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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1875. 
To Correspondents. 
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Correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 
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Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor ns with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the nim of this paper 
to become a medium of useful and reliable Information between gentle- 
men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 
And our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
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fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
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the legitimate sports of land and water to those base nscs which always 
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money remitted to ns is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, If possible. 
CHARLES II ALLOCH, Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Basiness Manager. 
at Crccdraoor, and no better commentary on the error into 
which our contemporary has fallen could be advanced than 
the fact that of the riflemen of America appealed to by 
the joint committee of the National Rillc Association and 
Amateur Rifle Club less than twenty presented themselves 
as candidates at the competitions. Virtually, the return 
match is one to be shot, on our part, by the same team as 
that which was victorious last year. 
The Timet continues: “Innumerable rifle clubs are scat- 
tered over the country, and there are, besides, whole classes 
of the population to whom proficiency as marksmen is 
a necessity of existence." As regards the clubs, they cer- 
tainly are being scattered over the country (we are almost 
tempted to say very much scattered); but the class of rifle- 
men of whom Lcuthcrstoeking was the type is, we fear, 
becoming smaller by degrees and beautifully less. The 
rifle used by these men is nlso becoming obsolete. “Kill- 
deer," so true for one or two hundred yards, has given 
place to the Remington, the Sharp, the Ballard, aud the 
Whitney, rifles that throw their heavy ball with accuracy 
to 1,000 yards and beyond; and the old squirrel shooting 
Kentucky small bore is rapidly lapsing into a tradition of 
the past. We are glad to learn that public competitions 
are also to be held iu Ireland, and that riflemen outside the 
Irish Rifle Association are invited to contend. It will be 
interesting to note the response and compare it with that 
made to our own like appeal. As for the “millions" of 
riflemen in the country, let the Times take off several cy- 
phers and it will be nearer the mark. Earnest endeavors 
are being made to educate our National Guard to the stand- 
ard of riflemen, and when that is accomplished we may be 
able to number them by the thousands. 
THE INTERNATIONAL GAME PROTECT- 
IVE ASSOCIATION. 
cl^^^Nova^SwtUu*' Trident Game and Inland Fishery J-rot. Bo- 
lton. J. F. Crosby, Esq., Houston, Texas 
Dr. Rawlings Yonng, Corinth, Mississippi 
Prof. Theo. Gill. Smithsonian Institute, Washington D C 
L. W. Ledynrd, Esq., Cazcoovin, N. Y. 
Bernard A. ltooi.es, Esq., President Philadelphia Sportsmen's Club 
T. B. Ferguson, Esq. .Commissioner or Fisheries. Maryland 
Leo. H. Ucromo, Esq., Superintendent State Fisheries Mlahionn 
Fl8h0ri08 ' Dominion of Canute. 
. - , — site Coi_ 
Geo. A. Boardinan, Esq., Calais, Maine. 
Mann as so h Smith, Esq., Maine Sportsmen's Association. 
T. W. Walker, Esq., President West Jersey Gurne I'rot. Soc 
Seth Green, Esq., Superintendent Stale Fisheries, New York 
Maj. Geo. J. Aluon, Now Smyrna, Florida. 
II on. Chas. W. Hutchinson, Utica, Now York. 
£- A. E $q., Secretary Ontario Game I’rot. Soc., Canada. 
}) . II. liolubird, Esq., Valparaiso, India - 
Hon. John Bertram, Peterboro, Canada 
uiiiiuiu viumo i 
\\ . II, liolubird, Esq., Valparaiso, Indiana. 
Hon. John Bertram, Peterboro, Canada. 
William A. Newell, Esq,, President California Acc. Soc. 
Samuel Wlltnot, Esq , Superintendent Fisheries, Newcastle, Canada 
w C „ *•. 1-e Commissioner of Fisheries, Massachusetts 
Uniter M. Brackett, Esq., Mass. Anglers Association. 
Col. James Gordon, Pontotoc, Miss. 
It. M. Ogdon, Esq., San Francisco, Cal. 
