June io, 1899.] 
FORJiST AND STREAM. 
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A^ig CanadianlPafk Scheme, 
A Montreal dispatch to the New York Evening Post, 
under date of June S,^ays: "The Limited Privilege Fish 
and Game Chtb of Roberval and the Island House" is tlie 
name of an organization that promises to dwarf all other 
clubs of the kind in existence in size as well as in the 
extent and value of the territory that will be at the dis- 
posal of its members. It is understood that among those 
who will be first enrolled in its membership are Gov. 
Roosevelt, of New York; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Frank 
Ross, Quebec's millionaire; C. M. Hays, general man- 
ager of the Grand Trunk Railway; T, G, Shaughnessy, 
vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and 
others. The headquarters of the club will be the Hotel 
Roberval, at Lake St. John, and it will benefit by an ex- 
penditure of $400,000, in the construction of buildings and 
steamboats, the purchase of canoes and camp equip- 
nient, and the securing of hunting and fishing privileges 
in some 30,000 square miles of territory. 
Mr. H. J. Beemer, who is the principal promoter of the 
new organization, estimates the total cost of the project at 
from $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 before this territory is made 
what the club intends to make it. Two game parks of 
about a thousand square miles each are to be established 
and inclosed by heavy wire fencing, and stocked with 
moose, cariboo, elk, red deer, black bear, etc.. as well as 
with other animals and birds from lands subject to the 
same conditions and tlimatic influences of the Province of 
Quebec. The angling privileges include almost all the 
waters in the Lake St. John district, in which one may 
hope to find an ouananiche, namely, the whole of Lake 
St. John and all its islands, the Grande Dechargc, and the 
best of the Saguenay fishing, the Mistassini, and the Peri- 
bonca, and all their tributaries. The Peribonca alone may 
be followed for 300 miles before reaching its source. Sal- 
mon are to be introduced into all the club waters, and 
hatchments and breeding ponds maintained for trout and 
ouananiche as well. The membership f,ee of the club has 
been fixed at $500, 
New Jersey Coast Fishing. 
AsBui^Y Park, N. J., June 3.— Surf fishing has dwindled 
to a minimum during the past week. Nothing of in- 
terest is to be gained from any of the prominent points. 
Bass are rare, and kingfish are equally so, just why is hard, 
to account for. Weather and water conditions are favor- 
able, but all efforts are of but small avail. Our inland 
waters are, however, more productive. Plaice fishing 
has never been better. Particularly is this true of Shark 
River; the new dyke which extends out to the sea has 
given us an inlet with about lOft. of water, and the river 
fairly teems with plaice. Weakfish too are in the waters, 
but as yet none have been taken on the hook. To take 
thirty to forty plaice to a boat in a few hours' fishing is a 
common experience. In the absence of better things they 
are very welcome, and receive most assiduous attention. 
They really afford good sport when taken on light tackle, 
using a float. The common green minnow or killy (Mr. 
Mather says none but Jerseymen use the latter word, and 
I guess he is correct) is by all odds the most killing bait. 
Barnegat Bay is holding out some inducements in the 
way of weakfish and bluefish, but not sufficiently so to 
induce our local anglers to make a trial as yet. All 
vai-ieties seem to be fairly abundant outside the bar in 
the ocean, but as that isn't within the anglers' pale, to 
wait seems the only alternative. 
Leonard Hulit. 
Trout Streams m Michigan* 
New York, June 2. — Editor Forest and Stream: In 
last week's columns of your Chicago correspondent, Mr. 
Hough, there was a query from a gentleman in relation 
to trout fishing in Michigan. 
^ As I've just returned from a business trip through that 
State, and enjoyed some excellent fishing on the open- 
ing of the season on the Pere Marquette and the Au Sable 
rivers, perhaps I can give a few pointers that may be of 
use to him or those going into that State for trout fishing. 
From my own experience and what I have learned from 
others, the Pei-_e Marquette and Au Sable are the trout 
rivers of Michigan. They both are splendid streams to 
fish, being free from underbrush and logs, and can either 
be waded or fished from boat, and the trout, particularly 
the rainbow, run large, and there are a great many of 
them. 
To one going into that country I would advise taking a 
particularly large assortment of flies, as, from my own 
experience, should say that from hour to hour, as the con- 
ditions of the water and light change, one cannot tell with 
any degree of certainty what they will rise to. 
For particulars as to the Pere Marquette, write Mr. 
