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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 27, igoo. 
The Salt-Water League. 
New York, Jan. 16.— Editor Forest and Stream: At 
■ our meeting last evening, Mr. A. N. Hoxie, of Roxbury, 
Mass., told us how to obtain legislation, what we have 
to expect, and how we are bound to win withm a very 
short space of time. A standing vote of thanks was 
extended to him. Much good can, and will be, accom- 
plished by what he said. The press was well represented. 
Our petition containing over 10,000 names, which is 
350 feet long, and 8 inches wide, pasted on a continuous 
strip of muslin and rolled on a reel made of mahogany 
with rolling handles, was presented to the legislative com- 
mittee, composed of Messrs. (Judge) Geo. F. Roesch, 
Joseph Steiner, Col. James Forster Milliken, Edward 
Schott, and O. L. Schwencke, who in turn will in the 
near future present it with a bill protecting striped bass 
from all nets at all times. There are several other bills 
to be presented. We mean to go ahead and not stop even 
if defeated a few times ; that will make us stronger in the 
end. 
Our first stag to raise our funds will be given at the 
Greenbrier Annie— W. M. Hundley's pointer bitch (Von 
Gull— Crickett). 
Von Ash— H. H. Mayberry's pointer dog (Von Gull-- 
Brook's Belle). 
Lady Kate— H. H. Mayberry's setter bitch (Tony Ben 
—Nellie H. II.). 
Tony Boy's Bob— H. H. Mayberry's setter dog (Tony 
Ben— Nellie H. II.). 
Hobson— R. S. Munger's pointer dog (Von Gull- 
Brook's Belle). 
Richard Carrel— G. B. Tyler's pointer dog (Center Rush 
—Bird). 
Judge Gaston — P. B. Dunklin's pointer dog (Von Gull 
—Dot J. 
Von Gull, Jr. — A. E. Gamble's pointer dog (Von Gull 
— Alraeda). 
Nellie Gaston — Zell Gaston's setter bitch (Domino — 
Nellie F.). 
Miss Wheeler — Zell Gaston's pointer bitch (Nigger 
Elgin — Bessie Hutchinson). 
Jessie Lucifer — W. H. Clure's setter bitch (Blue Hope— 
Gabella Clipp). 
LEGISLATIVE PETITION OF THE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE OF SALT WATER FISHERMEN. 
Harlem Lyceum at 107th street and 3d avenue, on 
Feb. 20. There will be professional talent only. Tickets 
will cost 25 cents each. Ice and fans furnished on de- 
mand. It will be a fisherman's night of delight. 
T. BiEDiNGER^ President. 
On behalf of the League Mr. Harburger will intro- 
duce in the Assembly an amendment to prohibit every- 
where through the State fishing with a net for striped bass 
at any time. 
The petition, of which an illustration is given, reads: 
A PETITION 
TO THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
We, the undersigned citizens and members of the Pro- 
tective League of Salt Water Fishermen, of the State of 
New York, petition your honorable body to enact a law, 
viz. : 
To protect our salt water fish from ruthless slaughter, 
and, so far as possible, preserve the waters which they are 
accustomed to visit and spawn and live, clear of all nets, or 
any other device, except angling. Also bj"- keeping the 
waters clean from polluted and contaminated conditions. 
Doc C— W^ H. Clure's pointer dog (Jingo's Light- 
Gull's Juno). 
Flight— W. H. Clure's pointer bitch (Dudley— Dora). 
Hurtzborne Nick— W. T. Johnson's setter dog (Hurtz- 
borne Zip— Nellie). 
Jingle Rip — Lee Moody's liver and white pointer dog 
(Budami — Betsy). 
All-Age Stake. 
Jingle Rip — Lee Moody's liver and white pointer dog 
(Budami — Betsy) . 
Judge— Jno. F. Fletcher, Jr.'s, pointer dog (Love's Kent 
—Brook's Belle). 
Greenbrier Rose — W. M. Hundley's pointer bitch (Rip 
Saw — Crickett) . 
