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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. 24; 1901. 
G^avesend Bay Y* R* A. 
SEA GATE — NEW YORK BAY. 
Saturday, Aug. 10. 
The eleventh of the series of races arranged by the 
Gravesend Bay Y. R. A. was sailed on Saturday, Aug, 
10, under the auspices of the Atlantic Y. C. 
There was a good breeze from the S., and the boats 
made good time over the courses. The summaries: 
Sloops— 3fift. Class— Start, 3:20. 
Finish. Elapsed. 
Vivian, S. E. Vernon.. 6 27 45 3 07 45 
Akista, George Hill ...6 52 30 3 32 30 
Sloops— 30ft. Class— Start, 3:20. 
Squaw, H. J. Heath , 5 43 20 2 23 40 
Sloops— 25ft. Class- Start, 3:25. 
Cockatoo, Hendon Chubb 4 47 25 1 22 25 
Song and Dance, E. F. Luckenbach 4 58 38 1 33 38 
Sloops— 21ft. Class— Start, 3:25. 
Wraith, Calvin Tomkins ..4 64 20 1 29 20 
Spots, D. D. Allerton 4 58 44 1 33 44 
Sloops— 18ft. Class— Start, 3:25. 
I'ebble, A. W. Speir 5 05 55 1 40 55 
Budget, Henry Anthorty Disabled. 
Constance, F. D. Prentice Withdrew. 
Marine and Field Class— Start, 3:30. 
Jig-a-Jig, W. A. Hutcheson 5 07 35 1 37 35 
Keloie. W. K. Brown 5 08 15 1 38 15 
Vixen, Baylor & Mahoney 5 08 55 1 38 55 
Stinger, A. P. Clapp 5 10 OS 1 40 08 
Quinque, L. H. Smith 5 12 15 1 42 15 
Flying Fox, Cone & Budcman 5 12 55 1 42 55 
The winners were : Class M, Vivian ; Class P, Cocka- 
too; Class Q. Wraith; Class R, Pebble; Marine and 
Field Special, Jig-a-Jig. 
Cohassct Y* G» 
COilASSETj MASS, 
Saturday, Aug. 17. 
The ninth race of the Cohasset Y. C. was sailed off 
the club house in a very light S.W. breeze Saturday, 
Aug. 17. Tavo classes of knockabouts started. In the 
regular class Nereid won by lom. from Eleanor; the 
other seven boats which entered withdrew. In the special 
class Timipoo won by 15m. The summary: 
Knockabout Class. 
Elapsed. 
Nereid, W. R. Sears 2 31 45 
Eleanor, Frank Moors 2 41 45 
Remora, Glover Crocker Withdrew. 
Monsoon, J. Knowles Withdrew. 
Barracuda. A. C. Burrage Withdrew. 
Harelda, Alanson Bigelow Withdrew. 
Delta, R, B. Williams Withdrew. 
Special Class. 
Tunipoo, W. R. Bremer 2 20 00 
Fancy. C. W. Barron 2 35 00 
Flv, C. W. Barron 2 43 55 
YACHTING NEWS NOTES. 
The schooner yacht Fleur de Lys, owned by Dr. L. A. 
Stimson. N. Y. Y. C, arrived on Aug. 17 from Gibraltar 
via Madeira, after a passage of twenty-seven days. She 
left this port on March 8. with her owner and a party of 
friends on board for a cruise in the Mediterranean. She 
crossed the ocean in twentj^-four days, experiencing very- 
heavy weather, but lost nothing except" a sea anchor. 
Among the ports visited siii.ce she left here were Palermo, 
Malta, Corfu, Cattaro, Venice, Naples and Leghorn. On 
the way home she made a southerly cruise as far south as 
latitude 24. 
