512 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
W Gunn 
6 5 
4 5-28 
6 
3 5 
6 
6—23—46 
L Geiger 
6 6 
D 4—24 
3 
6 0 
4 
5—22—46 
H FLaner 
3 6 
5 5—21 
3 
6 4 
8 
5-22—43 
H Rathbone 
2 5 
5 5-22 
6 
2 4 
4 
4 — 19 — 11 
O McLaughlin 
•1 6 
5 4—23 
0 
3 6 
5 
5-18—11 
I L Allen 
4 4 
4 4—21 
5 
0 8 
6 
6—18—39 
C Dusenberry.. . .18 
19 
37 
J P Waters. 
.13 
17 30 
G L Morse 19 
17 
36 
J A Hatry... 
C A Hodgman. ...16 
19 
35 
N D Ward.. 
11 22 
FH Holton 11 
20 
ai 
A subscription match at 200 yards afforded sport for a 
large number of the visitors, though somehow the scores did 
not show anything extra brilliant, running as follows : 
G T Carter 29 
C A Watson.. 
W P Wood. 
.29 
L H Greve 
£ T Davis 
....22 
.28 
Com J G Hill 
H C Howaell... 
.28 
G M Townsend.. . 
J J Dermott.... 
....19 
CH Houghton... 
. .22 
The Directors’ match, also at 200 yards, for the gold badge 
of office, was very generally contested for, and with one or 
two good off-hand shots the race for first place was closely 
fought. The President very courteously took place in the 
rear, but in this he was followed by the State Inspector of 
-Rifle Practice, who came within one point of getting that po- 
sition . The Directors' scores ran 
T B Collins 22 Dr J M Dart 19 
B A Vail 21 Gen Mott 10 
George Carter 21 P Bonnett io 
MaJ Henry Fnltou ..20 Capl W H De Hart 1 5 
Geo L Winn J# Geo A Squire.. ...... 16 
Gen J II Plume 13 
Col W H sterling. ... 9 
Col £11 Wright 8 
year a few gentlemen have been working along at the task of 
organization, and on March 11 the New Jersey State Rifle 
Association was incorporated, arid now is provided with a roll 
of over 100 actual members, and the following list of officers : 
President, Col. Edw. H. Wright. Vice-President, Capt. Win. 
H. De Hart. Secretary, Peter Bonnett. Treasurer, H. F. 
Anderson. Directors— Maj. Henry Fulton, Dr. J. M. Dart, 
George A. Squire, B. A. Vail, Hon. Dudley S. Steele, H. F. 
Anderson, Peter Bonnett, Col- E. H. Wright, Capt. Wm. H. 
De Hart, A. R. Warner, J. T. B. Collins, E. A. S. Man, 
Capt. George L. Winn, George Carter, Major Addison 
Thomas. Honorary Life Director, Gen. George B. McClellan. 
Ex-Officio Directors — Major-General Gershom Mott, com- 
manding N. G. S. N. J. ; Brevet Major-General Wm. S. 
Stryker, Adjutant-General S. N. J.; Brevet Major-General 
Lewis Perrinc, Quartermaster General S. N. J. ; Brigadier- 
General Joseph W. Plume, commanding First Brigade S. N. 
J.; Brevet Major-General Wm. J. Sewell, commanding Sec- 
ond Brigade S. N. J.; Col. W. H. Sterling, A. D. C., General 
Inspector of Rifle Practice N. S. J. 
The selection of a range location was a delicate and im- 
portant choice. After looking at several plots xt was decided 
to fix the range at a point on the meadows between Elizabeth 
and Eiizabelhport, on the line of the Central Railroad of New 
Jersey. The grounds are about 100 acres in extent, and, 
having a broad stretch of salt meadow behind the targets, 
there is no necessity for high banks or butts. 
