FOREST AND STREAM. 




























A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
DezvoTep To FIELD anp Aquatic Sports, PRACTICAL NATURAL HISTORY, 
Fish CULTURE, THE PROTECTION OF GAME, PRESRYATION OF FORESTS, 
AND THE INCULCATION INMEN AND WOMEN OF A HEALTHY INTER¥ST 
IN OvuT-DooR RECREATION AND STUDY: 
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Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
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cent. will be made; over three months, 20 per cent; over six months, 
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To Correspondents, 
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All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 
correspondence, must be addressed to THE ForEST AND STREAM PuB- 
LIsHING Company. Personal letters only, to the Manager. 
All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 
real name, as a guaranty of good faith. Names will not be published if 
objection be 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. 
Ladies are especially invited to use our columns, which will be pre- 
pared with careful reference to their perusal and instruction. 
Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 
notes of their movements and transactions, as 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. 
We cannot be responsible for the dereliction of the mail “service, if 
money remitted to us is lost. 
Adyertisements shoull be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 
CHARLES HALLOCK, 
Managing Editor. 



Calendar of Events for the Current Week. 
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Taurspay, Aug, 14.—Utica Trotting Park Association, Utica N. Y.— 
Second meeting Saratoga Association, Saratoga, N. Y.—Danville Agricul- 
tural Society, Danville, Penn.—Regatta Seawanhaka Yacht Club of Oyster 
Bay.—New York Yacht Squadron Cruise. 
Fripay, Aug. 15.—Danville Agricultural Society, Danville, Penn.— 
Utica Park Association. . 
SarurDAY, Aug. 16.—Atalanta Rowing Club Regatta.—Danville Agri- 
cultural Society, Danville Penn.—Saratoga meeting, Saratoga, N. Y.— 
Amateur Oarsmen of the U. 8. meet at the Metropolitan Hotel in the 
evening. 
Monpay, Aug. 18.—N. Y. Yacht Squadron at Newport.—Amateur 
Regatta, Geneva Lake, Wisconsin. 
Turspay, Aug. 19—Hampden Park Association, Springfield, Mass.— 
St. Catherines, D. of Canada, Amateur pigeon shooting. 
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 20.—Hampden Park Association, Springfield, Mass.— 
Single scull match on the Connecticut river.—Monmouth Park, Long 
Branch.—Kingston Driving Park Association, 
Tuurspay, Aug. 21.—Caledonia Club, annual meeting, Myrtle Avenue 
Park, Brooklyn. 

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STREAM, will do well to preserve it. As we do not stereotype 
our forms, we cannot supply back numbers to any great 
amount, although we shall print an extra large edition to 
meet anticipated future demands. 
Let it be impressed upon all that the paper will be valu- 
able, not only as a work of reference, but as a compendium 
of useful information on all topics. We offer it in a very 
desirable condition for binding. 
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS. 
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We may well congratulate ourselves and the public upon 
having secured so valuable a corps of contributors as have 
pledged us their support. Without mentioning names at 
present, we will merely state that we include many of the 
most eminent naturalists, scientists, fishery officials, and 
gentlemen sportsmen in the United States. Most of 
these are now scattered from the Labrdor to California, but 
when the summer is ended, and they have returned from 
their several missions, we shall hope to reap the benefit of 
‘their experience and investigations. <A rich fund of material 
is in store for us for autumn and winter reading. 
_ We shall adopt the practice of appending the real name 
of the contributor to his article, unless objected to. We 
shall print nothing that is worthless, and in many cases the 
name adds the weight of authority to the article. 
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We claim to have the most graphic, suggestive, and 
artistically elaborated engraved title of any journal in 
this country or Europe. We have spared no expense 
in its preparation. Drawn by J. W. Beard, the well known 
animal painter, and engraved by J, H, Richardson, 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 
eee! 
PON the occasion of a self-introduction to the public, 
it is becoming to manifest a certain degree of modest 
retirement—a kind of yielding resistance, 30 to speak, to the 
impelling motives that may qualify the intrusion if they 
cannot excuse the pretension, As regards the debutants of 
courtly salons, who have been taught in the school of strict 
etiquette and self-assurance, or have a Turveydrop’s keen 
sense of the proprieties, this presentation act is always in- 
vested with a charming grace. But for us of the Forest 
AND STREAM, attired in the rustic garb of the woods, and 
fresh from our inner seclusion, what else can be expected 
than an entree made awkward bya natural diffidence ? Our 
embarrassment is more than a pretense. As well might it 
be expected of the Dryades and Hamadryades to appear in 
the full glare of the public gaze and dance unabashed to 
Orpheus’ step-compelling lute. Our tastes are rural and our 
habits of the simplest. We drink from pellucid fountains , 
or, if we quaff Falernian, it is of the purest natural juice 
and not of the stimulating stores of Bacchus, or of Silenus, 
his foster-father. Weread from Nature’s book alone, and 
our instructions are written on Sybilline leaves. Here is 
our card, good reader, to announce our mission. It is of 
simple birch bark, peeled from a tree in whose veins the 
sap flows freely. In texture it is more delicate than the 
ancient papyrus. It is odorous of balsam and fir and sweet 
trailing vines. Herewith we bespeak your favor. Though 
a stranger, we feel that you will bestow it, for is it not writ- 
ten, ‘‘One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin ?” 
