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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Club, and the newly-organized Bull Terrier OIuTj, which 
will be increaBed as soon as the secretaries of the other spe- 
cialty clubs have been heard from. 
These have been supplemented by offers from private 
sources: Jas. A. Caldwell, Jr., offers a silver cup, value $25, 
for the best American-bred wire-haired fox terrier exhi- 
bited by a member of the American Fox Terrier Club. 
G. W. H. Eitchie offers a loving cup, value ?25, for the best 
American-bred wire-haired fox terrier owned and exhi- 
bited by a member of the Metropolitan Kennel Club. H. 
T. Foote offers a cup, value $25, for the best black and tan 
terrier. The American Fox Terrier Club Yankee stakes 
and Tomboy stakes of 1897 will be decided at this show. 
Premium lists are now ready for distribution, and can 
be obtained by addressing James Mortimer, Superin- 
tendent, Room 48, Arbuckle Building, 367-373 Fulton street, 
Brooklyn. Entries close Friday, Nov. 12. 
Central Beag'le Club. 
Shap^psburg, Pa., Oct, 15— Editor Forest and Stream: The 
Central Beagle Club's field trial will be run at Rice's Land- 
ing, near the Monongahela River, beginning Tuesday. 
Nov. 9. The Monongahela Valley G. and F. P. Associa- 
tion has kindly allowed us the privilege of running our 
trials on its preserved grounds, which are well adapted to 
hold trials on. 
The Fadas Hotel, at Rice's I^anding, will be the head- 
quarters. It is one mile from the trial grounds. Good 
livery accommodation to and from the ground can be had 
at a nominal cost. The Morgantown packet leaves the 
Pittsburg wharf at ?> o'clock every afternoon (except Sun- 
day), reaching Rice's Landing about 6 o'clock next morn- 
ing. Returning, the boat leaves Rice's Landing about 6 
o'clock every evening. 
The measuring and drawing of the dogs for the several 
classes will be done on the boat on the evening of Nov, 8, 
on the way to the trial grounds, and it is necessarv that 
you and- your dog be on this boat that all necessary ar- 
rangements shall be completed when the boat reaches 
headquarters. As the tria s will be run on preserved 
ground, no shooting or hunting of any kind will be per- 
mitted (except to test the dogs for gun-shynesp). 
Rates from Pittsburg to Rice's Landing, with berth 
good for thirty days, $1.50; meals 40 cents extra. Dogs 
will be carried free on the boat. Hotel rates f 1 per day. 
The field trial committee has left nothing undone to 
make the trial one of the best ever run in this country. A 
good time may be expected by all who will attend these 
trials. L, 0. SuinEL, Sec'y. 
POINTS AND FLUSHES. 
Mr, George W. Rogers, secretary of the National Beagle 
Club of America, writes us that the club's trials promise to 
be very successful, and that the number of entries are greater 
than those of last year. Also that rabbits are reported 
plentiful around Hempstead, but to make tho matter a cer- 
tainty Mr. J. L. Kernochan will turn out twenty five rabbits 
in the most favorable places. The good support accorded 
the club's stakes and the energy displayed will undoubtedly 
insure the success of the trials. It is a relatively inexpensive 
sport, the hunting of rabbits with beagles, acd is more com- 
monly available than is sport with the game birds, all of 
which should insure to it a permanency and constant 
growth. Premium lists and all necessary information may be 
obtained of the secretary, Mr. Geo. W. Rogers, 171 Broad- 
way, New York. 
There seems to be a belief, prevalent with a certain class ' 
of owners and brteders of djgs, that all purchasers which 
can be reached through advertising are professional in 
V character, or at least have a business purpose io view. The 
fact that by far the greater number ot purchasers buy dogs 
for their own personal gratification— the gratification of 
owning a well bred, handsome, -companionable dog— seems 
to be forgotten or ignored. Every week, f torn parties who 
desire to purchase dogs, we have inquiries in respect to tlie 
name of parties who are breeders or owners of this 
or that breed. In our replies to such queries our 
advertisers are mentioned. The owners of such 
breeds as do not advertise ini'ereniialiy do not breed 
dogs to sell, and it would be offleious to send pur 
chasers to them when they do not seek such notice. This 
week we have an inquiry from Mobile in respect to the name 
and address of some one who deals in all breeds of dogs 
From Rhode Island is another query for the address of sotne 
one who breeds harriers Not tons since we had an icquiry 
• concerning a breeder of Dilmatians; acd concerning tie 
breeders and owners of the more popular breeds we havei 
constant inquiries. The man who advertises, and so informs 
the public of his wares, has the attention of the purchasing 
public; the man who has something to sell and who does not 
advertise, is unknown to purchasers. 
