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FOREST AND STREAM. 

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Sportsmen's Goods. 
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SECTION BOATS 
Exploring, Traveling, Hunting, 
Fishing, Trapping, &c. 

PATENTED AND PATENTS APPLIED FOR. 

The following are some of the advantages of 
of these boats. 
ist—There is no possible danger of the sections com- 
ing apart. These boats are just as rigid under any kind 
of a strain as a whole boat would be. Hundreds of 
them are in use, but no case has occurred where they 
have come apart. 
2d—They are as speedy as a whole boat; the joint 
does not perceptibly decrease their speed. 
3d—It is almost impossible to make a hole in the sides, 
It has actually been proven that a blow which will split 
the sides of a wooden boat from end to end, only makes 
a dent in these boats. a 
4th—In durability they are immensely superior to 
any wooden or paper boat. ae against’ sand, 
rocks, ice, or eyen grass, inkes the latter all but use} 
less, but on these boats has little effect. 
5th—They have in many instances supplanted the 
others, and as their merits become more fully known, 
will, for many purposes, almost entirely -superseed 


them. 
W. E. BOND, 
22 SoutH WATER ST., CLEVELAND, O. 
1873. BOATING SEASON, 1873 
’ 
WATERS PATENT 
Paper Boats 
RACING, EXERCISE, PLEASURE, 
SHOOTING OR TRAVELING. 
The inventors having during the past six months 
given their entire attention to their manufacture, will 
with this season, introduce our ImpROVED PaPER Boat, 
in the construction of which great improvements have 
been made, overcoming all objectionable features which 
haye been developed during the past six years. We 
refer with pleasure to the record of the past. 
Our boats have been wintered and summered in both 
hot and cold climates. rowed in both fresh and salt 
water, yet after five, and in a few cases six seasons 
of steady use, these boats can be shown as serviceable 
to-day as when first finished. They were awarded the 
Fist MEDAL AND DIPLOMA OF THE AMERICAN IN- 
STITUTE, at its Fair held in New York in October, 1869, 
and for racing and training they are preferred to those 
of wood by numerous boat clubs and numbers of the 
best oarsmen throughout the United Sates, having since 
their introduction been rowed by the winners of THREE 
HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE MaTcHED Racks. 
E. WATERS & SONS, Troy, N. Y. 
Sole Manufacturers for the United States and Europe. 
10: 
NEW YORK AGENCY. 
Arrangements have been made with the well-known 
house of A. M. INGERSOLL, Boat Builder, No. 159 
South Street, New York, (Established 1828,) who will 
keep at all times a large assortment of our boats on 
hand. Parties desiring any class of boats, either Paper 
or Wood, will receive further particulars on application 
to 


E. Warrrs & Sons. 

AVILUDE. TOTEM. SNAP 
West & Lee, 
PUBLISHERS OF 
Natural History Series of 
GAMES, 
AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
GEV A. Rot B, 
Worcester, Mass. 
BROOKLYN CUN EMPORIUM 
E. H. MADISON, 
DEALER IN 
Guns and Gunning Material, 
564 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
Sporting Goods 
OUGHT, SOLD, EXCHANGED, AND 
ON HIRE. Special attention paid to Fine Guns 
and Breach-Loaders, &c. Repairing of every descrip- 
tion a specialty. 
Aye Acer sent everywhere by express, marked 
J.C.Conroy & Co. 
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
FISH HOOKS, 
And Fishing Tackle, 
No. 65 FULTON STREET, NEW YORK- 
10: 
Nine Silver Medals, and the only Gold Medal awarded 
for finest articles, : 







= $51 




HUMORS OF SPORTING 
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LIFE} 
aw 


A NON SEQUITUER. 
Inrant Tyro.—‘‘ Father they say trout bite pretty well now.” 
PARENTAL Boss CoBBLER.—‘‘ Umph! 
bite you.” 
Umph? 
You stick to your work and they won’t 
(Who knows what the world may lose by this crushing of the youthful bent? ) 



Sportsmen's Gaads. 
Sportsmen's Gaads 


BRADFORD & ANTHONY, 
BOSTON, 
IMPORTERS, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN 
Fishing Tackle, 
Have the best facilities for the Manufacture of 
FISHING RODS, ARTIFICIAL FLIES, WATER- 
PROOF LINES. 
and their connections abroad enable them to supply 
all Foreign Fishing Tackle to the best po ranies Tn 
t si 
the Fall of 1873 will return to their store, (rebui nce 
the Fire,) at 
178 Washington Street. 
Orders by mail promptly answered. 