8t 
Mr. Frank N. Tandy, who has been associated with 
Mr. B. B. Crowninshield, the well-known naval archi- 
tect, for several years, has now severed his connection 
with him, and has opened an office at 31 State street, Bos- 
ton, Mass., where he will establish a general marine 
agency. It is Mr. Tandy's intention to give special at- 
tention to the organization and promotion of sailing and 
steamship companies. He will also buy and sell first-class 
marine instruments. A rather unique and interesting 
feature of Mr. Tandy's new venture is to be the exploita- 
tion of good schooner property. There have been cases 
where such vessels have earned and paid over 20 per cent, 
dividends, and Mr. Tandy is a firm believer in the pos- 
sibilities of this class of property. 
— — <^ — 
Flowets and Ferns in Their Ha«nts* 
With the arrival of the birds, the putting forth by shrub and 
tree of the first leaflets of tender green, and the coming of the 
warm spring days, which tempt us abroad, appears the usual rush 
of spring nature books, which of late years we have become so 
accustomed to see. One of the most beautiful of these, published 
by the Macmillans, is from the pen and camera of an author whose 
name has become familiar— Mrs. Mabel Osgood Weight, author of 
"Citizen Bird" and other similar volumes. The last arrival is a 
very charming book, and, we are inclined to think, may, per- 
haps, become more useful than any of its predecessors from ner 
pen. '* 
In it Mrs. Wright takes her reader abroad with her across the 
fields and along the edges of the woods in search of flowers and 
ferns. She does not profess to have discovered any new things to 
point out, but she has eyes, and knows how to use them, and in 
this respect she differs widely from most of those whom w-e meet 
in our daily lives. Moreover, she has in her mind a special thing 
which she wishes the reader to see— the flower in the landscape, and 
that flower in its natural place, and surrounded by all its com- 
panions of the field, the hedgerow or the forest. In the flowers 
which she shows to her readers she sees something more than 
mere botanical specimens, and she endues them with a certain life 
and personality which the nature-lover who is much abroad and 
much in contact with uncollected specimens will very readily 
comprehend. How much more real do flowers and plants seem to 
him who sits down to rest among them than those same flowers 
and plants when gathered, thrown in a botanical box, and again 
taken out for study and preservation. There is much of fact in 
the remark that "the wild flower and fern is only to be truly 
known where it creeps, clings or sways, imtroubled, in its home." 
The volume before us contains a dozen chapters which roughly 
follow the course of the year. They treat of the coming spring, of 
the plants along the waterways, of those which have escaped the 
gardens, of wood flowers, of humble orchids, of poisonous plants, 
of ferns, of certain flowers that love the sun, of the family of 
compositae, of flowers that grow along the road, of vines, and lastly 
of the flowers and fruits of late autumn. Finally the book closes 
with an index and glossary which, give, besides the vernacular 
plant names used in the text, their Latin equivalents, so that there 
shall be no doubt as to just what they mean. The story of the 
book is simply told, a plain description of what is seen abroad, 
with occasionally a few words about the author's companions. But 
practically it is all description, yet description of a very charming 
sort. It is a story of walks and rides in southern New T2ngland 
helds and woods not easily to be matched. 
J. he volume is illustrated from photographs by the author and 
J. Morace McFarland. There are nearlv sixtv full-page and half- 
tone plates, and no fewer than 125 line drawings, almost altogether 
ot terns or flowers or plants scattered through the text. 
Ihese illustrations are the crowning glory of the volume, and 
will be a joy and a delight to every botanist and to every nature- 
lover. One may look over the plates, one after another, trying to 
decide which among them is best or worst, without being able to 
make up his mmd. Each plate has some special charm of its 
own, which makes one long to speak of it, and yet the next plate 
IS so beautiful as to drive the last one out of the memory. Not 
only are the photographs well taken, and the plates beautiful in 
themselves, but each is taken by an artist, and the views so chosen 
that, besides the flower and its beauty— and often detail— there are 
other features of the picture which charm and delight. The volume 
shows better than almost any that we have seen what can be done 
in nature work by a true artist with the camera. Price, $2 50 
Img^ mid §HJUrg. 
