FOREST AND STREAM 
279 
— In a match, July 22, 1871, between the Monroe County 
club and the Forester Club, of Rochester, fifteen men to 
each club, the totals were : Mogroe County Sportsmen’s Club, 
279 ; Forester Club, 200. 
Brooklyn Driving Park, May 10.— Excelsior Club of 
Brooklyn, E. D.j pigeon shoot, H and T traps, 21 yds. rise: 
Watts 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1—3 
Heilertnann 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1—9 
Alteubrund 1 11111101 1—9 
Avery 0 0 1 l l l l o 1 1— T 
McGill . • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1— 3 
Kanipfmnller l l l 0 0 l o l o l— fi 
Berloger 1 1 1 1 0 o 1 0 1 1—7 
Huber .1 0 10 10 111 1—7 
Hclaer 0 l l l l o o l l l— 7 
Aside match was shot same day betweeu Messrs. White 
and Weaver and O’Connor and Howell, H and T traps, 21 
yd9. rise. Score as follows : 
White ....0 0 11110 111-7 
Weaver 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1-4—11 
O’Connor 1 11100110 0—0 
llowell 1 0 110 10 10 o-5—ll 
J. H. B. 
“ Fountain Gijn Cum — The first handicap contest for the 
new medal was shot May 8 at the Brooklyn Driving Park, 
with the following score, Mr. Eddy, the winner, being handi- 
capped at 25 yds. : 
Byrne l 110 11 o-r. Allen 1 1 1 0 1 1 0-5 
Miner .1 10 0 11 1—5 LamKln o 1 1 1 0 1 1—5 
BUcrdon 1 10 0 11 1—5 Goodwin l o l l l i 0-6 
Slone 1 1 10 0 1 1-5 De Frame 1 110 11 1-6 
Ilohllng 1 1 1 I 1 1 0—0 Baldwin 0 110 11 1-5 
Carolln 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 — 0 McMahon 0 1 l 1 1 1 1— c 
Madison 1 1 1 o l l l—O Wblf? 1 1 0 l l 1 1—0 
Cleaver 1 0 1 1 1 1 l-o Bergen I 1 1 1 1 1 0-6 
Hansen l 110 0 11—5 James 1 11111 0-6 
Eddy 1 11111 1—7 
The club has sixty members, aud recently held its annual 
meeting and elected Mr. C. Fish as President ; Mr. A. Crook, 
Vice-President ; Mr. A. P. Carolin, Secretary ; Mr. H. G. 
Miller, Treasurer ; and Messrs. H. Goodwin, W. Cleaver, J. 
Hanley, J. Randolph and Captain Hanspn as Trustees. 
Jersey City Heights Gun Cluu. — S weepstakes at wild 
birds, on May 8, at Jersey City, with the following result : 
First Match— H and T traps, 18 yards rise, 80 yards 
boundary, usual rules. 
Hughes 0 11101100 1—6 
Knton 1 0 11111111—9 
Bird J Cole 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0—8 
Levering o 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 — 4 
Heritage 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0—1 
TnoiuBon 1 ooillill o — 7 
Burdelt 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0—4 
Cummings I 01111011 1 — 3 
Qulmoy 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1—6 
Eemmy o l l l 0 l 0 l 1 u— 6 
Second Match — Five birds each, sweepstake, $1 entrance, 
$4 to first, $3 to second, $1 to third. 
K,;mmy ....0 l 1 0 1—3 Eaton 0 10 1 1—3 
Payne ....o l o l 0-2 « oie ..l l o o l— 3 
Burdelt 1 1 0 1 1—4 Thomson 1 1 0 1 1—1 
Hughes II 1 0 0 0—1 Crouse 1 Oil 1 — I 
Cummings 11 11 1—5 
Third Match — Sweepstake, same teims, $5 to first, §4 
to second, $2 to third, $1 to fourth. 
Eaton 1 1 l l l—o Van Gelder 0 0 1 0 1—2 
Rpmmv l too n —2 Pavne l u l l irn 
W Tolley 1 0 (l 0 0—1 CummlDgs 0 0 1 1 1—3 
Thomson .. .1 1 1 1 1—6 Burdett I 1 1 10-4 
Qulmby 1 1 1 0 1—1 Hughes 0 111 0—3 
Cole 1 1 1 0 1—1 Hcudden 1 1 1 0 1—4 
Kiiton aud Thomson divided flrst and second mouey, and Qulmby, 
Cole, Fayue, Burnett aud Headdeu divided third money. 