Pot Metal — ^J. J. Odom's setter dog (Tony Boy — May 
Blue). 
Kent Elgin 11.^ — W. B. Townsend's pointer dog (Kent 
Elgin — Julia Paine). 
Miss Modesty— W. J. Wilson's pointer bitch ( 
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Fixtures. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Jan. 29. — ^West Point, Miss. — Champion field trials. 
Feb. 5. — Greenville, Ala. — Alabama Field Trial Club's fourth, 
annual trials. T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
Nov. 18.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
second annual field trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, 
Conn. 
Alabama Field Trials. 
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. is— Editor Forest and Stream: 
T hand you below entries to the Alabama Field Trial 
Club's fourth annual trial to be held at Greenville, Ala., 
during the week beginning Feb. 5. 
T. H. Spencer, Sec'y. 
Derby. 
Clara V.--B. Brook's (agt.) pointer bitch (Von Gull— 
Proof's Belle). 
Pearl — W. D. Gilchrist's setter bitch (Barney — Kate). 
Mack — W. D. Gilchrist's setter dog (Barney — Kate). 
Young Kent — Jno. Cantey^s pointer dog (Jingo — 
Ruffle). 
Love's Kent^ — Zell Gaston's pointer dog (Kent Elgin — 
Mack's Juno). 
GuUena— T. T. Ashford's pointer bitch (Von Gull— 
Balsora). 
Von Gull's Rube — T. T. Ashford's pointer dog (Von 
Gull— Hessie D.). 
Hamp S. — C. F. Eastham's pointer dog (Von Gull — • 
Flake). 
Lady Cleo — ^W. T. Johnson's pointer bitch ( — 
). 
Tony Dick — T. H. Spencer's setter dog (Tony Boy — 
May Blue). 
Champion Stake. 
Kent Elgin II. — W. B. Townsend's pointer dog (Kent 
Elgin — ^Julia Paine). 
Jingo's Light — ^J. B. Rosenstihl's pointer dog (Jingo — 
Rose Le Hessen). 
Judge — Jno. F. Fletcher, Jr.'s, pointer dog (Love's 
Kent— Brook's Belle). 
Pot Metal— J. J. Odom's setter dog (Tony Boy— May 
Blue). 
Mack — W. D. Gilchrist's setter dog (Barney — Kate). 
Pearl— W. D. Gilchrist's setter bitch (Barney— Kate). 
Young Kent — Jno. Cantey's pointer dog (Jineo — 
Ruffle). 
Von Gull — Ashford and Odom's pointer dog (Kent 
Elgin — Fannie V. Croxteth). 
Von Gull's Rube — T. T. Ashford's pointer dog (Von 
Gull— Hessie D.). , - 
Gullena— T. T. Ashford's pointer bitch' (Von Gull— 
Balsora) . 
Love's Kent — Zell Gaston's black and white pointer dog 
(Kent Elgin — Mack's Juno). 
Setters at the New York Show. 
New York, Jan. 20. — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
Irish Setter Club of America offers the following special 
prizes at the coming New York show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, viz. : $5 for best Irish setter dog in Novice 
Class, $5 for the best Irish setter bitch in Novice class, 
$S for the best Irish setter dog in Limit Class and $5 for 
the best Irish setter bitch in Limit Class. Open only to 
members of the club whose dues for 1900 are paid- on or 
before close of entries, Feb. 5, 1900. 
Geo. H. Thomson, Sec'y-Treas. 
The Gordon Setter Club of America offers the follow- 
ing special prizes at the New York show of the West- 
minster Kennel Club, viz. : $5 for the best Gordon setter 
dog in show, and $5 for the best Gordon setter bitch in 
show. Open to members of the club whose dues for 1900 
are paid up on or before the close of entries, Feb. 5, 1900. 
L. A. Van Zandt, Sec'y-Treas. 
Points and Flushes. 
