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FOREST AND STREAM. 
fMAEcn 24, 1900. 
pico till he was tired of the sport. Captain Shillaber also 
made a trip into the interior, where he had a series of 
unusual experiences, which gave him text for a laughter- 
provoking speech. He said that he went down one 
dark and gloomy bit of river which was called "Infer- 
nill-," or Little Purgatory, and the boatman in the bow 
was named Saint Matthew, the one in the rear Jesus, and, 
though he intended no irreverence, he must say that he 
could not get used to this Spanish way of giving proper 
names. On this trip he saw a little-known interior lake 
and found the fishing too easy to be sport, saying nothing 
of myriads of wildfowl. He said the price of a boat and 
two men a day was $4, or $2 of our money, and on the 
whole six weeks' trip from Chicago he could spend only 
$185, which is a lot cheaper than staying home. 
The meeting broke up at a late hour. The following 
were present: H. W. Perce, G. A. Murrell, Capt. E. R. 
Letterman, A. C. Smith, H. G. Hascall, Fred N. Peet. 
H. L. Stanton, Chas. Antoine. W. Wolfarth, T. L. Ken- 
drick, L. I. Blackman, F. E. Rugg. I. D. Belasco, H. G. 
Greenwood, Dr. C. F. Brown, W. T. Church. I. H. Bel- 
lows. Guests: E. Hough, Captain Shillaber, D. G. 
Snow, W. T. Foster, O. Spindler. 
Early Trips. 
The fly-fishers of this part of the world are beginning 
already to make plans for the early trips this spring. Mr. 
J. D. Hawks, president of the Detroit and Mackinac rail- 
ways, is well on with plans for getting up a party which 
will leave Detroit about May r for the country near 
Alpena, Mich. Some of our Chicago men are figuring on 
•the Au Sable, which I believe was last year the best 
trout stream in the Middle West, though it was hit ^ 
awfully hard by some big parties. The Grand Rapids 
men are sticking to the Pere Marquette, and Messrs. 
Fred Peet and Harry Hascall will be over there again 
.about as soon as the ice is out after some of the big 
rainbows. They tell the most weird stories imaginable 
about the size and ferocity of these fish, and almost 
'dispose me to go over there and have a try at them as a 
matter of scientific interest. They say they are as long 
as one's arnt, and have no doubt that there are lO-pound 
fish among them, though the biggest they saAv weighed 
5?4 pounds. I did not hear of any rainbows so large as 
this from the Au Sable last season. Mr. Peet got one on 
the Pere Marquette that weighed 3^ pounds, and it took 
him a half mile down stream, like a salmon. Numerous 
reports of the speed and wariness of these fish make one 
think the sport there this spring will be hard to beat. 
The average is not over one big rainbow landed to a 
dozen hooked. 
The Prairie River of Wisconsin was much fished last 
sumj-ner, and there seems a fear that it was dynamited. 
The savants say it will not be so good this season, but 
the truth probably is that it suffered from persistent 
fishing, just as any stream does which has a reptttation. 
It should give sport worth the trip, and is a very sweet 
river to fish. We shall have reports from there by May 
r5 or 20, and very likely good ones. 
E. Hough. 
300 BoYCE Building, Chicago, 111. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting: Clab. 
In the series of medal contests of 1900, the third, held 
on March 10 and 11, in respect to weather conditions was 
favored w'ith warm temperature and clear sky, with a, 
variable wind. The judges were Messrs. Skinner and 
Golcher. The referee was Mr. Muller, and the clerk was 
Mr. Crowell. The scores made on the first day follow: 
Battu . 
Brooks 
Event Event 
No. 1 , No. -J, 
Distance, Accuracy, 
Feet Per cent. 
80 
90 
84 
87.8 
71.4 
91.8 
89.4 
95.8 
81.8 
87.8 
86 
82.8 
S9 
, Event No. 
Acc. % Del. % 
91.4 
80.8 
90.4 
92.4 
90 
93.4 
88 
90.8 
90 
89 
93.4 
60.10 
58.4 
63.4 
63.4 
75 
80 
69.2 
70 
70 
73.4 
72.6 
Net^ 
76.1 
72 
76.10 
77.10 
82.6 
86.8 
78.7 
80.4 
SO 
81.2 
82.11 
J->1 uuis.a ... 4 * ( * * if\f 
Crowell 79 
Edwards 78.6 
Golcher 115 
Mansiifild 
Mficker 98 
Muller 93 
Reed ........... 94 
Skinner 90 
Young ......... 91.6 
The events on the second day were as follows, 
was a west wind and perfect weather: 
Battu . 