Mr. Wm. H. Hammond, Thomasville. N. C, in our busi- 
ness columns, otters to train dogs. Fred Bassitt, Dracut, 
Mass., offers fquirrel dog. Dr. Wm C, Johnson, Frederick, 
Md., offers Irisn terriers. W. S. Lambert, New York. oftVrs 
St. Bernard. Dr. John J Mills, Poughkeepsie. N. Y., 
wants squirrel dog. Bedford Kennels, New York, offers 
setters. J. G. Norris, Eiston, Md„ offers Chesapeake Bay 
dogs. ^ 
The Metropelitan Kennel Club offers an excellent premium 
list; by far the greater number of classes have $10, $5 and 
|3. Other clasees. ^5 and $g 
PNEUMATIC TihES AND HUBS. 
Tbe pneumatic tire, while admirably fulfilling the purposes 
for which it is used, has some defects which count heavily 
against it, chief of which is that a sharp point or edge, 
whether of rock, glass or metal will puncture it and render 
it entirely useless until such time as tne injury is mended. 
It also is liable to injury on block pavements by twisting 
or turning when it is in the recesses belwien the blocks, 
such twisting loosening it from the rim. A punctured tire, 
whether at a distance of one mile or fifty from home is a 
sore affliction to its owner. He generally has to face the 
problem of securing a means of transportation for a whtei 
where ti-ansportatiou is not to he had. or if had it is charged 
for according to the emergency and the possibilities of 
ixtorlion. Mending the tire, as done by the amateur, is 
imperfect work and generally it lasts but a short time, and 
€yen when properly mended, the same dangers of a recur 
rence is ever present as before. On the other hand, a good 
pneumatic tire is the most perfect of mechanism whether 
considered from the standpoint of the rider who, riding 
smoothly and at ease, with a freedom from concussion, or 
vibration, fc^els a happy exhilaration, or from the standpoint 
of the tax-payers, whohe good roads are made better by the 
broad pneumatic tire, which adjusts itself with a nicety to 
the road's inequaUties. With all these circumstances to con- 
sider, the makers would be very unwise to remove the guar- 
antees which in the past have helped so much toward the 
rapid and universal adoption of the pneumatic tire. While 
there is no doubt but what the guarantee has been many 
times abused by unscrupulous persons on the one hand, 
there is no doubt but what it has contributed to the general 
popularity and use of the pneumatic tire beyond computation. 
The removal of the guarantee will freely open the way for 
the adoption of other and perhaps less 'meritorious mech- 
anisms, which are designed to have all the merits of the 
pneumatic tire and none of its imper lections. 
Already three or four inventions have come conspicuously 
into public notice, the purpose of whose inventions is to 
incorporate in the hub the pneumatic fffecta of the tire, 
substituting a sohd rubber, non-puncturable tire for the 
latter, which, instead of being cemented to the rim, is held 
firmly in place by tongues and grooves, that the claim is 
made for it that it cannot slip, tear off or work loose, and its 
life ends only when it is materially worn out. A collateral 
mechanism is a pneumatic hub, a tube, the lubber part of 
which is well protected by steel thimbles, and a nickle 
steel frame is attached to it lor the spokes. For it the claim is 
made thai there is the least possible jarring or jolting, and 
that in running against serious obstructions, as a curbstone 
or oitch, as was done in a test of the mechanism, the pressure 
on the frame is equally divided on both pneumatic hubs, 
which spring and jield mstead of jolting as do the pneumatic 
tires when the shock is so great tuat their resistance is over- 
come and the rim itself strikes the obstruction. It is claimed 
that besides making easier riding, by preventing severe 
shocks, it saves the frame and wheel from breakage. 
