was made at noon, with the Y. R. U. intervals, 
so that the larger yachts started on the third gun, there 
being no schooners, at 13:10. Wasp cut the line first, after 
some preliminary dodging, but Syce had her weather, how- 
ever, the smaller boat soon dropped astern and then went on 
starboard tack, out into the Sound, Wasp tacking to wind- 
ward of her. The thirties made a good start at 12:1.5, Hera 
getting to windward of Vaquero as they both luffed sharp 
around the flagship. Quantuek started alone in her class, 
but after she had been gone some time the laimch Levanter 
steamed up and stopped on the line with Vaquero I. in tow. 
They ran on out of the way of the smaller boats, just cross- 
ing, and finally sail was made on Vaquero and she started in 
chase of Quantuek. 
All started on port tack, and, the tide being half ebb, 
worked the Connecticut shore. Wasp gained on Syce from 
the start. After rounding the first mark sheets were eased 
to port and balloon jibtopsails set for the run to the second 
mark, off Lloyd's Neck, where they jibed and stood in on 
port tack to the line. The larger boats, sailing twenty mile?, 
were timed on the first round; 
Wasp 1 30 55 WaWa ] 54 S6 
Syce , 1 37 29 Carolina 1 57 11 
Vaquero I II 1 52 34 Surprise 1 53 34 
Hera 1 53 69 
Wasp sailed the same course as on the first round, up shore, 
but Syce tried a cast for luck, standing across the Sound un- 
til off Center Island, and then tacking for the mark. She 
gained or lost little, being beaten about 6m. on each round. 
The finish of the fleet was timed: 
Volsung 2 09 .59 Win or Lose 2 48 40 
Dosoris 11 2 12 21 P K PiKeou 2 t2 13 
Madrme 2 15 35 Wasp 2 .53 41 
Shark 2 18 15 Syce 3 06 46 
Pyxie 2 18 33 Jib 3 IG 49 
Ninita 2 18 52 Vaquero III 3 24 4(j 
Quantuek 2 19 40 Hera 3 26 44 
Penelope 2 21 05 Wa Wa 3 33 45 
Asthere , . .3 26 44 Carolina 3 3i 20 
Ethel 2 35 08 Surprise 3 39 21 
Vaquero 1 2 40 07 
The instructions were not entirely clear as to the direction 
of crossing the finish line, and quite a number of the yachts 
crossed it wrongly, but the results were not affected. The 
ofllcial times were: 
CUT rERS— 60ft. class. 
start, 12:10: Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Wasp, H. F. Lippitfc 64.97 2 43 51 2 43 51 
Syce, F. M. Hoyt .50.86 2 56 46 2 53 56 
CCTTERS— 36PT. class. 
Surprise, H. D. Baird 3J.00 3 24 21 3 24 21 
SPBOIAL — SOBTC, class. 
Start, 12 15: 
Hera.R N Ellis .......30.00 3 11 44 
Vaquero II , H. B. Duryea...:..,..; , .30.00 3 09 46 
Wa Wa, James Stillman 30.00 3 17 45 
Carolina, Pembroke Jones 30.00 3 20 20 
SLOOPS -.30ft class. 
Start, 12:15: 
Ninita, F. A. Dingee 28.00 2 03 53 2 08 52 
Madrine, Walter Ferguson 26.97 2 00 85 1 59 38 
Pyxie, W. E Eldridge 26.63 2 03 33 2 01 40 
Penelope, T. V. Ketchum 26.00 2 06 05 3 C3 31 
SLOOPS - 25ft. class. 
Start, 2:20: 
Quantuek, H. L. Delafleld 24.63 1 59 40 1 59 40 
Vaquero I., W. Q. Brokaw. 22.96 2 20 07 2 17 38 
SLOOPS— 20ft. class. 
Start, 13:25: 
Asthore, P. T. Dodge 20.00 2 01 44 
Shark, Hoyt & Rouse 20.00 1.53 15 ... 
CABIN CATS— 30ft. CLASS 
Start 12*20* 
Dosoris Il.ro' P. Vail 29.55 1 62 21 1 62 21 
Volsung, J & H. L. De Forest 28.59 J 4& 59 1 48 56 
CABIN CATS— 25ft. CLASS. 
Start, 12:20: 
Win or Lose, J. S . Appleby. . .^i . <• 23.75 2 23 40 2 22 09 
Ethel, F. J. Bergen , 21.68 2 10 08 2 05 17 
OPEN CATS— S5fT. class. 
Start, 12:80: 
Nutmeg 20.00 Withdrew. 
Jib, W. I. Bradley 16.94 2 46 49 2 35 51 
Qosbird, B. N. Nevins- 17.85 Withdrew, 
P. K. Pigeon, T. J. Pritchard 20.00 2 22 13 2 22 13 
The regatta committee included Messrs. E. Bruggerholf , 
S. W. Smith and A. H. Scofield. 
I?aclng Circuit. 