Fourth match; sweepstakes ; same terms, $0, $4, $3, $1. 
Thomson ,...«•■•••■> 1111 0—4 He ad dan ............ ...1 10 1 1—4 
Eaton 1 1 1 1 1—6 Corbet 1 10 1 1—4 
Cummings oi o 0 1-2 W Tolley .1 l o l l— i 
Remmv 1 t 0 1 0-3 Burdett l l 1 l 1-5 
p avne 1 0 1 1 0-s Qulmby....... 1 1 1 1 1-5 
Hughes 0 110 1—3 Cole 1 1 1 1 1—6 
Van Gelder 0 0 1 o 1-2 Heritage 11111-6 
Eaton, Burdett, Quimby, Cole and Heritage divided first 
money. Thomson, Headdan, Corbet and Toffey, second. 
Other sweepstakes followed. Jaoodstaff. 
Jersey City Heights Gun Cum. — First competition, 
double ball badge. Grounds at Marion, .N. J., May 11 : 
F M Thompson is yds 10 01 10 10 oo oi 10 10 oo 10 — 2 
j p M Richards 14 yds oi oi 11 11 10 10 oo 01 11 01—18 
P W Levering 15 yds 11 00 00 00 w 
T B Burdelt is yds oo oo 10 no oo lo w 
V CnmmlDB ....16 yds 00 00 00 11 10 11 11 10 30 01— 9 
A Heritage. IS yds II 10 11 11 lo 11 11 11 11 ul-17 
Wm Hughes H y's 10 11 10 11 11 11 11 II It 10-17 
J a Van Gelder lo yds 10 10 10 oo oi oo 10 10 11 00- 8 
Match shot from one Bogardus and one Marshall trap, 
placed 10 yds. apart ; both traps sprung at the same time. 
Ties shot off at 3 pair balls. 
A Heritage, 20 yds 10 10 11—4 Wm Hughes, 19 yd3....ll 01 11—4 
Newark Gun Club —Newark, N. J., May 13.— Twenty- 
five balls. Hobert, 10 yds., 19; Kay, 20 yds., 10; Leroy, 
20 yds., 10; Coster, 10 yds., 12; Van Volkenberg. 10 yds.. 
9- Decker, 12 yds., 15; Bruntnall, 10 yds., 15; Sanger, 16 
yds., 18; Du9ton, 12 yds., 21. M. R. 
Palisade Gun Club.— T he formal opening of the Palisade 
Gun Club (West Hoboken) grounds will be held on Decora- 
tion Day. The grounds are situated on the West Hoboken 
commons, near the monastery ; are 250 by 150 feet ; the club 
house is fitted uy with all facilities and conveniences. Ama- 
teur matches ut gla99 balls will be shot on the day named and 
a full meeting is looked for. From New York the new 
grounds may be reached via the Barclay street or Christopher 
street ferries to Hoboken, thence Palisade avenue cars. 
Pennsylvania— Sharon, May 2.— Match ; 
Paine’s ball9, Closson’s trap ; wind strong : 
A E Carter 1 l 0 1 t— 1 
H Crosthwalte I 1 0 0 1—3 
Second match : 
A E Carter 1 1 1 0 1—4 
H Crosthwalte 1 1 o l 1—4 
Third match : 
A E Carter 1 111 1—5 
II Crosthwalte 1 1 1 1 1—5 
18 yards ! 
Jesse Reeves 1 0 0 0 0—1 
Jesse Beeves 0 0 11 1—3 
CETrlbby 1 1 1 1 1—5 
Jesse Reeves 1 0 1 f 1—4 
C E Trlbby 1 1 1 1 1—5 
Elmer. 
Jamestown, Pa., May 6.— The Natives’ Shooting Club ; sec- 
ond legular shoot, 4th inst., at glass balls ; Bogardus rules; 
first shoot, 18 yards rise : 
J Gray 
J N Whiteside. 
H J Homer . 
..oiioiiiii 1—8 
,.l 1 1 1 u l 1 1 1 1—9 
.110 0 111111-9 
Gray. 
Ties on eight. 
.1111 1—5 Horner i i i 
Second shoot: 
O D Richard* 1 11011110 0—7 
Dr Whiteside l 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1-9 
J Gray l 111111101-9 
J N Whiteside t 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1-9 
H J Horner 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 l — 9 
EThroop 1 11110 0 11 1 — S 
Ties ou ulne— miss and ont. 