Established 1837. 
J+ toed BOOLe On a. 
IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF 
Mi EAGALE 
5O Eulton St., N. Y. 


Green Hart, Split Bamboo, Log Wood, Fly 
and Salmon Rods, a specialty 
R. L. RAWSON'S 
SPORTSMANS DEPOT. 
CUNS, FISHING TACKLE, 
AND ALL KINDS OF 
Sportsmen’s Goods. 
626 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. 
ATTENTION! SPORTSMEN! 
N. Y. State Sportsmen's 
ASSOCIATION. 


Report of Committee on Stan- 
dard for Shot. 

Your Committee have the following report to make 
on the adoption Bes shot manufacturers and sportsmen 
of auniform “AMERICAN STANDARD” of Drop 
Shot. 
We have corresponded with all the mannfacturers 
in the conntry, and most of them express a willingness 
to conform to the standard which shall be promulgated 
by your Convention. % 
All manufacturers will have eventually to conform, 
when sportsmen regnire that their shot shall compare 
with the standard of excellence which your Committee 
has fixed. 
Upon the most critical examination, your Committee 
have decided to adopt as the “AMERICAN STAN- 
DARD,” the scale presented tous by Messrs. THOS. 
OTIS LE ROY & CO., of New York,as follows: (Here 
is given the scale, which can be had, on application, 
from Messrs, Thos. Otis Le Roy & Co., New York.) 
The number of pellets as given in the standard, is the 
correct number of PERFECT shot which will be produced 
by the given scale of each size. 
R. NEWELL, Chairman. 
N. M. SMITH, 
F. G. SKINNER. 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is an extract from 
the minutes of the meeting of the New York Sports- 
men’s Associaiton of June 11, 1873. 
JNO, B, SAGE, Secretary. 

ToAmertean Swrtstel, 
AND DEALERS IN SHOT. 
10) 


e 
“ American Standard.” 
As the New York State Sportsman’s Association has 
adopted a Scale of Sizes for shot under the above 
name, it will be some satisfaction to our friends to 
know that the standard of diameter adopted is nearly 
identical with that which we have always used. The 
only material difierence consists in reducing the small- 
er sizes, known as Nos. 11 & 12, and the larger sizes 
heretofore designated under the letters ‘‘ B*’ and “1.” 
As the new standard (which we of course adopt as to 
| diameter) would in this respect deprive our friends of 
several sizes which they have heretofore used with ad- 
vantage, we have concluded to supply them under an- 
other letter of which we will give timely notice. The 
number of pellets giyen in the standard for an ounce 
does not correspond with the diameter; it is, therefore, 
impossible to adopt both. 
The resolution adopting the new standard, although 
passed June 11th, was not mailed to us until July 7th 
—nearly amonth after it had been given to another 
firm, who have thus been enabled to brand their bags 
“American Standard,’ and to exclusively adyertise 
the report of the Committee as a recommendation of 
their shot for ‘* superior excellence,” as compared with 
that of all other makers / 
Whilst the Report of the Committee may not be fair- 
ly open to the construction which has been ostentati- 
ously put upon it, its ambiguous phraseology is calcu- 
lated to convey the belief that the Committee after 
‘the most critical examination” of all the shot made 
in the U. S., has adopted a standard which was sub- 
stantially new, and not supplied by any makers of shot 
but the parties named. 
We are now officially informed that the eommittee 
did not intend to recommend any particular make of 
shot above any other, but merely adopted the scale 
presented to them. 
. 
It is unnecessary to remind experienced sportsmen 
that the practical excellenca of shot does not consist in 
the standard of size by which it is called; nor in the 
number of pellets in the ounce, but embraces other im- 
portant features which cannot be appropriated by the 
adoption of a name, nor by any cunning deception. 
We gladly accept this opportunity to assure our friends 
that the well-known character of our shot will be care- 
fully maintained, and in some important respects im- 
proved; and we feel confident that it will be found in 
practice to be more uniform, heavier, cleaner, and 
more effective than any other; and thus commend 
itself to the favorable opinion of all who use it. 
TATHAM & BROTHERS. 
New York, July 21st. 1873, 

