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RECREATION. 



Writing of the pictures of " Moose Hunt- 

 ing in Canada," printed on page 267, Mr. A. 

 O. Pritchard says : " The photographs are 

 from the camera of the late Mr. Lawson 

 Bell, of New York, a gentleman who spent 

 much of his time in the forests of Pictou 

 and Guysboro counties, Nova Scotia, hunt- 

 ing moose and caribou. The 3 men repre- 

 sented in the cuts are Mr. W. B. Moore, 

 John Paul, a Macmac Indian, and Ronald 

 McQuarrie, one of the best hunters and 

 moose-callers in the province. Mr. Moore 

 has many friends among American sports- 

 men who occasionally visit our woods in 

 quest of the moose. Hunting has been his 

 favorite pastime from boyhood, and he re- 

 gards the camp, with its bed of spruce 

 boughs and its log fire, as the summmn bo- 

 nu??i of his existence. 



"The horn used by the caller is made of a 

 piece of birch bark. With this he is able 

 to produce a sound closely resembling the 

 cry of the male or female moose. In 'The 

 Call,' the hunter is supposed to be imitating 

 the cry of the cow moose. In the 'Answer,' 

 the hunters are anticipating the advent of 

 the unwary monarch of the woods, who, in 

 response to the call, rushes frantically 

 through the dense underbrush, bounds over 

 windfalls and every other obstacle. In the 

 last scene, 'The Finish,' he is covered by 

 the rifles of his lurking foes. 



" Should these pictures come under the eye 

 of any of the friends of the late Mr. Bell, 

 they will revive memories of a kind, conge- 

 nial spirit that passed so suddenly away 

 from the scenes of a busy world. " 



Hackensack, N. J. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I am in receipt of your letter inclosing 

 one from Mr. G. Berg, with clipping from 

 Recreation in regard to rail-shooting on 

 the Hackensack marshes. 



As I sent you the item he quotes, allow me 

 to express my deep regret at the discourte- 

 ous and shabby action of Captains W. and 

 F., when called on in response to my letter 

 in your magazine. However, I cannot say 

 that I am greatly surprised, for, as Mr. Berg 

 says, when such men have booked ahead a 

 few parties they are usually indifferent as to 

 the morrow. Reading between the lines of 

 Mr. Berg's letter I infer that he is a thor- 

 ough sportsman, and am sorry he should 

 have received such treatment at the hands 

 of men whom I had recommended. 



A large number of rail were shot on the 

 marshes this season, though not as many as 

 last, as we did not have the right sort of 

 weather. There were, in addition to those 

 shot in a legitimate manner, a great many 

 rail killed at about half tide by flushing the 

 birds with dogs. I will personally write Mr. 

 Berg next season, giving him such informa- 

 tion as will lead to his having a day of the 

 best shooting we can furnish on the Hack- 

 ensack. Rallus. 



Here are some records made by sports- 

 men who have been hunting in the 

 Maine woods: — Paulding Farnham, of the 

 Union League Club, killed in the Mount 

 Katahdin region, one of the finest specimens 

 of moose seen this year. It weighed over 

 1,000 pounds, and is to be mounted whole, 

 and placed in the club rooms. 



R. H. Vaughn, of No. 29 Broadway, New 

 York, general traffic manager of the Missouri, 

 Memphis and Gulf railroad, shot a magni- 

 ficent moose, on the St. John waters, and is 

 having it mounted whole. The spread of 

 the antlers is about 4 feet 6 inches. His 

 wife accompanied him on the trip and kill- 

 ed a deer. He will exhibit the moose at the 

 second annual sportsmen's exhibition at 

 Madison Square Garden in March. Mr. 

 and Mrs. S. H. Watts, of No. 70 West 55th 

 street, were also fortunate. Mr. Watts kill- 

 ed a deer, and Mrs. Watts a moose. It was 

 a big fellow, and she is the proudest woman 

 in the country. 



T. S. Allis, of Derby, Conn., killed a deer; 

 H. T. Adams, of Jersey City, a deer; W. W. 

 Crampton, of New Haven, a caribou; P. 

 Chrystie, of High Bridge, N. J., a caribou; 

 Dr. Escobar, of New York, a moose; C. R. 

 Hooker, of New Haven, a deer; J. E. H. 

 Hyde, of New York, a caribou; Dr. J. B. 

 Meeker, of No. 101 West 85th street, New 

 York, a deer; Joseph Mead, of No. 136 Rem- 

 sen street, Brooklyn, a deer; Charles Sunkel, 

 of Hoboken, N. J., a deer, and J. T. Sher- 

 man, of No. 64 Leonard street, New York, 

 a deer. 



I see that several of your contributors are 

 airing their views on their favorite guns, 

 powder, etc. This is right. It is only by 

 the reporting of our experiences in such a 

 valuable medium as your magazine, that we 

 can arrive at the facts as to what is best. 



Mr. O. D. Lyon's feat of killing a gray 

 wolf, at 18 yards' rise, with a Remington 

 shotgun and Walsrode powder is truly won- 

 derful. I shoot Walsrode myself and know 

 all about its remarkable penetrative force ; 

 but wolves are scarce, and it hardly pays to 

 hunt them. Geese are more plentiful, and 

 I want to tell your readers that when shoot- 

 ing them at Dawson, N. Dak., last fall I 

 killed 3 at 3 successive shots, at 37, 41, and 

 59 yards respectively. I was shooting over 

 decoys, in a wheat-field. The birds fell 

 dead, from low-flying flocks, and I measured 

 the distances carefully. I was shooting 31 

 grains of Walsrode, the same as Mr. Lyon's 

 charge, with 1]/% oz. No. 5 chilled shot. 



My gun is a 12-gauge Daly, and I give 

 it a large part of the credit. I believe 

 it is the hardest-shooting gun in the market 

 to-day, though it costs little more than half 

 the price charged for some of the others. 

 Its workmanship is simply exquisite, the 

 best materials are used in it, and its safety 

 pin is safe. 



Ailslee, St. Louis, Mo. 



