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FOREST AND STREAM. 

Henry Keylish, 2; K. B. Hauser, bow. Argonauta Row- 
ing Association, of Bergen Point, New Jersey, Fred C. 
Eldred, stroke; Walter Man, 8; E. R. Craft, 2; Edward 
Smith, bow. Beaverwyck Club, of Albany, James Wilson, 
stroke; Daniel Doncaster, 3; Richard Gorman, 2; Torrance 
Gorman, bow. Ballston Rowing Club, of Ballston Springs, 
New York, J. 8. Smith stroke; 5. C. Meadbery, 3; Albert 
J. Reed, 2; J. M. Ramsdell, bow. 
—The boat race between Pipenbrink and Moseley, of 
the Mutuals, and Wilson and Doncaster, of the Beaver- 
wycks, at Albany, September 4th, was one of the prettiest 
that hastaken place on the river for many a year, and 
while the Mutuals were successful, the Beverwycks made 
a gallant race, and may feel proud of the result. The time 
of the three miles for the winner was twenty minutes and 
forty-five seconds, that of the losing.club but nine seconds 
later, twenty minutes and fifty-four seconds. This for a 
three mile race with a turn, is the fastest upon record, the 
next to it being twenty-one minutes and forty-one and a 
half seconds 
—The Oneida Boat club of Jersey City will hold their 
regatta on Saturday, September 13th. 
Scullers race for champion badge; eight oared barge race 
and a seventeen foot working boat race are, a part of the 
programme, ; 
—The Atlantic boat club hold their annual regatta on 
the Passaic river, New Jersey, on Wednesday, September 
17th. 
—The Friendship Boat Club will holdtheir annual re- 
gatta on Monday, September 29th, over the Pleasant valley 
course. Senior and junior sculls, a four oared race, and an 
open single scull race. 
—Brown has agreed to Biglin’s proposition for a race at 
Halifax three days after the St. John regatta, and has 
signed articles and forwarded them with the necessary 
money for deposit to New York to bind the agreement. 
The race will probably take place on the 20th inst. 
—Mr, EB. Hasee, of the Atlantics, and Mr. D. Roch, of 
the Nautilus club, will row a scullcr’s race on the Harlem 
river on Monday, September 15. 
—<A number of the members of the New York Rowing 
and Athletic Club have subscribed for another new medal. 
The medal must be won three consecutive times by a mem- 
ber in order to become his final property. The race is for 
single sculls one mile straight away, and to take place on 
Saturday, September 15. 
We reprint from our second number the following rules 
adopted for the government of the International Regatta to 
take place at St. John, New Brunswick, on the 17th instant. 
We shall have a full report of the proceedings from our own 
reporter: 
1, The races shall take place on the Kennebecasis River, on the usual 
regatta course, on the 17th day of September; or should the weather 
on that day prove unfavorable, on the first suitable day, thereafter. 
2. All races shall be started in the following manner: The starter on 
being satisfied thatthe competitors are ready, shall give the signal to 
start. 
3. If the starter considers the start false, he shall at once recall the 
boats to their first stations, and any boat refusing to start again shall be 
distanced. 
4, No fouling, whatever, shall be allowed. 
5. It is in the province of the umpire, when appealed to, but not before, 
to, decide afoul. The boat decided by him to have fouled shall be dis- 
tanced. 
6. Jt shall be considered a foul when, after the race has commenced, any 
competitor by his boat, oar, or person, comes in contact with the oar, 
boat or person of another competitor, and nothing else shall be consid- 
ered a foul. 
7. Any boat taking another's (boat’s) water does so at his own peril, 
and it shall be held that a boat’s own water is the straight course from 
its starting point to its turning point. e 
8. Each boat shall turn its own buoy, the turn to be made in shore 
toward Rothesay. : 
9. If in any race in which more than two boats start a foul takes place, 
and the boat adjudged by the umpire to have been fouled reaches the 
turning point first, the race shall be decided as the boats come in; but if 
the boat fouled does not come in first, or if the umpire is unable to de- 
cide which boat has committed the foul, the race shall be rowed over 
again, unless the umpire shall decide thut the boat which came in first 
had sufficient lead at the moment of the foul to warrant it having the 
race assigned to it. j 
10. Whenever the umpire shall direct a race to be rowed over again, 
any boat refusing to row again shall be distanced. 
11. Every boat shall stand by its own accidents. 
12. The decisions given by the umpire shall be final, and there shall be 
no appeal therefrom. 
atrt and the Drama. 
