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had to own that if I got treed I came off victorious, and 
wiped the eyes of the other hunters. 
Frank Winchester. 
Fixtures. 
July 18, 19, 20.— Meeting of the American Fisheries Society at 
Woods Holl, Mass. 
Sah Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco/ CaL, June 26— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Members of the San Francisco Fly-Casting 
CUlh have classified as shown by the accompanying tables. 
The classification in distance was based as follows : 
The championship class consists of those members who 
prior to 1900 had made 115 feet or over, and of those 
who during the first seven contests in 1900 averaged i02}4 
feet or over. Under this system of classification the fol- 
lowing members of the club were arbitrarily placed in the 
championship class, to wit: Mansfield, Golcher, Lovett, 
Brotherton and Everett, all of whom had made 115 feet 
or over prior to 1900. The only other member of the 
club who reached the championship class in 1900 is 
.Daverkoson, whose average is 106 42-84. Mansfield did 
not enter the competition in long distance this year. The. 
championship class in the Saturday contests consists of 
Lovett, Golcher. Brotherton and Everett, in the order 
named. The championship class in the Sunday contests 
consists of Golcher. Lovett, Daverkosen, Brotherton and 
Everett, in the order named. The race during the coming 
contests for the championship medal in distance between 
Golcher and Lovett will be an interesting one-— Lovett 
leading on Saturday and Golcher on Sunday. 
The first class in distance consists of those members 
who average over 90 and less than 1023^ feet. In this 
class Muller leads his next competitor. Reed, on both 
Saturday and Sunday by a good margin. 
The second class in distance consists of those members 
who have averaged less than 90 feet. Battu leads the 
second class on both Saturday and Sunday. 
■ The classification in accuracy is based as follows: 
All members averaging 90 per cent, and over are 
placed in the championship class, and those under 90 per 
cent, in the first class. Mansfield leads the championship 
class on both Saturday and Sunday. In the first class 
Everett and Edwards are almost tied in the Saturday 
contests, and Haight and Battu are almost tied in the 
Sundav contests. The competition between these four for 
the firs't class medal in accuracy jvill be very close. Huyck, 
the winner of the first class medal in accuracy last year, 
closely follows Haight and Battu in the Sunday contests, 
and may raise the average to such an extent as to become 
a candidate for the medal again this j^ear. 
• The delicacy classification is based as follows: 
All members averaging 80 per cent, or over are placed 
in the championship class, and those under 80 per cent, m 
the first class. Mansfield leads in the championship class 
on both Saturday and Sunday. It is interesting to note 
that on Saturday the class consists of eight members, and 
on Sunday of nine, which evidences the great improvement 
which has been made in this event during the past season. 
In 1899 only three of those who are classified this year 
reached the' championship class on Saturday, and only 
four on Sunday. The first class in delicacy is led by 
Skinner on Saturday and Brotherton on Sunday. 
In lure casting Lovett leads on both Saturday and Sun- 
day by a margin sufficiently large to assure him the medal 
111 this event. 
During the next five contests members will cast m the 
classes in which they are now placed, the winner in the 
Saturday class comneting in the finals with the winner in 
the Sunday class. Finals will be cast next September. 
CLASSIFICATION AVERAGE-SATURDAY. 
Championship Class. 
T rl^'et?'^''^' 116 54-84 .Brotherton 107 36-84 
Golcher '".v.".'.; 116 48-84 Everett 97 72-84 
^intlltd : 94 80-84 Reed '. 90 52-84 
Vniitie- 91 76-84 Golcher Su 
^luller V 91 16-84 Lovett 90 
\r?nsfidd ' 85 40-84 Everett 81 28-84 
Golcher 84 53-84 Reed 8125-84 
X ovett 83 58-84 Edwards 80 33-84 
Young 
81 70-84 Muller . , 80 21-84 
First Class. 
MuMer^"'"'' 100 18-84 Young 9166-84 
Reed - . .' 94 Brooks 90 48-84 
\ccura.cv : 
TT^erett ' 89 36-84 Battu 86 64-84 
Tjdwards 89 32-84 Brooks 80 8-84 
Skinner 87 44^84 - 
Delicacv: _ 
Skimmer ....i 79 . 4-84 Brooks 71 5-84 
Battu 77 17-84 
Second Class. 
Distance; 
jSattu 88 66 84 Edwards 85 18-84 
'Skinner- 86 24-84 ^ . _ , 
CLASSIFICATION AVERAGE— SUNDAY. 
Championship Class. 