Wm. Trott, Big Rapids, Mich. As to the Au Sable, com- 
municate with F. L. Mickelson or E. Hanson. Grayling 
Mich. H. S: Wells. 
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NOTICE. 
The New York Clearing House has adopted new regulations 
governing the collection of checks and drafts on banks outside of 
the city. This entails a collection expense on those who receive 
such checks. Our patrols are requested, therefore, in making 
their remittances to send postal or express money order, postage 
stamps, oir check or draft on a Meiv York city tank, ar otfcs? N«\? 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Sept. 4-7. — Toronto, Can. — Toronto Industrial Exhibition Asso- 
ciation's eleventh annual show. 
Nov. 22-24. — New York.— American Pet Dog Cliib's show. S. 
C. Hodge, Supt. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 6. — Bicknell, Ind. — Indiana Field Trial Cluh's trials. S. 
H. Socwell, Sec'y- • 
Nov. 14.— Chatham, Ont. — International Field Trial Club's tenth 
annual trials. W. B. Wells, Hon. Scc'y. 
Nov. 14.— Washington, C. H., O.— Ohio Field Trial Club's 
trials. C. E. Baughn, Sec'y. 
Dec. S.— Newton, N. Continental; IHeld Trial Club's trials. 
Thos. Sti4rges, Sec'y. 
Manitoba Field Club Trials. 
Winnipeg, Man., June i. — ^The entry blanks are now 
ready for the. thirteenth annnal trials of this club, to be 
held at Morris, Manitoba, commencing Sept. 6, the stakes 
to be two in number, namely, Derby and All-Age. 
The club enters on this, its thirteenth season, with more 
promising prospects of successful trials than for a num- 
ber of years past, recent reports from the club's grounds 
being that chickens are very plentiful this spring, and 
with even a fair rearing season the supply pf birds by 
September should be abundant. 
Morris, Manitoba, is a thriving town, with ample hotel 
and livery accomutodation, charges for both bcmg very 
moderate, while the adjoining prairies are of the best for 
field trial purposes, spectators being able to drive any- 
where. The town also being connected with daily train 
and mail service. 
As judge of the trials the club has been successful in 
securing the services of Mr. W. W. Titus, of West Point, 
Miss., one of the most prominent and experienced field 
trial men of this continent. 
Handlers desirous of training in Manitoba, can obtain 
good quarters in the best of game localities at very 
moderate charges. 
Arrangements have been made in order to prevent 
expense, troulile or delay at any of the customs ports of 
entrjf — viz., Neche, Pembina and Gretna. All dogs that 
have been duly entered in any of the Manitoba Field Trials 
Club events are allowed to enter Manitoba, and remain 
for ninety days, free of all duty. 
In order to benefit by this arrangement, an accurate 
description of each dog is absolutely necessary, giving 
name, breed, sex, color, event entered in, owner's name, 
name of person having charge, and line of railway travel- 
ing by, must be mailed to the undersigned one week pre- 
vious to date of arrival at port of entry. 
William C. Lee, 
Hon. Sec'y-Treas. M. F. T. C., Winnipeg, Man. 
Dogf Sense. 
My neighbor over the way has two dogs. One full of 
years and discretion, the other, a puppy, full of the devil 
and destruction. 
After my ride the other day I could not find the 
leather calking boot that my horse always wears in the 
stable, and which I had thrown on the floor upon going 
out. As I came from the stable another neighbor, whose 
piazza faces it, informed me that he had seen the puppy 
carrying the boot across an adjoining field. 
I looked around for the culprit, but he was missing. 
His mate, the . old pointer Pete, was there, however. 
Calling the pointer, I started across the field and said 
to the dog: "Pete, come help me find that boot." Pete 
was willing and hunted for it faithfully, quartering back 
and forth, covering the whole field thoroughly. Finally 
he gave it up and came and "held up" in front of me. 
"Pete," I said, "you are no good. Why don't you find 
that boot?" He looked me steadily in the eye for a few 
seconds, and I could see that a gleam of reason or in- 
stinct was being telegraphed from his brain to his eyes. 
Of a sudden he jumped up and ran rapidly away in an- 
other direction, returning after a few minutes with a 
man's boot in his mouth. Now, T claim that he knew 
what the word boot stood for, that he remembered where 
he had seen a boot, and reasoned that as I wanted a boot 
he would fetch the one he knew of. Perhaps this was 
instinct, handed down by some ancestor who had oft 
been booted; bitt it looked to me like a case of pretty 
sound reasoning. C. E. C. 
