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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Dbvotbd to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural Hibtoky, 
Fish Culture, tbb Protection op uamb, Pkbskbvation of Fokbsts, 
andthb Inculcation in Men and Women of a ILbalthy Interest 
in Out-Door Kbcbbation and 8TUDT-: 
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 
WEEK. 
Friday, Junrl4.— Creedmoor: Thirteenth Regt. Practice. BaseBall: 
Hornell vs. Tecumseh, at London, Can. ; Rochester vs. Allegheny, at 
Allegheny ; Hartford vs. Live Oak, at Lynn ; Resolute vs. Champion, 
at Elizabeth Trotting : Watertown, N. Y. , Providence, R. I. ; Fleet- 
wood Park, N. Y. ; Jackson, Mich.; Pern, Ind.; Cedar Rapids, la.; 
Caiamuzoo, Mich. ; Massllon, O. Running Meeting at Columbus, O. 
Saturday, June 15.— Creedmoor : Waters’ Long-Range Match; 
national Guardjrman Match ; Skirmishers' Badge Match. 3?awanhaka 
Yacht Club Open Regatta. Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron Opening 
Cruise. Neptune Boat Club (s. I.) Annual Regatta. Harlem Rowing 
Association Regatta Schuylkill Navy Regina. Orion Rowing and 
Athletic Association Annual Games. Cricket: Young America vs. 
Merlon, at Turnpike Bridge ; Dorian (2d.) vs. Belmont (2d.), at Haver- 
ford ; Philadelphia (2d.) vs. Young America (2d ), otNicetown. Base 
ball: In laoapolis vs. Boston, at Boston; Milwaukee vs. Chicago, at 
Chicago; Hornell vs. Buffalo, at Buffalo; Rochester vs. Allegheny, at 
Allegheny ; Cincinnati vs. Providence, at Providence. Rouniug Meet- 
ing as above. Shooting Tournamrnt at Murfreesboro, Teun. 
Monday, June IT.— Creedmoor : 11th anil Tlst Regt. marksmen. Quak- 
er City Yacht Club Annual Regatta; Union R gaits, Boston and Dor- 
chester Yacht Clubs, off Nahaot ; Ea-tern Yacht Squa ron Rendezvous 
at Swaropscoit Bay ; Atlantic Yacht Olob Annual Regatta; Hudson 
Yacht Club Annual Regat'a ; Lynn (Mass.) Yacht Club opening regatta. 
South Boston Club Union Regatta, off Marblehead; Haverhill (Mass.) 
Yacht Club Spring Regatta. Eastern Rowing Association Open Re- 
gatta; Cornell University Spring Regatta. Base Ball: Cincinnati vs. 
Boston, at Boston ; Rochester vs. Erie, at Erie. 
Tueeday, June 18.— Brooklyn Yacht Clab Annual Regatta ; Empire 
Yaohl Club Annual Regatta ; Empire Navy Annual Regatta, Peeksklll 
Bay. 
Wtdnuday, June 19.— Creedmoor : Amateur Rifle Club, 600 yds. 
Ma’ch. Couriney-Dempster match at Geneva; M sslsslppl Valley 
Amateur Rowing As-oclatlon Regatta, at Peoria, IIL United Schueizen 
Association. Open Athletic Games, Union Hill, N. J. 
Thureday, June 20.-Creedmoor: Twenty-third Regt. Mississippi 
Val ey A. R. A., as above. Seawauhaka Club Regatta, at Columbia 
Grove. Hanlan-MorriS Match, Plttiburg, Pa.; Potomac Amateur Re- 
gatta. 
Wbnt la a Dingledebooch i See Sporieman’e Glossary. 
SPORTSMEN’S PROTECTIVE GAME 
CLUBS. 
F TYE years ago tbe number of societies organized for tbe 
avowed purpose of protecting game and fish could almost 
be counted on one’s fingers. Now they number hundreds. A 
glance nt “ Hallock’s American Club List" will convey an 
idea of bow they have multiplied. Many societies are devoted 
to angling, and a very large number to practice at the pigeon 
or glass bull trap; but nearly all these arc composed of intelli- 
gent sportsmen ; and presumably they countenance tbe pro- 
tection of game, although it is not so written in the letter of 
their constitutions. The club list referred to contains tbe 
names of six hundred organizations included under the titles 
of Angling, Gun and Sportmen's Clubs, and exclusive of Rifle, 
Athletic, Kennel, YachtiDg, Boating, and other kindred 
clubs, which number fully thirteen hundred more. In 
the State of New York alono there are over one huudred, 
and fifty of these were represented at the recent convention 
at Buffalo. The number of uew applications this year for 
affiliation with the State Association shows that interest in the 
general subject of sport and protection is increasing, and no 
doubt time will prove tbe benefits which must accrue from 
combinations of men determined to prevent the game of the 
country from being killed out of season and wasted. 