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National Rifle Association, 
The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the National Rifle Associa- 
tion ot America, the second annual meeting of the United States 
Kevolver Association and the tenth annual meeting of the New 
Jersey State Rifle Association will be held at Sea Girt N T 
under the auspices of the last-named association, from Aug. 30 to 
sept. 7. 
At the same time there will be held two international contests, 
the first in twenty-three years. One of the contests is for the 
i'alma trophy, representing the world's championship. This trophy 
has not been contested for since 1S80, when the American team won 
It by defeating a team from Great Britain. This year Canada is 
sending a team to try and take it across the border. 
. Ihe other match is a special challenge match between teams of 
eight men from the Ulster Rifle Association, of Belfast, Ireland, 
tnn'^oS^^* Association; 15 shots for each man 
at SCO, 900 and 1,000 yards, with any .rifle. 
The Irish team sailed for America on the 21st inst. In the party 
are, besides the team, the Marquis of Dufferin and six or eight 
prominent Irish sportsmen, besides several ladies. 
Composing the Irish team are men who have been shooting on 
the Irish Eight" at Bisley for years. Such men as Barnett, 
Braithwaite, Henry, Caldwell, Millner, Thynne, Morgan, and 
Chadwick, whose names are well known in the rifle-shooting 
world as expert long-range shots, are the material which the young 
inexperienced shooters of the New Jersey Association have against 
them. Not only are the Jerseymen new at this game but they 
are also seriously handicappd by not having the proper kind of 
small-cahber rifles for such shooting. Mr. Foulke, the well-known 
shot of Philadelphia, is coaching the New Jersey team, and he pre- 
dicts that \ankee ingenuity and pluck will pull them through 
victors. Of the men who have been doing the best work on the 
New Jersey team may be mentioned Capt. Whittemore, Dr. Hud- 
son, Capt. Martin, Baker, Malcolm, Tuttle and Foulke. New Jer- 
sey will take good care of the visitors. Col. Thompson, aide-de- 
camp to the Governor, has placed his steam yacht at the dis- 
posal of the entertainment committee, and the Irish team will be 
met down the Bay and taken to Atlantic Highlands where they 
will be taken aboard the train for Sea Girt. 
All of the interest in the coming tournament is not by any means 
centered in the international matches. Never before in the history 
of rifle shooting in this country has there been so much interest 
manifested in the annual interstate matches by the guardsmen of 
the difi^erent .States. 
As against six States being represented by State teams, which is 
the largest number ever before assembled together in competition, 
there will this year be about eight State te.ims on the grounds to 
compete for the Hilton and Marathon trophies. 
The United States Marine Corps will be represented by a strong 
team, which has been training at the navy range at Annapolis 
for over a month. The Department of the East, U. S. Army, will 
also in all probability send a team from Governor's Island. 
Maine has already selected her team, competitions for that pur- 
pose having been held at Brunswick, Me., on Aug. 3. 
The Pennsylvania State team will be selected from the men 
making the highest scores at the State shoot at Mt Gretna, Pa., 
Aug. 27, 28 and 29. Pennsylvania will also send the winning regi- 
mental team and a squadron team to represent her guard at Sea 
Girt. 
New York has selected by competition twenty-five men, who are 
now practicing at Creedmoor, with the United States magazine rifle. 
Later on the twelve men to compose the State team will be se- 
lected by a second competition. 
New York will also be represented by regimental teams from 
the Twelfth^ Ninth, Seventh-first, Seventh, Seventy-fourth, Twenty- 
third and Ihirteenth regiments, and a team from Squadron A and 
the Naval Reserve. 
For some reason not fully understood" Massachusetts has decided 
not to send a team. For a great many years Massachusetts could 
boast of as fine a body of expert riflemen in her militia as there 
was in the country, but of late years very little has been heard 
from her in this respect. 