Sportingf Spaniels on Canvas. 
_ PiCTON, Opt.- — Canadian fanciers are beginning to recog- 
nize the advisability of having an organization to properly 
look after the interests of the sporting breeds of spaniels. 
At a meet held in Toronto, the Canadian Sporting Spaniel 
Club organized. Mr. H. Parker Thomas, of Belleville,'* 
was elected President. Mr. Thomas is a capable judge, as 
well as an enthusiastic fancier, and no better choice could 
possibly have been made. Mr. Geo. Douglas, Vice-Presi- 
dent, of Woodstock, needs no introduction. His success 
as a breeder and exhibitor is well known. Mr. R. Jeffs, 
Toronto, is the Secretary-Treasurer. With such men as 
these at the helm, if the proper support of the breeders and 
fanciers is accorded, we can confidently expect this club to 
be a success. 
Points and Flushes. 
We have received inquiries of late concerning breeders 
of bloodhounds and breeders of French poodles, but regret 
we have no exact knowledge concerning them in the ab- 
sence of definite information, as is found in an adver- 
tisement. 
Our advertising columns offer the best medium for 
promoting business between the ownei" who wishes to 
sell a dog and the man who is minded to become an 
owner. 
The Forest and Stse.-im is put to press each week on Tuesday, 
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Fixtures. 
JUNE, 
iVIanhansett, annual, open. Port Washington, L. I. Sound. 
Winthrop, hand-sweeps, Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
Burgess, 1st cham., Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
Williamsburgh, sloop class. Long Island Sound. 
Royal St. Lawrence, Yankee-Dominion match, Dorval, Lake 
St. Louis. 
Brooklyn, annual, open, Bath Beach, New York Bay. 
Larchmont, spring open, Larchmont, Long Island Sound. 
Morris Yachtsmen, spring open. City Island, Pel ham Bay. 
Winthrop, squadron cruise to Nahant, Massachusetts Hay. 
Taunton, club, Taunton. 
Gravesend Bay, annual Bath Beach, New York Bay. 
Gloucester, spring, Delaware River. 
Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay. 
Atlantic, annual, open. Sea Gate, New Yoik Harbor. 
New York, annual, open, New York, New York Harbor. 
Seawanhaka Cor., annual, open. Oyster Bay, L. I. Sound. 
Winthrop, club. Great Head, Boston Harbor. 
Morris Yachtsmen, special. City Island, Long Island Sound. 
Burgess, 2d cham., Marblehead, Massachusetts Bay. 
29. Sea. Cor., cruise to New London and return, L. I. Sound. 
Decoration Day, J 899. 
The holiday that is now tmiversally observed by Amer- 
ican yacht clubs as the formal opening of the season was 
marked this year by exceptionally fine weather in many 
localities. About New York the day was bright and 
warm, with a fresh S.W. wind that made good racing. 
While some of the clubs, like the Harlem and the South 
Boston, made racihg the feature of the day, in most 
cases the ceremonies included only the putting of the clubs 
in commission with a review of the fleet and a general 
reunion at the club house. 
Atlantic Y. C. 
SEA GATE — NEW YORK BAY. 
The Atlantic Y, C. began the day with a gun at 10:30 
from Ramona, schr., Vice-Com. Wliitlock, answered by a 
salute from the fleet. At 11 :20 a special race was started 
from oQ Craven Shoal Buoy, the 36ft. and larger classes 
sailing by the Swash Channel Bell Buoy, around the Old 
Orchard Shoal Buoy by the bell buoy oS the Hook and 
home by the Swash buoy, igl4 miles; the smaller classes 
sailing the same outward course, but coming home from 
Old Orchard by way of the S.W. Spit Buoy, 165^ miles. 
The one schooner entered sailed alone over the Scotland 
Light.ship course, 21 j4 miles. 
After being changed from cutter to yawl, Katrina is out 
this year under schooner rig; she had no competitor. 
Acushla n. is a new yacht, for the 51ft. class, a center- 
board boat designed and built by C. C. Hanley late last 
year, and sailing her first race. 
There was a fresh S.W. breeze at the start, making a 
reach down the Lower Bay, Acushla leading. The Old 
Orchard mark was turned: Acushla II., Uvira, Memory, 
Oiseau, Eidolon, Chispa. The times were: 
Schooners— Start, 11:20. 
^, . ^ , „ ™ Finish. Elapsed. 