Through the columns of our beautiful paper we would 
make you familiar with the living intelligences that people 
the woods and the fountains.. We would teach you those 
secrets which necessity compelled the savages to learn—how 
to wrench fire from dry sticks ; to feed, clothe and shelter 
themselves with the simple roots, barks and skins which 
the wilderness provided. They familiarized themselves 
with the habit of every form of animal life. Under each 
decaying leaf, in each blade of grass or rolling log, they. 
discovered a microcosm. They learned to read the track- 
less forest as though it were an outlined chart. And if they 
did not find ‘‘sermons in stones and beauty in everything,” 
they at least found utility. Let us go back to first princi- 
ples. Out of these our civilization grew, but of the princi- 
ples themselves we are ignorant. Remove temporarily our 
modern appliances and we are helpless. Let us acquire the 
rudiments anew. “We know not at what moment the storm 
may lay us ashore upon an island uninhabited, the earth- 
quake leave us naked to the elements, or some adverse cir- 
cumstances beset us as we travel on our wilderness jour- 
neys. 
The object of this journal will be to studiously promote 
a healthful interest in outdoor recreation, and. to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. We especially desire to 
make the ForEst AND STEAM the recognized medium of 
communication between amateurs and professional sports- 
men. All of us have something to impart, which, if made 
available to each other, will in time render us proficient in 
all those several branches of physical culture which are ab- 
solutely essential to our manhood and well-being, both as 
individual men and as a nation. <A practical knowledge of 
natural history must of necessity underlie all attainments 
which combine to make a thorough sportsman. It is not 
sufficient that a man should be able to knock over his birds 
dexterously right and left, or cast an inimitable, fly. He 
must learn by study and experience the haunts and habits 
of the game or fish he seeks. If he depend altogether upon 
his dog’s nose, or upon his henchmen, he will some day 
have to retire from the field in mortification and disgrace. 
Therefore it is that we shall study to give practical instruc- 
tion in the most attractive departments of natural history. 
We shall not forget the technicalities of the craft either, 
but take pleasure in designating the best localities for hunt- 
ing and fishing, outfits, implements, remedies, routes, dis- 
tances, breeds of dogs, &c. _Each number will contain a 
paper descriptive of a particular game animal, bird, or fish, 
with some instruction as to its habits, haunts and mode of 
capture, and the period when it isin season. We have ar- 
ranged to receive regular weekly reports of the fishing and 
shooting in various parts of the country. 
Yachting and boating will be- encouraged, and yachting 
news be made an especial feature of the paper. A reason- 
able space will be given to athletic sports and those out- 
door games in which ladies can participate. In a word, 
every description of game that is in vogue among respect- 
able people, and of value as a health-giving agent or recre- 
ative amusement, will be considered and its practice en- 
couraged, Nothing that demoralizes or brutalizes, nothing 
that is regarded as ‘‘sport” by that low order of beings who, 
in their instincts are but a grade higher than the creatures 
they train to amuse them, will find place or favor in these 
columns. 
To horse news we shall devote some space, giving a record 
of leading races and meetings and current events, but we 
shall not make it a feature of this journal. We leave this 
department to others, much more competent than ourselves, 
who are recognized throughout the country as exponents of 
the turf, and as authority in stock, pedigree and kind. We 
yield to no one, however, in our love and appreciation of 
the horse and his estimable qualities. The noblest of all 
animals, and the companion alike of men of high and low 
degree, he has never become contaminated by the moral 
atmosphere by which he is often surrounded, or degraded 
below the high rank to which his attributes entitle and as- 
sign him. 
To the forest, lawn and garden we assign full place. For 
the preservation of our rapidly diminishing forests we shall 




continually do battle. Our great interests are in jeopardy— 
even our supply of drinking water is threatened, from the 
depletion of our timber-lands by fire and axe. It is but 
proper to state here that the gentleman in charge of this 
department is the well-known ‘‘Olipod Quill,” who was 
connected with the Agriculturist newspaper from the start, 
and a co-laborer with the lamented Downing for many years. 