It is not to be supposed that all the twenty-five thousand 
men which these six hundred clubs represent are earnest ad- 
vocates or supporters of game laws, or vigilant in their 
espionage of transgressors; hut there is a goodly leaven 
among the number which will permeate the whole mass by 
and by and extend its usefulness throughout the population 
of the States. There is but little encouragement just now to 
sustain or comply with game laws which for the most part, if 
nothing worse, nre a batch of crudities ; but when wisdom 
shall hereafter sway and shape legislation (as it certainly will 
do under the increasing knowledge disseminated by those 
who are sustaining tbe bands of Prof. Spencer F. Baird and 
his little junta of conservators), there will be felt a sympathetic 
throb from one end of the country to the other. Efforts will 
be made of practical worth. Constables and prosecuting 
attorneys will not mock the conscientious eudeavors of game 
protective clubs by purchasing from poachers the things for- 
bidden to be killed or eaten ; and judges will not forestall the 
opening day of the season by stealing a march upon those 
more scrupulous. 
With the growth of population and the parcelling and en- 
closing of lands, private rights and boundary lines will come 
to be respected by sportsmen ,- farmers will not be stimulated 
to trap and snare the game on their possessions in order to 
prevent it falling into the hands of men who despise their 
trespass notices. The small gains from the sale of a few 
bunches of birds will be considered no emolument whatever. 
Instead of field and cover being swept of every pin-feather, 
year after year, the growing wheat and leafy copse will be- 
come nurseries for small game ; and complaisant sportsmen 
who shoot for picture will look upon the farmers as benefac- 
tors, to perpetuate their sport, and not as harpies, to snatch 
the dainties from their hag and larder. The sportsmen, in 
turn, no longer unbidden, will come in proper season— after 
the harvest— no more vexing the farmers with dreams and 
apprehensions of trampled fields and patches. Poachers will 
then be estimated as-horse thieves are, and receive no better 
countenance or shrift. Mercenary hotel keepers, unable to 
purchase game, because the farmer, the sportsman and the ap- 
pointed constable stand watch and ward together to protect it, 
will no longer pander to the depravity of snobs, who sicken 
their stomachs with unfit food in order to show how easily 
they can defy the laws with impunity. 
But before we can realize any such millennium as this, the 
public mind has got to be thoroughly inoculated with a sense 
of its practicability and advantages ; and the surest means to 
such an end will be found in the organization of game protec- 
tive clubs all over the land. Instead of a few hundred as 
now, there will be a host like the Grand Army of the Republic, 
every man an enlisted defender of legitimate sport, a conserv- 
ator of the species, a promoter of health and good living, 
and a “hale fellow well met” in the fullest significance of the 
term. In order to assist the good work, the editor, who has 
prepared the club list referred to, has included a suitable 
form of constitution and by-laws under which clubs may or- 
ganize; so that the lack of information will no longer be an 
excuse or obstacle to any consummation of this sort. Every 
sportsman should possess a copy of the hook. 
The following pertinent and conscientious communication 
was received after the foregoing paragfhphs were printed. 
While our correspondent's arguments are eminently logical, 
we think the state of things complained of is accounted for in 
the second and fourth paragraphs above written : 
Editor Forest and Stbeam : 
There Is In this Slate an association of gentlemen, the fall title of 
which Is, “The New York Sta'.o Association for the Protection of Fish 
and Game." As far as I can learn, Its history and, theoretically, Its aim 
and would-be attainments are somewhat as follows : The necessity of 
a thorough and efllclent sy stem of game protection was recognized 
To secure necessary legislation and to properly enforce the laws when 
made, local clubs were organized In different parts of the State whose 
members are pledged. Individually, to observe the laws, and unitedly 
to enforce their observation upon others. The sphere of each separate 
clab Is limited, and probably no one club would be possessed of snlll 
clent means to secure legislation; therefore, the clubs unite to form 
one central clab, wkh a management and officers of Its own whose 
duty it is to look after thoae-thlngs which are beyond tbe reach of Indi- 
vidual clubs, or which are for the general Interest of all, Delegates- 
wbo form this main oiganlzatlon, and from whom its otfleers are 
chosen— are sent yearly from each of the Interested organizations to an 
appointed rendezvous. In order to unite more flrrniy the bonds which 
hold them together, to facilitate an exchange of views and Ideas, 
to report past progress and devise means for future Improvement, and, 
not least, In order to come boldly and prominently before the people to 
rhow their nilgbtanU set such an example as will exert a powerful 
Influence In turning public opinion In their fuvor. When they 
adjourn, their power for good la Increased, aud pjst Imperfections 
brushed away. Thus, year by year, the difficulties In their p ah become 
less and less, until, at last, n proper protection of game becomes one of 
our most flrmly rooted Institution*. 
Now, In theory, what better system of united action to secure the 
best laws, what more thorough network of surveillance could be de- 
vised for the protection and multiplication of our stock of game and 
Ash 7 But, alas! This Is theory only. True, we have many good 
luca' clubs, and we have one Central Association, which got u most ex. 
cellent s'art by assum ng the name mast lilted to Its Ideal work ; but, 
like a droning school-boy, It soon got tired of work, aud went to niaylng' 
and, like the same school-boy when unrestrained, Its play became 
largely interspersed with mischief. 