Brinton — named such out of compliment to Geo. Brin ton 
McClellan — has its merits and its demerits. There are a 
plenty of mosquitoes, but there is also a fresh salt breeze 
from the broad Newark Bay near by. Compared with Creed- 
moor — the beau ideal of all American ranges — there are ad- 
vantages and disadvantages about Brinton. The broad vel- 
vety lawn of the American Wimbledon, where at any target 
shooting may be done at any range, is wanting at the Jersey 
range, and in its place is a scrubby bit of upland, sloping 
away alter a run of 600 yards to several thousand yards of 
marsh or meadow land. The line of fire looks off toward the 
Newark Bay, northeast by east, a disadvantage for early 
morning practice. At some of the high ranges long, low 
mounds have been thrown up to bring the prone marksmen 
up to the level of the target. These mounds are broad enough 
to accommodate the scorers, spotters, and the apparatus the 
marksman may need in his practice. In time the Range Com- 
mittee hope to have the entire upland section of the range 
placed under sod, and create of it a fine camping lawn. The 
mid-range butts are before an embankment about 150 feet 
long on the edge of the upper or dry meadow. This arrange- 
ment brings the entire line of mid-range and short-range fire 
over dry land, and firing points from 100 to 600 yards are 
staked out. Further to the left the place of the off-hand butts 
ia staked out, but as yet none have been thrown up. The 
targets are of canvas, stretched upon wooden frames, and 
slide vertically, while the markers stand in an open pit before 
the depressed targets. Off to the right are the long-range 
firing points. The line of fire here runs over a long stretch of 
sedge and bulrush meadow before reaching the low mantlet 
butts of plank bulkheads filled in with broken stone . The 
targets stand upon a platform, and each marker is masked 
behind a smaller bulkhead of plank and stone. The targets 
slide on rolling chocks, a fresh target goingout as a punctured 
one is drawn in. These are of canvas. The natural advan- 
tages of the place are inferior to those of Creedmoor, but it 
will prove a formidable rival to the former, owing to the regu- 
larity and frequency with which trains stop at the ground. 
Way trains to Elizabeth run every half hour in the morning, 
and more often still in the afternoon, and with a liberal list of 
regularly recurring matches the Brinton managers need few 
fears of lack of patronage. 
The opening day was set for the 25th ult. , and several hun- 
dred marksmen, with a few million mosquitoes, attended 
duriDg the afternoon. Creedmoor was well represented in its 
marksmen, as well as by representatives of its Board of Direc- 
tors. There were many distinguished local guests. Upon 
the arrival of Major-General Gershom Mott, commanding the 
3,000 men who constitute the National Guard of the State, a 
salute of thirteen guns was fired. Accompanying Gen. Mott 
were CoL Loder, Ool. Ward, Col. Welling and Maj. Duryee, 
of his staff ; Adjutant-General Wm. S. S try ker, Brigadier- 
General Plume, of the First Brigade; Col. Wm. H. Sterling, 
the Division Rifle Inspector ; Col. Morrill, of the Third ; 
CoL Steele, of the Fourth, and Maj. Sloan, of the Seventh, 
and members of the State Legislature. Gov. McClellan, who 
is at Cape May, sent a note of regrets. Of the directors of 
the association there were present Col. Wright, President ; 
Captain De Hart, Vice-President ; P. Bonnett, Secretary ; 
Maj. Henry Fulton, Dr. J. M. Dart, George A. Squire. B. A. 
Vail, Dudley S. Steele, J. T. B. Collins, E. A. S. Man, Capt. 
Geo. L. Winn, Geo. Carter, Private N. P. Stanton, of the 
National Rifle Association, Gen. Alex. Shaler, Capt. Story, 
Col. Geo. D. Scott, J. P. Waters and Secretary Geo. S. 
Schermerhom, of the Board of Directors of that body, with 
Chas. Pond, of Bridgeport ; Adjt. W. H. Murphy, O. E. 
Overbaugh and Capt. Waddell were also present. The range 
was opened by a long-range match for a commemorative medal, 
struck in honor of the opening. Considering that the range 
had never yet been fired over, the scores made were very 
fair. Two sighting shots were permitted at each range. The 
scores ran ; 
900 yards. 
It is the intention of the State military authorities to insti- 
tute practice by the State troop# at a very early day, an , 
with the close proximity of such a railway centre as Eliza- 
beth, no trouble will be met in conveying' the men to ana 
from the grounds. 
SHARPSHOOTERS’ UNION 
UNITED STATES. 
OF THE 
Mb. Editor : lathe meeting of the delegates of the associa- 
tions of the Sharpshooters’ Union of the United States of North 
America, to the third national shooting festival, held June 
16th to 24th, a committee was appointed to revise the consti- 
tution of the Sharpshooters’ Union, and to call a meeting of 
delegates in 1870 in this city. The committee, then appointed 
by the President, J. A. Bauer, of San Francisco, Cal., con- 
sists of the following gentlemen: Herm. Raschen, Jac. 
