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the friend, at wcond cast, hooked nnd killed a ten pound fl.«h, the only 
one we tot, I will now go a little further mid <>a$r (provided Ihe water 
la low) to ►how on the innlu l(c><tl|.’oii('lio salmon that ran hecoanted by 
the hundred, lenpint Coiillnunlly, after the SSth of August, and not one 
will take the moat templing or plfllneat lly In your book. 1 have no 
doubt your Mirlmlehl correspondent threw over ninny n good flali that 
hod escaped the poacher, from tlila cause, mh he wiya ho commenced 
the 31st of Auguat. I find ninny more blind ll»h In our river than usual. 
Of course the increased number now in the river given u little chance to 
obaerve them. It la enured by being for n time In the gill net, the tw Ine 
hurting the e.ve, particularly n large of course the flab afterwards 
escaping. Net. used here ore all gill nets, seven Inch mesh. No doubt 
the flsh that escape arc Injured. Mill they generally recover. It la the 
only proper method for million HMilng, and all pound small 2 ( Inch nets 
should be iihollfclicd. The gill net allows all dah under ten pound* to 
Imbs through, whereon the other lakes the whole from one half pound 
up. Much a* the gill net has been abused, it has saved tills nver, nnd 
should be adopted in all salmon rivers, or the pound nets limited to a 
very short time, In order to allow the river to get Its proper supply, 
I am glad to any my Osh breeding la siien ssfiil thin season. I laid 
down over 8cO.no:. eggs, and will bring out over ninety percent. Con- 
sidering this U oiilyinysceoiidtrliil.lt Is a fair percentage. I see Seth 
Gieen ran bring out a million eggs with a pall of water dnl'y. Tills Is a 
boon for which pisciculturists will be tlmnkful, particularly In a dry 
season. I beg to return Mr (' Atkin* my thanks for bis courtesy for 
reports nnd information, and should like him to visit Dec Side some 
July. I am, sir, your obedient servant, John Mowat, 
Fishery Ofllcer, Itesligoiic.be Division. 
SCHUYLKILL NOTES. 
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New Y.vonT.— II. E. Hibbard, Esq., of Boston, is buy- 
ing built for him in the yard of l lie Delaware and Hudson 
River (.’anal Company, fit Shelburn Harbor, (Burlington) 
Vt,, a centre-board sloop yacht, to be named the “EiHe 
Mary.” . She is 38 feet over nil, 15 feet beam, and will 
measure 10 feet across the stern. Her frame is of oak, as 
are bolli the top and garhonrd streaks. Each of the top 
streaks are on : clean unbroken piece, from stem to stern. 
Her model was made by Cant. Oliver I). Chessbro, Stonc- 
ington, Conn , after Capt. William’s famous yacht Jennie, 
•if New London, who has taken many prizes, and is well 
known as Ihe fastest boat of her class in the Sound, and 
she is being constructed under the immediate supervision 
of Capt. A, B. Curtis. Her anils, of which she is to spread 
400 yards, are being made by C. Barry, the well known 
sail-maker, at New London, Conn. The mainsail will have 
35 feet hoist, and from the end of the bowsprit to end of 
boom will be 71 feet. She is to be done in May, and it is 
the intention of her owner to keep her on Like Champlain 
until July, and in August to take her down the Hudson to 
New York and thence to Boston, visiting the several 
points of interest en route. 
—The yacht “Mohawk," now in course of construction for 
Wni T. Garner, Esq., of the New York Yacht Club, will 
be when com pie! ed one of the largest vessels of her class 
ever constructed in this country. Her dimensions are to be 
121 feet on the water line, 138 feet on deck, 140 feel over 
all, 30 feet 4 inches beam, and 9 feet 4 inches depth of 
hold. Her burden will be not less than 330 tons; heavier, 
in fact, than that of the Columbia, after which the new 
craft is modeled. In the hoisting of suiis, anchors, Ac., 
steam power is to be used. 
