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RECREA riON. 



OUR CONTRIBUTORS. 

 X. 



John S. Wise was born in Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, December 25, 1846, his father being at 

 that time United States Minister to that country. 

 The family has lived for many generations in 

 Accomack county, Va. John S. entered the 

 Virginia Military Institute when 15 years old, 

 and was in the battle of New Market, in 1864, 

 where he was wounded. After that he served 

 in the Confederate army, as a lieutenant, until 

 the close of the war, and carried the last dispatch 

 sent by Lee to Davis. After Lee's surrender, 

 young Wise joined Johnston's army and surren- 

 dered with it. 



In 1865, Wise went to the University of Vir- 

 ginia, whence he graduated in law in 1867, and 

 opened an office in Richmond. He was elected 



to Congress in 1882. In 1885. he was a candi- 

 date for Governor, on the Republican ticket, and 

 received 137,000 votes, against 151,000 cast for 

 General Fitzhugh Lee. Wise was appointed 

 United States Attorney for his district, by Presi- 

 dent Arthur, and has held many other public 

 positions. In September, 1888, he was appointed 

 attorney for the General Electric Company, with 

 office at 44 Broad street, New York, and has 

 lived here ever since. 



He is a typical sportsman — one to whom all 

 members of the craft may point with pride. He 

 has been, ever since his boyhood, a lover of the 

 pointer and the setter, and has bred some of the 

 best pointers in the world. He is and has been, 

 for many years, president of the Pointer Club of 

 America. He has many times been called upon 

 to judge at the bench shows and field trials. 



He is a member of the Union League Club, 

 the Aborigines, and several other clubs, and en- 

 joys one of the best law practices in New York. 



Furthermore he is one of the most earnest and 

 industrious promoters of the great Sportsmen's 

 Exposition. 



His good taste is shown by the fact that he is 

 a staunch friend of and a contributor to Recrea- 

 tion. Among other valuable papers, he has 

 written for it an essay on, "The Pointer — Past 

 and Present," which is printed in this number, 

 and which will easily take rank as one of the 

 ablest papers ever written on that breed of dogs. 



He is a fluent and eloquent speaker, and is al 

 ways in demand at the clubs and societies as a 

 post prandial orator. 



Judge Wise is a scion of one of the oldest and 

 best families of Virginia. His father was Gov- 

 ernor of the state in the stormy times, and was, 

 for many years, prominent in the councils of 

 state and nation. The son retains, in his make- 

 up, many of the characteristics of the typical 

 southern gentleman of the old school. He is 

 frank, genial, kind hearted, and his hospitality 

 is unbounded. Fortunate, indeed, is the man 

 who counts among his friends John S. Wise. 



New York, April, 1895. 

 Editor Recreation: 



The Board of Trustees of the Sportsmen's 

 Exposition has lately received many additions 

 to the list of exhibitors, swelling the number 

 of rented spaces to nearly 100. 



Arrangements are now in progress to devote one 

 day each to the several geographical sections in 

 the vicinity of New York. The dates are not 

 yet decided on, but one day will be devoted to 

 all the shooting, fishing and field clubs of the 

 State of New Jersey. On each of these days 

 official badges of recognition will be issued to 

 every club, and special courtesies will be tendered 

 them by the association. 



On May 13th the convention of hotel-keepers of 

 the United States will hold its meeting. Several 

 thousand delegates will attend, and special arrange- 

 ments will be made with these gentlemen to attend 

 the Sportsmen's Exposition in a solid body. The 

 event cannot fail to attract a large representation 

 from every quarter. In the same lines with this 

 liberal policy, the Sportsmen's Exposition has un- 

 dertaken the herculean task of sending out 

 200.000 circular letters, giving information re- 

 garding the Exposition. Thesecirculars will be sent 

 to every known sportsman throughout the United 

 States, Canada and Europe, which will include 

 ministers, lawyers, journalists, railroad officers 

 and professional men generally, who are inter- 

 ested in field sports. This plan has been adopted 

 as the most effective means by which the army of 

 sportsmen, who will, if they are well informed of 

 the character and objects of the exposition, be 

 desirious of becoming associate members of the 

 Sportsmen's Association, by which means they 

 will be entitled to the advantages of special re- 

 duced travelling rates on railroad and steamship 

 lines. In order for the general public to obtain 

 the benefit of the one and one-third rate on the 

 several roads, the companies require you to be a 

 member of the Sportsmen's Association, and the 

 association has, under its constitution, a class 

 of associate members for exposition purposes 

 only. For information regarding terms of mem- 

 bership and railroad rates, address, 



Frederic S. Webster, Secretary. 



105 E. 23d street, New York city. 