Dr Whiteside 1 1 1 1-4 WhltMlde 1110-3 
Gray 1 1 l 0—3 Horner 1 1 1 0—3 
Third shoot : 
Richards 1 01111110 1-8 
Gray 1 0 11111111—9 
Whiteside 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 l 1 1 — 10 
Horner 1 1110 11111—9 
Dr Whiteside 1 olllltlli-v 
J. N. Whiteside, first; Dr. Whiteside, second. 
Sweepstake matoh : 
Dr Whiteside 1 1 1 1 1-5 j N Whiteside 1 1111-6 
Horner 0 1111-4 Richards 0 l l 1 l— » 
Gray 110 11—4 
First divided. H. J. H. 
low a — Pomeroy, May 4. — Six single rises ; Bogardus rough 
halls ; 18 yards rise : 
Alex Locile 0 Olio i—3 James Dixon 1 1011 1—5 
Kd/Won u 0 0 0 0 1-1 W Caldwell • 1 1 0 l l-l 
t M Billings 0 0 1 u 1 0-2 T Briggs 0 l 1 0 0 0-2 
G e '> Hughes l 0 1 1 1 1-3 S I.owrey 0 0 1 n 1 0—2 
W J vey 0 1 0 0 u 0—1 W Parker 11 1 1 0 0 0-2 
H M WIlbue 0 1 0 0 0 0—1 F FlQeld lOOt 10-3 
J F Parker 1 1 1 0 0 1 — 4 
Ties on four won by Caldwell ; ties on five, Dixon. Several 
shooters used shot which proved too light. 
Abe Da cot ah. 
St. Joseph Club. — -T ri-annual contest for the champion 
badge of the St. Joseph, Mo., Sportsmen's Club, May 9. 
Badge held by N. E. Barnes. Ten single birds, 5 traps, 23 
yds. rise, 100 yd9. boundary : 
N B Barnes 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 • 1-8 
FG Hopkins 111111110 1-9 
WTOOenn 0 0 10 10*111-4 
PaniFTanko « 1 0 1 1 • 1 0 1 0-5 
B F Buzzard 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 — s 
G Knapp 0 10 1*10 1 1 — 5 
L Fuelling 1 1 * 1 1 1 • 1 1 1—8 
Tie shot off ; 28 yds., 100 yds. boundary, 4 single birds : 
Hopkins 1 1111-5 Batcheller 1 1110—4 
— Dr. Carver has been giving exhibitions in many Western 
cities on his way East. At Des Moines, la. , the other duy, he 
broke, with a Winchester, 13 balls within 24 seconds. 
< ln d Mwer fishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN MAY. 
Trout, SalmofonlinalU. 
Salmon, ,S atmo talar. 
Grayling, Thymmallut tricolor. 
Salmon Tram, Sabno eonfinU. 
Shad, Alova. 
Land- locked Salmon, tialmoglovrri. 
FLIES IN SEASON IN MAY. 
Black May, No. 10. — Body, black ; feet, black; wings, grayish 
hyaline. 
Cow Duno, No. 10 and 11.— Body and foot, brownish yollow ; 
wings, yellow-gray. 
GnEAT Don, No. 9 and 8. — Body, purple brown" ; feet, gray 
brown ; wings, dark gray hyaline; sotre, dark brown annulatod with 
gray. 
Red Spinner, No. 10 and 9.— Body, bright olaret, ribbed with 
gold tinsel; feet, brick color; wings, gray hyal ; setio, paleine 
brick color, 
Yellow May, No 10. — Body and feet, pale yellow ; wings, pale 
yellow, mottled with brown ; setaj, yellow. 
Coachman.— B ody, peackcock berl ; feet, dark rod bockie ; wings, 
white. 
Kino of the Water. — S ame as queen of tho water, with scarlet 
body instead of orange. 
Gold Spinner.— B ody, orange, ribbed with gold tinsel; foot, 
pale red hackle ; wings, bright gray. 
Captain. — B ody, posterior half, peacock her!, anterior half, 
gray ; white feet ; red hackle ; wings gray ; setio, scarlet green 
and wood duck feathers mixed. 
Soldier.— B ody, crimson ; feet, red hackle ; wings, gray. 
Kingdom.— Body, white, ringed with greon fuel, peacock horl, 
and rod hackle ; wings, gray, mottled with browD. 
