FOREST) AND . STREAM. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Drvotkd to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural Bistort, 
risn CULTURE, THE PROTECTION OP G AMB, PRESERVATION OP FORESTS, 
and mi Inculcation in Men and Women op a Healthy Interest 
in Out-Door Recreation and Study: 
PUBLISHED BY 
forest and §trcan\ gublishinfl <&ompai\g. 
— AT— 
NO. Ill (old No. 103) FULTON STREET, NEW YORK. 
Adtoouaph Letters by Frank Forrester.— The follow- 
ing autograph letters, written by the genial and lamented 
Herbert, have been sent to us by Capt. R. E. Ducaigne, of 
Cincinnati, O., who obtained them from Mr. Heath, a Cincin- 
nati bookseller, whose opportunities for collecting appear to 
have been excellent. We are under many obligations for a 
gift of an original. The punctuation of the original, addressed 
to the Editor of tho Boston Notion , has been adhered to : 
My Dear Sir: Auoust, • * • 1S40. 
I am compelled vastly agatnet my will to take a liberty with you. In 
travelling I never carry with me more ready money than Is actually 
necessary and having done so now & taken orders on Bangor I was so 
clever aboard the boat as to lose a twenty dollar bill— 
I ain a little afraid of being short before I reach my destination & In 
this emergency have taken the liberty of drawlDg on you for ten dollars 
at sight— for which I will acconntto you either pecuniarily or llterarlly 
as you please— I doubt not you will pardon the liberty — Pray let ine 
hear from you addressed to me Post office Banger. 
I am Dear Sir ever yrs Henry Wji. Herbert. 
Dear Sir : new York, April 4th. 1871 
Though long delayed, I write at length to redeem my promise by 
sending you a little piece of poetry for the Notion.— How the sentiments 
may agree with yonrs I hardly know— but I suppose poetry Is privileged. 
—The only request I have to make, Is that If published— It may bo 
without any comment l If not that you will return me the MS at your 
earliest convenience ! 
by the Kennebec Association and others of similar character 
in the State. There is ample opporl unity for much intelli- 
gent and well repaid labor hero, and from the fuvorable in- 
auguration of the new association we are led to await most bene- 
ficial results. 
New York Game Clubs.— The Albany Exjyress has this 
to say of the energetic Game Clubs of Central New York : 
“ There seems to be a very general determination this ypar 
among sporlsmen's clubs, game constables, magistrates, and, 
in fact, all who realize the necessity of preserving game and 
fish, to enforce the laws. Good examples are set at Clay, 
Tully, Cunastotn, Oneida, Cnzeuovia, Cayuga, Sodus, Cort- 
land, Skaneateles, Otisco and more places in Central New 
York, where arrests have been fflpde and penalties enforced. 
Officers who are derelict, are in some instances complained of 
aud fined $25 for their inactivity. The indications are that 
more will be done this season in enforcing the laws than has 
been done altogether heretofore.” 
Onondaga County FisniNG Club. — This club, which was 
organized in October Inst, has increased iu membership until 
it now numbers over seventy, including some of the best 
lawyers and business men of the county. Lost week the club 
instituted legal proceedings against seventeen illegal fisher- 
men. Efficient service may be expected from the Syracuse 
gentlemen who are now in earnest in their resolution to break 
up the poaching. 
[Post Office Box 2838.) 
TBI\fltS, FOUR DOLLARS A YEAR, 8 TRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 
^Twenty-five per cent, off for Clubs of Two or more. 
Advertlidns Rales. 
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Special rates for three, six and twelve months. Notices in editorial 
columns, 50 cents per line. 
Advertisements should be sent In by Saturday of each week, II pos- 
sible. 
All transient advertisements must be accompanied with the money 
or they will not be Inserted. 
No advertisement or business notice of an Unmoral character will be 
received on any terms. 
*.* Any publisher Inserting our prospectus as above one time, with 
brief editorial notice calling attention thereto, and sending marked copy 
to ns, will receive the Forest and Stream for one year. 
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1878. 
To Correspondents. 
I have transcribed it carefully, and do not Imagine that there will be 
any difficulty about the printers deeypherlng It— May I however beg 
you to be very careful about the correcting of the punctuation, as ihe 
wholc'polnt of the lines depends on their running and reading Uuently. 
I remain faithfully yours, Henry Wit. Herbert, 
Geo. Roberts, Esq. Boston. c5 Murray st.. 
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Tue American Team. — We have before thia expressed 
our opinion most decidedly in regard to the ill-timed action of 
the late American team in appointing themselves their own 
successors. Never, do wo believe, has there been a measure 
proposed of a more questionable character, nor likely to bring 
with it more disastrous effects. It smacks of self -arrogance, 
a good deal of conceit, with any amount of insubordination. 
We are quite positive that this unwise method of self-election 
is but a half-hearted measure, and that the wiser-thinking part 
of the late American team, and certainly the hotter riflemen, 
have not given their consent to this most absurd and willful 
action. Wo trust that we may before long give notice of ab- 
dication of the vested rights of the late American team, or, as 
“ Nick ” expresses it, “ that they will step down and out." 