Heintz, Aug. Ermisch, C. Mattinan, G. A. Kundahl, Ch. 
Zetller, H. Schalk, F. N. Matt and C. Fromau. Pursuant to 
a call of Mr. B. Lippmann, secretary of the meeting of June 
19, (this committee had its first meeting July 18th inst., in the 
headquarters of the Union, 197 Bowery,; an organization 
took place by the election of the following officers : Presi- 
dent, Capt A. Ermisch, of Jersey Schuetzen Corps ; Vice- 
President, Ch. Mattinan, Pres, of Helvetia Rifle Club ; Secre- 
tary, Jac. Heintz, See. of Columbia Rifle Association. One 
of the members of the committee having resigned, Mr. B. 
Lippmann was elected to fill the vacancy. The committee 
will have regular meetings every fourth Thursday of a month. 
The following German shooting societies will have their an- 
nual shooting festivals in August or September, as far as 
could be learned : 
August 6— Hudson City Schuetzen Corps, Capt. Henry 
Blum, in Union Hill Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N. J. 
August 6, 7, 8— Brooklyn Schuetzen Corps, Capt. John H. 
Doscher, in Myrtle Avenue Park, Brooklyn, E. D. 
August 7, 8— New York Central Schuetzen Corps, Capt. C. 
F. Genuerich, in Jones’ Woods Colosseum and Washington 
Park, 67th to 69th street, Avenue A, New York city. 
August 13, 14— Jersey Schuetzen Corps, Capt. Aug. 
Ermisch, in Union Hill Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, N. J. 
August 19— Rheinischer Schuetzen Bund, Maj. F. N. Matt, 
in Bender's New York Schuetzen Park, cor. First avenue and 
63d street, New York city. 
August 26, 27— Greenville Sharpshooters, Capt. A. Zeug- 
ner, in the Schuetzen Park, Greenville, N. J. 
September 2— Ninth Ward Reform Schuetzen Club, Presi- 
dent Wm. F. Schneider, in Elm Park, 92d street and Ninth 
avenue, New York city. 
September 8, 9, 10, 11— Twenty-fifth anniversary of Hel- 
vetia Rifle Club, President Ch. Mattinan, in Schuetzen Park, 
Union Hill, N. J. 
September 9— Bohemian Schuetzen Corps, Capt. F. Wokal, 
in Bender’s New York Schuetzen Park, 63d street and First 
avenue, New York city. 
September 9, 10, 11— New York City Schuetzen Corps, 
Capt. J. F. Gerdes, in Jones’ Wood Colosseum and Washing- 
ton Park, 67th to 69th 6treet, Avenue A, New York city. 
S. O. V. 
[from our own 00REE8P0NEENT.] 
THE FIRST WEEK AT WIMBLEDON. 
Wilbledon, July 13, 1878. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
With a week of the great rifle meeting now past it is very 
safe to call it a complete success. Many of the eighteen pre- 
vious July gatherings have been occasions of great pleasure 
and high scores ; but in weather, interest, numbers, etc. , the 
nineteenth annual meeting has surpassed all. There lias been 
rain, but during the shooting hours, at least, the weather has 
been dry and fine, the light has been good and the wind not 
over troublesome. But few changes have been introduced this 
year. The six inch bull’s eye at the 200 yards targets has been 
abandoned and the old eight inch bull's eye placed again upon 
the targets. Canvas targets are now used in all the competi- 
tions at all ranges and for the Queen’s Prize. In place of 
usiDg Snider rifle for the first stage at 200, 500 and 600 yards 
the Martini-Henry rifle is now employed throughout. With 
a superior weapon comes of course superior scores, as will be 
seen below. 
Wimbledon after all is something more than a mere shoot- 
ing stand. It has a strong social aspect. Men from every 
section of the country cannot live together in this canvas town 
for several weeks without forming acquaintances, and when 
those associations are renewed from year to year it is not 
strange that they should look upon each other as lifelong 
friends. 