5 an established institution, tragedy has been for years 
banished from our metropolitan stage, but at Wal- 
lack’s there continued, until recently, to be presented the 
best old English comedies. Here was a green spot, where 
the intelligent and cultured lover of the drama could find 
an evening’s entertainment, be pleased throughout the per- 
formance, and go home with the consciousness of having 
spent an hour or two in the most satisfactory recreation. 
Now these splendid, and we may correctly say, social enter- 
tainments, never lacked patronage—the theatre was always 
crowded. The lookers-on were literally composed of the 
very best people of the city. ‘‘Wallack’s regular patrons)’ 
were as thoroughly well-known as were the ushers, and 
night after night you saw the same aristocratic faces, the 
same high-toned gentlemen and lovely women, while the 
young people were models of refinement and good man- 
ners. It always was an interesting sight in the palmy days 
of Wallack’s supremacy to witness a large family party 
enter the boxes and take their seats. First came the mother 
and father, dressed with exquisite care, but properly old- 
fashioned, to suit “‘their style,” next the blooming daugh- 
ters, to whom the fond father assigned the best seats with 
a courtliness of manner that would have charmed Chester- 
field. Then the beaux and brothers were ‘‘chinked” in, the 
“admirers,” however, always managing, by the careful 
mother’s direction, to be placed behind or by the side of 
the girls. All were in the best of humor, their faces rip- 
pling over with smiles—the very difficulties of getting 
packed away in the narrow seats adding to the zest of the 
affair, and every little annoyance proving a subject of 
pleasant remark or suggesting a practical but harmless joke. 
After all this bustle and rustle and suppressed laughter, and 
after due arrangement of ruffles, shawls, curls, and bon- 
nets, the party would finally settle down into a display of 
ineffable contentment, the prevailing idea being, ‘“‘We have 
a pleasant evening before us, and we are bound to be very 



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happy.” Presently the ladies would timidly put up their 
tiny, jet-tubed opera glasses and study attentively, whether 
the equivocal individual across the parquet was a very 
homely masculine girl, or a young gentleman with his hair 
parted in the middle. Then the occupants of a private 
box opposite would suddenly throw signals of recognition 
to our happy group, and a battery of smiles and congratu- 
lations follow that were wonderful to behold. Then the 
happy father would notice an old gentleman with a great 
want of hair on the back of his head, encased in an im- 
mense white vest, sitting in the orchestra seats, armed with 
a heavy cane and a ‘‘field glass.” and said happy father 
would point out this owner of the huge white vest to his 
daughters with the remark, “girls, there sits one of your 
mother’s old admirers,” whereupon the mother would ex- 
press her astonishment at such a frivolous remark in the 
presence of the young people, then her eyes would snap 
and all would laugh, especially the young ladies. Then 
three young men, with a qnarter of a dozen of white kid 
gloves on their hands, would station themselves in a con- 
spicuous place in the corridor and attract the young ladies’ 
attention by the affectation of earnest conversation, at 
which the beaux of the family party would become per- 
fectly indignant, while the young ladies, strange as it would 
seem, rather liked the idea of being objects of so much at- 
tention. The gas by this time would be turned on in full 
force, the musicians crawl out from a hole under the stage 
and take their assigned places, when Tommy Baker would 
enter, looking as if he was abashed at the attention he at- 
tracted, then, showing his back in full to the audience, he | 
would wave apiece of pipe stem asa baton, then throw 
his head over each shoulder, smile approvingly to see so 
many people present (he presumes for the only purpose of 
hearing his band), then, tapping the music stand, the over- 
ture, generally a medley, was thoroughly well done. Every- 
body, at this preliminary notice, would now settle down 
into a listening mood—even the quarter of a dozen of kids 
felt it imperative to sink into temporary obscurity—a new 
arrangement was made of the crowded personalities and 
compressed crinoline—the curtain is up ! 
Who ever noticed the excitement of a legitimate Wallack 
audience at this critical moment without a glow of pleas- 
ure? Programmes were not needed; the faces and persons 
of every actor or actors were familiar; in fact, the play 
was as near the audience as if it had been acted in the par- 
lor and among the occupants of a private house. 
