THE GREAT SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 



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The Burgess Gun Company, Buffalo, N. Y., 

 displayed a full line of its novelties. Its repeat- 

 ing shot gun is so well known as to netd no 

 description here. Its lightning-like action, how- 

 ever, attracted general attention. The magazine 

 holds five cartridges and the chamber one. 

 These can all be fired in less than two seconds. 

 The folding gun is an innovation. It is in- 

 tended not only for field shooting, but for use by 

 troops, express guards and police, in close range 

 work. When folded it may be carried in a 

 holster, at the hip, as a revolver is carried. It 

 weighs 5 to 64 pounds, and carries 6 cartridges. 

 A folding rifle is being made by this company on 

 the same plan, and will soon be put on the mar- 

 ket. It is destined to become a great favorite 

 with cowboys and others who ride a great deal. 



The Webster studio showed a full series of 

 mounted specimens of game birds and animals, 

 indicating the great skill of the secretary as a 

 taxidermist. A register was here kept open for 

 those who wished to become members of the 

 Sportsmen's Association, and many names were 

 recorded. 



The Gas Engine and Power Company, Morris 

 Heights, New York, had on exhibition two of 

 its naphtha launches that looked so neat, so cool, 

 so clean, so handsome, so graceful, that many a 

 man who saw them decided to quit smoking and 

 save up his cigar money to buy a launch with, 

 for next summer. 



Next to this stand was that of the Marlin Fire 

 Arms Company, of New Haven, Conn., who 

 showed some rifles that might properly be classed 

 as jewelry. Some were trimmed in oxidized 

 silver ; some were plated with gold, some with 

 nickel and some with silver. Some were en- 

 graved with pictures of game birds, animals or 

 dogs, and by artists who know what a game 

 bird, a bird dog or a game animal looks like. 

 Some were stocked in natural white woods and 

 so beautifully finished that when you saw them 

 you wanted to stand there and look at them an 

 hour or two. Then there were a lot of plain, 

 every day Marlins, built to kill things with, and 

 that looked as if they would do it if you would 

 only give them half a chance. 



Charley Willard had charge of the elaborate 

 display of guns, rifles and revolvers made by 

 the Colt Patent Fire Arms Company, of Hart- 

 ford, Conn., and to judge from the eager group 

 of listeners that always -< hung upon the honey 

 of his words," has lost none of his power as a 

 gun orator. And well he might wax eloquent, 

 for he had a great theme — a high grade gun, an 

 excellent repeating rifle and the only complete 

 line of revolvers made in this country. 



The American Smokeless Powder Company. 

 New York and Baychester, N. Y., made an in- 

 teresting display consi>ting of : i. W. A. sporting 

 powder for shot guns; 2. Rifle powder; 3. 

 Samples of cannon powder for various guns, 

 showing size of grain ; 4. Iron and steel plates 

 perforated wiih United States army bullet and 

 W. A. rifle powder ; 5. Blocks of oak perforated 

 in a similar manner ; 6. Sample patterns made 

 with shot gun using W. A. sporting powder. 



The Bridgeport Gun Implement Company, 

 New York and Bridgeport, Conn., made an ele- 

 gant display of cleaning and loading tools for 

 shot guns, rifles and revolvers. Special promi- 

 nence was properly given to the new powder and 

 shot measure, combination loading outfits, and 

 the improved rapid loading machine. The 

 powder and shot measure and implements manu- 

 factured by the Bridgeport Gun Implement Com- 

 pany are accepted as a standard of accuracv 

 wherever firearms are used. This house also 

 showed the Bridgeport cyclometer, " Brooklyn " 

 and "Simplicity" bicycle stands, "Star" lamp 

 brackets, and other sundries. 



Forest and Stream was there with an instruct- 

 ive and entertaining exhibit of the implements 

 used in hunting and fishing by Mr. Adam and seve- 

 ral of his descendants, before the Winchesters, the 

 Marlins, the Parkers, the Lefevers. the Reming- 

 tons, Orvis, Chubb, the llortonsand others got 

 their factories completed and ready for business 

 F. & S. also exhibited Billy Hofer, one of the 

 best all round guides and good fellows in the 

 great and growing W r est. 



And last if not least comes RECREATION'S 

 exhibit. It consisted of a typical hunter's cabin, 

 furnished complete, as a hunter would furnish 

 his home. It contained heads or skins of nearly 

 every species of big game on this continent, 

 all of my own killing. Prominent in this col- 

 lection are the heads of three bull moose and one 

 cow moose, killed near the Lake of the Wi 

 in September, 1893. There is a head of a magnifi- 

 cent mountain sheep, killed near the head of the 

 Similkameen river, B. C. and another killed on 

 Mt. Chopaca, Wash., this group being com- 

 pleted by the heads of the female and young, 

 both of which are rare in collections There is 

 a head of a handsome buck antelope, killed on 

 Flat Willow creek, Montana, at a measured dis- 

 tance of 362 yards. The front of the cabin was 

 surmounted by the head of an elk, killed 111 the 

 Shoshone mountains, Wyoming, and bearing one 

 of the largest pairs of antlers ever captuied in 

 the United States. The main beams measure 

 56 inches, with a spread of 57 inches. The 

 horns measuie, around the burr, near ihe skull, 

 15X inches, and around the beam, above the 

 burr. 12 inches. 



Then there are heads of a female Rocky 