Capt. J. W. Coventry, Nouvclle, Cuuudu. 
D. J. Staples, Esq., San Francisco. 
D. O. Joice, Eeq., San Francisco. 
» !»' Throckmorton, Esq., Kish Commissioner. Suu Francisco. 
u. U. Redding, Esq., Fish Commissioner, San Francisco. 
(Per order of the Committee.) 
Chas. Hallook, Secretary, 
Office Forest and Stream, 17 Chalhum street, New York. 
In addition to those just named above, we append a 
complete list of adjoining members, so far as received 
with the certainty of large accessions up to the day of the 
meeting. The initiation fee, to be determined by the Con- 
vention, will propably be One Dollar, to defray printing 
and other contingent expenses: — 
Bcl1, Dominion Geological Survey, Montreal; 
a' iw p , Ma u "' £? ronto ; ^ a l’ 1 J- Coventry. Nonvello, C 
wi “f, t .',/ c v t , cr 5 uri .’. : T . I , ,oh . J-_ Eagan, _ Halifax; Col. C. R. McMurdor, 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 
ING WEEK. 
Thursday. May 13-Raelng. Lexington, Ky.— Trotting, Deerfoot Park, 
L. I.— Base ball, Boston vs. Washington, at Boston; Athletic vs. Hart- 
ford, at Hartford; St. Louis vs. Keokuk, at Keokuk; Chicago vs. Red 
Stockings, at St, Louis. 
Friday, May 14-Racing, at Lexington, Ky. -Trotting. Deerfoot Park- 
Yachting, Prince of Wales Clnb Cutter Match, Erltli to the Nore-Base 
baU, Harvard University nine vs. Princeton nine, N. Y.; Athletic vs- 
Hartford, Hartford. 
Satubday, May 15— Racing, Lexington, Ky.— Pigeon Shooting Match 
between Bogardoe and Paine for $1,000 at Prospect Park, L. I.— Bose 
ball. Harvard University v*. Yale College, at New Haven; Boston vs. 
Washington, at Boston; Chicago vs. Keokuk, at Chicago— Athletic As- 
sociation, Stevens College, Hoboken. 
Monday, May 17-Racing. Lonisvllle, Ky.-Yachting. Holyhead Re- 
gatta-Base ball, Philadelphia vs. Mutual, at Philadelphia. 
Tuesday^. May 18-Racing, Louisville. Kjr.-Trottlng, Mnrtinsbnrg, 
va.; Pern, tad.; Fleetwood, N. Y.— Bose ball, Chicago vs. Keokuk at 
Chicago; Athletic vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn. 
Wednesday. May 19-Raclne, Louisville, Ky.— Trotting, Fleetwood 
Park-Base ball, Chicago vs. St. Lonls, at Chicago; Keokuk ts Red 
Stockings, at St. Louis. 
AN IRISH VIEW OF THE RIFLE MATCH. 
j/\ LATE copy of the Dublin Time* contains an editorial 
MA. on the subject of the return rifle match, in which 
it suggests that energetic preparations be commenced to- 
wards sustaining the reputation of the Irish riflemen on 
their own soil. It contends that they “enter the iists 
against the Americans under manifest disadvantages, and 
that it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that there are in 
the United States millions of persons habituated to the use 
of the rifle." We will venture to say that there are ten 
persons in Great Britain and Ireland accustomed to the 
use of the long range, or in fact any other rifle, to one in 
this country. If we read correctly the figures given in the 
last number of the Volunteer Service Gazette, there are over 
500,000 riflemen enrolled as volunteers in the empire; the 
contests at Wimbledon, where they are instructed in the 
use of the long range rifle, have been carried on for a series 
of years, and even the most distant of her colonies have 
followed in the wake of the great movement inaugurated 
about the time of the Indiau mutiny. We have not the 
figures to determine the exact number of the contestants 
at Wimbledon who are also qualified for places on the Irish 
team. The number, however, must be far in excess of all 
tbe American long range riflemen who have yet practiced 
'"T H E International Meeting for Protecting Game and 
A Fish will be held at Cooper Institute at eleven A. M. 
on the 19th of May instant, us will be seen by the call 
appended. 
