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FOREST AND STREAM. 
SUMMER JAUNTS. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
DBVOTKD TO F1BLD AND AQUATIC STOUTS, 
u» Out-Door Recreation and Study : 
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CIIARI.ES I1ALLOCK, Editor. 
T C BANKS Si Hi TURK ILL, Chicago, 
Business Manager. Western Manager. 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, May IT.-New York Bench Show. Bbso ball : Bnffalo vs. 
New Bedford, at New Bedford ; Tecumseb vs Live Oak, at Lynn ; Al- 
legheny vs Star, at Syraouse. Trotting: Ooldwater, Mich.; MeadvUle, 
Pa. Running meetings at Lexington, Ky„ and Washington, D. C. 
Saturday, May 18,-Quincy (Mass.) Yacht Club OpenlDg Regatta. 
Inter-Collegiate Annual Games at Mott Haven. Crloket: Young Ameri- 
ca vs Germantown, at Tumplko Bridge; Belmont vs Philadelphia, at 
West Philadelphia ; Dorian va Merlon, at n-werford. Base ball : Star 
vs U lea, at Utica ; Buffalo vb SprlngUeld, at SprlngUeld ; Rochester vs 
Hornell at HornellsvlUe; Allegheny vs Cricket, at Binghamton; Te- 
cum.eh’v8New Bedford, at New Bedford ; Harvard vs Yale, at New 
HaveD ; Amherst vb Trinity, at Hartford. Trotting at Meadvllle, Pa. 
itonday, May !0.-New Yoik Stale Sportsmen’s Association at Buffa- 
lo. Base bail : Tecumseb vs New Bedford, at New Bedford ; Allegheny 
vs Cricket, at Binghamton; Buffalo vs Utica, ot Utica; Racine vs 
Chicago University, at Chicago. TrottlDg at Beacon Park, Boston. 
Tutsday, May SI.— Worcester Dog Show. Base ball : Tecumseb vs 
SprlogQeid, at SprlngUeld ; Buffalo vs Roche.sur, at Rochester; Alle- 
gheny va Hornell, at HornellBvllle. Trotting: Belmont Park, Philadel- 
phia; BeacoD Park, Boston ; Butler, Pa. Running meetings at Balti- 
more, Nd„ and at Louisville, Ky. New York State Sportsmen’s asso- 
ciation at Buffalo. 
Wednuday, May 22.— Worcester Dog Show. Base ball : Allegheny vs. 
Hornell, at HornellsvlUe ; Star vs Cricket, at Binghamton ; Tecumseb 
vs Utica, at Utica; Rochester vs Buffalo, at Buffalo ; Harvard Fresh, 
vs Brown Fresh., at Providence. Trotting at Belmont Park, Philadel- 
phia ; Beacon Park, Boston; BuUer, Pa.; Hillsdale, Mich. Running 
meetings at Baltimore. Md.; LoulsvUle, Ky. New York State Sports- 
men's Association at Buffalo. 
Thursday, May 23.— Worcester Dog Show. Base ball : Utica vs 
8prlogDeld, nt SprlDgfleld ; Allegheny vs Rochester, at Rochester. 
Trotting as above. RunnlDg meetlDg as above. Creedmoor : Leech 
Cup Match, at 10 a. m.; Frazier Match at 1 p. m.; Soldiers’ Match at 
1 p. m.; Skirmishers’ Badge Match at i p. m. 
Complimentary. — The increased demands of this journal 
lavine: necessitated the removal of its business manager from 
His old home in Wallingford, Conn., to Brooklyn, L. I., that 
gentlemen is in receipt of an elegant silver tabature from the 
well-known firm of Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., and pre- 
sented as a token of esteem and good wishes on the part of 
former townsmen. May it never be empty. 
W ITH the lapse of spring, preparations come for sum- 
mer pastimes, and already many of the popular ho- 
tels are ready for guests ; the rest will be open by l he firs t of 
June. Steamboats have been put on the interior lakes and 
seaside routes ; railroads arc presenting tieir respe 
tractions in seductive illustrated pamphlets ; and tbe gene 
activity among the trunk makers betokens the 
flight from town of the summer tourist. Las. week the fea 
tivities of Coney Island were resumed for tbe summer 
Rockaway Beach is completing extensive arrangements and 
Boon all the popular resorts in the immediate vicinity of New 
York will be in full feather and thronging with visitors. 