Hands and Larger Hands. 
Even physicians are not agreed as whether or not bicy- 
chng tends to enlarge the hands. It is claimed that two 
eminent English physicians aver that it does not do so. Dr. 
E B. Turner, one of them, is credited with saying that "any 
distortion of the kind would be impostible, unless in the case 
of a very delicate girl, under twenty, whose muscles were 
< ntirely deficient in tone." Acd he further says that he has 
himself ridden a wheel for fourteen years, and his hands are 
as small or smaller than they ever were. What inane trash! 
First of all the development of the hands from proper exercise 
is not "distortion." Second, the only method known to 
the athletic world, in respect to developing the body, is 
exercise. By exercise, the hands become larger, stronger 
and more useful. In bicyclins, not cnly the hands but the 
feet, the legs, the arms grow larger from the work. The 
slavish toaujing to a vain sentiment is unworthy any man, 
much more one who is supposed to have a higher manhood 
from culture and association- 
The Records. 
Michaels, the phenomenal little Welshman, has still fur- 
ther designs upon the records. His latest offer is to atten-ptto 
break the record of Cordang,the champion long distance rider 
of Holland, whose recent record of 616 miles and 340yds. in. 
twenty-four hours is a formidable mark to compete against. 
It is said that Coidang's pace makers had canvas shields so 
adjusted to the wheels that, fohowing behind them, Cordang- 
was protected from the wind. 
Uneven Chains. 
Says the L. A. W. Bulletin: "It sometimes happens that 
a bicycle chain does not run evenly, i. e_. it will be lieht at 
one point and loose at others. This indicates that either 
the chain or sprocket wheels were improperly made or have 
worn unevenly. If the tightness occurs always at a certain 
part of each crank revoljittpn, 1>hat would indicate that the 
lault is in the sprocket wht el/ Bather than in the chain. If 
the chain is to blame, it will 'aet up' whenever a certain part 
of it runs on to the teeth of the sp/ocket." All this evil can 
be brought on chain or sprocket wheel of a good machine 
by riding with the chain too tight, a not uncommon fault 
with riders whose experience should teach them better. 
With a tight chain, the irregular strain, a strain which is 
greatly intensified in hill-climbing, which comes from the 
irregular force applied fist with one foot, then the other, 
strains a chain which is cramped in its action by being toO' 
tight. A chain, properly loose, will play evenly and freely. 
A neglected chain, worthed wiih all the noise and friction of 
a dry-wood saw at work, will soon become impaired in 
the same manner. Care and common sense will save a 
wheel from many of the mystic ills to which it is subject. 
Relative Speeds. 
The man who figures and mak(s his facts because "figures^ 
w;ill not lie" (when lett to themselves), has shown that the 
bicycle is one of the swittest of mooern vehicles, and the 
swiftest one of all which is available for common, personal 
use. On the wheel, man is swiflir than the horse at his 
highcot speed, and for long distances over good roads, 
the horse is no competitor. The swimmer is the 
tortoise of the human species. In three minutes he 
swims aolyds. A man rowing would go about 834yds. in 
the same time A runner would cover about l,;i70yds. 
Trotting hoises would go about twice as fast a* the runner, 
though t(_me of the swiitesl might cover 'J,5i5'tyds. in ihree 
miiiUtes One of the fastest bicyclers has covered about 
a,840yd8 in three minutes. A running horae would cover 
about 3,080yds in the same time. The New York express, 
once covereu five miles in thiee minutes. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1 897r9S , 
Commodore, F. L. Duniiell, Brootjlyn, N. Y. 
Ktc'y-Treas., O. V. Scnuyler, 309 Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Librarian, W. P, S.tpbeus, isayonne, N. J. 
Atluntic Division, Wm. Carpenter, Sing Sing, N. Y. 
«_t.iju&i Livibiun, L&uience Wooaworin, tiouvtrEeor, N. Y. 
Eectern LiviBlon, F. J Burrape, West Newton, Mass. 