— At the annual meeting of the Mutual Boat Club Asso- 
ciation the following officers were duly elected:— President, 
Charles II. Thomas; Vice-President, "Eugene P. Gross, 
Captain, E. Stanley Foster; Recording Secretary, E. Mig- 
gail; Corresponding Secretary. George P. Whitney; Treas- 
urer, F. II. Weed; Board of Trustees, Col. R. 8. Olinu, 
James A. Shaltuck, jr., Robt. K. Olinu, James R. Mills, 
George D. Wei'lman. 
National Association ok Amateur Oarsmen.— The 
Executive Committee of this Association have issued a cir, 
cular addressed to amateur clubs throughout the country- 
calling their attention to the desirability of their joining 
the organization. Any regularly organnized Rowing Club 
may become a member by adopting the Constitution, and 
remitting the annual fee of $5 to the treasurer. The Asso- 
ciation lias an invitation to hold the Regatta of 187(1, in 
Centennial Philadelphia, where our American crews are 
promised a trial of skill with their Trans-Allautic cousins. 
— The Massachusetts Rowing Association have voted to 
hold two regattas in each ycur, suitable prizes to be offered, 
to be open only to members who have been connected with 
the clubs at least three months prior to the contests. The 
Executive Committee was authorized to define the term 
“amateur" and “ professional,” nnd appointed a commit- 
tee of five to arrange a programme for the first regatta. 
— The Malta club are prepariug for the season by the 
purchuse of a new double scull. 
— Gov. Hartranft nnd Mayor Stokley have signified their 
willingness to Commodore Ferguson to serve the Honorary 
Committee of the International Regatta in 1876. 
— Mr. George B. Maulc, of Easton, Monmouth county, 
N. J., wishes to place himself with some of our crack 
crews for the coming season. Mr. Maule was formerly 
stroke oar in the Winchester four, of Cambridge college, 
England. 
— The Chester Boat Club (formerly the Friendship) of 
Boston, Mass., will put the following four on the water 
next season : James Peabody (bow), C. F- Doherty, Jas. 
Doherty, E. F. Kelley (stroke.) 
— The officers chosen by the Analostan noat Club of 
Washington, D. C., are as follows t President. W. (). Avery; 
Vice-President. L. S. Stevens; Corresponding Secretarv, 
E. 8. Maunder; Recording Secretary, E. N. Callan; Cap- 
tain, J. L. Robertson; First Lieutenant, John R. White; 
Second Lieutenant, Theodore Mosher, jr. 
<— The N, Y. Herald of Saturday suggests a “ graduate 
prjze" for the Centennial Regatta— a race for the graduate 
Of all colleges, 
„ „ Pnn.ADBi.pinA, March 22d, 1875. 
Editor torkst and Stream: 
On Tuesday last there seemed to be a certainty of the 
immediate opening of the boating season; the ice was bro- 
ken up, »nd going away rapidly. There is a lively rivalry 
among the different clubs as to who shall get the first row 
of the season, and this lime, as for several years past, the 
honor fell to the Undine. At three o’clock their double 
scull gig !• awn was started from their slip. At the “con- 
necting railroad bridge” the floating cukes had jammed, 
necessitating a carry of about one hundred yards. From 
lu re to the bend of Peters’ Island the river was clear, and 
the crew scored the lirst three miles. Later several singles 
of the same club, a double of the College, and a pair of 
the Vespers got us far tvs Girard avenue. Now the river is 
UmTo C yo L< ’ ljUl ^ ew warm days "iH permanently open 
It will soon be time for the crews for the June regatta to 
begin to get to work, and as the Crescent-Undine eight 
oared race is fixed for I lie third or fourth Saturday in April 
they will he among the first to go into regular practice. 
We are sorry to hear that the Crescents ure going to sell 
their eight; but it is a good boat, with a good record, 
amt some one will get a bargain. Their house is crowded 
now, and they part with her for the sake of room. 