Distance: 
Golcher 114 24-84 
Lovett 113 
Daverkosen 106 42-84 
Brotherton 104 
Everett 97 
12-84 
78-84 
Accuracy: 
Mansfield 94 
Young 92 32-84 
Reed 92 28-84 
Everett 92 28-84 
Delicacv: 
Mansfield" So 76-84 
Golcher 84 9-84 
Muller 82 80-84 
Lovett 82 57-84 
Young 82 28-84 
■ First 
Distance: 
-Muller .... . .. 98 42-84 
Reed 96 12-81 
Accurarv: 
Haight 88 24-84 
Battu ~. 88 16-84 
Huyck '. '...87 32-84 
Daverkosen 83 ft*-S4 
Brotherton 84 68-84 
Lovett '.. 92 
Golcher 91 
Muller 91 
Reed 
Everett 
Daverkosen 
Battu 
.81 
80 
80 
SO 
Class. 
^'oung 92 
Huyck 91 
Brooks 81 
Klein 80 
Foulks 75 
Stratton 73 
12-84 
28-84 
4-84 
3-84 
30-84 
27-84 
9-84 
30-84 
77-84 
44-84 
80-84 
60-84 
4-84 
Delicacy! 
Brotherton 79 19-84 Klein 73 68-84 
Haight ..... 76 70-84 Brooks 71 54-84 
Huyck 76 18-84 Foulks 71 50-84 
Stratton ....74 31-84 
Second Class. 
Distance ' 
Battu 87 24-84 Foulks 81 60-84 
Brooks ...... ..^i. 84 66-84 Stratton ....80 
Klein 82 36-84 Haight 76 60-84 
LURE CASTING. 
Saturday: 
Lovett 89 34-35 Battu 70 33-35 
Mansfield 83 19-35 Edwards 67 5-35 
Sunday: 
Lovett ,...88 7-35 Brooks 65 13-35 
Mansfield 83 1-35 Battu .60 17-35 
.Brotherton 82 ,26-35 Klein 59 27-35 
Stratton 65 28-35 
Medal Contests — Series 1900. Saturday, contest No. 
8, held at Stow Lake June 23. Wind, southwest; weather, 
foggy and cold. 
Event Event 
No. 1, No. 2,. 
Distance, Accuracy, 
Feet, Percent. 
Brooks 95 86.8 
Brotherton 109 89.4 
Edwards 85 91.4 
Everett ........ 101 93 
Golcher ........ 124 92.4 
Lovett 121 94.4 
Mansfield 95 
Muller 100 93 
Skinner 95 
Young 106 93.4 
Sunday, June 24. 
Battu 94 86.8 
Brooks 103 75.4 
Brotherton 112 84.8 
Everett ..100 91.4 
Foulks 91 85 
Golcher 98.6 92 
Haight ......... 85 91 
Huyck 103 88.4 
Lovett 117 94 
Mansfield 95.8 
Muller 90 91 
Stratton 83 85 
Young 99 89.4 
Event No. 3,- 
Acc. % 
86.4 
88 
94 
93 
87.8 
90.4 
86.8 
83.4 
90 
91 
Del.^ 
70 
72.6 
71.8 
82.6 
84.2 
82.6 
82.6 
83.4 
72.6 
76.8 
Event 
No. 4, 
Lure 
Casting^ 
80 1-5 
87 4-5 
95 3-5 
87 4-5 
Wind, southwest; weather perfect. 
93 
82.4 
90 
86.4 
86.8 
87 
88 
91 
93 
88.4 
83.4 
85.8 
86 
67.6 
59.2 
76.8 
74.2 
66.8 
79.2 
73.4 
71.8 
79.2 
77.6 
86.8 
65.10 
72.6 
80.3 
70.9 
83.4 
80.3 
76.8 
83.1 
80.8 
81.4 
86.1 
82.11 
85 
75.9 
79.3 
67 
84 
90.1 
86.4 
86.4 
69' 
Memories Bitter and Sweet. 
Ramora, Kan. — Editor Forest and Stream: As the years 
went by my big brother left the home, and so I must go 
fishing without him; but when home on a visit some 
dark still evening I would persuade him to go to the old 
pond night fishing for bullheads and eels. Digging the 
unfailing box of worms, with the long pine poles in hand 
we would start out. Arriving at the pond, the first thing 
was to start a big fire, partly just to see it burn and 
partly because we thought the light drew the fish. One 
branch of the pond was cut across by the causeway, and 
this in turn by a bridge of perhaps a dozen feet in length; 
under this bridge the water was_ deep, and so we fished 
from the bridge. The pond was almost wholly sur- 
rounded by woods, so dry wood was abundant, and a 
fire would soon be started. Then the hooks would be 
baited and thrown in and the waiting begun. 
