PROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



44$ 



portions at opposite sides of its ridge, of a 

 longitudinally arranged roller constituting 

 the ridge pole of the frame structure, sepa- 

 rate canopy flaps arranged to simultane- 

 ously wind and unwind on the ridge pole 

 roller and provided at their outer edges 

 with carrying bars guided on the oppo- 

 sitely extending portions of the frame, a 

 second roller carried by the supporting 

 frame, operating ropes or cables winding 

 and unwinding on said second roller and 

 having connections respectively with the 

 carrying bars of the separate canopy flaps, 

 said ropes or cables being arranged to pro- 

 vide for simultaneously drawing out the 

 canopy flaps in opposite directions, and a 

 driving mechanism having geared connec- 

 tion with both the ridge roller and the said 

 second roller. ■ 



2. The combination with a frame of a 

 roller forming the ridge pole thereof, 2 

 flaps having their inner edges secured to 

 said roller, an operating crank and sprock- 

 et wheel operated thereby geared to said 

 roller, a sliding locking bolt co-acting with 

 said sprocket, a second roller geared to the 

 first, a rope secured to the edge of each 

 flap and wound on the second roller, and 

 guide pulleys for one of said ropes, one of 

 said pulleys being arranged on the oppo- 

 site side of said frame to said second 

 roller. 



720,445. — Portable Pleasure Tent. Chris- 

 tian U. Kreig, Sr., Nashville, Tenn. 

 Filed February 1, 1902. Serial No. 

 92,200. (No model.) 



Claim. — 1. The combination in a pleasure 

 tent of 4 supporting legs, connected at the 

 top and an awning-distending frame com- 

 prising pendent bar H, 2 braces A 3 A 8 on 



and at their outer ends to each other, cross 

 bars A 6 mounted on said outer ends and an 

 awning distended over the cross bars and 

 cantilever projections. 



2. The combination, in a pleasure tent, 

 of the 4 supporting legs, having cantilever 

 projections at the upper ends of the same 

 and a rigid rectangular framework connect- 

 ing the upper ends of the legs, an awning 

 B extending over said cantilever projec- 

 tions, and a cupola top having a pendent 

 skirt extending down over the upper edges 

 of the rectangular frame and awning. 



3. The combination, in a pleasure tent, of 

 the 4 corner legs, a framework connecting 

 the upper ends of the same, a horizontally 

 projecting frame at the top of these legs, 

 an awning distended over said frame, a 

 separate cupola surmounting the awning 

 and overlapping its upper edges and a sep- 

 arate interior canopy C. 



each side, having their middle parts bolted 

 together and to the pendent bar and their 

 outer ends bolted to the corner posts, the 

 projecting cantilever bars A 4 A 5 bolted 

 respectively at the ends of the cross bars 



A CONTRABAND ABATTOIR. 



There is a wilderness of 40,000 square 

 miles in Idaho and Montana that is not 

 penetrated by a wagon road. A large por- 

 tion of this area is now a forest reserve. 

 At the same time it is a natural game pre- 

 serve. A united campaign should be organ- 

 ized by the sportsmen of the United States 

 to establish game protection on all timber 

 reserves. Although this great Idaho wil- 

 derness has been a natural game preserve 

 in the past, the discovery of gold in the 

 heart of the untrodden region has brought 

 a ruthless destruction of gam p . The Thun- 

 der mountain stampede of the summer of 

 1902 caused the Salmon river basin water- 

 shed to be overrun by a murderous "lass of 

 pilgrims. The true Western mountaineer 

 never slaughters the game. He is a lover 

 of nature and he regards the game animals 

 of the wilderness his heritance. This 

 mountain fastness has been traversed by 

 the prospectors for 40 years, and the camps 

 of the placer miners are often the play- 

 grounds of the fawns, while the timid 

 mother-does defy the intruders by stamping 

 their feet at them as they go about their 

 work. The humane prospectors have made 

 the deer in the remote sections of this wil- 

 derness as gentle as sheep on the old home- 

 stead. The pioneer, it is true, supplies his 

 larder from the wild herds, but he selects 

 his victims with judgment and never butch- 

 ers the mother of a helpless fawn at least. 



During the past summer I saw many 

 tragedies. Starving fawns were often 

 found by the side of a dead mother-doe 

 that had received a mortal wound at the 

 hands of a tenderfoot. It is estimated that 

 5,000 deer were killed in the Thunder 

 mountain district alone in 1902. When the 

 advance of the stampede entered this home 

 of the deer, the unsuspicious animals were 