Battery B, Light Artillery, of Boston, will send a revolver team 
to defend their title to the military team championship, won last 
year. There will also be several regimental teams from the State. 
The Rhode Island team is in training at the Rumford range, and 
is putting up some very fine scores. 
Both the District of Colvimbia and New Jersey will enter State 
teams, and the usual nvimber of regimental, troop and company 
teams. The New Jersey Naval Reserve and batteries and signal 
corps will this year, for the first time, be represented in the 
matches. The revolver team will also be entered from the Fourth 
Regiment. Both the District and Jersey teams are shooting with 
the United States magazine rifle, and are doing such good work 
that both ought to be near the top of the list when the match is 
decided. Maryland will be represented by a team from the Fifth 
Regiment of Baltimore and a troop team in the carbine and re- 
volver matches. 
Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and 
Delaware will be represented by either a State or regimental 
team or both, but little is known of the work being done at the 
local ranges. 
Sea Girt will certainly be an interesting place to visit during 
these national contests. Every arm of the service will be repre- 
sented, and the encampment will be as near a national camp for 
our armed forces as we arc ever likely to have. The State of New 
Jersey deserves a great deal of credit for fostering a sport of 
such national importance as rifle shooting- — excellence in which 
was at one time the backbone of our national strength. 
Military riflemen are not going to monopolize all the interest 
at the meeting. The Schvietzen shooters are also well looked 
after. The National Rifle Association of America has in its pro- 
gramme a team match for civilian clubs, and all of the larger clubs 
will send their best men to try and win the pennant and interclub 
championship of the United States. Such well-known clubs as the 
Massachusetts Rifle Association, Philadelphia Rifle Association, 
New Jersey State Rifle Association, Manhattan Rifle and Revolver 
Association, District of Columbia Rifle Association, Zettler Rifle 
Club, of New York; Pittsburg Rifle Club, Crescent City Rifle Club, 
of Scranton, Pa.; Iroquois Rifle Club, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Hoboken 
Independent Schtietzen Corps, Elite Rifle Club, of Brooklyn; 
San Antonio (Texas) Shooting .Society, Syracuse (N. Y.) Rifle 
Club, and the Italian Shooting Association, of New York, will 
be represented. 
The success of the Schuetzen shooting end of the tournament 
is assured by having such men as William Hayes, Gus Zimmer- 
mann, Tom Keller, Emil Berckmann, Dr. Hudson, Nathan Sper- 
ing, Dr.- S.tillman, John T. Plumphries and Harry Pope looking 
after its interest. 
Revolver-shooting enthusiasts will have their interests well 
looked after by Dr. Sayre, of New York; Lieut. Paine and E. E. 
Patridge, of Boston; E. L. Harphan, of Chicago, and J. B. 
Crabtree, of Springfield, Mass. Everything possible has been 
done to provide interesting matches. An innovation is a dis- 
appearing-man target, at which the contestants have only twelve 
seconds in which to fire their six shots. The railroads of the 
country, recognizing that there will be thousands of visitors at- 
tending the tournament, have made special rates to Sea Girt, be- 
ginning Aug. 24. The special-rate tickets may be purchased in 
any of the following States: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- 
sey Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, 
Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Texas and parts of 
Illinois, Michigan and Ontario, Canada. 
Lieut. Albert S. Jones, secretary of the National Rifle Associa- 
tion of America, has received from D. Morillon, president of the 
Union des Societes de Tir de France, the following communica- 
tion: 
"I have the pleasure of informing you, and beg that yoti -wilt 
notify your president and the committee, that the Union of French 
Societies, w-hile not able to send a team to your great 
meeting^ of 1901, has nevertheless been desirous of testifying its 
friendship for the National Rifle Association of America, and that 
It has decided to offer for this meeting a bronze medallion of 
Gloria Victis, framed in oak, and two silver plaquettes in cases." 