Brotherton 
Crowell . . . . 
Daverkosen 
Everett .... 
Foulks ..... 
II C Golch 
Haight 
Hingck .... 
Mansfield 
Mocker . . 
H F Mul 
Reed .... 
Sanborn . 
Stratton . 
Turner ... 
Young . . , 
-Walker, . . 
"■Bluhm ., 
, *Guest. 
Event 
No. 4, 
Lure 
Casting^ 
79.1 
68 
56 
74 
82.4 
49.4 
70.4 
There 
80 
84.4 
94.8 
76.8 
85.8 
54 
77 
74.8 
86.4 
65.10 
76.3 
56 
95 
86.8 
89 
75.10 
82.5 
86 2-5 
, 71 
81 
69.2 
75.1 
51 
103 
82 
87.4 
68.4 
77.10 
94 
93 
93.4 
75 
84.2 
77 
62.4 
68.4 
71.8 
70 
114 
90 
89.8 
77.6 
83.7 
80 
85.4 
85 
72.6 
78.9 
90 
89.4 
88.4 
68.4 
78.4 
65 
59.4 
66.8 
63 
74 
76.4 
88 
65 
76.6 
46 
95 
96.8 
84.2 
90.5 
89 1-5 
84 
77.4 
90.8 
70 
80.4 
95 
79.4 
92.4 
80 
86.2 
63 2-5 
89 
90.S 
SO 
57.6 
68.9 
65 
80 
45. S 
76.4 
70.10 
73.7 
59 2-5 
.81.5 
81.8 
90.4 
75 
82.8 
86 
93 
95 
71.8 
83.4 
50 
2-5 
Cof despondence of Forest and Stream. 
.Albany, March 21 (Special).— During the past week 
the Governor has signed Mr. Axtell's bill reappropriating 
$5,000 for the erection of a fish hatchery in Delaware 
county. 
The Senate has passed the following bills: 
Mr. Post's amending the forest, fish and game law to 
provide that deer shall not be taken at any other time 
than between daylight arid stmset on the first two Wednes- 
days and the first two Fridays of November. 
, Mr, Post's amending the forest, fish and game law, pro- 
viding that Mongolian ring-necked pheasants shall not be 
taken or possessed in Suffolk county from Jan. i to Oct. 
31- 
Senator Thornton's amending the forest, fish and game 
law so as to make railroads liable for damages in case 
df forest fires caused by locomotives, whether such land 
adjoins the land, of the railroad company or not. 
Fred Mather. 
Editor Forest aud Stream: 
I remember when a part of "Men I Have Fished 
With" came out in book form reading a review of it 
which said that it was hardly worth while to com- 
memorate such an ordinary set of men, or words to that 
effect. This seemed to me a very stupid remark, although 
it was perfectly true that most of the names heading the 
chapters were quite unknown to fame. I thought, and 
still think, that the book was very well worth publishing, 
because it was, as far as it went, the autobiography of a 
man who had had a wide experience of American life 
and cottld tell of it in a very interesting way. Not that 
he deliberately started in to write his own life. If he 
had done so he would probably have been stiffer and less 
entertaining. Writing about others he related a multi- 
tude of incidents about himself which might have seemed 
too trivial to appear in his own life. And then it might 
have seemed to him presumptuous to think that the 
public would care to read his life, as he had not been 
eminent as a statesman, soldier, lawyer, doctor or 
preacher. All the same, he did write a fragmentary 
autobiography. He took his own picture, a perfectly nat- 
ural and lifelike one, and not dressed up in "store 
clothes." Probably every one who read the book was 
more interested in the author than in any of his sub- 
jects. My regret is that the work is so fragmentarj'- and 
incomplete, and I hope that a second volume of "Men 
I Have Fished With" may be forthcoming. I am quite 
sure that there is plenty of material for another book in 
the papers of this series whicli have not been republished 
in book form. Samuel Huntington. 
PLAJNFIiELD, N. T. 
Fred Divine. 
Fred D. Divine widely known as a manufacturer 
of fishing tackle, and especially as the inventor of the 
Divine trout rod, died on Saturday last at his home in 
Utica, N. Y., as the result of injuries received the day 
before in his factory. There had been a fire in the fac- 
tory the day previous, and while Mr. Divine was going 
through the works the next morning and inspecting the 
loss, hi.s clothing caught on a revolving shaft, and he 
was whirled about it, receiving injuries from which he 
died the next day. 
Mr. Divine was a native of Utica, and was nearly 
forty-four years old. He had been engaged in the manu- 
faclure of fishing rods for nearly twenty years, and was 
exceedingly well known to all the trade and to a very 
large number of sportsmen. His travels in connection 
with the business made him nearly as well known in the 
West as in the East. I-Ie was a "man of great personal 
charm, and possessed many friends. 