Greenwood Lake is the most attractive resort within forty 
miles of this city. Frank Forrester wrote dispassionately in 
its praise, and the sportsmen of the present day are represent- 
ed by two clubs, which will have houses on the border of the 
lake There are half a dozen or more hotels, of varying size 
and pretention, three of which now advertise in our paper 
and the rest will follow soon. (Parenthetically, the hotels of 
Greenwood Lake show their sagacity in advertising in Forest 
and Stream, and if hotels elsewhere would follow their ex- 
ample they would make more money.) Many improvements 
and renovations have been made since last season, and we 
Lave no doubt that Greenwood Lake, having been adopted as 
a regatta coarse, will be unusually popular and well patronized 
in the months to follow. It is reached by the Montclair Rail- 
road. . . 
The Erie Railroad claims precedence in the issuo ot its an- 
nual illustrated guide-book, entitled, “ Where to Spend the 
Summer," from which the tourist can readily make his 
election. 
The Pennsylvania Railroad gives access to the finest moun- 
tain scenery and the best angliug resorts. So also the Bound 
Brook Road presents a great number of choice localities for 
rural rest aud pastime. With the admirably arranged sche- 
dules of fares and time-tables to various points, we can arrange 
a jaunt of a few days or weeks to a minute and a dime. 
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad opens up one of the 
most romantic sections of America. As many of our anglers 
will, doubtlesss, wish to avail themselves of the facilities 
thereby afforded, we will do them a favor, no doubt, by indi- 
cating some of the best fishing places on the route, namely : 
“Clifton Forge.’’— Bass fishing in headwaters of James 
River immediately at station. . . , „ . 
“Jackson River.”— Fine trout in Craigs and Dunlaps 
Creeks. Hotel accommodation at Covington, ten miles dis- 
tant. Trains leave Covington after breakfast and return in 
time for supper. .... , 
“ Covington."— Trout fishing in neighboring creeks. 
“ Paw Paw." — Trout in abundance in Laurel Creek, just 
across New River from Station. Hotel accommodation at 
Quinnimort, five miles below, near which there are several 
other trout streams. , „ . . ... 
“ Sewell."— Good trout fishing in Mann’s Creek, one-fourth 
of a mile below station. 
“Kanawha Falls.”— Bass and salmon or pickerel in tne 
KaDuwha River, and up the Gauley, some ten or fifteen miles 
—finest trout fishing in the State of Virginia. Good hotel at 
“St Albans ”,'(at the mouth of Coal River).— Fine bass fish- 
ing up Coal River. 
Besides places merely charming to the angler, the Chesa- 
peake and Ohio Railroad gives easy access to the finest 
mountain scenery of Virginia and the famous Virginia 
Springs, whose ancient prestige, as the most fashionable of 
American watering places, i9 fast returning. By taking the 
Old Dominion Steamship line to Richmond, and the railroad 
there, the journey can be most agreeably varied and enjoyed 
by all who are not subject to sea-sickness ; and in June, July 
and August there is little rough weather. 
In addition to the older routes to the Adirondacks, the Adi- 
rondack R. R. open9 a new and attractive way via North 
Creek to many of the most virgin haunts of the great Wil- 
derness. The People’s Line of steamers to Albany make 
close connection, and also offer the most agreeable route to 
Montreal and other part9 of Canada. For Nova Scotia and 
the eastern provinces, a9 well as Maine, the Stonington and 
Fall River steamers afford a delightful voyage. The fares on 
these steamboat lines are surprisingly low. 
The Grand Rapids and Indiana R. R,, favorably known 
among anglers as the “ Fishing Line," reaches the innumera- 
ble trout, bass and muscallonge region of Michigan, whose 
charms were so agreeably set forth last year in a series of 
letters by the editor of Forest and Stbbam, that the railroad 
company has embodied them in a pamphlet as affording the 
best means of bringing these delightful resorts into notice. 
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, with its 2,800 
miles of line and branches, covers the whole northwest like an 
extended palm and fingers ; the Chicago and Alton road leads 
also through a great game country ; so does the St. Louis, 
Minneapolis and St. Paul Line ; and all these will be exten- 
sively patronized from August 1 to January by sportsmen who 
shoot. Meanwhile, if the tourist wishes to be astonished at 
the amazing growth of the West, which he can never other- 
wise comprehend, let him take a summer jaunt over this 
bucolic land and see the thousand-acre grain fields and count 
the cattle on a thousand hills. 
