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RECREA TION. 



An interesting feature of this exhibit, during 

 a part of the week, was the beaming counte- 

 nance of Mr. J. E. Taylor, manager of the J. 

 Stevens Arms Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. All 

 who have ever done business or had correspond- 

 ence with that house are indebted to Mr. Taylor 

 for the kind and courteous treatment they have 

 received. He will go further out of his way to 

 tell the truth, and to deal honestly and candidly 

 with his customers, than most any man I know 

 of. The Stevens rifles are all made under his 

 .personal supervision, and I have never heard of 

 one being defective in any way. 



The Maine Central Railway Company's log 

 cabin was one of the wonders of the show, and 

 was crowded all the time — inside and outside — 

 with admiring throngs of people. S. L. Crosby, 

 the Bangor taxidermist, decorated it with heads 

 of big game killed in Maine. 



The Union Metallic Cartridge Company, 

 Bridgeport, Conn., showed ammunition suitable 

 for killing any kind of game, from a Jersey 

 mosquito up to a moose, and put it up in such 

 attractive doses as to almost tempt one to com- 

 mit suicide. The Company also made an im- 

 posing display of all grades of metal and paper 

 casings for breech loading firearms, from the 22 

 calibre revolver cartridge to the great polished 

 brass shells for use in naval warfare. Among 

 the products shown were percussion caps, primers, 

 gun wads, paper shot shells, brass shells, primed 

 shells, bullets, metallic ammunition and loaded 

 paper shot shells. 



Wm. Lyman, of Middlefield, Conn., has 

 made so many riflemen happy by equipping 



them with perfect sights for their weapons, that 

 his name is heard in every camp and in every 

 rifle club in the land. His exhibit was full of 

 interest, and his good natured right bower was 

 kept busy, day and night, answering questions 

 and booking orders. 



At the exhibit of the Lefever Arms Company, 

 Syracuse, N. Y., the popular Lefever gun was 

 shown in rarious styles and grades, together 

 with a working model of the new Lefever ejector, 

 which has recently been placed on the market. 

 For this mechanism the manufacturers claim 

 many original features, all of which are set forth 

 in their new catalogue. Send for it if you are 

 interested. 



The Hardware Publishing Company and the 

 Iron Age, showed their interest in the gun 

 and tackle trades by having offices in the Exposi- 

 tion and by printing full and complete reports of 

 it in their subsequent issues. 



Capt. A. W. Du Bray, had charge of the ex- 

 hibit of Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn., and no 

 one, unless it be old Sam Tucker, can talk the 

 Parker gun any more intelligently or forcibly 

 than Du Bray. His stock in trade consisted of 

 50 Parker guns, in various grades and styles of 

 finish, from 8 to 20 bore A feature of this dis- 

 play was the latest model "Parker Pigeon 

 Gun," made in the highest manner, and finely 

 finished in every respect, embodying the Whit- 

 worth fluid pressed steel barrels. Beside this 

 there were guns suitable for any purpose for 

 which a shoulder gun can be used — a bear gun, 

 goose gun, the special pigeon gun, field gun, 