As the darkness would settle down all outside the circle 
of light made by our fire would be invisible, but within 
the circle oE light it was like the noonday. The peeled 
pine poles, as the fire flashed up, would shine out ghostly 
against the darkness; even the lines, quivering in each 
passing breath of air, could be seen, down to where they 
touched the black water. The moths and other strange 
winged creatures of the night would come out of the 
dcirkness, circle around the fire, and with struggle of 
singed wings and a sputter of burning bodies, give up 
their lives to the fascination of the firelight. The whip- 
poorwills would come down on to the hillside, and with 
plaintive cry tell of that poor boy's punishment. The 
little frogs would pipe up in full shrill chorus, while oc- 
casionally a big patriarch of the tribe would join with 
deeper, hoarses bass. 
It was in the days when I first read the matchless 
stories of Deerslayer and his companions. The talk of 
both old and young folks was often of Indian 
fight and massacre. Our boyish play often took 
the form of Indian scouts and battle. The great 
pines, such as Cooper describes, towered in their 
majesty around the pond. We often found arrow- 
heads, and had in our possession' one beautifully formed 
tomahawk of Iroquois make. And so as the weirdness 
of the woods and water in the night time took possession 
of me in fancy I peopled the woods with the old-time 
enemies of the settlers, until at the rush of the wings of 
some night bird, the scream of some stricken wild 
creature, or the splash and gurgle of a struggHng frog, I 
would start in terror, ready to flee to home and safety. 
But looking up I wo*ld see the calm, unimaginative face 
of my brother; and my fears would vanish in a moment 
— for with him I would go to the uttermost ends of the 
earth without fear. 
As time passed on the quivering line would betray the 
presence of a biting fish. If on my tackle eagerly and 
hastily I would pull in the line, too often only to land 
my hook bare alike of bait and fish, or perhaps to see 
my prize at the surface of the water with a splash and 
.struggle disappear. But if on my brother's tackle, the 
older hands had learned patience, and it was not until the 
bending pole showed that the fish was hooked that the' 
upward stroke, quick and sure, would be given; and out 
on to the bridge would usually come a flapping, squeak- 
ing bullhead; but sometimes the firelight would shoM^ the 
squirming white and green body of a silver eel. And 
so the moments would go hj until "it was time little 
folks were abed." Then the lines would be wound up, 
the firebrands pushed ofif into the water, and we would 
set our faces homeward. Up over the little hill, past the 
great logs piled up for the remorseless saw on one side, 
on the other solemn whispering pines, that afterward 
formed the canopy of the Methodist camp ground, past 
the little houses of the Germans, past the upper orchard, 
then through the grassland, rich with all the fragrance 
of a summer night in New England, brightened with the 
flashing of a thousand fireflies — 19 our home. Quietly 
the long poles were set up in the corner formed by the 
shed and barn, the big dishpan was filled with water, and 
our fish placed therein, securely covered, so that pussy 
could not meddle with them — and then to sleep, sweet 
and dreamless, such as tired boys know, and to wake 
to a breakfast of fat things. 
Then I counted my happiness and success by the num- 
ber of fish caught — in memory how little they count! 
But the remembrance of the rest is bitter-sweet. Sweet 
to think upon in the mid,st of a restless, wandering life. 
Bitter fbr that, save in memory, I shall know them no 
more in this present life; but is my faith any the less that 
among the blessings of the future world I look forward 
to living again such experiences? i 
Pine Tree, 
It may be asked why I am so sure our Indian relics 
were left by the Iroquois. After King Philip's power 
was broken they were the inveterate enemies of the valley 
settlers. The arrowheads were formed from stone 
taken from a ledge found nowhere south of the Great 
Lakes, and were large and shapely, revealing -by their 
very shape the strong and fierce character of the men 
who made and used them — very different from those 
found lower down the river at Agawam and vicinity, 
which were of stone picked up along the river banks, 
and as compared with the others almost harmless as 
weapons for war or the hunt. Pine Tree. 
On Maine Waters. 
Boston, July 7. — Mr. J. Bert Baxter has good ac- 
counts of salmon fishing in Nova Scotia. Parker Free- 
man, a guide at Milton, writes that one day last week 
nine salmon were hooked and six out of the nine were 
landed. At one time five boats on the pool each had a 
salmon hooked. The guide mentions the scene as a very 
lively one, and particularly interesting to the fishermen. 