The above prizes have been received by Governor Voorhees, of 
New Jersey, from the French Ambassador at Washington, and 
are now on exhibition at the club house of the New Jersey State 
Rifle Association. 
The magnificent range at Sea Girt is being put in complete order 
for the meeting; more revolver targets have been built to accom- 
modate the increased number of patrons. There are now eight 
targets at 1,000yds. In all there will be eightj'-one targets, at all 
ranges, in use during the matches. 
Sea Girt, N. J., Aug. 9. 
Lieut. Albert S. Jones, 
Secretary N. R. A. of A. 
Cincinnati Rifle Association, 
Cincinnati, O. — ^The following scores were made in regular com- 
petition by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at Four- 
Mile House, Reading road. Conditions, 200yds., ofT-hand, at the 
German ring target. Bruns was declared champion for the day 
with the fine score of 220. Hofer was high on the honor with 66. 
Weather, clear; thermometer, 90; wind, from 9 to 3: 
Bruns 24 22 23 21 21 20 20 23 25 21—220 
21 14 20 20 20 25 22 20 24 24—210 
21 22 21 19 24 20 14 24 22 21—208 
Striekmeier 23 23 22 24 22 21 21 19 24 20—219 
21 22 22 22 21 24 25 21 20 1&-214 
18 23 25 23 16 17 21 22 17 20—202 
Nestler 18 22 25 18 25 25 15 20 23 22—213 
16 20 22 21 24 24 22 18 23 15—205 
22 22 23 21 23 20 17 14 21 21—204 
Ilofer 19 23 24 20 20 17 18 14 19 22—196 
25 16 20 22 20 25 13 14 18 18—191 
18 20 22 16 18 23 22 17 18 17—191 
Lux 20 17 19 19 22 20 23 19 17 15—191 
21 21 18 22 8 12 19 22 22 22—187 
Hoflimann 18 21 23 21 19 13 10 12 15 23—175 
13 14 22 20 13 19 7 19 20 9—156 
11 15 9 18 12 15 15 18 17 22—152 
Topf 17 16 18 19 17 10 24 21 22 25—189 
19 22 19 21 17 19 14 15 12 20—177 
17 14 16 25 23 9 21 21 11 18—175 
Honor Target: 
Hofer 19 23 24—66 Strickmeier 18 21 23—62 
Nestler 22 25 18—65 Topf 17 16 18-51 
Aug. 18. — The following scores were made in regular competi- 
tion to-day by members of the Cincinnati Rifle Association, at 
Four-Mile House, Reading road. Conditions, 200yds., off-hand, at 
the German ring target. Gindele was declared champion for the 
day with the good score of 219. Weather, partly cloudy; ther- 
mometer, 86 degrees; wind 2 to 4 o'clock: 
Gindele 25 16 21 21 19 25 23 23 23 23—219 
20 20 21 22 18 23 20 18 20 21—203 
19 21 20 21 22 16 20 20 29 22—201 
Pavne 24 20 24 18 21 21 23 24 22 21—218 
22 22 20 18 21 23 24 23 21 22—217 
20 22 20 22 23 21 24 18 21 23—214 
Bruns 18 20 24 23 25 20 20 20 24 22—216 
17 14 23 21 23 18 22 20 24 22—204 
19 22 21 22 15 18 25 19 23 20—204 
Strickmeier 23 21 22 24 23 23 22 21 21 14—214 
16 21 22 22 23 17 25 20 23 24—213 
23 22 24 18 18 24 20 23 20 17—209 
Nestler 25 20 24 19 20 16 25 25 17 23—214 
21 23 25 20 20 14 24 16 25 22—210 
22 23 16 19 19 21 22 24 19 18—203 
Roberts 25 25 21 20 22 17 21 21 21 17—210 
20 21 14 24 21 17 25 17 23 21—203 
2117 JjB 19 19 19 17 19 18 21—182 
Trounstlne :i3 18 20 24 15 20 19 14 24 22—199 
21 14 19 12 19 18 24 18 23 20—188 
20 13 19 24 20 17 21 16 22 9—181 
Jonscher 18 18 25 21 20 21 15 20 16 21—195 