American riflemen particularly should know now what this 
great rifle encampment is, since after it the National Rifle As- 
sociation of America is shaping its course. For a full fort- 
night each year the great inclosure at Wimbledon Common 
springs up as if by magic, finds for a few days its thousands 
of inhabitants and then away, as in a dream, go tents and 
tent-dwellers, flags, fence and all, leaving only the common 
with its stunted shrubbery, and away to the west the long, 
low mounds against which the targets are displayed. It was 
to this range that the American team found time to pay a fly- 
ing visit in 1875 after the Irish victories, and it is from this 
range that the great cementing power goes forth which keeps 
thousands of British riflemen, scattered the world over, in one 
great body of hard working marksmen. Life here is a busy 
one. Between gun-fires, from early in the forenoon until six 
o’clock in the evening, the business of the meeting takes pre- 
cedence over all things else — the men arc at the firing points 
straining every nerve, or scurrying across the common to get 
in a few shots here or there in this or that competition. One 
is hurrying to take his place on the line at a bull’s eye target, 
a sort of sweepstakes contest, merely to try the elevation 
which his judgment tells him fits the condition of light, moist- 
ure and wind. He fires most carefully, but hits low, and fore- 
warned, he “ goes up half a point” and, with his opening shot 
in some other competition at the same range, gets in an open- 
ing bull’s-eye in place of the “magpie." So on, all day long; 
hut when evening comes relaxation runs rampant. From a 
dozen camp-canteens comes the sound of musical instruments; 
the band of the Victorias gives an opeu-air concert under the 
great umbrella tent, 150 feet or more in diameter, while away 
from some Scot's tent come the shrill notes of the pipes. 
Along the members’ lines are tents which, in their luxurious 
outfit bespeak the wealth of the occupants who make of the 
Wimbledon meeting a fortnight’s vacation. There is nothing 
like it in all Britain, and perhaps a great American camp meet- 
ing will give the clearest idea of what the Wimbledon gather- 
ing is. 
The staff at Wimbledon shows few changes. The Earl of 
Wharncliffe is at the head and Col. Peel, whom you will all 
remember in his association with the British team under Sir 
Henry Halford, is again the Executive officer. The old camp- 
ers are here on the Association lines as well as on the more 
pretentious members’ camp. The London Irish are missing, 
but the Canadians are at their old spot, and doing good work 
before the targets. The running deer has been made to per- 
form as a leaping or galloping game by a cone arrangement 
on the platform. Capt. Mildway has devised a torpedo target 
by .which when the bull’s-eye is hit a railway track torpedo 
is exploded. The apparatus occasionally gets out of gear. 
The telephone is working finely between the long range tar- 
gets and firing point, and there is now talk of putting it on 
all the ranges ere another year to replace the present telegra- 
phic system. 
I will not burden you with many scores, not at least for 
this week’s work, where the shooting is mainly for prizes open 
to Volunteers only. In my next I will tell the story of the 
Elcho Shield match, and of the small-bore work, which you 
can compare with what your own champions are doing, and, 
by the way, “they say” that the Irish are going to carry off 
the great Elcho again. Certainly they have a very strong 
team and their visits to America have not been thrown away. 
According to the competitive selection test the Irish team 
show more strength than either the Scotch or English. I came 
here on Saturday last before the date fixed for the opening of 
the harmless hostilities. Already there were hundreds in 
camp and, according to the Morning State, 1,560 volunteers 
spent that night in the camp and rose on Sunday morning for 
a quiet day’s rest before the work of the week. There was 
service in camp and during the day no end of visitors, though 
the mid-week Sunday, that is to-morrow, will bring down the 
herds of Londoners to wander about the grounds and envy 
the men their comfortable quarters. 
Monday morning came out beautifully clear, and the crack- 
ing rifles were heard all along the mile or more extent of firing 
points. The Council have declared that leather elbow caps 
are not to be allowed “ in] uniforms,” but] cap-covers may be 
worn on the head without cap below. The helmet headgear 
is not in much favor, as the men find that either in the back or 
front position the helmet ends are in the way and obstruct the 
sight. 
America is not entirely unrepresented here. In the exhibi- 
tion tent is an American Gatling gun, working with dummy 
cartridge, to the admiration of crowds of visitors, while W. 
M. Farrow and Jolir, of .Creedmoor fame, are here making ex- 
cellent work with the Ballard rifle. 