Some question having been raised as to the relations of 
this International Association to the National Sportsmen’s 
Association which will meet at Cleveland next month, we 
| are authorized to say that ils functions are merely advisory, 
aDd that the Association will cense to exist as soon as its 
| work of determining species and the proper times and 
measures for their protection, is accomplished. It is co- 
operative with, and in no way antagonistic to, or even com- 
petitive with the National Sportsmen’s Association, except 
in the honorable emulation to accomplish the greatest goo 3. 
It was projected as an institution independent of the other 
because it was deemed necessary and wise to place scien- 
tific matters in the hands of scientific men, so that errors 
might be few, and lime be saved in retrieving errors. So 
important a matter as the nomenclature of our fauna (which 
still puzzles our best informed scientists) should be entrust- 
ed only to naturalists, and to those whose study of the hab- 
its of creatures in the chase by land and sea Las made 
practical naturalists. It was projected as un independent 
institution also because the co-operation of Canada was 
indispensable to success in the efforts to procure suitable 
and sweeping protective laws, and because a National 
Sportsmen’s Association of the United States could not in- 
clude Canada within its folds as a corporate and compo- 
nent part of it. When the Niagara Falls Convention met 
lust September, overtures looking to an international or- 
ganization were made to the Convention by Mr. W. F. 
Whitcher, Fish Commissioner of Canada. His dispatch 
was courteously received, but no action was taken upon it. 
There were those present then who recognized the error at 
once, and some of them are now interested in the interna- 
tional movement under consideration, as an alternative. 
No doubt action will be taken at the Cooper Institute 
meeting endorsing the National Sportsmen’s Association, 
and encouragiug the formation of co-operative State Asso- 
ciations in all the States where they are not already formed 
as an auxiliary power of immense value, which shall be- 
come the educator, through all its branches and ramifica- 
tions, of the masses, and a police force to detect offenders 
and punish offences of those laws which we trust shall 
emanate from the united wisdom of the country; and 
therefore, to secure the greatest good and the most perfect 
work from the most competent sources, the International 
should, and doubtless will, invite a conference between tbe 
committees of the two bodies named. Out of the two, cer- 
tainly, a scheme of game laws should be framed to meet 
our long necessities. 
PROTECTING GAME 
C. Fifletd, Fish Commissioner. Enfield; \V. 
WnoMiaU v D ; uuimiA, cui, v . iv. iucaiuraor 
boro 11 d> N ' B “ Dr ' R ' A ' A,,0VVtt y- Montreal; J. \V. Sheridun, 1’etor- 
f-® r : }7 m Warren Green, Everitt Smith, Portland; E. SI, 
Stillwell, Fish Commissioner, Bangor. 
New UAMrsiuuK--A. C. Fifield, 
II. Parker, Nashua, 
rlsbu^ ,0NT-Ch ' 18 F ' ° rvl8, Manchester; Rowland E. Robinson, Fer- 
Massachusetts— • S. A. Thayer, taxidermist, Randolph; ,T H Thoran- 
n n 'ui"u' Bc ' d , f0r n ; f - A ' ,? bcr - 'Venhnm; E.’s. Merrill’ Winchendon; 
mH K R k V <1 ' Harvey Clap, Attleboro Fulls; Dr G G.Ken- 
ci8 d ^iftefleid ry fe V M 8 w e J8 h M lreot ’ Bo8,on; J - Dwight Fran- 
HaIm 1 e n’ w M - M*? 8 "K®;. F. \V. Messinger, 55 Bromlleld street. 
Bo. ton, E. G. Morse, W. I. Morse, New Bedford; Lt. Henry Metcalfe 
John (fi3w«* d p' J «' Rced ' Pror - A,ux - Agassiz, ^ambrldeM- 
Lawrcnce U Bostou. 1 d MMuachoaetts Anglers’ Association, F. W. 