Mr. Divine was an enthusiastic sportsman and a famous 
angler. In winter when the pursuit of his favorite sport 
was impossible he was devoted to the game of curling. 
He was a member of a great number of societies, and 
took a prominent part in conducting them. 
Columbia Y* C, 
The Columbia Y. C, of Chicago, and Its 1900 Regatta. 
Chicago, 111., March 17.— Everything points to a busy 
season this coming summer among the yachtsmen of the 
VVest, both on the inland lakes and the greater waters of 
the West. At Chicago, the Columbia Y. C. is even thus 
early making wiae preparations lor a phenomenally large 
regatta to be held July 4, to which they have invued bir 
1 homas Lipton and many of the best known yachtsmen 
of the East, lo the end of makmg the invitation to this 
event as public as possible, the cIud asks extension of its 
letter in the columns of the Foiiest and Stream,, as below: 
"Un the 4th day of July, 1900, the Columbia Y. C. of 
Chicago will hold an open regatta, and beg to request you 
to send us as many enlries as possible. VVe are desirous 
of making this the greatest and most representative yacht- 
ing event ever held on fresh water, and we earnestly de- 
sire to have you to co-operate with us m helping to 
further the project. 
"There will be two series of races sailed, one under the 
rules of the Lake Michigan Yachting Association of 1897, 
and the other under those of the Inland Lake Yachting 
Association, thus giving all boats a chance to compete for 
prizes. 
"A large number of prizes have been secured, a list of 
which will be published later. We will also publish and 
send you, as soon as possible, rules governing all classes 
of races. You may safely rely upon receiving a good old 
Chicago reception, and a good time assured to all. 
"Other literature of importance will be forwarded to 
you from time to time, in order to keep you in touch with 
the arrangements our committee are making in reference 
to races and the entertainmnt of yachtsmen. 
"Trusting we may have the pleasure of a reply, we 
remain, 
"Yours very respectfully, 
"Special Regatta Committee. 
' ^ _ "Columbia Yacht Club." 
The Columbia Y. C. has appointed for the Special Re- 
gatta Committee Mayor Carter H. Harrison, Chairman; 
Edward T. Bal com. Si Mayer, W^alter D. Paj^ne, W^illiam. 
•F. Corey, and DeWitt C. Cregier Sec'y, with full power 
to arrange and conduct its open regatta July 4, 1900. 
As the committee already have entries of nearly everv 
yacht on Lake Michigan and some from Lake Erie and 
the inland lakes, and very favorable word from some 
yacht owners on Lake Ontario and New York, they ex- 
i^ect this will be the aquatic event of the season on the 
Great Lakes. 
Sir Thomas Lipton. Mr. C. Oliver Iselin and Com- 
modores J. Pierpont Morgan, H. C. Rouse, Frederick 
T. Adams, Clarence A. Po.stley and Charles A. Gould 
have been invited to act as judges. 
A number of Chicago's most prominent citizens have 
already consented to act as a reception and entertainment 
committee, and a good time is assured all who participate 
in the event. 
The Gommittee will be pleased to hear from any om 
who desires to participate. Address DeWitt C Cregier, 
Sec'y, care Columbia Y. C., Chicago, 111. ' 
At the annual election of the Columbia Y. C. of Chicago- 
held March 3, the following officers were elected: Com.,, 
F. D. Porter, sloop Vixen; Vice-Corn., D. C. Cregier! 
schooner Brigand; Rear-Com., F. H. Skinner, sloop Peri; 
Sec'y, W. S. Bougher, care Columbia Y. G. ; Treas., ¥'. 
L. Bateman. House Committee, C. J. Duggan, Chairman ; 
C. E. Soule, A. N. A. Mortimer, Frank E. Ruck and! 
J. F. Pratt. Regatta Committee, W. D. Payne, Chair- 
man; F. H. Osborn, G. W. Rogers, W. N. Quinlan and 
Si Mayer. Finance Committee, J. A. Davis, Chairman;' 
F. T. Roberts and L. T. Braun. Delegate to Lake Michi- 
gan Yachting Association, Edward T. Balcom ; Historian,! 
R. J. Summers; Meas., A. E. Barber. 
E. H. 
The Single-Hander Wender. 
