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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devoted to Field and Aquatio Sports, Ppactical Natural History, 
Fi«u Culture, tiik Protection op Game, Preservation op Forests, 
aud tub Inculcation in Men and Women op a healthy interest 
in Out-door Recreation and Studt : 
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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875. 
To Correspondents. 
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Correspondence, most be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 
lishing Compaxt. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 
Alt communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
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objection bo made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 
Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 
We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, ns It is the aim 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 
find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 
The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 
patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 
fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 
Is beautiful In Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 
the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 
tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 
ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 
terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 
may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 
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money remitted to us is lost. 
Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES II ALLOCR, Editor. 
WILLIAM C. HAItniS, Business Manager 
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 
IN G WEE K. 
Tuirsdat, .Inly Ist.-Trotllng, Mystic Park, Boston; St. Paul, Minn. 
Kalumozoo, Mich.— Yachting, Regatta of Central nudson Y'acht Club 
et New Hambuig— Cricket, Tournameut at Ottawa, Canada, and con- 
tinuing until the 7th inst.— Base boll, Reliance vs. Chelsea, at Brooklyn; 
Eagle vs. Battery, at Communipaw, N. J.; Alaska vs. Star, at Hoboken. 
Friday, July 2d — Trotting, Mystic Park, Boston; Kalamazoo. Mich. ; 
Harrisburg, Pa —Base ball, Boston vs. Atlantic*, at Brooklyn. 
Saturday, July 3d.— Racing, Monmouth Park, N. J — Trotting, 
Mystic Park, Boston; Harrisburg, Pa.; Chicago, 111 —Base boll, Athletic 
vs Philadelphia, at Philadelphia; Boston vs. Hartford, nt Boston; Y’ate 
vs, Princeton, at Brooklyn; Concord vs. Winona, at Brooklyn; Name- 
less \s. Enterprise, at Hempstead, L. I. 
Monday. July 5th —Racing, Monmouth Park.N. J.-Trotting, Pough- 
keepsie, N. Y . ; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.— Yachting, Regatta 
Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I.; Penh Amboy Yacht Club; 
Rowing and Sailing Regattas, Boston harbor; Regatta at Greenport, L. 
I —Meeting of American Rifle Association, Monnt Vernon, N, Y'.— Base 
ball, Mutual vs. Atlantic, at Brooklyn; Boston vs. Hartford, at Hart- 
ford; .Etna of New York vs. Magnolias, at Newburg, N. Y. ; Concord 
v», Enterprise, at Hempstead, L. I.; Reliance vs. Union of Elizabeth, 
N .1 , on the Waverly Fair Grounds; Union vs. RosehiU. at Waterbary, 
Cl , Nameless vs. Red Sox, at Greenport, L. I. 
Tuesday, July 6th. -Trotting, Lowell, Mass.; Greenville. Pa. ; Mon- 
ti cello, Iowa; Detroit, Mich.— Yachting, Beverly Y’acht Club Regatta 
Beverly Mass . 
Wednesday, July 7th.— Racing, Monmouth Park.N. J.— Trotting, 
Detroit. Mich. ; Greenville, Pa. ; Lowell, Mass. 
CANADIAN GUIDES FOR SPORTSMEN 
T HIS paper having alluded incidentally to the scarcity 
of guides in the Muskoka district of Canada, 
whither several of our readers weut last year, the Orillia, 
Ontario, Expositor calls upon the young mon of Muskoka 
to acquaint themselves with the geography and fauna of 
the district so as to qualify themselves for duties which 
may readily bo made remunerative in the Summer and 
Autumn months. We might add the Winter months also, 
for we have frequent inquiries relative to the fur bearing 
resources of this region of Canada, and whether it. would 
pay to trap there. 
The young backwoodsmen of Canada would be surprised 
to leara how profitable the occupatiou of guide may be 
made (whicli we hope they will not, at present,) and to 
know that in the Adirondacks alone the number of pro- 
fessional guides, independent and steadily employed, is 
Three Hundred and Fifteen. At least, this is the number 
given in Wallace’s New Guide to the Adiroudacks, and we 
infer that the true number is really much greater. There 
are guides also at Mooseliead Lake, Rangcly, Marquette, 
and all the principal hunting and fishing resorts of the 
United States — good and intelligent guides, too, many of 
them. It is surprising how much information that is of 
service in surveying, lumbering, agriculture, and geology, 
and other noble departments of industry, can be gathered 
up by a man serving in the simple capacity of sportsmau’s 
guide. His duties fit him for a dozen conditions of a use- 
ful life. They make him a good cook, tailor, carpenter, 
sailor, axeman, fisherman and hunter. The vicissitudes of 
his life constantly teach him expedients, and make 
him self-reliant and brave. They make a man of 
him. Negatively, his occupatiou keeps him out of 
temptation and mischief, It is an honorable occupa- 
tion. Should the young, hardy, hard fisted men of 
Muskoka elect to follow the very sensible and seasonable 
advice of the Orillia Expositor, they will, by the adoption 
of their new vocation, acquire more knowledge of their 
own district than they could in any other way, and thus 
unwittingly become valued, useful, aud well informed 
members of the community, who would be always called 
upon for counsel, and to take active part as leading men iu 
every capacity. 