RHODE Island— Rev. Francis H. Hemperly, Providence. 
WnK be w A - Mowry, Putnam; It. B. Harrison, New 
ducob Gitalin, West Meriden; Ethan Allen. Pomfret. 
New York— C olonel George A. Flower. President State Sportsmen’s 
Aswocla ion, Watertown; -Dr. L. J. Peck. Vice President io. T. C 
nln d i H L ted st ,1 tu n Treasury, New York City; Dr. James S 
Bailey, Albany; G. B Grinnell, Yale Scientific School, City; Rev 
Wen!' m\‘ra er °i.Voa 0C M CB .‘i Cr: G - K® ll °gg- Oswego; Charles K. 
weed, Utica , I' red Mather, Eeq., Honeoye Fulls, Dr J R 
Romeyn, Keeseville; Major II. W. Merrill, New Rochelle; J Robinson 
Warren, Ciy; C. M Roof, Colonel G. W. Wingate, do W 
do - t ’u iw; J, {, dg ? F ; F ii ch ' ( - ,|t >' ; Wm. Seward Webb! 
71. Batty, Bath, L. I ; lIornceSllsby,SenccaFulls;Gardi- 
ner l.Lyon, Oswego; Wn its T Loomis, Little Falls; C. Fitch Bissell 
' W -' Surrey, Yonkers; A. J. Northrop, Syracuse; E m' 
Nsw u' S * i0, i^:. P ^ l,c ^ L T. : , Jol ‘ n Ander8 °“. Mills 
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR 
AND FISH. 
New York, April 26, 1875. 
By vote of a majority of the Advisory Committee, a meeting will be 
held In New York City on the nineteenth of May, 18:6, at 11 o'clock, A. 
M , at Cooper Institute, Room 24, or Geographical Society's rooms, same 
building, to organize an ••International Association for Protecting Game 
and Fish,” whose business It will be to select a competent Board of 
naturalists, fish culturlsts, game breeders, and sportsmen, who shall be 
empowered to draft suitable laws and submit them to Congress, or duly 
constituted Legislative bodies, for approval. The attendance of all who 
have entered applications for membership is earnestly desired, 
(Signed.) 
Hon . Robert B. Roosevelt, President American Fish Guitarists' Asso- 
elation. 
Prof E D. Cope, Academy Natural Sciences, Pblla. 
Dr J. L. Ik* Conte, Zoological Society, Philn. 
uL El r l ' l0 w C ro e! ‘; r/ A , Smithsonlau Institute, Washington, D. C. 
lion. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo. N. Y. 
Hon. I, E. West. Newbern, North Carolina. 
New Jkrsey-Rcv John It . Bi^efy, Bordentoivn; Henry S ” Hot - 
fcAW. White’ Shrewsbury^*''* 
do., Joseph Hemphill, AVestcbester; Dr. C.A. Kingsbury, 1 119 Waln.it 
farner' (WaI't' 8 ' m Houston, Lincoln University, Col- 
lnnKr, Chester Co.; Erlward f,. Clarke, Philadelphia; Joseph H Roach 
Ph ladetphla and Wilmington hailroad, do.; John 
C. Johnson, do ; S Weir Mitchell, do ; Chas E. Smith, do. 
vil^ l ' AWABE - R - Middletown; Wm. H. Clnrkeson, Bridge- 
v *rv,mn LA \ro7L P i‘ J" Deer T“ rk ; Ed. Wheaton. Baltimore; Chai. 
E. Coffin, Muirklrk, G. S. Brown. Prest. Md. Gumc Association 
Distiiict op Columbia— C om. L. A. Benrdblte II s • < i 
Phelps, Wright Hives, Prof. F. V. liayden^ cio 1 Survey‘d ^ Dr il' r 
^ arrow; Lt. Geo. M. Wheeler, U. 8 Geil. Survey E LKiniiev 
Smithsonian Prof. H W. Henebaw. do; G. Brown Goode, do. y ’ 
, YinoiNtA— M. G. Ellzey, M. D., Blacksburg; Dr. Asu Wall Winchester- 
\V. H. Scabury, Norfolk; Capt. J. M. Tuylor, Black’s A Whited 
Depot, Nottoway Co. ; J. S. Stanley -James, Farmvillo; Thos. William- 
Bon, Lecsourg. 