Much valuable information will be found in this depart- 
ment. F 
Our military department is intended to comprise merely 
a weekly summary of news for officers and soldiers upon 
the frontier—such news as the castaways would enjoy to 
receive in a ‘‘letter from home ;” and we trust that many of 
them will be inclined to send us in return some account of 
their hairbreadth experiences among the Indians, the buf- 
faloes, the grizzlies and the antelopes. We of the East are 
not thoroughly familiar with the varied species of game in 
the far Northwest, and would like to receive full informa- 
tion especially of the numerous Cervus family and of the 
Rocky Mountain sheep. This department is under the 
charge of a distinguished and competent army officer. 
Our dramatic and art column will be prepared by Colonel 
T. B. Thorpe; and must at once become popular with 
all our readers who are interested in these matters. We 
shall occupy an independent position, and throw our efforts 
in behalf of a competent reform. We shall perhaps eyen 
clamor for it. 
Our columns will always contain the cream of the latest 
foreign sporting news. 
In a word, we are prepared to print a dive paper and a use- 
ful one. We shall not be parsimonious in securing the best 
material.for its columns. We are convinced that there is a 
standard of eminence and usefulness not yet fully attained 
by any sporting journals in this country. To this we aspire. 
Tt will be our ambition to excel; and we have relinquished 
a life of ease and semi-indolence to take charge of the en- 
terprise. This not of our own free choice, but at the soli- 
citation of many hundreds of friends and strangers. We 
are ably assisted in our labors by a corps of valuable asso- 
ciates—men of age and experience, all of whom, with a 
single exception, have been identified with leading journals 
for years 
Mr. Simon A. ArxiNson, connected with the Georgia 
press for over twenty years, has charge of the business af- 
fairs of the Company. 
CHARLES HALLocK, Managing Editor. 
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pan Cees ; 
HAT the taste for athletic sports has at last passed 
through that critical period called ‘‘ the growing one,” 
is now we believe quite certain. If we as a people have given 
some attention to out-of-door sports, it has been heretofore of 
rather a sporadic character, developing itself at most by 
out-croppings of base ball clubs all over the country. With- 
out placing too much stress on this game, even according 
to it all the merit it deserves, we see now that for the very 
first: time in the United States, other and hetter exercises, of 
amore manly and varied character, have been fully inau- 
gurated, ; 
Open-air sports should never be limited to a single kind. 
We must not play base ball to the entire exclusion of crick- 
et, any more than we must always pull boats, and never run 
foot-races. We should be able to do each and all of them ; 
giving all of our attention to a single athletic sport dwarfs 
true spirit in the matter. Just as certain as there is exclu- 
siveness—one particular sport engrossing the entire atten- 
tion—all the rest must languish. It is for this peculiar rea- 
son, that we must confess that we look at the decline of 
base ball with something akin to a grim satisfaction. Of 
course it was far better for our young men and boys to have 
had that, than nothing else. There was something even 
commendable in the fact that if we had not invented the 
game, we had at least revived an almost forgotten ball-play. 
Its course to public estimation, was as rapid as its decline. 
The nobler game of cricket was neglected for it, and base 
ball was heralded as the coming American game. 
It is not sufficient to assert that base. ball has gone out of 
fashion, because professionals had taken it entirely in their 
hands, and that amateurs could not cope with professionals. 
If the game had possessed within itself any sound vital merits, 
the gentlemen would soon have been able to play it quite as 
well as the professionals. Cricket is a game requiring ten 
times as much address and skill, but what is more, wants 
sound judgment, which is the soul and animus of all such 
sports. It is well known perhaps to the majority of our 
readers, that the best cricket eleven in England is com- 
posed of gentlemen amateurs, and that there is no pro- 
fessional team in England who can play with them. We 
feel certain even that the bad repute base ball has fallen 
into, though partly dué to the gambling introduced into it, 
is not entirely owing to it. We are even pleased to notice 
that certain corrective measures introduced by professional 
players in their midst, are likely to create a reform in the 
character of the game. It is not to be in the least under- 
stood, that professionals either in base ball or any other 
sport, are to be decried by us for their calling, or are to be 
blamed as a body, for the rascally proceeding of some of 
their; members. Quite as honest men are to be found in 
their ranks as in any other profession. The best deduction 
to be made however in explaining the decline of base ball, 
is that there was not enoug the game itself, and that it 
was played to excess ; and wanting variety, it has now only 
fallen into the third-rate place to which it naturally belong- 
ed. For the good it has done, and may yet do, we, as * 
levers of athletic sports, are quite grateful. 