Who will say that the legitimate drama failed of sup- 
port, or that good acting has not its power to command 
patronage ? Who that thinks rightly can otherwise than 
regret that intellectual entertainments have been thrust 
aside to be supplanted to “‘the poetry of motion, and gor- 
geous attire and splendid scenery 2” 
That we will ever get back to the “‘old_ times” is difficult 
to predict, but this much is certain, the meretricious char- 
acter of the stage which is now so popular can possibly be 
over done. The power of capital to create mechanical 
effects is wonderful indeed, but the triumphs of great 
minds cannot be ordered as you order splendid attire and 
gorgeous scenery; they come only through the careful cul- 
tivation of God’s gifts. At present, the large and most es- 
timable class of people who deli ‘hted in the representation 
of the old English comedies a. iack’s have no place of 
amusement. To them the drama, as they understand it, 
has ceased to be presented in this city. How much society 
and the drama have lost by this fact is difficult to appre- 
ciate. Alas, for the day when Wallack’s succumbed! But 
echo answers back, ‘‘it pays to succumb,” and the mana- 
ger’s conscience is at rest. 
On Tuesday evening The Wandering Jew was formally 
installed at the Grand Opera House, its merits being her- 
alded as an entirely new and most powerful, romantic, and 
spectacular drama! If the greatest possible variety of 
scenery, and much of it done with most artistic style, will 
fill the great interior in which it is exhibited, then Mr. 
Daly’s aspirations will be rewarded. Close upon this ap- 
peal to the eyes, follows on— 
Thursday evening, September 11th, the opening of the 
new Lyceum Theatre, with a romantic spectacular drama, 
entitled Notre Dame, with a full chorus and corps de ballet. 
We now have five first-class theatres appealing to the 
public for patronage, in all of which only the eye is ap- 
pealed to. The notion among managers seems to be that 
all intellectual representations that will pay are impossible. 
The struggle for supremacy in the use of paint, ballet girls, 
minstrel music, and startling scenery, is gigantic Look out 
tor wrecks at the close of the season. 
Italian opera in its grandest estate will soon be inaugu- 
rated, and the city, when this is done, will be fuller of 
operas, theatres, and other places of amusement than at 
any time in its history. Signor Salvini, accompanied by 
Signora Piamonti, will reach this city this week, and will 
open on Monday, the 15th instant. Mr. Max Maretzek an- 
nounces the ccming of Mme. Lucca, Signor Tamberlick, 
Mme. di Murska, with innumerable others of great fame, 
who are to establish once more the grand opera. Mme. 
Nilsson Rouzeand, with the expected arrival of Mr. Stra- 
kosch’s stars, complete the extraordinary list of singers 
who are destined ina few days to be pouring out their 
musical notes to New York audiences, with the expecta- 
tion that they (the audiences) will be most lavish with their 
notes. We promise to be overwhelmed. 
BROOKLYN. 
The Brooklyn Academy of Music, which possessed from 
the beginning most of the requirements of a first-class 
building, was, from the unfortunate character of its inte- 
rior, always dingy and uninviting. No force of gashght 


could remove the impression that it was a great cave, very 
cleverly arranged for dramatic representations. The men 
who originally colored the ceiling and selected the uphol- 
stery, must have looked forward to the time when the 
building could be used for some penitential purpose, possi- 
bly a monastery. For years this radical defect has re- 
mained, and the Academy has ceased to be of any practical 
value, except for some extraordinary use—a charity fair or 
a trumpery exhibition. In the summer just passed import- 
ant changes have been made throughout. The seats have 
been renewed, the private boxes ornamented with crimson 
satin lambrequins, with rich draperies to match. But the 
most important and desirable work is in the substitution of 
new gas fixtures and the washing out of the old india-red 
wall, and the introduction of a light-pencil gray tint, set off 
with a due amount of golden stripes. A new era of use- 
fulness promises to open, and we trust that the building, 
in most respects excellent, will become, as it should, a pop- 
ular, and if anything a fashionable, place of amusement. 
The new Park Theatre, late Mrs. Conway’s, was opened 
on the 9th instant with a most excellent company, and so 
thoroughly “‘reformed” in its interior designs, decorations, 
and scenery that but little is left save its location to remind 
oue of its for years most deplorable condition. Brooklyn 
is morally in great need of the inspiring effect of good, 
cheerful amusements, and it seems likely to be provided 
with them this coming winter. Mr. Samuells, though a 
young man, aS a manager has a genius for his business 
which is even of more importance than experience; he will 
be a success. 
The Brooklyn Theatre, under the management of Mrs. 
Conway, will open on next Saturday night with Othello. 
Mr. Edwin Booth, Mad. Jannauschek, Mr. and Mrs. Barney 
Wilhams, and Mrs. Chanfran are named among the stars. 
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eaten oem 
BreEecH:- LOADERS. By Gloan. 
Woodward. Orange Judd & Co., 1873. 