Black Palmer, Brown Palmer, Bed Palmer and Gray Palmer 
are made respectively of the different colored hackles that dis- 
tinguish them. 
Fish in Market— Retail Prioes.— Bass, 20 cents ; blue 
fish, 12 ; salmon, 75 ; mackerel, 15 ; Connecticut River, shad, 
50; weakfish, 12; white perch, 15 ; Spanish mackerel, 75 ; 
green turtle, 15; terrapin, per doz., $30; halibut, per lb., 15; 
haddock, 6; king fish, 15; codfish, 8; black-fish, 10 
flounders, 8 ; porgies, 8 ; sea ba99, 18 ; eels, 18 ; lobsters, 
8 ; sheepsheads, 15 ; turbot, 20 ; Long Islaifd brook trout, 
$1; pompano, $1 ; whitebait, per lb., $1 ; hard crabs, per 
100, $3; soft crab9, per dozen, $1. 
Connecticut Salmon. — The receipts have averaged about 
8 per diem, making the total number which have been 
marketed in New York fully 100. Undoubtedly a gooJ many 
more Lave been caught of which the count ha9 been lost. The 
average is about 12 pounds, the heaviest was something over 
19 pounds. On Monday a salmon of 10 pounds was caught 
off Orient, L. I. , probably a fish making for the Connecticut 
River. We- trust these fish are but the pattenngs of the future 
storm. Bluefish have been caught in very large quantities on 
the Sound, in the neighborhood of West Hempstead. The 
fish weighed some 4 pounds, which is extraordinary for the 
season. 
More Salmon. — Professor Baird kindly informs us, under 
date of May 13, that he has received a splendid salmon from 
the Susquehanna, caught at Havre de Grace. 
Maine — Machine, May 1. — As it is quite rare to catch bass 
as far east as this, I wish to inform you that one was recently 
taken that weighed thirty pounds. It was a striped bass anti 
a beauty. - Also a sea bass that tipped the scales at twenty- 
five lbs. C. W. H. 
New Hampshire Dover, May 13.— The yacht James Law- 
ton made her trial trip down our river last week, and after re- 
turning she was pronounced a perfect success. She will 
make her first pleasure tnp this week. g. A. W. 
Dover, May 13.— Trout fishing Is in full blast, and some 
fishermen have very good luck. The chief hindcrance to 
good sport bore is caused by tho farmers posting notices for- 
bidiog all persons crossing the land where the brooks flow 
through. Lobster fishing is very brisk along our coast. Such 
good catches and so early have not been known before for 
many years. G. A. W. 
—A man while fishing recently in Wluuipiscogeo Lake, 
New Hampshire, caught a loon, which h id dived and-seized 
the hook on which a small fish was dangling at the end of a 
lino forty feet long ns bait. The bird was secured alive aud 
will bo exhibited at Boston. 
Movements of tub Fisiting Fleet. — The number of fish- 
ing arrivals reported at tins port the past week has bceu 30 as 
Bunks, with 150.000 lbs. halibut aud 
loO.OOO lbs. codfish; 27 from Georges, with 400,000 lbs. cod- 
fish, and one from the South with 250 bills, mackerel.— Cope 
Ann Advertiser, May 10. ’ v 
N BW Y OUK —Adirondack *. —A correspondent writes from tho 
puranacs, May 0 : " Again in the woods. Leaving New York 
in the evening, the next morning at six you reach Koeievllle 
and the same evening, with Harper’s team, you will reach 
Martin’s ou the Lower Saranac Lakes. This is the only feasi- 
ble route direct through at present. Tho season hero is at 
least four \veck 9 ahead of past season ; leaves ou tho white 
birch as nt June 1 usually. The' lukes have been well patron- 
ized during the past winter by invalids, who now are starting 
out in their boats to take the trout, and they ore tiildug vigor- 
ously. Dr. Lundy, last week at Bartlett’s ami in the Upper 
Bnrauac, met with tine success with the fly and trolling. I)r. 
and Mrs. Homey u, accompanied by Mias Baber, of Keese- 
ville, hud unequalled sport trolling u duy or two ago, taking 
sixty pounds of trout in six hours' work, tho trout weighing 
from five pounds to fifteen pounds. I paused I)r. Trudeau 
and party to-day on the lake. Col. Hoyt, of New York, G. 
E. Hart, of Newark, N. J., and others are expected here soon. 
My advice to sportsmen intending to visit the woods ia to 
come soon, or they will lose tho usual fine spring fishing. 
