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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Aug. 27, 1904. 
McCarthy, Financial Secretary; C. Haeffner, Record- 
ing Secretary;* Wm. Uhl, Treasurer. Trustees — E. 
Kotte, A. Brietenbuecher, Gus Kemmel, H. Wuebben. 
Members — Wm. Fiedler, L. Daner, Wm. Parker, F. 
Kotte, L. Pfieffer, J. Stadtmiller, J. Wiegand, C. Lock- 
wood, J. Mueller, F. Schorr, J. Diether, A. Wuester, 
W. Witte, D. Burnett. The guests who enjoyed the 
hospitality of the club's opening day were: Bud Lally, 
C. Backey, J. Jones, W. Meyers, J. Schweninger, A. 
Schmidt, L. Kelly, G. Kappner, J. Manderer, W. Craw- 
ford, D. Bross, H. Guepenhoff, G. Lorentz, W. 
Schedel, B. Pennekamp, C. Fischer, C. Kuehnle, R. 
Birgler, J. Rowerkamp, E. Rowerkamp, C. Bock, H. 
Goodhall, G. Peggy, C. Meyers, H. Greptke, E. Ulm, 
P. Toman, D. Pohlar, A. Gambell, C. Knorr, W. 
Rowerkamp, P. T. Barnum, G. Pouter, H. Bone, A. 
Kresing, R. Klauke, H. Brunne, F. C. Smith, J. Ulm, 
F. Menke. A. Schatts, F. Kancher, E. Losacker, H. 
Fette, T. Tibbits, T. Carrol, J. Wenning, A. Pfieffer, 
H. Fette, W. Miller, L. Bowers, R. Schweminger, E. 
Moonest, D. Barrer, W. Puehl, C. Merkel, J. Becken- 
hoff, H. Smith, B. Rowekamp, R. Zemme, O. Lowery, 
G. Clark, D. Hendey, W. Witz, A. Duffy, C. Miller, 
J. Falk, J. Coyle, L. Riederman, G. Smith, G. Kamp, 
H. Goodman, W. Bohwenkamp, G. Garnetz, S. 
Wolsinski, H. Gardner, G. Deller, C. Brown, V. 
Harding, O. Court, A. Erbs, M.. O'Connor. 
BONASA. 
Kentucky Hunting and Fishing Club. 
The club, which was recently organized, is rapidly 
putting their grounds at Rylands, Ky., in first-class 
shape, and by another year will have the best club 
preserve in the middle west. The tract comprises 160 
acres of hill and vale well wooded, and is one of the 
most beautiful spots in the Licking River valley. It 
is within a few miles of Cincinnati, on the Kentucky 
Central railroad, the club house being only a short 
walk from the station. - 
The .club has increased the size of the lake, and now 
has. over seventy acres of water, forming several, lakes 
and affording fine fishing. Wild rice has been planted, 
and there is no reason why it should not become a 
favorite resort for wild ducks in the season. 
The club planted 30,000 black bass and 3,00 new- 
lights on June 5. The bass were about an inch long 
when put in the water. Several were caught on August 
14 which were six to seven inches long, and next year 
the members should have the best sport to be found 
within several hundred miles of Cincinnati. Besides the 
bass there are plenty of channel cat and sunfish in the 
lakes. Hereafter the club proposes to raise its own fish for 
restocking purposes and has several breeding ponds 
for bass, so that the young fish may be kept by them- 
selves until large enough to fight their own battles, 
when they may be put in the larger lakes. 
Fifteen or twenty cottages have been completed, or 
are in process of construction this summer. Traps for live 
bird and target shooting will be put in and, before the 
snow flies, the trapshooting 'members of the club will be 
able to indulge in their favorite sport. 
The officers iof the club are: G. F. Ahlers, President; 
Col. Robt. H. West, Vice-President; Dr. A. B. Heyl, 
Secretary; Joseph Coyle, Treasurer. Members of the 
board of directors, in addition to the officers, are: 
Richard McGraw, Otto Steinwedel, W. A. Stewart, S. 