If we are quite familar in the United States with breech-loading rifles, 
perhaps better acquainted with them than any other people in the world, 
it is none the less true that we know hardily anything at all about breech- 
loading sporting guns. Such special works as have- been written on this 
particular arm, of which W. W. Greener’s book was the best, were rather 
to be regarded in the light of catalogues of breech-loaders; therefore any 
practical work on this subject, of a wider scope, must be of interest to the 
general American public. Gloan’s book, is cleyerly written, is to the 
point, and can only be the production of one who has thoroughly 
mastered, not only theoretically but practically, everything in regard to 
what must inevitably be the arm of the future. In books of this charac- 
ter, itis sometimes quite puzzling for the critic to determine exactly 
whether the work under review is, or is not the production of a gun maker, 
or written in the interest of gun makers, and Gloan’s Breech-Loader, is a 
work of precisely this uncertain character. It is true, a certain prominence 
is given to those most excellent English gun makers, Messers. Dougall, 
Greener, Westley Richards and Lang, and even our American makers, 
Parker & Brothers have some slight comment made about them, (though 
the Remington gun, is entirely ignored), but after a careful perusal, we 
are only too glad to give the book the highest praise for fairness. If 
the book does have the peculiar smack of an English book, and 
may or may not be written in the interest of the English gun makers, 
itby no means detracts from the excellence of the compilation. In 
fact there can be nothing objectionable in this. If English breech-loading 
guns are better so far than those of American make, if they shoot Warder, 
have more range, are less liable to get out of order, by all means let us 
have them. Sportsmen have nothing to do with patriotism, they accept 
only the best arms, no matter where they are made. But where we differ 
from Gloan, and think he is mistaken, is where exercising somewhat of a 
prophetic power, he seems desirous of inculeating the idea, that breech- 
loading guns equal to the best English guns, can hardly ever be produced 
in the United States. If we have made the best breech-loading rifles ix 
the world, not only for sporting hut for military purposes, is there any 
reason why we carinot turn out breech-loading fowling pieces? A gun 18 
not more difficult to make than a watch, and to day, American skill has 
triumphed in this special art of horology after but afew years practice. 
Arguments as to the greatest excellence of hand-made locks or even of 
barrels, have only a comparative degree of force. Ifa pistol or a rifle 
lock on military arms, can be made perfect enough to pass rigorous ordi- 
nance examinations, there is no possible reason why the same pieces in a 
breech-loader cannot be made equally good. Of course there is a @illetan- 
tssm about these things, and we are the furthest possible from decrying 
it. If aman has the money to spend, his gun sbould be a perfect piece of 
art. We cannot paint by machinery it is true, and between a cup carved 
by a Benvenuto Cellini and a Colt’s Revolver, there is a wide* difference 
If in the artisticinspirations, this more prosaic century has retrograded 
New York: George E. 
in the mechanical instinct we have fully progressed. Gun making has- 
its secrets; it is a combination of the highest scientific and mechanical 
powers, but it is by no means the great mysterious art, in which so many 
writers try to enshroud it. The solution of perfect gun making has been 
found in many new mechanical devices, which now supplant the old hand 
work. ‘Inthe United States, breech-loaders must drive out muzzle-loaders, 
and as soon as the demand sets in, not one manufacturer, but adozen will 
make them, and there is no doubt}but that good guns will be made. They 
may be plain guns if you please, democratic, ones if you like. You may 
not be able to pass the thumb all over them without the finger nail catch- 
ing, but they will undoubtedly be sound, honest and square guns. Tf the 
perfect sportsman lucky enough to combine unlimited means and 
| elegant tastes, should want a $1000 gun, there is no doubt that in a very 
short time, the American gun maker, will be perfectly able to make him a 
breech-loader fully worth the money. We entirely disclaim any idea of 
rivalry, and are free to acknowledge what was before asserted that so far 
English breech-loading sporting guns are superior to our own, but the 
idea we wish to convey is that this superiority cannot always be maintained, 
Tn the last ten years, England has taken more {from us, in gun mechan- 
ism of every kind, than we have received from her. Haying we trust in 
no captious spirit advanced our opinion, we now return with great pleas- 
ure to the intrinsic merits of the book. Every subject is discussed with 
singular good judgment, and the advice given is excellent. In fact, we 
have so good an opinion of Gloan’s Book on Breech-Loaders that we trust 
to use it frequently for subtle points of gun lore, and we have no hesita- 
tion in recommending it to the attention of all American Sportsmen. 


The best use you can make of seventy-five cents will be to buy a game 
of Ayilude, the most instructive and delightful games ever published. If 
our dealers have not got it, send the money to West & Lee, Worcester, 
ass., and it will be sent by mail, post paid. 
“The dest of its clask.—Boston Hveniug Transcript. 