The little yacht here illustrated is practically an Eng- 
lish knockabout, a direct outgrowth from the canoe- 
yacht and canoe-yawl, designed for cruising on open 
waters. While larger than most canoe-yachts, and with 
increased accommodation, she is still within the powers 
of one man to handle alone. She was designed by George 
F. Holmes, Esq., of the Humber Yawl Club, for Henrv 
Thorpe, Esq., Royal Canoe Club, and was built by Sam 
Bond, of Liverpool, the noted builder of small cruisers. 
Last year Mr. Thorpe cruised with her in Dutch waters, 
for which use the draft, of 3ft. lin., is rather too much, 
but she proved fast under her cruising rig, and very com- 
fortable. The boom is but 21ft. long, and a snug trysail 
IS carried for heavy weather. In light winds and with a 
crew of two a small club topsail and a spinaker add ma- 
terially to the area. The roller jib, the details of which 
Avere fully described in the Forest and Stream of Feb. 5, 
1898, is a great aid in single-hand work, as reefing is 
quickly and easily done, and it is no trouble to shake out. 
The dimensions of Wender are: 
Length — 
Over all wft 
L.W.L. 2ift: 
Overhang — 
Bow 3ft. 
Counter gft. 
Beam — 
Extreme gft. 
L.W.L 7ft.' 7in. 
f?''aft 3ft. lin. 
t rceboard — 
Bow 3ft, 
Least I ft. 1 1 in. 
Tatfrail 2ft. 2in. 
Displacement (long tons) « 80 
Mast— 
From stem at L.W.L 6ft. 8in. 
Deck to hounds 19ft. Sin. 
Deck to truck 27ft. 6in. 
^oom 21 ft. 
Gaff 14ft. 
Areas of Sails — 
Mainsail 341 sq. ft, 
■ :: 79 sq. ft. 
Topsail 83 sq. ft. 
„ Total S03 sq. ft. 
Spinaker 220 sq. ft. 
. Trysail 120 sq. ft. 
The cockpit is 4ft. gin. long, 4ft. din. wide and 2ft. deep 
from top of rail, the bottom lined with lead and draining 
above the waterline. There is a good deal of stowage 
room in the counter and on each side of the cockpit, while 
beneath the floor, reached from inside the cabin, is space 
for the big anchor. On the starboard side is fitted a 
small and compact but t)owerful semi-rotary pump con- 
nected with the bilge and discharging below water. The 
handle of the pump is always in position on one side of the 
cockpit, so that a few strokes, even while one hand is on 
the tiller, will clear the bilge of any water. 
The cabin house is very low, but 6in. on the side, and 
with little crown to the roof. There is, however, 4ft. 2in. 
in headroom. The house is 8ft. 6in. long, the after 2ft. 
being fitted up for oilskins, etc., and also for a galley, 
directly beside the door and hatch. The main cabin, 6ft. 
6in. long, has a half-bulkhead on each side at the fore end, 
leaving a forecastle forward in which two hammock cots 
may be swung and if desired a boy may be carried to look 
after the ship and to help with the cooking. 
_ With her limited draft, good model and accommoda- 
tions, Wender would make a fine boat for young Corin- 
thians and single-hand cruisers in American waters and in 
many respects she is immeasurably superior to the aver- 
age small yacht. 
The sail and body plans of Wender will be given next 
week. 
Letters from the Mediterranean report that Mrs. Goelet's 
steam yacht Nahma had a terribly rough time on the 
passage from the Clyde to Cannes. She left Gourock on 
Feb. 17, and entered on a spell of bad weather that lasted 
till Gibraltar was reached. On the night of the i8th, 
when about 22 miles southwest of Scilly, she met a south- 
west gale of great violence, while on the 20th the barometer 
fell as low as 28.44, and the yacht was hove to for 34 
hours, behaving splendidly all the time. From Gibraltar 
to Cannes the weather was lovely. Mr. BuUough's steam 
yacht Rhouma, which is bringing wounded soldiers from 
South Africa to recruit at the island of Rum, owned by 
Mr. Bullough, steamed the 7,200 miles in 24 days 16 hours, 
which is about 12 knots an hour. She left Oban on Dec. 27. 
but had to put in to Milford Haven through stress of 
weather. The barometer went as low as 27.90 on the 29th. 
Madeira was reached on Jan. 5, and after a stay there of 
eight days the yacht left for Las Palmas, thence to St. 
Vincent, Cape Verde, and on coaling proceeded to St 
Paul de Loanda and Benguela. At the latter place the 
ship picked up a Capt. Quick, who had been with Major 
Gibbs' partj' on an expedition in Central Africa. He had 
left the Zambesi and walked across to Benguela, and was 
nineteen months on the trip. The Rhouma, which ar- 
rived safely at Cape Town on Feb. 11, coaled three times 
only on the passage, — The Field, March 10. 