Ullman and H. F. Jergens. ; 
Salt- Water Fishing Tackle. 
Somebody has estimated that 200,000 people will have 
been added to the population of New York city this year, 
and presumably a larger number each future year. Tens 
of thousands of these will be persons coming from inland 
localities, and many of them will be anglers. These 
men naturally will persist in their sport so far as they 
have a chance, and will want to know how to adapt 
themselves to salt-water angling. Many other inlanders 
will from time to time go to the shore, partly for the 
fishing. All these men will be made wiser, and more suc- 
• cessful, by some information as to the special require- 
ments of salt-water fishing as compared with angling 
in the lakes and streams. They need to know how far 
their fresh-water outfit will answer, and what to get ad- 
ditional. Most of them want to spend as little as will do, 
and to make their expenditure go as far as possible. 
If there is anything like an all-round outfit for catching 
most of the kinds of fish that are angled for along the . 
shores of New York and adjacent States, that is what 
the newcomers want. They do not expect any one set 
of tackle that will handle to the best advantage every- 
thing from a porgy to a halibut ; but they need the rod, 
reel, line, hooks, etc., that will cover the most ground — 
or water. 
This is to suggest that two or three experienced salt- 
water anglers contribute their views on these points for 
the benefit of the inexperienced. Inlander. 
Massachusetts Fish and Game; 
Boston, Aug. 19. — Editor Forest and Stream: This 
has been a lively week in our city, and among the thous- 
ands of Grand Army men I had the pleasure of meeting 
Hon. Henry G. Thomas, of Stowe, Vt, the chairman of 
the Vermont Fish and Game Commission. He spoke of 
some recommendations to be made in his forthcoming 
report. He says there is now in reality no protection for 
the fish in Lake Champlain. Under the law he is com- 
pelled to issue seining permits on payment of the fee of 
$20. By securing this permit in some cases the fishermen 
will realize many hundreds of dollars from seining. In 
the waters contiguous to Canada on the north and New 
York State on the west nothing is done by the authorities 
to prevent the wholesale capture of fish, although his 
deputies have caused the prosecution of a few of the 
offenders on the west shore. The situation at present is 
one of great embarrassment to his commission, and. he is 
anxious to find some way to secure proper and effective 
protection for the entire lake. 
As regards deer killing, he says the men who come 
there from other States during the ten days of open time 
go into camp, get one or more deer, and depart with 
them, leaving no money to speak of, and he is strongly 
inclined to recommend a law establishing a ^ion-resident 
license fee, as he finds something like thirty-three States 
have such a law. As an officer of the North American 
Fish and Game Association, he has given much attention 
to the subject of securing uniform laws in the various 
States and contiguous Provinces. Another matter which 
he is studying is the finding of some way to stock Ver- 
mont covers with quail. He informs me that his com- 
mission, together with that of the United States, has been 
instrumental in planting 26,000,000 pike-perch fry in Lake 
Champlain this year. 
Col. E. B. Parker, of Boston, returned from a recent 
trip to his fishing waters to participate in the parade of 
the ex-prisoners of war, he having been incarcerated for 
nine months and three days in Libby. On his recent trip 
to West Waterford he saw several deer. , Central. 
Spoonfish Trouble. 
Lewis Peters and Jesse Harney, of Lewistown, Pa., 
came into town late one afternoon six weeks ago, swing- 
ing a 17-pound spoonfish between them on a pole. To 
the first inquirer they replied that they had shot the fish 
in the riffles of the Juniata River. The second tale they 
told was that it had been thrown from a car to the road, 
and they had found it. Yet a third version was that as 
they were going over their outlines in the river they 
struck the spoonfish. The fish warden . brought suit 
against Peters and Hartley for fishing with an outline, 
contrary to the laws of Pennsylvania. They were con- 
victed and fined $25 each. Peters was arrested later and 
held to answer to the charge of having shot the spoonfish 
in the Juniata River. When he was brought before the 
local . justice the, sordid truth came out. He confessed that 
they had found the .dead fish in the ruad. where it had 
been thrown from a car, and that he had shot it in the 
head before stringing it on the pole and helping to lug it 
to Lewistown. — New York Evening Post. 