F. P. Magoun and family, of New York, left yesterday 
for Milton and Liverpool, Queen's county, salmon fish- 
ing. A big Boston party is off for the same section, 
including Messrs. A. E. Leon and Frank Chemberlain. 
They go first to Greenfield. 
Mr. L. Dana Chapman, treasurer of the Megantic Club, 
has just got back from a short visit to the preserve. He 
reports the fishing more than good, especially on L. and 
Northwest ponds. At L. and Big Northwest especially, 
"two at a cast" was of common occurrence. At Big- 
Island Pond, fishing part of two days, eight salmon were 
caught, five being taken to the boat, and of these two 
killed. The largest was caught by Master Lawrence D. 
Chapman, thirteen years of age, who also landed a 
trout of i^ pounds from the same waters. The boy was 
simply delighted, never having caught a salmon or trout 
of any size before. He went with his father over the 
entire preserve, greatly enjoying the trip. At the preserve 
che fish have run larger this season than ever before, one 
of 4 pounds, two of 3 pounds and a number of 2 
pounds in weight having been taken, all on the Ay. The 
fish that were hatched last winter liave been placed in 
the streams tributary to the waters of the preserve- — -200,- 
000 divided in the waters of Big Island, L, and Big- 
Northwest ponds. The increase in the fish and in their 
weight is due largely t'o the successful operation of the 
hatchery, which has turned out over 500,000 trout and 
salmon, and also to the introduction of smelt as trout and 
' salmon food. 
Mr. George C. Morton and Mr. Loud, of Boston, have 
just returned from a successful fishing trip to Rangeley 
Lake, Me. To Mr. Morton fishing in that part of Maine 
waters is new sport, and he greatly enjoyed catching trout 
and_ salmon from the" waters of the lake. But their best 
sport was at Quimby Pond, a few miles from Rangeley. 
Here they saw the novel sight of a man casting a fly and 
catching trout from a boat. Each trout secured, he 
quietly whipped out a pair of little scales from his pocket 
and weighed the struggling fish. Then just as quietly he 
let the trout escape into the water. Sportsmen are learn- 
ing more and more the pleasure . of such fishing. They 
save what trout are needed for the table they are fishing 
for, and all the rest are allowed to escape, for the enjoy- 
ment of some other fellow. 
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Kingsbery, of Randolph, Mass., 
with a party of friends, are at Camp Stewart, Richardson 
Lake, for a couple of weeks fishing. The day they arrived 
they found the mercury down -to 45 and raining. An open 
wood fire was particularly agreeable. The second day's 
fishing brought them seventeen trout, besides seeing nine 
deer. They write that they have seen fifteen deer since 
they have been in camp. This brings around the old 
story of deer in the Maine farmers' oats. It is told this 
year with redoubled energy. The farmers complain that 
a herd of fifteen or twenty deer will leave nothing of a 
field of oats. It does no good to drive them away. They 
simply return as soon as the farmer's back is turned. 
Threats of dire vengeance are heard and the guns are 
loaded already for the open season. Possibly a deer or 
two will disappear before the open season begins. One 
report says that farmers are fond of venison, even in hay- 
ing time, 
July 9. — ^Mr. E. C. Stevens, of Boston, has been on a 
fishing trip to Lake Dunmore, Salsbury, Vt., and other 
waters in that section. He fished in company with Mr. E. 
Thayer, of Brandon. Vt. They caught a great many 
pickerel from that lake, weighing from 3 to S pounds. It 
will also be remembered that the fishermen get them 
there much larger. They took four bass from the same 
lake, with a number of lake trout, running up to 5 
pounds weight. They also learned of other parties taking 
trout there up to I3"y4 and 18 pounds. They made two 
fishing excursions to Fern Lake, in the same State, The 
first trip they caught twenty-one Oswego bass, from 2 to 4 
pounds weight. On the next trip, about a -week later, 
they caught twenty bass, of about the same weight as 
on their first trip. Reports come of good fishing at the 
main black bass and white perch ponds. A Bangor report 
says that the black bass fishing at Pushaw and Chemo 
ponds is the best for years. The white perch season 
opened a week ago, July i, and since that time catches of 
from twenty to forty perch to the boat on a single trip are 
of common occurrence. FIy-Fi.shing is reported good at 
Moosehead. At the Rangeleys they continue to catch 
many trout and a good number of salmon. A Rangeley 
report says that a big salmon made a strike for a min- 
now, hanging over the side of the boat, as Mr. Frederick 
Skinner, of Boston, was just starting out with his guide. 
Before either the guide or Mr. Skinner could catch the 