Farrow and Jolir are on their way to the Dusseldorf meet- 
ing in Germany. Johr, you remember, holds your Spirit of 
the Times Badge, while Farrow was the “ Schutzen-konig " of 
the Union Hill gathering last month. The conclusion of the 
first stage of the Queen’s Cup prize should have finished with 
Thursday night, but when the scores were aggregated it was 
found that three men tied for top place on scores of 95 in the 
possible 105. That this means extra good shooting is shown 
in the following exhibit of what has been done in the past 
five years of the present style of scoring : 
1874 — ‘Corporal Young, 1st Herts 87 106 
1876— Private Innes, iota Aberdeen oo 106 
1876— Private Burgess, 1st Newcastle 80 105 
1877— Corporal Betts, 1st Norfolk It. V 92 106 - 
•Also Sliver Medalist In 1870. 
And while this fight was going on for the first place among 
the “sixty" who are to contest at the 800, 900 and 1,000 
yards for the final gold medal and the .£250 cash prize, there 
were twenty-five scores of 88 each for the last eight places on 
the “ sixty.” With the settlement of the Queen's prize, first 
stage, the work of many of the volunteers who came here 
closes, and Thursday evening saw a grand exodus in all di- 
rections from the camp ; but there are small-bore men coming 
in, and the teams are gathering for the final test of next 
week. 
The firing off of the ties for the first place and the silver 
medal perhaps induced many to linger to see the pretty tri- 
angular contest Vhich took place before the Carton target yes- 
terday morning. The three co-equal champions were : Ser- 
geant Lamont, 1st Edinburgh ; Private Lowe, 22d Middlesex ; 
and Corporal Mollineux, 40th Lancashire. 
In telling the story of this tie shooting I use the words of 
local chronicler, who says : 
Half an hour before the markemen appeared to test their prow- 
ess once again eager groups of volunteers and visitors were 
crowding in ranks four deep around the enclosure facing the Car- 
ton butts, where the last soeno of a strugglo closer than any pre 
viously seen at Wimbledon was to bo enacted. No puzzling wind 
or deceptive light gave the competitors cause for anxious glances 
towards the fluttering flags that are sometimes such useful wind 
gauges, nor furnished an excuse for erratio shooting such as unsuc- 
cessful men always find when bull's-eyes are blurred by mists and 
mirage. If the rifle wavered it was not beoause of wind, but of 
the tremulousness which was caused by beating hearts and nerveB 
not firmly strung, and if the targets were seen dimly it was not 
due to changes in the clear light whioh fell full on tho targets 
and brought them into strong rolief from the dark background of 
turf and heather, but rather to the faintness of vision that some- 
times marks a moment of anxious excitement. Around the three 
who were to fire for the proud position of first place in the sixty 
interest centered and usserted itself so strongly that a space 
wherein the trio might be free from jostling and the disturbing 
sounds of audibly expressed comments was kept with difficulty. 
Whether the competitors had oaught something of this exoite- 
rnont, or whether the suspense of long waiting had been too much 
for them, only one bore evidence of being oalm, cool, and self- 
possessed. The two north-countrymen stood apart in grim sUenoe, 
and tried to appear unconoorned, while the Middlesex champion 
cheerfully exchanged greetings with his friends, as if eithor per- 
fectly confident of success, or prepared to boar the reverses of 
ill-fortune contentedly. .Somebody having intimated that the 
competitors might utilize their shots by taking carton tiokots, 
whioh would give them a chance of winning an additional prize if 
they scored a central bull, Lowe went oil quickly to avail himself 
of the suggestion, evidently feeling that he was in the condition 
for etraigLt shootiDg ; but tho others soemod disinclined to risk a 
bawbee or twa ” in the speculation. 
By this time a groat crowd had gathered at tho firing point, the 
rango was signalled “ all dear,” aud Lamont lay down to fire the 
first shot. There was a long pause beforo the rifie could be 
steadied, but at length ho pulled, and friends with binoculars and 
field-glasses looked in vain for any sign of a bit on target or butt. 
“Where did that go?” was the question when the marksman 
slowly came back to his friends, roluotantly convinced that be had 
missed. A cheery comforter suggested, “ Weel, maybe its Joost 
gaun ower the baunk,” and then the Scotch contingent lapsed into 
uilonc* or stood ready to olaim Moilineus, who is said to be Glas- 