Northern Division, Kd^ar C. Woolsey, 37 Charles St., Ottawa, Can.. 
iiuiiuai aues, l^i ; miuauon i^ee, Vt- 
WESTERN CANOE ASSOCIATION, 1895-96, 
Commodore, C. F. i-ennewell, Detroit, Mich. 
Vice-Commodore, Nat. H. Cook, Chicago, 111. 
Bear-Commodore, E. H. Holmes, MOwaukee, Wis. 
Bec'y-Treas., W. D. Btearna, Detroit, Mich. 
Executive Committee: R. M. Lamp, Madisou, Wia.; O. J. Steacman 
(Oiacinnati, O. ; F. W. Dickeua, Milwaukee^ Wia. 
AMERICAN CANOE ASSOCIATION. 
Annual Meeting: of the Executive Committee. 
BROOKLYN, N. Y., OCT. 16. 
The fifteenth annual meeting of the executive committee 
of tbe American Canoe Association was held at the Claren- 
don Hotel, Brooklyn, M. Y., on Oct. 16, in weather thatwould 
have done credit to August. Last year's meeting, in To- 
ronto, held five weeks later, was greeted by a snowstorm, 
and the meeting of 189.5, in Rome, N. Y., was held in cold 
weather; but this year the day was uncomfortably hot and 
oppressive, and the continuous session, from 10:30 to 5:30, was 
very tiresome. The room in which the meeting was held was 
situated on the second floor, facing Fulton street, with the 
elevated railway close in front of the windows, the noise of 
assing trains and of the street traffic making it difllcult to 
ear the speakers. In .spite of these drawbacks, however, a 
great deal of business was transacted and the objects of the 
meeting very fully accomplished. The attendance, as will be 
noticed, was unusually large, there being but three absen- 
tees. The Northern Division, in particular, was better rep- 
resented than it; usually is at the meetings in the States. 
The meeting was called to order by Com. Bunnell at 10:30 
A. M., and the roll was called by Sec'y-Treas. Schuyler, as 
follows: 
Commodore, F. L. Bunnell; Secretary-Treasurer, C. V. 
Schuyler; Librarian, W. P. Stephens. 
Atlantic Division: Vice-Corn. Thos. Hale, Jr., Eear-Com. 
' F. M. Pinkney, Purser W. M. Carpenter, Executive Commit- 
tee, F. C. Moore, G. P. Douglas, 
Eastern Division: Vice-Corn. L. S. Drake, Rear Com. R. 
H. Hammond, Purser F. .J. Burrage, Executive Committee, 
P. C. Wiggins, Butler Ames, A. W. Dodd. 
Central Division: Vice-Corn. J. R. Stewart, Rear-Corn, A. 
H. McNabb, Purser L. C. Woodworth, Executive Commit- 
tee, H. C. Morse, F. G, Mather. T. H. Stryker. 
Northern Division: Vice-Corn. D'Arcy Scott, Rear-Com. G. 
A. Howell, Purser E. C. Woolsey, Executive Committee, J. 
McD. Mowatt. 
All answered to their name except Rear-Com. Hammond, 
represented by L A. Hall, proxy; Butler Ames, no proxy; A. 
W. Dodd, per Raymond Appolonio, proxy; T. H. Stryker, ho 
proxy; Rear-Com. Howell, per J. W. Sparrow, proxy; J 
McD. Mowat, no proxy. With but three absentees, this is, 
we believe, the largest attendance ever recorded at a meet- 
ing. The Board of Governors was also present: R. J. Wil- 
kin, president; C. V. Winne, recorder; Paul Butler, J. N. 
McKendrick. 
Com. Dunnell announced that the board of governors 
had decided that the number of representatives to which a 
division is entitled, one for each extra 100 or fraction 
thereof above the first 100, should be based upon the annual 
Division reports as published in the Year Book. We are 
not cognizant of when and how this decision was made, we 
have no recollection of it in the past, and it seems to us open 
to question on two grounds. In the first place, there 
appears to be no authority accorded to the board of govern- 
ors to construe the constitution, unless a question is 
officially referred to the board by the executive committee. 
