April 15, 1911.] 
581 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
San Francisco, Cal., April 3. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The following scores were made 
on Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park in variable 
winds on March 25: 
Event No. 1, 
J. 15. Kenniff . 
T. C. Kierulff.. 
distance. 
.122 
. 9S 
feet: 
accuracy, 
98.4 
Event No. 2, 
C. G. Young..._ 
Geo. c. Edwards_9S.1 
Jas. Watt . 93.$ 
J. r. Burgin .92.10 
F. Burgin 
B. Kenniff.. 
. C. Kierulff. 
99 
99 
F. 
J- 
Cooper. 
.... S2 
J. 
t). 
McKee. 
cent.: 
F. 
A. 
Webster. 
.. 98.1 
F. 
1. 
Cooper. 
.. 98.9 
\Y 
. 1) 
. Mansfield... 
.. 98.1 
J- 
D. 
McKee. 
.. 96.7 
F. H. Reed... 
98.2 
Event No. 3, delicacy, per cent.: 
~ ^ , r Accuracy. Delicacy. 
Net. 
99.1 
99.11 
99.26 
97.36 
98.35 
99.13 
Geo. C. Edwards. 
J. B. Kenniff. 
98 .’o2 99.30 
I'. G. Kierulff. 
96.32 98.40 
9S.40 98.30 
E. A. Webster. 
M . D. Mansfield. 
J. D. McKee. 
F. H. Reed. 
98.52 99.20 
99.6 
Event No. 4, lure casting. 
C. G. Young. 
per cent.: 
Accuracy. 
Distance 
Lure. 
Geo. C. Edwards. 
James \\ att . 
J. F. Burgin . 
122 
J. B. Kenniff. 
105. S 
T. C. Kierulff. 
I’. A. Webster.. 
•i in i 
W. D. Mansfield. 
J. D. McKee. 
F. Y. Bell. 
F. II. Reed. 
March 26.—Under the s 
ame conditions 
the fol- 
lowing results were had ; 
H. B. Sperry .101 
C. H. Kewell. 85 
Austin Sperry . 103 
Event No. 2, accuracy, i 
H. B. Sperry.9S.5 
W. D. Mansfield.98.6 
J. F. Burgin. 92.6 
C. H. Kewell. 9S.11 
Austin Sperry . 96.4 
T. C. Kierulff. 97.12 
Dr. W. E. Brooks... 98.6 
W. L. Gerstle.97.6 
J. D. McKee. 97 
T. C. Kierulff. 99 
Paul M. Nippert. 60 
J. B. Kenniff. US 
cent.: 
C. A. Kierulff.98.10 
F. V. Bell. 97.14 
P. M. Nippert.94.S 
F. J. Cooper. 98.6 
F. H. Reed.98.4 
J. B. Kenniff. 99 
C. G. Young . 98.12 
James Watt .97.S 
Event No. 3, delicacy, 
H. B. Sperry . 
VV. D. Mansfield. 
C. H. Kewell. 
Austin Sperry . 
T. C. Kierulff. 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
W. I,. Gerstle. 
C. A. Kierulff. 
F. V. Bell.. 
Paul M. Nippert. 
F. J. Cooper. 
F. H. Reed. 
J. B. Kenniff. 
C. G. Young. 
James Watt . 
per cent.: 
Accuracy. 
. 98.16 
. 99.4 
. 97.12 
. 95.16 
. 98.8 
. 98.4 
. 95 
. 96.32 
. 95.36 
. 97.48 
. 97.52 
- 98.36 
. 98.4 
. 98 
. 97.32 
Delicacy. 
199.30 
99.30 
99 
99.40 
99.40 
99.40 
95.10 . 
98.20 
96.50 
95 
98.10 
98.40 
100 
95.50 
97.30 
Net. 
98.58 
99.17 
98.6 
97.28 
98.59 
9S.52 
95.5 
97.26 
96.13 
96.24 
98.1 
98.38 
99.20 
98.25 
97.31 
Event No. 4, lure casting, per cent.: 
II. B. Sperrv. 
J. F. Burgin. 
W. D. Mansfield.... 
C. H. Kewell. 
Accuracy. 
Austin Sperry . 
T. C. Kierulff. 
Dr. W. E. Brooks. 
W. L. Gerstle.. 
John D. McKee. 
( . A. Kierulff. 
F. V. Bell. 
Paul M. Nippert. 
F. J. Cooper. 
F. H. Reed. 
J. R. Ken iff .. 
( . G. Young. 
James Watt . . 
. 96.1 
E. O. Ritter, 
Distance 
Lure. 
126 
127 
138 
128.6 
102 
94.6 
106 
69 
62 
122.4 
70 
123 
71 
140.4 
87.4 
52 
Clerk. 
Club Elections. 
The Sherwood Hunting and Fishing Club has 
been organized in Chicago and will maintain a 
large preserve on the Illinois River. The officers 
are: President, Jesse Sherwood, Chicago; Vice- 
President, John Rader, Maples Mills, III.; Sec¬ 
retary, A. A. Walters, Chicago; Treasurer, W. 
A. Kittermaster, Chicago; Directors, Walter L. 
Darlington, Thomas J. M’Coy, Charles A. Ken¬ 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
nedy, Dr. Henry Boettcher and W. A. Kitter¬ 
master. 