North CAROLINA-Thco. F. Davidson. Ashville; I)r. George H 
sef^do ^ ^ A ” Marion; C'bas. M. McLaren, Weldon; C. S/Rus- 
in^°r^"p Ca | ) u Al ‘ E c K. Egbert. U. S. A„ McPherson Barracks, At- 
lanta; Geo. E. Alden, Savannah. 
Mississippi— G. V. Yonng, Columbus. 
Florida — W. M. Led with, Jacksonville. 
Louisiana — John E, Leet, New Orleans. 
Ohio— T hos. A. Logan, Cincinnati. 
MicnioA.N— Frank Card. Flint; George Clark, Fish Commissioner, 
Ecorse; D H. Fitzhngh Bay City; A J. Kellogg, Fish Commissioner 
Allegan; Dr. G. A. Stockwell, Port Huron; Henry J, Allen. Schoolcraft 
HS?'rc^o^.. S ; ieVVard ’ P1,lUO;C - A - KR ^ en ’ George 
Minnesota— Dr. D. C. Estes. Lake City. 
Missouri-O. A. Crandall, M K. & T. It. R., Sedalia; Thomas 
B. Armun, St. Louis; D. L. Dickinson, do. ; Ad. Paul, do. 
Texas— S. B. Buckley, Stale Geologist, Austin; Joseph’ Lubadie, 
SSTS! West. Auf,ic WaU '' GalVeet0ni F - Chas - Hume ’ 0a * ve8ton = 
Kansas— Dr. John H. Janeway, U. S. A., Fort Wallace 
Nkbiuska-H. C. Magoon, J. P., Monroe. Platte Co. 
Colorado— Chas E. Aiken, Colorado Springs, taxidermist 
iNbiAN Territory— Bt. Coi. G. W. Schofield, Fort Sill 
M a sin noton Territory- Wm. B. Blackwell, New Tacoma 
California— S. K. Throckmorton, San Francisco; B b Red- 
ding, Sacramento; D.O.Jolcj.-, San Francisco: D. J. Staples, do.; It. L 
Ogaen, do.; Wm. A. Newell, President California Acc. Society! 
Jacob Wagner Eso., WytheviileTvirgTntaT 
Nahum E. Ballou, Esq., ' 
elation ' _ Socrol8ry II1,Qo18 State FtahlCulturinta’ Asso- 
Carlos Gove, Esq., President Denver. Colorado, 8hootlng Club. 
Chambers C. Davis, Esq., Secretary Denver, Colorado, Snooting Club. 
Annual Re-union of the Philadelphia Sportsmen’s 
Association. — The Philadelphia Sportsmen’s Club is in all 
probability one of tbe most energetic and efficient institutions 
for tbe protection of game, the advancement of good fel- 
lowship, unanimity, and a higher standard of action among 
field sportsmen, in the country, and at this time we under- 
stand that its roll of members numbers about two hundred 
and fifty, including active, contributing, non-resident, and 
honorary members. Among the important regulations of 
the club is its annual social meeting and exhibition of skill 
at trap and rifle shooting, which also includes its glorious 
planked shad dinner. On Saturday, the 8th inst., this im- 
portant event came off at "Fish House," Tinicum, near 
Chester, on the banks of the Delaware River, where’more 
than one hundred members, with a number of invited 
guests, assembled. The Pennsylvania Railroad having dis- 
patched the party by special truin from Philadelphia, on 
reaching the grounds arrangements were made by the 
shooters to contend for the prizes, two elaborately engraved 
silver cups of about $100 in value, to be awarded to the 