We have a very pertinent article on this subject from “ Nick/ 
which we greatly regret being obliged to defer until next 
week. 
All communications whatever, Intended for publication, must be ac- 
companied with real name of tho writer as a guaranty of good faith 
and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 
Names will not be published If objection be made. No anonymous com 
mnnlcatlons will be regarded. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Olnbs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions. 
Nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that may 
not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
We cannot be responsible for dereliction of the mall service If money 
remitted to us Is lost. No person whatever Is authorized to collect 
money for ns unless he can show authentic credentials from one of the 
undersigned. We have no Philadelphia agent. 
tw~ Trade supplied by American News Company. 
A SnoT tiiat Eoiiobd Round the World.— Five years 
ago to-day, the 25th of April, the first shot was fired by a 
rifleman over the Creedmoor range. Col. G. W. Wingate 
was the shooter, and. Genl. Woodward acted as marker. The 
echo of that shot has not yet died out, nor is there any pros- 
pect of its so doing. In the semi-decade, from 1873 to 1878, 
the sport of rifle shooting has taken a firm hold on the Ameri- 
can people ; it has become a national pastime, and is rapidly 
working its way into a national duty. The single range of 
Creedmoor lias hundreds of exemplars over the country. 
American rifles are acknowledged to be the best in the world, 
while the pages of the Forest and Stream bear the brilliant 
record of victories won by American riflemen- at home and 
abroad. 
— Game Constable Geo. M. Schwartz is making things live- 
ly for the poachers of Irondequoit Bay, N. Y. 
— Ithaca has a new game protective club, called the Forest 
City Sportsman’s Club. 
West Jersey Game Society.— At the semi-annual meet- 
ing of the West Jersey Game Protective Society, held at 
Camden, April 17, the committee on purchasing game tind 
fish reported that, since the first of January last, they have 
put into the woods, in various sections of West aud South 
Jersey, 280 live quails and 16 guinea fowls, and have dis- 
tributed in the streams and lakes 6,700 California salmon. 
During the past two years (not including the number above 
mentioned) the society have distributed this species of fish as 
follows : Great- Egg Harbor River, 19,500 ; Mullica River 
19,000 ; Maurice River, 18,500 ; Tuckahoe River, 6,000 - Co- 
bansey River, 9,500 ; Alloway’s Creek, 8,000 ; Mantua 
Creek, C,500 ; Timber Creek, 3,500 ; Oldmau’s Creek, 3,500 • 
Salem creek, 3,000 ; Dennis Creek, 2,500; Raccoon Creek 
1,000; Woodbury Creek, 500. The society, during the past 
four months, have paid a bounty of twenty-five cents each on 
500 hawks killed, and also on 75 foxes; for policing and 
other expenses, $589 55. Thirteen persons have been arrested 
found guilty and punished for violating the game laws. 
Protection Demanded for Shad.— It seems quite positive 
notwithstanding all the services of the Fish Commissioners’ 
that as long as indiscriminate shad fishing takes place night 
and day, and all tue time, shad must diminish in both these 
rivers. How can shad reproduce their kind if they are pre- 
vented by nets from coming up the river at all ? There must 
he a time, say one day in the week, allowed to shad, when 
every net should be taken out of the river. 
—The pigeon slaughter about Petoskey, Mich., has been 
engaged in, it is estimated, by not less than 1,500 persons, in- 
cluding white, black and red men. Representatives of the 
Saginaw and tho Bay City Sportsmen’s Clubs went to the 
scene of the unlawful netting, and by the summary arrest 
and conviction of some of the offenders have suppressed the 
illegal netting. 
— Rushville, Ind., is organizing a Game Protective Club. 
CILARI.ES OALLOCK, Editor. 
T. C. BANKS, 8 . H. TURRILL, Chicago, 
Business Manager. Western Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, April 26 — Baltimore Kennel Club. Trotting at Toronto. 
Base ball : Utica vs. Stars, at Utica ; Rochester vs. New Bedford, at 
New Bedford ; Springfield vs. New Bedford, at Springfield; Athletic 
vs. Keystone, at Philadelphia. 
Saturday, April 27.— Boston Bicycling Club run to Quincy. Creed- 
moor . Seventh Regt. R. C. match. Trotting at Toronto. Base Ball : 
Yale vs. New Bedford, at New Bedford ; Springfield vs. Rochester, at 
Springfield ; New Bedford vs. Worcester, at Worcester. 
Monday, April 29.— Base Ball : Springfield vs. Amherst, at Amherst ; 
Star vs. Auburn, at Auburn. 
Tuesday, April 30.— Base Ball : Star vs. Auburn, at Syracuse. 