It is fair to suppo-e, from the original alms of the Association, so in- 
comrovertlbly set forth In Its title, that whatever n t directly pertaining 
to the protection of flsh or game sUoahl form a part of the proceedings 
at its yearly meetings, would be merely for relaxation, to All up short 
recesses, or, possibly, to add a zest and attraction to the whole thlup, 
but In no wise to Interfere with or overshadow lt9 real work. To 9how 
that the reverse of this Is the true state of affairs I need only refer to 
the proceedings of the Convention [In other States as well as this —Ed. 
F. &, S.) for the last few years, which are on record In the flies of the 
various sportsmen's papers, and which are easily uccesslbie to auy one 
who may doubt the truth of my statements. Every year there hss been 
less and l-ss Interest shown In game protection, aud more and more In 
trap shooting, till the cllluux wus reached this year, when absolutely 
nothing was done toward the object for which the Assoclatlou wan 
formed. The President made a short speech, mainly for the purpose 
of saying that “ the object of this Convention is the protection of flsh 
aud game, and It Is not, as some people would suppose, merely a trap 
shoot." This, I may say, was the nearest approach to the ostensible 
purposes of tbe Convention; yet It lasted only live days, and slaught- 
ered about (1,000 pigeons! Now, in the name of common sense, what 
does the President mean by telling ns that the Convention was not a 
trap shoot, but for the protection of flsh and game ? 
The general public must, by this time, be pretty well convinced that 
game protection consists In killing pigeons. If It la not so convinced, 
It Is not the fault of the New York Association for the Protection of 
Fish and Game. Ossinino. 
Tiib Sohubtzenfest.— Our German and American readers 
will remember that on Monday, tbe 17th of June, the matches 
of the Sharpshooters’ Union of the United States will com- 
mence. The programme extends over the whole week, and 
on Monday, June 24th, the gold medal offered by the Forest 
and Stream and Rod and Gun to the best team will be shot 
for. 
Montag, 24 ten Juni — Concurred Schiessen fay die goldene 
Forest and Stream and Rod and Gun medailk. Aufang 
11 Uhr im Schutzenpark. Bcitrag jedes concumrendtn carps 
$15. 8 Schutzen jedes Teams. Berechtigt alle Schutzem- 
gcsellschaften, wenn sie auch niclit zum Bundl Gch&ren 
which translated means that the entrance fee of each compet- 
ing corps will be $15 that teams are composed of eight meD 
and that any associations, not members of tho Union can 
enter. We trust to see a large assemblage, of our friends, 
during the whole week. Our medal is nefw in the jeweler’s 
hands, and we believe that it will be worthy of the occasion. 
Hoping that there will be fine weather during the week, r nd 
with our best wishes for the success of the meeting, we' say, 
“ Hoch Hebe die niegreichen Schueizen." 
The Kind of Stuff Canadian Sportsmen are Made 
of.— One of the most valued correspondents of the earlier life 
of our paper was Geo. M. Fairchild, Esq., of Valcartier, 
Canada, who used to write us spicy sketches of his winter 
camps in the snow, and his chases after caribou among the 
Laurentian Mountains. It seems to be a proclivity of Cana- 
dians to winter it out. While we are snug around the hearth 
or taking indulgence in the semi-tropical warmth of Florida, 
these hardy craftsmen are tripping their suow-clogged snow- 
shoes over the trackless barrens, and banking up their tents 
with shovels to keep put the frost. Their activity keeps their 
blood warm in the day-time, and in the night they draw their 
capotes over their heads and curl themselves up in the tents 
like bears. Often they kick aside their mgs and blankets so 
as to cool off in the night, and it is asserted that the interior 
of a canvas camp, which has been banked up with snow is 
frequently intolerably hot. This we can testify to, though 
our own experience of temperature does not reach below the 
zero, while theirs becomes solid with the mercury at 40 deg. 
buch ruddy glow as the arctic atmosphere gives to the cheeks, 
and such stability as it gives to the health, can. scarcely be 
imagined. 
mi m me ice 
with a gusto equal to the summer zest of angling, and they 
patiently starve themselves for two days to track and capture 
a caribou, in order that they may appreciate the meat the 
more for the abstinence. Tbe editor of the Toronto Evening 
Telegram is one of these fellows. He writes to us, June 1 • 
“ I take an earnest delight in the sporting matters \ou deal 
with, my appetite for such having been whet up by n trip On 
company with a single companion) of six months -September 
to March of one season-in tbe wilds of northern, unsurveved 
8 f in S a human. face but our own for five months. 
We built log houses, and while tramping sheltered our«e ves 
with a cotton tent. We occupied our time in shootSck 
partridge and deer for food, and trapped beaver, mini mar - 
to the ° a f me ° U r ° D - 8now - shoe9 . fi^een days’ 'tramp 
to the first signs of civilization, each dragging a taboecan 
loaded with our tent, food, skins, clothing, etc , etc The 
taboggans we made ourselves, hewing a plank l-4xl2in. out of 
J m - 1 I' . VVe l t , ook , the tr »P f or our health. It was adven- 
turous aad enjoyable, though made up of a good deal of hard 
work and hardship, but brought us out hale and hearty.’' 