In the second place, the ruling itself is in error; by it the 
representatives of a division for 1898, for instance, are deter- 
mined on the basis of the membership in September, 1896; 
or at least a year back. This certainly is not in accord with 
common sense. In the present case, as it unfortunately 
happens, no harm is done; instead of increasing, the mem- 
bership has slightly fallen off within the past year, as shown 
by the division reports, so that under this ruling two of the 
divisions are each allowed one more member of the execu- 
tive committee than would otherwise be the case. This is 
an advantage, as the total number on the Association exec- 
utive committee — twenty-three — is none too large. Even if 
all were present — which is never the case— twenty-th4ree men 
are none too many to represent properly the extensive and 
varied interests of the Association, to discuss thoroughly 
and apart from purely local considerations the many ques- 
tions which arise at the meetings, and to poll an impartial vote. 
Unless there should be a decided increase of membership 
in the near future, it may be advisable to increase the num- 
ber of representatives allowed to each division. Under the 
ruling of the board, as above quoted, the representation for 
1899 must be upon the basis of the membership in September, 
1897, .=0 that the executive committee will be reduced to 
nineteen. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be a 
moderate increase of membership next year; the present low 
figures are due in part to a general overhauling of the rolls, 
and the dropping of delinquents of long standing, the roll in 
each division being at the present time well cleared of such 
dead wood. With a prospect of better times throughout the 
country, and, if anything, of a slight reaction from the des- 
tructive competitionHof newer sports, canoeing should make a 
better showing than of late. As the membership stands on 
Oct. 1, 1897, an addition of eleven men to the Atlantic Divi- 
sion will entitle it to two in place of one representative on 
the executive committee; but one more member in the Cen- 
tral Division will entitle it to two, its present legal allowance 
being but one; with twelve more men the Eastern Division 
vpill be entitled to retain its present number of three, instead 
of dropping to two; and the Northern Division, which for 
several years has not been legally entitled to any representa- 
tive other than its three officers, will, by the addition of two 
new members, become entitled to one member on the execu- 
tive committee. 
This matter of representatives has always been loosely and 
■carelessly managed; divisions are allowed to elect members 
of the executive committee in excess of the legal allowance, 
^ 'one member for each hundred or fraction thereof /jej/o?i(J 
the first o?ie hundred;'' and these illegally elected members 
liave been recognized at the meetings both of the Association 
and the Division. There is no question that the basis of 
representation is too large rather than too soa all; as a matter 
of business the Division board might well number from five 
to seven instead of, as now, but three to five; this, however, 
is no excuse for the disregard of the plain provision of the 
constitution. This should be strictly lived up to, and if 
wrong amended at the earliest opportunity. 
After the roll was called and the proxies presented and ac- 
cepted, the minutes of the meeting held at camp on Aug. 18 
were read and approved, also the minutes of the informal 
meeting of the members in camp in August, at which the 
announcement of the new officers was made. The report of 
the board of governors was then read by President Wilkin. 
Ex Com. McKendrick spoke in regard to the unfavorable 
^financial showing of the year, asking whether the board had 
appropriated specific sums for the use of each committee. 
Mr. Winne raised the point that the board was not empow- 
ered to consider the reserve fund held by it in trust, but only 
to say what proportion of the estimated income for the year 
might be expended by the officers. President Wilkin stated 
that the board merely designated a certain percentage of the 
gross receipts of the year to be available for the officers in 
defraying the expenses of the Association, and thatin view of 
the surplus already accumulated since the establishment of 
the board, it bad just determined to allow the expendi- 
ture of 90 per cent.. Instead of 80 per cent., as thus far. Mr. 
McKendrick stated that at present no fixed sum was ap- 
pointed for each committee, and that the experience of this 
year had been that though very careful estimates of the in- 
come had been made and the amounts apportioned thereby, 
that the income had finally proved to be less than estimated 
and the expenditures greater. He suggested that in the fu- 
ture the board of governors should make a specific appro- 
priation for each committee. Mr. Winne again spoke, to 
ihe effect that the officers and the committees of each year 
ihad no right to count in any way upon the trust fund held 