The wages of guides where boats are furnished, is geu- 
erally $2 50 per day in the United States; without boat 
$1 50. A guide is required to make camp, construct 
shanty, cook, row or paddle, cut firewood, bring water, 
and perform such gcneial duties and labors for his em- 
ployer as he would for himself, provided he were alone 
and in similar circumstances. He must be a good guide 
indeed who possesses these several and diverse attrib- 
utes and can employ them without complaint or show 
of impatience. 
We perceive that settlers in Muskoka have been disap- 
pointed as to its quality as a farming country, and that 
local papers advise them to turn their attention to grazing. 
It may be that guiding would prove more profitable still. 
At all events, the business might be employed conjointly 
with that of the herdsman and stock raiser. 
INDEP ENDEN CE DaY. 
T HE usual din of guns, large and small, and the crack- 
ing of those infernal machines, yclept fire crackers, 
invented by the Chinamen for the propitiation of evil 
spirits, will on Sunday morning next usher in the dawn of 
the ninety-ninth anniversary of American Independence. 
Th ■ real jubilee, however, will be postponed until Monday 
as far as the boys and those unfortunates who may by ne- 
cessiiy be forced to remain in the city, are concerned. 
The great multitude will take advantage of the two holidays 
coining together, to get more than the usual Sunday al- 
lowance of fresh air and amusement. The fashionable 
watering places will be crowded, but the knowing ones 
will eschew fashion and fireworks and go after blueflsh on 
the Great South Bay or Barnegat Inlet, or beat the swales 
and swamps of New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the wary 
woodcock, 
—The subject of running the hotels at the White Moun- 
tains and other popular resorts on the European plan is 
being agitated. This European plan is simply to pay for 
your room and at the table pay for such meals as you or- 
der. It would give much better satisfaction to the ma- 
jority of travelers, who do not average a meal a day, as 
they are continually ubsent on excursions and tours of in- 
vestigation in the neighborhood, sometimes camping out 
for days together. Those of slender means could afford to 
go oftener and stop longer. 
ANNUAL CALEDONIAN CONVENTION. 
F OR the sixth lime the Scotsmen resident upon this con- 
tinent and in affiliation with the North Americau 
United Caledonian Association will, on the 21st inst , as- 
semble in convention. The former meetings of the asso- 
ciation have been held in this city, Montreal, Philadelphia, 
Auburn, and this year it will convene at Toronto, Ontario’. 
The occasion is the most important in the Caledonian cal- 
endar. It brings together members of thirty-one ufflliated 
clubs and societies, which have a membership of upward 
of four thousand, and is regarded as the grand annual 
“gathering of the clans." The President of the associa- 
tion is a kind of little “Lord Mogul" to the Scotsmen of 
America. 
A few words in regard to the history and objects of the 
association will at present be seasonable and beneficial. 
The association was organized on the 31st day of August 
1870, under the Presidency of Col. A- A. Stevenson, of Mon- 
treal- The objects of the organization are a matter of in- 
ference, and are not stated in either ite constitution or by- 
laws. The power conferred under Article VI. of the 
former would appear to be the sole constitutional authority 
of any importance, beyond merely formal privileges, vested 
in the association. The article referred to reads as fol- 
lows :-“The rules of games adopted by this association 
shall be binding upon all clubs and societies connected 
with it." In exercising this authority the N. A. U. C. A. 
has performed a service which has been fully recognized 
both in the columns of Forest and Stream and among 
Caledonians everywhere. A further clue to the r ims of 
the founders of the body may be obtained from the first 
by-law, which reads as follows :-“No club or society shall 
be eligible for affiliation with the North American United 
Caledonian Association except such ns are composed en- 
tirely of Scotsmen and their descendants, and organized 
for the encouragement and practice of Scottish games and 
the promotion of a taste for Scottish literature, poetry’ and 
song." While recognizing the latter part of the constitu- 
tion of ns members, the association exercises no active 
surveillance over the cultivation of Caledonian intellect 
It has been repeatedly urged to do so, and especially by the 
Scotch papers of this city, but has hitherto restricted its 
attention to the development of Caledonian muscle. The 
fact would almost appear to have been overlooked that to 
do more, and arrange a series of Winter lectures or literary 
amusements, would be altogether unconstitutional. Vor 
this and for the other reason above alluded to, that ther 
is no exact definition in the constitution of the ’ associnfte,, 
of its objects, it seems eminently desirable that Hint docu- 
ment should be subjected to revision. It is true that ihe 
centrul Scottish authority should possess and exercise soinu 
right of dictating to local clubs a course by which they 
may purvey some kind of mental pabulum lo the country- 
men of Scott, Burns, Stewart, Hamilton, Macaulay, Miller 
aud Carlyle. 