Another of the Pennsylvania’s crew of last year— Hen- 
derson, No. 3— has left that club and joined the Quaker 
(dies, who will certainly present a strong tenm— McBenlh, 
Henderson, Adams, and West. They have no lack of sub 
sutules, there being four men besides, any one of whom 
will do to go in incase of a break down in the regular 
crew. We notice the carpenters already at work getting 
ready for the extension to their house, which will be ueces- 
sary to accommodate the two fours, a gig, and a shell, 
which Fciuon 1ms nearly ready for shipment. 
Dlciisou Ion, no.hing daunted by li is failure, is going in 
again, and lias engaged Frank Killsby to coach him at 
sculls. Stick to it, “Flip." 
There is a growing probability that the Vespers will take 
their old place in the Navy sometime this Spring, and if 
they do no doubt the Bachelors will follow. This is much 
to lie desired, as the Philadelphia clubs would then present 
a solid front. 
The committee having charge of the ooen regatta— June 
16th and 17th— held a meeting to-day, and elected John 
H( ckley, Jr., permanent chairman. They appointed sub- 
committees on prizes, tug and stake boats, and reception, 
with Mr. Krumbhaw chairman of the latter. Their circu- 
lars are promised by April 1st. The Bachelors arc havin' 
a new four oared gig built by Byron, and the Philudelpltias 
a double scull by Metcalfe. 
Ot.r Park commissioners are after an appropriation of a 
round million, which they arc likely to get. Then the un- 
sightly piles of dirt between the boat bouses will give place 
to grass and flowers, and the entrance to the park be no 
longer an eyesore to visitors, perhaps. 
There are some rumors of u bridge at Edgeley; but we 
hope that is only rumor, for a bridge there would spoil the 
course for a time at least. Truly yours, Sculls 
Fast Walking.— On Saturday evening a walking match 
between Wilson Retd and Daniel O’Leary was decided at 
the Hippodrome. Retd, who is a cartman of this city has 
appeared but once before, beating Davis, a letter-carrier 
ten miles at the Rink. O’Leary came from Chicago un- 
known nnd unheralded, and has not only made a record ns 
a flrst -class pedestrian, but gained a host of friends by his 
unassuming demeanor. Reid, although possessing good 
style, was entirely outwalked, withdrawing at the end of 
the fifteenth mile. The walking was in every respect first, 
rate, both men making the second mile in 8 min. 6 sec. 
O Leary walked the twenty miles out, completing the dis- 
tance in 3 hours, 11 min. nnd 15 sec. A match is now on 
the tapis between the winner and Mullen, one of Weston’s 
quandam antagonists. 
— The Brooklyn Chess club held their annual meeting on 
March 17th, when they elected officers and closed up their 
tournament. The officers elected were: — President, Mr 
Turner; Vice-President, Mr. Davis; Secretary, Mr. Munoz; 
Treasurer, Mr. Noyes. Directors— Messrs. Perrin, Horner 
and DeGraat. The prizes awarded in the tourney placed 
Mr. Perrin as the first, Mr. Horner second, Dr. Barnetr. 
third nnd Mr. Spence fourth. Next on the list were Messrs. 
Robinson, Phillip, Thayer and El well. 
—The following is the score of the games played at the 
Cafe International up to Saturday: — 
First Class. — McKenzie won 3, lost 0; Delmar won 1, 
lost 1 ; Barnett won 1, lost 0; Alberoni won 3, lost 3; 
Mason won 1, lost 1. 
Second Class. — Limbeck won 5, lost 1; Wiesucr won 2, 
lost 1 ; Goldmarck won 2. lost. 1. 
JFlf §ollt(ies. 
BOATING IN LOUISIANA. 
New Orleans, March 10, 1875. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Now that wo are feeling tho gentle influence of Spring, visits to the 
bo -t house are becoming frequent, nnd the discussion of each applicant’s 
Alness for the representative crows Ih the theme of interest. If I un- 
derstand tlie boys, there is to he an inaugural race in May, to open the 
season with, besides, the ch lmplonsbip rncc in September. 