The Wisconsin Central Railroad traverses a most pictu- 
resque country, abounding in dense forests full of game, and 
lakes and streams whose waters contain rare fish worthy of 
the most skillful angler’s attention. Many of the particular 
points for sport on this road were recently noticed in this 
journal in the series of “ Editorial Rambles,” contributed by 
the Editor-in-Ghief, and embodying the favorable impressions 
made by a personal visit. Menasha and Neena, Green Bay, 
Butternut Lake, Silver Creek, White River, Ashland, and a 
dozen other places famous for their piscatorial attractions, 
have all been noted in these columns. This road a9 do most 
of the others— publishes and distributes gratis an illustrated 
guide, which they supplement by personally replying to all 
queries of inquiring sportsmen, and excellent care is taken of 
man and dog. 
With all this array the pleasure seeker is inexcusable if he 
finds nothing to his taste ; he is, perhaps, to be treated with 
indulgence, if in the multiplicity of good thiugs he is at a 
loss which to select. 
THE DEATH OF GEN. T. S. DAKIN. 
G ENERAL Thomas 8. Dakin died on Monday, May 13. 
Through the length and breadth of the country, both 
here and abroad, General Dakin was well known as a rifleman 
of the most distinguished skill. To great personal proficiency 
with the rifle Geueral Dakin united administrative power of 
rare merit, and was more than once captain of teams. As 
early as 1872 General Dakin became interested in rifle shoot- 
ing, and with untiring zeal ever since that time devoted his 
leisure hours to rifle practice. It was in 1873-74 that his skill 
became fully developed. In the first International contest 
held at Creedmoor, -when the American team first won dis- 
tinguished position against the Irish riflemen, Gen. Dakin’s 
score was among the best. In the Dollymount contest, the 
return match, Gen. Dakin also distinguished himself. The 
last contest between the American and English teams was the 
crowning triumph in Gen. Dakin's rifle annals, our lamented 
friend commanding the American riflemen, with Sir Henry 
Halford leading the Englishmen. It may be said that Gen. 
Dakin’s love for rifle shooting amounted almost to a passion. 
It was but the other day, it seems to us, that we met Gen. 
Dakin well and hearty on the occasion of the presentation of 
the Forest and Stream and Rod and Gon medal to our Ger- 
man riflemen. In this contest Gen. Dakin had taken a warm 
interest. He was to have assumed a leading position in the 
coming German Schutzen Feat in June next. But now, alas! 
his handsome face, his stalwart form are to be seen no more ! 
It was not alone as a rifleman that Gen. Dakin leaves a bril- 
liant record. As an officer, as a gentleman, as a good friend, 
as an honest man his memory will long be remembered. 
Attacked on Sunday evening last, after attending church, 
he expired very suddenly on Monday morning, struck as if by 
paralysis. We, with many others, mourn his loss and desire 
to express here the sincere respset we felt for the man whom 
God has taken away from U9 in the prime of his life. 
• 
PROFESSOR JOSEPH HENRY. 
The whole scientific world has met with a loss in the dealh 
of Professor Henry, so long known in connection with the 
Smithsonian Institution, of which he was the governing 
officer.- Born in 1797, Profe'ssor Henry had completed hi9 
eightieth year. Educated in the Albany common school, his 
entry into life was as a watch maker, but showing a great 
love for the sciences, his first position was that of a Pro- 
fessor in the school he had graduated in. This was in 1826, 
and only one year later he commenced that brilliant series of 
investigations in electricity which made him so celebrated. 
In 1832 he was appointed Professor of Natural History in 
the College of New Jersey. In 1846 he was placed in charge 
of the Smithsonian Institution. Here his true intellectual 
life had its fullest scope, and the prominent position this ad- 
mirable institution has taken in America as the fountain head 
from whence the study of nature history ebbs and flows, is 
due in great part to the wonderful zeal aDd administrative 
power of the first of our scientific men, whose death we now 
notice. Full of honors, sure to be cited in future days as the 
real father of scientific research in the history of our country, 
Joseph Henry departs from this world with an unblemished 
history and a lasting record. 
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