Katnna, Robert E. Tod..... 2 51 52 3 31 52 
Cutters and Sloops— Class K, 52ft. — Start, 11:25. 
Acushla II., Wilmer H^nan 2 27 53 3 02 53 
Uvira, R. P. Doremus 2 41 42 3 16 42 
Chispa, C. W. Nason 3 01 31 3 36 31 
Cutters— Class L, 43£t.— Start, 11:25. 
Eidolon, James Weir, Jr 2 55 28 3 30 28 
Sloops— Class M, 36ft.— Start, 11:25. 
Zenobia, J. C. Swan 3 07 40 ■ 3 42 40 
Memory, E. Hope Norton ; 2 55 42 3 29 42 
Sloops— Class N, 30ft.— Start, 11:30. 
Oiseau, J. R. Maxwell 2 35 48 3 05 48 
Newasi, A. H. W. Johnson 2 51 32 3 26 32 
Mainsail Cabin Yachts— Start, 11:30. 
Qui Vive, George Freeth 3 00 50 3 30 50 
The winners were Katrina, Acushla II., Eidolon, Mem- 
ory, Oiseau and Qui Vive. 
Harlem Y. C. 
CITY ISLAND — LONG ISLAND SOUND, 
The first open regatta of the Y. R. A. of Long Island 
Sound, that of the Harlem Y. C, was a success in point of 
starters, and also in the matter of weather. Out of the 
fifty-four yachts which crossed the starting line, all but 
twelve finished; and in most of the classes there were 
from four to nine competitors. The start was made off 
Belden's Point, the courses being around Matinnicock and 
Parsonage Points, 20 miles, naut. ; around Matinnicock 
and Delany Points, i8 miles, and around Old Hen Buoy 
and Delany Point Buoy, 13 miles. In addition to the 
regular prizes, the Williams cup was offered in the 43ft. 
class, open to club yachts only, and to be won three 
times before becoming the property of the winner. The 
start was made at i P. M., with wind enough to call for a 
reef in some of the smaller boats, while Nimrod lost her 
topmast after passing Parsonage Point. The times were : 
Cabin Sloops — 43ft. Class. 
„ . Start. Finish. Elapsed Corrected. 
Pontiac ...1 11 04 4 39 30 3 28 25 3 27 44 
Euybia 1 07 35 4 55 43 3 48 08 3 46 26 
Mary B 1 11 05 4 54 50 3 43 45 3 38 14 
Nimrod , 1 15 00 5 48 48 4 33 48 4 28 05 
Hussar 1 06 55 4 21 54 3 14 29 
Cabin Sloops — ^36ft. Class. 
Reliance 1 10 40 5 11 42 4 01 02 4 01 02 
Anoatok 1 10 27 4 37 48 3 27 21 3 26 06 
Teaunette .1 10 00 Did not finish. 
Piute .......1 13 20 5 05 25 3 52 05 
Cabin Sloops — 30ft, Class, 
tsabel ,.1 11 37 5 47 50 4 36 13 4 36 IS 
Water Lily............. 1 06 20 5 25 50 4 19 30 4 19 30 
Ruth .1 12 37 Did not finish. 
Petrel 1 11 49 6 01 43 4 49 54 J 48 18 
Una .1 13 40 5 51 30 4 37 50 4 34 ^6 
Adelaide .....1 10 00 Did not finish. 
Albatross, 1 11 23 6 12 55 5 01 32 4 57 47 
Wanderer ...11122 Did not finish. 
Haydee .1 13 40 5 42 11 4 28 31 4 20 51 
Cabin Sloops— 25ft. Class — Special. 
Rough Rider 1 02 20 4 44 34 3 42 14 3 42 14 
Emyzol .1 01 20 5 12 25 4 11 05 4 09 31 
Romance .1 02 08 5 03 57 4 01 49 3 57 11 
Skimmaug 1 03 08 4 59 22 3 56 14 ..... 
Cabin Sloops — 25ft. Class. 
Coquette 1 02 53 5 13 45 4 10 52 
Naiad 1 02 28 5 29 10 4 26 42 
Tessie B........ 1 03 40 5 50 30 4 46 50 
Wenona 1 02 40 6 32 05 5 "^g 25 
Bee , , 1014E Did r,ot foi-sh. 
Cabin Sloops— 21ft. Class. 
]f|oTenoe M^y, ,1 OS 05 ^ ^ |^ ^ 
4 10 37 
4 25 40 
4 44 10 
5 24 12 