The State Rowing Association is to be re organized on a more liberal 
basis, so that our neighbors on the Gulf or Atlantic may be represented 
nt our regutta. 
The Orleans Rowing Club elected ofllcers for the cnsuiDg year last 
Tuesday with the following result:— 
Samuel Ilnyd, President; B. D Wood. Vice-President; R. II. Browne 
2d \ Ico President; James McKeon, Captain; Theo. J. Welle, Secretary; 
J. U. McConnell, Treasurer. 
The President and Vice-President do not “ply the spruce" themselves, 
but are great favorite# with the boys, nevertheless; and the boys know 
why- Thc Captain, also, Is a selection which pleases all; he ha* stroked 
the crew lu some good nice# and may yet show the colors of his club in 
front. 
The Howard Club will send a boat load of good-looking fellows to re- 
present them, nnd the crew that leads them in a race must hace muscle 
and lungs In good order 
Connolly, of the Pellcuns, raised quite a breeze iu his club some Sun- 
days ago by beating the champion crew of his own club in a race down 
the Buyon St. Johu to the lake; he will orgauize a good crew for May 
and September. ' 
The St. John Club are keeping quiet; their best crew has been much 
weakened by the loss of Dixon, third stroke; perhaps they intend giving 
the boys a surprise. 
The Riverside has the same crew that won the pennant nt Carrollton 
on the eventful !4lh of September, with the exception of Gleason; they 
are nt work every opportunity they have to row. Diamond says he Mill 
mnke It warm Tor any crew tlmt leads him in September 
The Louisiana* are so badly situated that I never have on opportunity 
or seeing them or learning o.’ their movements. 
Noffsingcd, of Pittsbn.g. 1» building two pair oared boats for the 
Orleans, which is the only Rem in the way of new boats that I know of 
When I see them shall lot you know how they build in Pittsburg; till 
lllen I «m your friend, Thick. 
Rational flnstimes. 
— Tlie Professional Association book, with the revised 
code of playing rules governing tlmt class, will be in print 
on ihe .511. i ust. besides tlie professional records, the 
work will contain all ihe games played in England, nnd a 
sketch of all the players who took part in the lour Tlie 
hook of averages will also he issued at the same time, and 
by the first week in April tlie Constitution and By-laws 
with the Secretaries repoilof tlie Amateur Convention pro- 
ceedings. will appear in print for the first time. These 
rules govern every club enrolled on the hooks of the 
Amateur Association, about sixty odd. Tlie professiour.1 
coite governs only the thirteen professional clubs in their 
Association. There is now hut one playing code the 
Amateurs having endorsed the professional' rules with one 
exception and that is in Hie case of halls striking the bats- 
mail s person. The professional codu makes all such halls 
detvd, as do the Amateur rules in one section, but in auother 
part of their rules they muke them called halls, This ad. 
fhit« of n dityble filling by Umpires, 
—Harvard graduated its first class in 1037; William and 
Mary in 1692; Yale in 1702; Princeton in 1748; University 
of Pennsylvania in 1753; Columbia in 1754; Brown Uni- 
versity in 1764; Dartmouth in 1769; Rutgers in 1770. Har- 
vard lias a living graduate of the last century in the person 
of Horace Binney, the Nestor of tho Philadelphia bar, who 
recently celebrated his 95th birthday. The oldest living 
graduate of Yale is Rev. Thomas Williams, of Providence, 
who is 96 years old and a member of the class of 1800.— 
Independent. 
—The Yale Chess Club has been for some time engaged 
in a match game with Cornell University. On the twenty- 
fourth move a dispatch was sent to Cornell announcing a 
check mate, whereat the Yale chess players are greatly- 
elated. 