Mr. James G. Cooper, of Cincinnati, is credited with 
having made the record catch of the season in Wis- 
consin. This was a maskinonge, weighing forty-six 
pounds, and said to be only one pound less than the 
largest fish caught in the State last year. It was 
caught in a 'small lake in the vicinity of Eagle River. 
Mr. Cooper had good luck during his trip, making 
many fine catches besides his record breaker. At 
Echo Lake he caught nine big "muskies" in one day, 
the largest -weighing thirty-two pounds. Pie reports 
the fishing in Wisconsin this year as being better than 
for many seasons. 
Lipton Cup Races. 
BY E. G. B: HAYM0N. 
The Detroit Country Club's yacht, Sainte Claire, 
admirably sailed by Sydney Russel and a smart Cor- 
inthian crew, is the 1904 winner of the Lipton cup 
donated to the Columbia Y. C, of Chicago, by Sir 
Thomas as a perpetual trophy to be raced for annually 
on Lake Michigan, off Chicago, by boats of what is 
called the 21ft. cabin class. 
In 1902 and 1903 the Lipton crip, which is a magnifi- 
cent example of the silversmith's art, was won by 
George R. Peare's La Rita, a competitor again this 
year; and possibly a dangerous one if she had not been 
unreasonably delayed by the officials until it was nearly 
a quarter of an hour late for Monday's race, when she 
undoubtedly made the fastest time over the leeward and 
windward course of 12 miles. 
Three races decided the Lipton cup contest, and in 
view of the number and high quality of the yachts en- 
gaged and the public interest aroused, it might not be 
amiss if a more thorough test were given by adding 
two more trials before any one boat is declared the 
winner. The three races also counted in the contest 
for the Webb cup, a very handsome trophy that also 
was won absolutely by Sainte Claire, which on Wed- 
nesday, in exactly the same kind of weather, won its 
third straight race. • However, Mendota and Pilot, the 
two Milwaukee Y. C. boats, did not wait for this 
race, leaving Tuesday evening for their home port; and 
the two Chicago Y. C. boats, Sprite and La Rita, 
did not enter. 
That these fine trophies have built up an excellent 
class was evidenced by the fleet of nine smart craft 
competing in this year's races. And it is only , fair 
to say that the cream of this fleet came from Detroit 
and Milwaukee, which between them had eight,. t riew 
boats, built for the Lipton cup contest, and raced five 
of the eight. 
Not a single new boat was built by Chicago's three 
yacht clubs, and the departure of the Lipton and W«bb 
trophies ought to stir local yachtsmen to activity. 
Detroit richly deserved to win. Five new boats 
were built by its sailors, who must have expended all 
of $25,000 this year in their efforts to take home the 
Lipton cup. They went after it so strongly that their 
yachts finished first and second in two of the three 
races, and it is safe to say these same yachts will be 
hard to beat next year again if they are not knocked 
out of shape meanwhile by hard racing. 
It is a far cry to next year's races, but there is one 
thing the Columbia Y. C, as perpetual curator of the 
cup, should make up its mind upon right now, and that 
is to appoint annually a special committee composed 
of yachtsmen rich in actual racing experience, com- 
manding the respect of their fellows from every port 
and at home, competent to handle irreproachably a 
big event, willing to give all the time needed to make 
it a thorough success, and capable of handling all 
matters connected with it in a broad-gauge manner. 