Still Blooming.— It seems that in Boston that guile- 
less, bland and simple child of nature, Comanchcc George, 
still flourisheth. Sweetly murmuring "Coccatel, Cocattcl," 
the pigeon-toed hero of many an Indian fight, dispensetli to- 
day his okra seeds for the real original Tollula, with which 
the Atzec maiden, when she hid the pod of the blooming 
flower in her dusky bosom, was fragrant, perceptibly so, for 
seven geographical miles. Shall we deny it ? Ought we to 
go back on George ? No, never ! Touched by his beautiful 
fervor, smelling ourselves (in poetic fancy) a lattice decked 
with glorious crimson flowers, the air dyed by a thousand 
sweets, dreaming of bees dead drunk with the delicious odor, 
we did invest. May the money we paid George do him good, 
for the ideal Cocattel to us was worth more than the dollars 
we disbursed for okra seed. A correspondent in Boston 
without our admiration for Comanchee George’s powers of 
Coccatellian inepira^sn, is down on the putative perfume- 
purveyor ; but then there are some people of decidedly practi- 
cal and prosaic proclivities. And okra doesn't make such bad 
soup either ! 
«ST Fobkbt AND Stream will lie sent for fractions of a year 
as follows: Six months, $2; three months, $1. To clubs of 
two or more, $3 per annum. 
Honors Easy.— The Zettler Rifle Club, of this city, has 
graciously conferred the honor of membership in that crack 
corps upon T. C. Banks, Esq., the indefatigable business 
manager of the Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun 
consolidated journal. By the same token the Louisville Gun 
Club, of Louisville, Kentucky, has extended its hand of fel- 
lowship to editor Clias. Hallock, Esq., of the same journal. 
Thus are the unambitious made men of mark among worthy 
marksmen. Our acknowledgments of the honors are sincere 
and appreciative. May the records of these two clubs con- 
tinue always to stand among the highest. 
Walnut Hill Range.— Boston, April 17 —The “ Shot- 
Gun Match," at 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, fifteen rounds at 
each distance, winners to be determined by the averages of 
the best three consecutive scores. The following very tall 
shooting was made : fa y 
800. 
900. 
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S00. 
900. 
000 . 
GAME PROTECTION. 
MEETINGS OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS 
FOR 1878. 
New Hampshire 8 tato Sportsmen’s League, Manchester, April 
D TT Y ?» k Association for the Protection of Fish and Game 
Buffalo, May—; Secty., John B. Sago, Buffalo. 
Connecticut State Sportsmen’s Association, Hartford, Mav 15 
Iowa State Sportsmen’s Association, Des Moines May 28 ' 
02 d 6bra8ka 8ta,C Sport8men ' 8 Association, Fremont, May 21st and 
National Sportsmen’s Association, Wilkesbarro, Pa Jane II 
Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association, Qaincv, Juno 11 - Sectv 
Geo. E. wheeler. ’ '*» 
I !, en "/y lva ? ia 8l *‘ e Association for the Protection of Oame 
and Fish, Wilkesbarre, Juno 11 ; Secty., Bonj. F. Dowanco 
WiUbank ^Nifedo en 8 Association, Cincinnati, June 16; Secty., 
Tennessee State Sportsmen's Association, Nashville Deo 9 ■ 
Secty., Clark Pritchett, Nashville, Tenn. ' ' - ’ 
Wisconsin State Sportsmen’s Association. 
Massachusetts State Sportsmens Association, at call of President 
Missouri State Sportsmen a Association. 
Kennebec Association for the Protection of Fish and 
Martin : °[ Au £usta, Maine, recently de- 
livered an able address at the formation of this association in 
which attention was called to the grand field of work afforded 
by the lake system of Maine. The total number of the lakes 
and more important ponds is not iess than 1,508; or includ- 
ing the rivers and streams, an area of 3,200 square miles— near- 
ly half the area 6f the State. About 15,800 square miles is 
still covered with the primeval forest. To preserve the fish 
and game of these great fields of sport is the work proposed 
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800. 
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W Gerrlsh. 
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5 6 5 5 5 4 
W H Jackson. 
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6 6 4 6 5 5 
6 4 5 4 4 4 
A H Hobbard. 
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5 5 6 6 5 
4 4 5 3 5 
H Tyler. 
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A Hebbard. 
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J F Brown. 
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J E Shepard. 
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Mr. Shepard withdrew at the 1,000 yards range We mav 
remark that 2 15 and 213, out of a possible 225, is very tail 
shooting. Mr. Jackson’s 74 at 800 is superb. * 
Walnut Hill. -The first match lost Saturday was the 
amateur series, open only to members of the Massachusetts 
Rifle Association ; ten rounds at 200 yards • 
H Mortimer. 5 8 4*4 4 8 4 4 5 - 4 S 
WEGuerrler ".4 4 6 4 1 1 5 o r r~ 13 
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lows' ° eamng Matcb >" 200 300 yards, resulted as fol- 
t m t 200 yds. 
J Wemyse, Jr 3 4 6 4 4 4 4-28 
H Tyler 35 4 4 54 a 09 
Wm Poluod .4 6 4 4 6 4 5—31 
K h Souther 3 4 4 4 4 0 4—28 
300 yds. 
4 4 6 4 4 2 4—27- 56 
3 4-1 3 4 3 4 — 25 — 64 
4 3 3 3411 2—22—63 
3 6 4 3 4 3 0—21—60 