The English University Race.— This, the first, as 
well ns the most important eveut of the boating season 
was decided on Saturday last, on the usual Thames course, 
from I utney to Morllake, resulting in a victory for the Ox- 
ford crew. As indicated by the betting, this result was 
somewhat foreshadowed, the Oxonians having recovered 
some of the old form which for the past five years had de- 
serted them. The particulars of the race as received by 
telegraph are somewhat confusing and contradictory. Cam- 
bridge is said to have taken tlie lead on the start, pulling a 
quicker stroke than the Oxford, hut the advantage was only 
held as far as the crab tree, a distance of a mile and a half. 
Here the Oxford stroke quickened the time, nnd at Ham- 
mersmith Bridge, two miles from the start, Uie boats were 
even. At Corney Beach, Oxford was ahead, and at Brame's 
Bridge, three and a half miles, the dark blue had increased 
the lead to six lengths. The steering in the Cambridge 
boat was very bad, and when the judges’ stand was passed 
amidst the most vociferous cheering, Oxford had widened 
the gap to ten lengths. This ruce, which was originally 
rowed in 1829, has now been pulled thirty-two times. Had 
Cambridge won, the number of wins would have tied, as 
each university would have had sixteen to lier credit. Ox- 
ford is now two wins to the good. The usual scenes inci- 
dent to the contest were fully represented. Tlie struggling 
crowds of under graduates shouting themselves hoarse; 
the crowds lining the tow-path and both river banks, crowd- 
ing oil barges aud boats of every description; the fleet of 
puffing steamers behind the boats, and the presence of 
royalty in the persons of the Prince of Wales, and other 
members of the Royal family, all combined to make a 
scene only equalled by a similar one ou tlie “ Darby" day. 
I he time made is reported at 22 minutes 2 seconds, which 
is 32 seconds faster than last year, and 27 seconds slower 
than the year previous. Iu our issue of last week we gave 
the names of the crews and their weights. 
The College Regatta.— Capt. I. E. Eustis, Chairman 
of the Regatta Committee, former stroke of the Wesleyan 
crew, and now of the Atalanta Boat Club, has been engaged 
during the Winter in anchoring buoys through holes in the 
ice, for the use of tlie coming contestants in this race. Over 
3U0 have been planted in this manner, each of which is to 
he ornamented with flags, tlie design being to form so many 
lanes for the 13 bouts expected to start. Hard work iias 
been the order of the day among the college men ull Win- 
ter. Amherst, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, 
Harvard, Hamilton, Princeton, Trinity, Uuion, Wesleyan, 
Williams aud Yale, are the contending colleges, Of these 
Amherst, Brown, Hamilton and Union, did not send crews 
to Saratoga last year. The prizes will he a silver cup given 
by the citizens of Saratoga to each member of the win- 
ning crew, in addition to the customary colors. It is too 
early as yet for prognostications, even as regards the form- 
ation of the crews. 
— The Harvard University Boat Club has decided to 
have their dub races on Saturday, May 29, in the following 
order: single sculls, double sculls, four oared, and six 
oared; tlie six oared race to be followed by a race between 
the University and Freshman crews, the University to he 
handicapped. It was also voted that programmes of the 
races he printed, giving the order and names of the crews 
for distribution ou the day of the ruce. 
The Jasper club of Manhattan College, huve elected 
Mr. M. J. Cousidine President, nnd O. A. Hopkins as Sec- 
retary, whose address is Manhattan College, N. Y Tlie 
new nme of the Washington club, Mr. Childs says, will be 
as follows: — Blackburn, C. ; Stearns, P. ; A. Allison 1st 
b ; lerry, 2d Lb.; liessler— not Kessler— 3d b. ; Fay, s. s. ; 
Parks, 1. 1 .; IIol by, c. f. ; Mincher, r. f. This is a good 
team. 
W SB-Ttn's Unabridged Illustrated.-’ Viewed as a whole, we nro 
aonOdeui that no other living language has a dictionary which so fully 
and faithfully B ets forth Its present condlUon, as this last edition of 
Webster does that of our written and spoken Euglish tongue. '-Harper', 
jfajatint, 