1 he Niagara County Anglers' Club, which was 
one of the many that protested against spring 
shooting, held a meeting recently and decided 
to apply to the State for game birds and bass 
and crappie for restocking purposes. John Moon 
was re-elected President; Vice-President, F'red 
V. Korff; Secretary, Carl J. Brong; Treasurer, 
E. A. Fry; all of Lockport, N. Y. 
1 he Gulf Fishing and Hunting Club of Mobile, 
Ala., has elected officers for the year as fol¬ 
lows; President, G. M. Van Liew; Vice-Presi¬ 
dent, A. D. Bloch; Secretary- Treasurer, A. E. 
White. The membership has increased to 150. 
The Egg Mountain Ciub has been organized 
in New Y ork City with a preserve on Egg Moun¬ 
tain, in Vermont, not far from Salem, N. 
Land has been purchased and leased in Ben 1 
nington county, giving the club control of sev¬ 
eral thousand acres embracing ponds, streams 
and covers. Ihe members will be permitted to 
shoot in Vermont by procuring resident licenses. 
It is proposed to improve the property by the 
erection of bungalows for members, by culling 
timber, planting trees and tapping the sugar 
maples. George W. Kinney, of Paterson, N. J., 
is president of the club; Vice-President, J. G. 
Sherman; Secretary - Treasurer, George W. 
Dennehy, of New York city; Clerk, George 
Hawes; Directors, W. L. Race, G. C. Schnitzer 
and Frank Beatty. 
The Baltimore County Game and Fish Pro¬ 
tective Association, of Baltimore, Md., has been 
incorporated by Dr. A. C. McCurdy, County 
Game Warden; Upton S. Brady, James Kelley 
and T. Scott Offutt. The association was formed 
for the purpose of preserving game, birds and 
fish in Baltimore county. 
1 he Poplarwood Hunt Club has been incor¬ 
porated and will maintain a small preserve in 
Forestport, N. Y. 
The Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Asso¬ 
ciation, with headquarters in Louisville, has re¬ 
elected all of its officers, as follows: President, 
Joseph G. Sachs; Vice-President, Benjamin W. 
Folsom; Corresponding Secretary, E. H. Nobbe; 
Financial Secretary, W. T. F. Fiedler; Treas¬ 
urer, Emil Pragoff. The membership is increasing. 
Mr. Curry’s Bugs. 
Tenafly, N. J., March 30.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your last issue appears an article 
with the caption, “Bugs For Bass.” From the 
description of the bugs (the specific name of 
which the writer does not give), I think I recog¬ 
nize them as the ancestors, by evolution, of the 
swift flying and beautiful dragon fly. Is this 
right? A. Bug. 
[No. The “bugs” referred to by Mr. Curry 
belong in that group of Crustacea known as 
isopods, meaning equal-footed, though their 
numerous legs are not all of equal length. In¬ 
cluded are the wood lice and those aquatic in¬ 
sects known as asellidfe. Asellus aquaticus was 
probably referred to by Mr. Curry. It is also 
known as the water-hog louse, perhaps from its 
habit of feeding on decomposed organic matter. 
Mr. Curry says he knows this insect as the 
“gribble (Limnoria terebrans), family asellidte,” 
but according to Routledge the timber-boring 
shrimp or gribble is only about as large as a 
grain of rice.—E ditor.] 
Greatly distorted impressions are often re¬ 
ceived in looking through the windows of an 
express train; the things seen are sometimes 
astonishing, and there is no time to verify or 
disprove these impressions. 
1 ake, for example, the glimpse one has in 
passing of the Passaic River. Once the name 
recalled all that was beautiful; now it is under¬ 
stood by many people to signify sewer. Its 
waters below the mill towns are a greasy metal¬ 
lic black, and that they are deadly to all life is 
shown by the condition of the trees whose roots 
absorb the fluid. These are less health}"—even 
in time of drouth—than those standing on higher 
and dryer ground away from the river. 
One March evening I glanced at the Passaic 
from a car window, and lo! its waters were 
tinted a bright pink in a band stretching half 
way across from the west shore, while little 
tongues of color, wind-blown, were spreading 
into the black water to leeward. As the sun 
was setting in a blaze of red, I looked away to 
make sure that my eyes had not deceived me, 
but on gazing again, the same thing was seen, 
and it then occurred to me that silk dyeing 
waste was being discharged into the river. 
Another day the waters of the Saddle River 
were dyed orange, with a tinge here and there 
of pale blue. And the Saddle River is stocked 
with trout every year. Certainly these trout 
never descend the river, at least beyond a point 
where pollution commences. 
* * * 
There is a series of ponds that I pass daily. 
To look at them from the-car window is rest¬ 
ful, for the surroundings are pretty. In winter 
hoys skate over them; in autumn I have an 
occasional glimpse of a man with a gun and a 
dog, framed m red maples and yellow birches. 
Once I saw an angler wading one of the ponds, 
casting a fly. For a long time this puzzled me; 
in fact, until I worked out the problem for my¬ 
self. In spring a tiny rill connects the series 
of ponds with a brook, and trout find their way 
through the flat lands into the pond. Perhaps 
that angler thinks his secret knowledge is safe, 
but if so he showed lack of judgment in fishing 
while the train was passing. 
* * * 
As the train passes, all these ponds appear as 
regular, well-behaved ponds, save one, which 
seems to be tilted at such an angle that the water 
should flow out of it. A gentle lurch of the 
train explains the matter, for that pond is oppo¬ 
site a curve in the track, and the car windows, 
suddenly tilted away, distort the vision. 
* * * 
With a friend I was shooting at a target one 
afternoon in a meadow when two boys came 
along. Boylike, they were highly interested in 
the .22 caliber revolver and rifle with which we 
were practicing, and examined the targets criti¬ 
cally when these were changed after each string 