In regard to the manner in which games are conducted 
there are only two suggestions at present occurring, which 
ought to receive tho attention of the convention. It was 
pointed out in the article No. 5 upon Scottish games in 
these columns, that from the disparity between the feats 
of the same athletes at different places it seemed doubtful 
if the rule regarding the weights of the hammers and 
stones were more than nominally observed. Any doubt 
upon this ground might be obviated by the insertion of an 
injunction that these implements be weighed in presence of 
the judges at every celebration of Highland games. 
It seems also very desirable that some more fully de- 
tailed code of laws should be drawn up for the regulation 
of the quoiting match. That adopted by the Grand Na- 
tional Curling Club would be at least a good basis. 
It is also somewhat strange that no official record is pub- 
lished of the events of the Caledonian year. For six years 
the annual of the Grand National Curling Club has been 
issued, and has conveyed to curlers all over the country 
full information of the doings of their own and other 
clubs. There are many Caledonians who would gl.tdly 
welcome the appearance of a similar volume upon the af- 
fairs of Scottish societies. It would supply a remedy for 
a want long felt, and its publication could scarcely do 
otherwise than put a handsome surplus into the treasury of 
the associatiou. 
Further suggestions are at present withheld. The To- 
ronto gathering, held under the auspices of the locul club, 
whose reputation for generosity and liberality is a sufficient 
guarantee to every visitor of a warm reception, is certain 
to be a success. 
The following are the clubs at present on tho roll:— Mon- 
treal, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Scranton, St. Cath- 
arines, Ont., Hudson counly, N. J., Auburn, Pittstou, De- 
troit, Newark, Troy and Cohoes, Syracuse, San Francisco, 
Hanford, Newton, Glengarry, Brooklyn, Hazleton, New 
Haven, Bridgeport, Toronto, Westerly, Paterson, Wash- 
ington, Baltimore, Buffalo, South Adams, Albany, Ilumil- 
ton, Saginaw Valley. Several additions are expeclcd this 
year. 
The day following the convention will be devoted to nu 
international tournament, in which the usual programme 
of Higaland games will begone through. The best ath- 
letes of America and Canada are expected to be present. 
DISAPPEARANCE OF FISH AROUND 
NEW YORK — DESTRUCTION OF 
NEIGHBORHOOD OYSTER BEDS 
THE CAUSE. 
Oncprlnclpa 1 cause of the lumenlable fact that the waters of the 
Hudson River no longer contain, as of yore, a multitude of hnss , ,t 
weakllsh to attract amatour fishermen to our shores, and tarnish wiort to 
hose piscatorlnlly Inclined, Is that for many years past oyslcrmen from 
the southern counties of the suite have been in the habit of drcdeTn 
for oysters in the shallow waters along tho shore, removing ihem ro 
other parts of the State for the purpose of planting, thus depriv ng II c 
llsh of their natural food-the spawn of the oyster -YonXtr* State, mu. 
We alluded to this matter in a recent number of Forest 
and Stream, and it has since been pressed upon our 
attention by Dr. Chas. W. Torrey, an officer of the Yon 
kers Sportsmen’s Club, who has interested himself in put 
ting a stop to the destruction, and arresting and prosecu 
ting those who take oysters contrary to law . So fully con- 
vinced were our law makers of the past generation of the 
importance of pr.-serving these oyster beds, that in 1851 
they prohibited the taking of oysters from any of tho 
waters iu the county of Westchester during July and 
August under penalty of $25 and an additional sum equal 
to the value of the oysters taken. Tim law as it now 
stands (passed November, 1853.) permits the inhabitants of 
Westchester to catch oysters to plant in their own waters, 
but all other persons are fined $100 and the value of all 
oysters taken. Nevertheless, the law has been steadily 
violated up to the middle of last Juue, when the Yonkers 
Club, assisted by deputy sheriffs, made several arrests after 
which the depredators thought it prudent to move off. 
Nine private vessels were counted, iu one morning, be- 
tween Mount St. Viucent and Spuylen Duyvi), with their 
small boats digging for oysters. Now that it has become 
evident that there is a prohibitory law for Westchester 
county, and that it will be enforced In the vicinity of 
Yonkers, the theatre of digging operations has been changed 
to the vicinity of Tarrytown aud Spuyten Duyvil above 
and below. At the former place no less than thirty-one 
vessels have been counted at one time. It is evident from 
the little that has been done, that energy and persistence 
will put a stop to the depredations complained of, so far 
as Westchester county is concerned, but since the annexa- 
tion of tho lower portion of that county to New York city, 
the supervisors have no jurisdiction below or south of 
Mount St. Vincent, and it seems to be a question whether 
there is a New York county law under which tho Yonkers 
Club or New York Club can act. If there is none, one 
ought to be passed at the next session of the Legislature. 
Perhaps the counsel of tho New York City Society for the 
Protection of Game cun tell us. If within its jurisdiction 
R should aid the, Yonkers Club in its endeavors to save our 
