Notes and Quertes 
water, while at Aransas Pass he lives in noth- 
ing but salt water, there being no creeks or 
rivers running into the bays. 
The fishing has been excellent all winter, 
except during the northers. The last cold 
spell was so severe that the green turtles were 
so numbed as to be picked up by the boat load, 
while several thousand pounds of fish, mostly 
‘trout,’ were picked up on the surface of the 
water. W. M. S. 
The Sportsmen's Exposition. 
(Communicated. ) 
The demand throughout the country for in- 
formation concerning the exposition to be 
given by the Sportsmen’s Exposition Associa- 
tion (incorporated), at the Madison Square 
Garden, New York, on May 13th to 18th, 1895, 
has forced upon the management the necessity 
of issuing a regular weekly bulletin contain- 
ing the information necessary to keep the 
public advised of the exhibition, and to guide 
the manufacturers, artists and private in- 
dividuals who desire to make exhibits, either 
for business purposes in the manufacturing de- 
partment, or for educational exhibition of 
private collections of objects or historical in- 
terest in the loan and trophy department. The 
haste of some of the manufacturers to be 
identified with the exposition is quite marked. 
When the exposition was first planned, a num- 
ber of the manufacturers who were quite in- 
different to the affair are now hurrying 1n 
earnest, and showing increased confidence in 
the advantages to be derived from being con- 
spicuously represented, and are now amongst 
the most enthusiastic promoters. 
A brief glance at the prospectus issued a 
short time since will outline the extensive 
character of the exposition. Fourteen distinct 
classes are provided for, which will cover in 
every essential detail the general interests of 
the sportsman. Every article used by the 
sportsman will be included. There are up to 
this hour of gong to press about fifty leading 
firms who have taken spaces. Some of the 
exhibits will cover 520 square feet of floor 
space, in which will be introduced many new 
and novel features. For months past some of 
the manufacturers have been busy preparing 
their elaborate exhibits, and have made im- 
portations from foreign countries, in order to 
enable them to prepare entirely new material 
for this occasion. The marvellous beauty of 
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the fire-arms and weapons to be shown will 
be imposing, and a revelation to the profession 
as well as to the novice. Both barrel and 
blade wili show the skill of the designer and 
engraver. Art in firearms will here be 
demonstrated. The beauty and quality of 
ancient Damascus steel has been wrought and 
wrought, until the production of the firearms 
manufacturer of to-day outrivals all efforts of 
the gunmakers of the ages. The mechanism 
and devices invented for rapid firing and safe 
control of the modern firearms will be an ex- 
position alone. 
The exhibits of the ammunition makers will 
show the master hand of the chemist and sub- 
tle power and strength of the explosive agents 
of the hour, which seem to be unlimited. Ex- 
hibits showing the power of the powders and 
the skill of the marksman will be illustrated 
by targets anddiagrams. These displays will 
be gotton up by the most important manufac- 
turers of this country. Gun implements show- 
ing inventions of «nique and practical char- 
acter will attract the visitor, and not only in- 
terest the dealer, but the consumer, 
Those who will attend the exposition will 
not be able to move very far among the mass 
of exhibits, before finding near at hand the 
sailing craft of the primitive hunter, as well as 
that of the modern nimrod. The dug-out of 
old, the bark canoe of the Indian, the steam 
launch, the shining sails of the phantoms of 
the sea, all will be there, side by side, a record 
of the crafty savage and of intelligent man. 
The comprehensiveness of the other classes 
of the exposition is quite as complete, and in- 
cludes fishing tackle, athletic goods, camping 
outfits, kennel supplies, cameras, horse equip- 
ments, taxidemists art and literature, trophies 
of the chase, ancient fire arms, valuable oil 
paintings, old prints, books, etc., etc. 
The following list will show the number and 
character of the exhibitors who have engaged 
space: 
Winchester Repeating 
Arms Company, 
E. I. Dupont de Nemours 
& Company, 
Union Metallic Cartridge 
Company, 
Forehand Arms 
pany, 
Hardware 
Company, 
Union Hardware Com- 
pany, 
Colt’s Fire Arms Com- 
pany, 
Com- 
Publishing 
Shooting and Fishing, 
Bridgeport Gun Imple- 
ment Company, 
Cushman & Denison, 
Remington Arms Com- 
pany, 
Spratt’s Patent (Amer- 
ican) Limited, 
Schoverling, Daly & 
Gales, 
Cleveland Target Com- 
pany, 
United States Cartridge 
Company, 
