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AN UNFORTUNATE COW J SHOWING HOW SOME AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS ONLY CRIPPLE 



WHAT THEY SHOOT AT. 



is abundant, and their reputations as leaders and 

 guides have gone before them. They will be 

 clothed in their hunting costumes, and in every 

 minute detail the typical hunters' camp and home 

 will be carried out and made as real and as actual 

 as possible. This display will be one of the most 

 extensive of the Exposition, and one likely to 

 attract of itself a large attendance. 



Another very important, and perhaps the most 

 carefully planned, accurate and complete exhibit 

 will be that of a prominent railroad, which has 

 made in the past special efforts to care for the 

 sportsman when travelling through its territory, 

 and intends in the future to recognize how desir- 

 able it is to have the resources of their state un- 

 derstood by the hunter and tourist sportsman. 

 The company is having made, in the forest, a 

 regulation log cabin of acceptable type and con- 

 venient size. It will be about 20 feet by 16 feet, 

 and every log will be hewed by an old time 

 hunter, and each log will have the savory perfume 

 of the woods. They will each be keyed and 

 marked, so as to fit exactly when sent to New 

 \ ork. The same hunter woodsman will come to 

 New York and put up the cabin. 



A wide veranda or porch will be a pleasing 

 feature of the exhibit. Upon this veranda the 

 old hunter and fisherman will sit and entertain 

 his legion of friends whom he has piloted on 

 many a tough and eventful journey in the primi- 

 tive forest. Just how many " swaps of truth" 

 will be indulged in, remains to be heard. The 

 stone chimney and fire-place, with the gas log 

 fire, will suggest some of the comforts of home, 

 and a savory meal made up a la camp style. 



The cabin will contain a full exhibit of mounted 

 game and fish. From this cabin 25,000 sou- 

 venir papers will be distributed, which will de- 

 scribe the resources of the great sate as a para- 

 dise for the hunter and fisherman. This exhibit 

 will require a car load of material and the great 

 expense incident upon the transportation of the 

 natural logs to build the cabin, over 1,000 miles, 

 will represent the faith the enterprising rail- 

 road company has in the sportsmen's exposition. 



Frederic S. Webster, 



Secretary. 



Haines Falls, N. Y. 



Editor Recreation. — The habit, in which 

 many amateurs indulge, of making snap-shots 

 with the camera, at everything, and under all 

 conditions, brings to light some curiositi* 

 well as being good for the dry plate makers. 



The enclosed photo of a cow is from a plate 

 brought in by an amateur last summer to be 

 developed and printed. It tells its own story. 

 I had a copy of it in my " foto factory," and 

 many visitors would ask, "What is the- matter 

 with the cow?" I heard my printer telling an 

 amateur, " That cow was run over by a train 

 and hadj both fore legs cut off, and as she 

 seemed to have a strong hold on life, she was fur- 

 nished with two wooden legs, on which she gets 

 around all right. You can find her over in that 

 field yonder with the rest of the cows, if you wish 

 to photograph her." 



JOHN W. Risk. 



