PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



THE HUNTING SEASON IN ONTARIO. 



The Highlands of Ontario include the 

 30,000 islands of the Georgian bay, the 

 Muskoka Lakes district, the Lake of Bays 

 district and the Magnetawan river. They 

 are reached by the Grand Trunk Railway 

 system. During the first 2 weeks of No- 

 vember, 1899, the open season, the ex- 

 press companies alone carried 2,032 car- 

 casses of deer out of the Highlands, 

 weighing in the aggregate over 200,000 

 pounds. The returns show that 3,559 deer 

 hunting licenses and 2,065 settlers' per- 

 mits were issued. These figures are large- 

 ly in excess of those for 1898. It will be 

 observed that 5,624 deer hunters were in 

 the woods during the 15 days in which 

 deer could be legally killed in Ontario. 

 Allowing one deer to each license and 

 permit holder is giving a low average, as 

 many clubs and hunting parties secured 

 their full quota of 2 deer for each member. 

 The number of deer carried by the ex- 

 press companies can not be taken as a cri- 

 terion of the total number killed. Those 

 killed by settlers are not shipped; and a 

 large number of hunters from inland 

 towns and villages, adjacent to the hunt- 

 ing grounds, have the deer killed by them 

 taken to their respective homes by teams. 

 It is therefore safe to estimate that 6,500 

 deer were killed during the last season in 

 the hunting confines of Northern Ontario. 

 One would think this would cause a dimi- 

 nution of deer, but such is not the case. 

 Each successive year seems just as good 

 for the sportsman as the preceding. 



The Grand Trunk Railway photogra- 

 pher secured negatives of the best scenes 

 possible in the wilds of the forests, and the 

 result was most gratifying. Among them 

 are interior and exterior views of hunters' 

 shacks, the results of the chase, and sev- 

 eral views of herds of wild deer which 

 were taken with telephoto lens, at a dis- 

 tance of a mile from the object. These 

 pictures have been enlarged from small 8 

 by 10 negatives to 21 by 31 inches, and the 

 Grand Trunk intends having them on ex- 

 hibition at its different ticket offices in all 

 the large cities of America. The collec- 

 tion will be well worth seeing, as it is con- 

 sidered the finest series of hunting pictures 

 taken with the camera. 



A. T. R., Montreal. 



may be fortunate enough to get a copy of 

 it. 



The Al-Vista has a swinging lens by 

 which it is possible to make a photo of a 

 regiment of troops passing up the street 

 while the operator stands within a few 

 feet of the center of the regiment. At 

 first the lens looks away up the street to 

 the left, say, at the head of the regiment, 

 and on pressing the button it swings from 

 thence clear around to the right, say. in 

 such a way as to look at the rear guard, 

 which may be 2 or 3 blocks down the 

 street. 



This new catalogue shows half tone re- 

 productions of a number of pictures, made 

 in this way, that seem to cover an area 

 of a mile or more from left to right, while 

 the objects in the center of the picture 

 appear not more than half a mile away. 

 One of these shows Niagara Falls, the 

 scene including both the American and 

 the Canadian falls, Goat Island and a por- 

 tion of the American shore. 



Another view shows a wide spread ot 

 the rapids. It would require at least 3 ex- 

 posures from a 5x7 camera on the same 

 subject, the prints pasted end to end and 

 taken from the same point of view, to get 

 the same scope of land and water that is 

 shown in this picture. 



There are numbers of other pictures in 

 the book, of equal interest and value to 

 amateurs. Then there is a full description 

 of the mechanism and the plan of the cam- 

 era, together with complete instructions 

 for operating it. If you want such a cam- 

 era write for a copy of this book. Un- 

 less you can afford to buy the camera then 

 I would advise you not to write, for you 

 are sure to want it as soon as you get 

 through examining the catalogue. Men- 

 tion Recreation when you write. 



THE AL-VISTA SWINGING LENS. 

 The Multiscope and Film Co., Burling- 

 ton, Wis., has issued a catalogue of its 

 Al-Vista Panoramic Cameras that will 

 surprise any and every photographer who 



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