June 26 to July 7. 
Stamford Ti C. Annual Regatta. 
STAMFORD, CONN.— LONG ISLAND SOUND. 
Monday, June S8, 
The second race of the circuit was that of the Stamford Y. 
C. , its annual regatta, on Monday. The course was a 10-mile 
triangle on the Sound, starting off Stamford Harbor, the 
flagship Halcyon, steam yacht, Com. Howard C. Smith, car- 
rying the regatta committee and marking the weather end 
of the line. There was plenty of wind, a good thimble- 
header breeze from S.W., making a beat over the first leg, 
with a reach over each of the other two, with sheets slack- 
ened and balloon jibtopsails set on the second leg, and sheets 
in on the third. None of the schooners were present, the 
largest yachts being Wasp and Syce, in the same class, 
Wasp allowing 3m. 50s. over the 20 miles, two rounds of the 
triangle. Surprise sailed alone, there being little life in the 
36ft. class this year, though it is one in which the older boats 
have not yet been outbuilt. Surprise is only a good deep 
centerboard boat, with large cabin nouse and comparatively 
heavy construction; nothing of the freak or machine order 
to scare off the ordinary good all-round boat; but thus far 
she has found no one to meet her. 
The thirties mustered a new recruit, Carolina, this being 
her first race this season; but Musme and Veda were absent, 
the former having sprung her mast on Saturday. Only two 
twenties were present, Shark and Asthore, Mr. Howard, 
owner of Arauca, sailing as crew of the former. 
The smallest starter in the race was a decided novelty, 
even in this era of freaks. She was apparently an ordinary 
lap-strake rowboat, quite open, but rigged with one sail, a 
bi^ jib, after which she was christened — Jib. Her mast was 
quite long and stepped against the transom, stayed to a 
bumpkin over the stern and a couple of outriggers on each 
Indian Harbor V. C— Special Race. 
GBEENWIOH CONN. — ^INDIAN HARBOH. 
Tuesday, June 39. 
The Indian Harbor Y. C, which on Saturday opened its 
new club house, at Greenwich, sailed a special race on June 
39 for the 30ft. special class, the 25 and 20ft. open sloop 
classes, tae 51ft. yawl class and the 30ft. and 25ft. cabin cat 
classes. The courses were: 
For Special 30ft. L.W.L. Class, Cabin Sloops and Yawl 
Class.— A. Across the starting line indicated by the commit- 
tee boat and a stake boat anchored in the harbor off the club 
house, to the red spar buoy on Carmel Reef, S.W. 3^ W. 1 
mile; to the red spar buoy off the western end of Great Cap- 
tain's Island, S. by W. % of a mile; to a white spar buoy 
with the letter L painted thereon, S.S.E, }^ E. 2)4 miles; to 
the gas buoy off the eastern end of Little Captain's Island, 
N ^ E. 2% miles; to and around the stake boat at the start- 
ing line, N. W. 3i N". 1 mile. Course to be sailed over twice. 
Distance, 16 nautical miles. 
For 30ft. Class of Cabin Catboats and 25ft. Class of Open 
Sloops. — B. Across the same starting line, to the red spar 
buoy on Carmel Reef, S.W. 3^ W. 1 mile; to the red spar 
buoy oil the western end of Great Captain's Island, S. by 
W. % of a mile; to the gas buoy off the eastern end of Little 
Captain's Island, E.N.E. 1% miles; to and around the stake- 
boat at the starting line, N.W. 3^ N. 1 mile. Course to be 
sailed over three times. Distance, 1Z}4 nautical miles. 
For 25ft. Class of Cabin Catboats and 20ft. Class of Open 
iSloops. — B. Course to be sailed over twice. Distance, 9 
nautical miles. All buoys and marks are to be left to port, 
except the gas can buoy on Jones's Rocks, which is to be 
left to starboard. The line is to be crossed from east to west, 
both at the start and at the finish. 
The start was made at 1 o'clock, in a moderate E.S.E. 
wind. The only new yacht entered was Kit, a Hanley cat 
boat of extreme type, this being her first race; she sprung 
her mast but finished. The cabin cat Lizzie V., of New York 
Bay, also started. The fleet reached broad off to the first 
mark, beat across to the second, and reached home. The 
times were: 
SLOOPS— 30fT. CLASS, SPEOIAI.. 
Start, 1:05: Length. Elapsed. Corrected. 
Hera, R. N Ellis 30 . 00 2 a7 58 
Vaquero, H. B. Duryea 30.00 2 27 12 
Veda, 0. VanderbUt, Jr 30.00 2 28 48 
Wa Wa, J. StUlman 30.00 2 27 30 
YAWIi CLASS 
Start, 1:05: 
Fidelio, J, Kennedy Tod .33.46 2 36 50 S 66 50 