Brook "Trout, 
PAWN AND YOUNG FISH FOR 
fale, FRED MATHER, Honeoye Falls, N. Y. 
{==> Ponds laid ont and instructions given, 1tf 

Educational. 
CLAVERACK COLLEGE 
AND == 
Hudson River Institute, 
FOR BOTH SEXES. 
Fine Grounds, 167 Furnished Rooms, 20 In- 
structors, 11 Departments, 120 Classical 
Pupils, large Came and Drill- 

Hall. Special advantages in all 
Departments. Term opens 
September 8, 1873. ~ 
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Rey. ALZONO FLACK, A. M., President. 
CLAVERACK, N. Y., 


Publications. — 
The Traaper's Guile 
BY 8. NEWHOUSE, 


) Sad it Ss Bd Se Be BYR! Opa 
A Book for the Trapper, Hunter 
and Farmer. 
O- 
IT TELLS . 
How to. Trap all Fur-bearing animals. 
How to Cure their skins, 
4 How to live in the Woods. 
How to build Boats, and catch Fish in the Winter 
How to destroy the pests of the Farm and 
Poultry Yard. 
How to hunt Deer, Buffalo and other game. 
IT GIVES . 
Narratives of the exploits and experience of 
Trappers and Sportsmen, old and young. 



It is a Book for Lovers of Wooderaft, for 
Exeursionists and for Boys. 
sce Vin ea 
An octavo volume of 216 pages, containing 82 full 
page illustrations of animals, forest life, etc., and num- 
erous woodcuts of Traps and Trappers’ appliances. 

Price, Bound in Cloth $1.50. 

PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE BY 
Mason, Baker & Pratt, 
142 & 144 Canal St., New York. 

Summer Besarts. 
Mansion House, 
BUFFALO, 
F. KE. HODGES, PROPRIETOR. 



BUTTERFIELD HOUSE, 
OSCAR L. STONE & C0., Proprietors. 
UTICA, NEW YORK. 
ROSSIN HOUSE, 
Toronto, Canada. 
SHEARS & SON, Proprietors. 
* 
This house is a favorite resort for Gentlemen Sports- 
men, from all parts of the United Statesand Canada. 


(cEES. PLEASURE EXCURSIONS TO 
Lake . Superior, 
By CoLLiIngwooD AND LAKE SuPERIOR Ling. 
Chicora, Cumberland, Frances Smith. 

The Finest Line of Steamers on. Canadian Waters. 

During the month of August, cheap excursion tickets 
will be issued by this line, good for any of its steamers 
either for the whole trip, or for any part of it, if passen- 
gers prefer to any over at any point of the route. 
The Captains have been instructed to take all the in- 
side picturesque channels of the route, and to lay over 
at points of interest to allow time to the excursionisis 
to land or to enjoy the sport of fishing. 
Spacious private parlors can be secured on each 
steamer for family parties. The tables are replete with 
every delicacy of the season. 
Leave Collingwood every Tuesday and Friday at 4.80 
| P. M. on arrival of ‘‘Steamboat Express Train,’’ con- 
necting with all Morning Trains or Steamers, east and 
west, arriving in Toronto. 
The cheapest, coolest and most delightful summer 
exeursion on American waters. 
N. MILLOY & CO., 
Passenger Agents, 
8 FRONT ST., TORONTO, 