The faults of commission and omission in connec- 
tion with the races were marked. At the start for the 
first race the officials' boat was placed on the wrong 
side of the stake boat, making it impossible for the 
racing skippers to start according to instructions. In 
addition, the first leg of the triangle was logged off 
a mile too long, which caused great confusion. For 
the second race there was no starting line at all, the 
official boat, which had been changed, being on its 
way out from the harbor when the final gun was fired, 
the preparatory gun iaving been fired in the harbor 
and not having been heard out on the lake. As a 
consequence numerous protests were filed and affairs 
got into an awful tangle. Both the first and second 
races were declared void by the officials Monday even- 
ing, whereupon Commodore Vilas, of Milwaukee, dis- 
gusted at the whole thing, announced he would return 
home with the two yachts from his club. This brought 
a reconsideration, and both races were again declared 
official. 
The evening after the first race the committee made 
the remarkable announcement that the holder and 
defender of the Lipton cup, La Rita, was barred from 
defending it in the two remaining races, because its 
owner, George R. Peare, a member and former vice- 
commodore of the Chicago Y. C, from which the boat 
was entered, and Commodore Price, of the Columbia 
Y. C, had engaged in a personal encounter on account 
of what was considered a slight to the Chicago club. 
On Monday the committee rescinded this ruling, Mr. 
Peare having apoligized for his part in the affair, but 
he was not notified La Rita could make the second race 
until all the other boats had cleared the harbor for the 
starting line. 
Capt. Peare and W. L. Shepard, one of his crew, 
each state he was given assurance by the committee 
that the start should be delayed to give La Rita time 
to make canvas and get out to the line. If such was 
the case, the committee did not stand by its promise. 
Through the fault -of the committee, Sprite also was 
made two or three minutes late at the start for the 
same race, which was especially unfortunate, because 
this was the Chicago Y. C.'s other entry, and it gave 
people the opportunity to make uncharitable remarks. 
However, I feel sure Charlie Soule, chairman of the 
committee, would not be a party to purposely spoiling 
any boat's start, and the sooner all the talk following 
this unfortunate contretemps dies out the better it will 
be for Chicago yachting. 
Let the unpleasant features and errors connected with 
this year's Lipton cup regatta be forgotten, except as a 
warning against their repetition; and let it only be re- 
membered that the first squally race of the series af- 
forded many instances of fine seamanship, while the two 
others thoroughly tested the boats on every point of 
sailing in fair weather. 
Sainte Claire, the winner, is an excellent model, 
designed by Crane, of Tams, Lemoine & Crane, and built 
by Wood at City Island. Spray, the boat that apparently 
would have won the cup in Sainte Claire's absence, was 
designed by Small Bros., of Boston, and built at Wyan- 
dotte, about twenty miles from Detroit. 
Second Race, Monday August 15. 
Sainte Claire's win in the leeward and windward race, 
sailed Monday, and the second of the series of three 
for the Lipton cup, was clean-cut, because after being 
beaten a few seconds by the Milwaukee champion, 
Mendota, in the first 3-mile run down wind, a fine lead 
of 2 x /2 m. was secured by merit on the beat back to the 
starting stake boat. 
The course lay N.E. by N., starting again from the 
stake boat a mile or more E. of the yacht harbor en- 
trance. A steady S.W. breeze, coming offshore from 
the heel of Lake Michigan, had no chance to kick up 
a sea along the west shore, and the race was sailed on 
a long, lows swell. The turning mark was a steam 
launch lying at anchor 3 miles away, and skippers were 
instructed to cover the course twice out and back. 
The race therefore was three miles to leeward, three to 
windward, three to leeward again, and three, to weather 
again— providing the wind did not shift, which it did 
not until the, race was about over. 
It was on the beat back the first time over the course 
that Sainte Claire, after finishing the leeward leg second 
in a close bunch of five, established a winning lead, 
which the fleet never could reduce materially. The 
windward work of this combination keel and center- 
board boat was excellent. With a No. 2 jib and a reef 
in mainsail, Sainte Claire outfooted its rivals, while 
pointing as high as any. In truth, the Detroit boat 
seemed to out-point all except the two Chicago Y. 