The housesnre all In capital order. The season bids to bo a 
good one, Mr. Martin informing mo that applications exceed 
those of the past two years. a. B. 
Number Four. - Fishing is reported by Syrneuso anglers to 
be fair this spring, though not equal to that of former years. 
The sport on Beuver River is good. 
— “ Resident " writes from Brushton, Franklin County, that 
in the East Branch of the 8t. Regis River, and in the Middle 
Branch, at tho sixteen-mile level, is reported good. The fre- 
quent largo strings brought into town corroborate the report. 
Kingston, May 5.— The entefi of shad has never been better 
in this section than just nt present. despite tho howling or u 
few fanatics over Seth Green's rebel Blind. J. T. Lowe caught 
a striped bass in the Hudson, ucur Esopus, on Friday, 3d, that 
weighed thirty five pounds. Trout fishing in Ulster County 
has been rather dull Ibis season on account of tho number of 
persons who have been prosecuted for trespass. A party of 
three from this place caught eighty pounds of bass atul perch 
on Thursday night in the Hudson, off Kingston Light. 
Our Harry. 
Glen's Falls, May 10. —Just homo from Lako George ; self 
ami friend took 05 pounds lako trout, trolling. They have 
just got to the surfucc. (j. 
Greenwood Dike, May 10.— Elias Zindle showed mo a very 
nice mess of trout he had caught in a brook near Brown's 
Hotel, at the lower end of the lake, and he said ho had 
caught the day before a mess of nineteen bettor ones. Eliua 
is an old hand at both rod and gun, and rarely comes homo 
empty handed. The indications of a good bass season are very 
promising, and there are more qunil than has been known in 
five years. Mr. Wright, the owner of the Btcam-yacht Flor- 
ence, is putting now machinery in her, and will run her for 
excursion parlies this summer. 
Fishing at Shelter Island.— Shelter Island, May 7.-- A 
good branch of industry on the east part of Long Islatid is the 
bunker-08hing, which gives employ to thousands of men in ves- 
sels aud fish factories, Of the latter there are many sprinkled 
along the shores as far as Napcigue Bay on Montauk. The 
chief of these nre the Wells, Cartwright, Green, Horton and 
Fithian factories, each of which employ many mm and boats 
in the business. These fish have reached these waters this 
year much earlier than common, and they nre very abundant 
und in fat condition, and it is hoped that this will ho a moat 
prosperous seasou. There are a large number of sui ling ves- 
sels engaged in the business, and several steamers, that are ho 
ginning to take the place of the sailing craft. The steamers 
are far more successful, as they cau steam out fur lo sea and 
fill up several hundred thousand fish uud return the same day 
to tlielr factories ; but the sailing vessels, dependent on wiud 
and tide, have not that advantage, aud ho their cargoes often 
spoil before they can be delivered ut the factories. One of 
these steamers, the Morse, Capf. Harkins, caught lately 354,- 
000 fish in one day, a catch never before equulled. These fish 
made between four and five gallons of oil to the thousand. On 
week before last, Capt. Downs caught 485,000, and Capt. Wil 
cox 345,000, and two other steamers, the Price and Lawrence, 
caught about 750,000 each during the week. One steamer, 
the Floyd, caught 182,000 at one set. Bo you see. the tidier 
men are doing first-rate, and are in high glee, looking forward 
to plenty of silver for support of wife and child ; and fish oil 
and fish scraps for manure will bo most abundant, i have 
built a “ bower,” some fifty feet above the bay. on a high 
cliff overlooking many leagues of wuter, where f pass much 
time enjoying the view and solacing myself with book and 
paper, and pipe und spygluss, with daily rifle and revolver 
practice. A few days since while there I was treated to a fine 
piscatorial exhibition. A large school of porpoiBCB came iu 
within forty rods of my retreat. In pursuit ot a school of big 
'blue fish ; the latter springing a foot or two clear of the 
water in escaping from their relentless foes. The bluefish are 
here much earlier than usual, and a number are caught daily. 
To-day we had a present from Capt. Huwkins of three fine 
bluefish, averaging 4 pounds each; all very fulandnice. The 
advent of the fish, uud the blossoming of the fruit trees, and 
the growth of tho wheat and oats are in advance of iheir 
usual appearance some two or three weeks, and the farmers 
and fishers are JoyfuL 
Truly yours,; Isaao MoLellan, 