23 19 22 20 14 23 19 17 18 18—193 
19 19 19 20 15 20 20 16 20 18—186 
Hofer 22 15 17 19 20 23 16 19 18 15—184 
14 22 23 9 18 20 21 14 20 22—183 
18 14 14 19 21 22 18 14 19 20—179 
Lux 24 22 23 18 13 21 13 24 19 16—193 
20 22 20 14 16 17 21 16 22 22—190 
18 14 20 21 21 19 25 21 10 16-185 
Topf 18 12 15 19 14 19 22 20 19 23—181 
21 13 24 18 22 7 10 21 21 16-175 
22 14 17 11 IS 10 18 11 13 12—146 
Uckotter 15 20 16 24 18 17 9 21 17 15—172 
12 13 23 19 17 14 15 14 22 15-164 
21 11 15 18 18 10 16 20 20 13—162 
Honor target: Gindele 52, Payne 43, Bruns 57, Strickmeier 57, 
Nestler 61, Roberts 61, Trounstine 33, Jonscher 58, Hofer 38. Lux 
56, Topf 5, Uckotter 5. 
Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club. 
San Fhan CISCO, Aug. 11.— Two of the Colorado delegation of 
shooters are still with us, viz.— C. J. Bamet and D. W. King— and 
Yeager is in Watsonville. King has concluded to open a shooting 
gallery in San Jose, and the others may stay here permanently. 
Barnes, wanted a 50-shot match on the Columbian target, so we 
gave him a chance to do us up to-day, and he did it. Here are 
his 50 shots in detail, 200yds., oft'hand: 
C. J. Barnes 3 75136142 10-42 
1653 14 7844 16—68 
6 42334895 7—51 
279548527 4—53 
4 6 3 8 2 12 4 11 5 9—64—278 
F. O. Young 82 58 59 60 72—331 
D. W. King 63 70 62 68 72—335 
Young paid for the refreshments without a murmur. Then the 
trio, and Hoffman, tried to down Barnes' 42 score. The best 
King could do was 54; Hofi^man made 63, and Barnes' bullets 
were gone before he knew it. Young made 55 and 48, and finally 
the following score, which contains more I's than have ever been 
recorded in a single score, viz.: 
F. O. Young 1 21798114 1—35 
The 7 and 4 were good holds, high shot at 12 o'clock, and prob. 
ably due to the sun's rays on the back of the target, giving it a 
luminous appearance. Each shot was spotted by Henderson and 
Hoft'man before the marker could disk them, the holes looking 
like points of fire on the black. Eloffman has ordered a Pope 
rifle and will be heard from later. The Native Sons are forming- 
a new club and will shoot on our range at Harbor Viey. This club 
will be military in character. Col. Kellogg tells us he is forming 
still another club of shooters, which will be American from the 
ground up. The Columbia Pistol and Rifle Club will join the 
National Rifle Association at its next regular meeting. Some of 
them felt like attending the national American shoot to see what 
it would be like to hear their own familiar language spoken, 
especially when invited into a national meeting of the same. 
Say, brethren, it does seem proper, now, doesn't it? 
Fred O. Yo-jng. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here send a 
notice like tbe following: 
Fixtttres* 
Aug. 20-21.— Piqua, O,— Piqua Rod and Gun Club's tournament. 
Aug. 21. — Holmesbtirg Junction^. Pa.— Target shoot of second 
series of Keystone Shooting Leagtie. 
Aug. 21-22. — Bass Lake, Ind. — Midsummer tournament of the 
Peru Gun Club. J. L. Head, Mgr. 