Mr. Edgeworth Greene, of Upper Montclair, N. J., has 
devised a dog kennel, the convenience and excellence of 
which are apparent at a glance. He calls attention to it 
in our business columns, and will send a circular, giving 
illustrations and full description, to those who apply 
for it. 
The New England Kennel Club have opened offices at 
521 Washington street, Boston, for the transaction of; 
all business connected with their coming dog show. The 
premium list will be ready for distribution within a 
shore time. 
hchting. 
The various rumors afloat as to the sale of the steam 
yacht Alberta by Com. Postley and the purchase of a 
new yacht by Vice-Com. Ledyard, now prove to have their 
foundation in the fact that Com. Postley has sold Colonia 
to Vice-Com. Ledyard, the coming commodore of the 
New York Y, C. It will be a decided innovation for the 
New York Y. C. to have a sailing yacht as flagship, the 
last one being the sloop Pocahontas, owned by Com. 
James D. Smith in 1882-3. 
The little yacht Dodo, whose lines we publish this week, 
is a new and very interesting variation of the scow type. 
She resembles neither the original of the type, Question, 
the so-called "barn door" with no freeboard, nor the later 
development in the line of a wide hull with good free- 
board in the Duggan boats Glencairn 1. and II. With the 
narrow beam of Question she still has ample freeboard 
and a good deal of the rounded form of a yacht in place 
of the square bilge of the scow. 
Apropos of the girth rule, both in this country and 
England, there is one question which is still in a measure 
open ; the exact end which the rule was designed to attain. 
From many statements that have come to us from British 
sources and also from this side, it would appear that 
nothing more was intended and desired by the British 
designers in framing and the Y. R. A. in adopting the 
rule than that a moderate type of keel yacht should be 
given an equal chance of winning against the extreme 
bulb fin. The keel type produced by the rule in three 
years of designing and racing is best described as a 
semi-fin, of limited displacement, and with the floor so 
hollowed as to give very inadequate accommodation for 
the beam and draft. While a few yachts of good accom- 
modation have been produced, notably the S2-footer Peni- 
tent, the winning yachts in this and the smaller classes 
might as well be bulb-fin boats so far as utility is con- 
cerned. 
When the agitation against the old rating rule was 
under way, immediately preceding the adoption of the 
present rule, the opinion was very generally expressed in 
Great Britain that the thing most needed was a rule which 
would give adequate depth of body and reasonable accom- 
modation, as in the first yachts produced about 1888-9 
under the then new rating rule. Many of the propositions ■ 
advanced and discussed were aimed directly to produce a 
yacht of fairly deep S section, such as Minerva, Yarana 
or even Britannia, regardless of the effect upon the fin- 
keels. In this country the discussion has largely followed 
the same lines, and the opinion has been very generally 
expressed that a new rule should not merely place the 
keel or ceuterboard yacht on even terms with the bulb fin ; 
but should encourage first of all the keel and centerboard 
types of good body and reasonable accommodation, such 
as were common here about 1890. 
The whole question of measurement and a new rule is 
still open, practically nothing having been accomplished 
by several years of agitation. Before anything can be 
done in devising a new formula, it is absolutely neces- 
sary that some final decision shall be made as to the 
wishes of the yachting fraternity; whether the rule is 
merely to prevent the fin-keel type from taking all prizes 
and to give a fighting chance to the semi-fin; or is to 
encourage a type of yacht of wholesome body and useful 
for something more than mere match sailing. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday and as much earlier as practiMble. 
The term ''raceabout," to distinguish the 600ft. of 
sail knockabout from the one carrying 500ft. of sail, has 
now been oflicially recognized, not only by the knockabout 
association, but by the Seawanhaka. Corinthian Club. The 
.term was originally coined by W. P. Stephens of Forest 
AND Stream, and was steadily used thereafter by the 
Globe as being an excellent one for its purpose. Its ' 
official recognition is satisfactory proof of its value. The ' 
Seawanhakas will offer special inducements for raceabouts| 
this season, while the Boston class i§ to receive several , 
additions. — The Boston Globe. i 
