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FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Forest and Stream in the World's Fair, 



•'■ As Seen by Otir Staff Correspondents, 



VI. 



The Camera War Continues. 



June ^i.— The city press of Chicago continues to payat- 

 tention to the World's Fair camera tax question, and 

 many letters from outside of Chicago show the growing 

 spirit of rebellion a,t the unwise arrangement now in 

 force. Let me repeat: Here is a square mile of beauty in 

 a thousand forms, the most attractive field for the pho- 

 tographer that ever lay under the sun. It belongs to the 

 people, not to one man. To make note of this beauty you, 

 as one of the people, are barred, except that you use im- 

 perfect means thereto. You pay $2 tax for each day you 

 take camera notes on these bea,utiful buUdings, and you 

 must use only a 4x5 camera, of necessity imperfect for 

 your purpose. You shall not advertise this fair. You shall 

 not spread its glories. Yoti shall not perpetuate its 

 beauties. Only one man on earth may do that, Mr. Arnold, 

 of the board shanty near the south gate. As to liow he 

 may satisfy yout Wish, and make his notions of beauty 

 JroUt notions of bealityj f ead the following, again from 

 the dhitiagb Tribum: 



"An artist of considerable renoT\Ti, connected with tli6 Fair^ Said: 

 'The work we are getting here is certainly of an inferior quality. For 

 my part I consider it the most abject display of shortsightedness not 

 to throw the gates open to amateur photographers ancl to societies, 

 and, above all, to the artists of illustrated newspapers. Then we 

 would soon find out whether the concessionaire's work is good or bad. 

 I pronounce it bad. These amateurs would not interfere with the sale 

 of pictures. On the other hand, being mostly rich people, they would 

 buy a great many themselves and encourage others to buv. 'if they 

 want the Pan- advertised surely the newspaper picture takers ought 

 to be welcomed by the officials and given every facility for doing their 

 work mstead of being compeUed to struggle and fight for what they 

 get. 



Let it be added to the above that the pictures offei-ed are 

 not kept up to date. The concern is to sell, not to discover, 

 views. Stock pictures, do you want them? Under the 

 circumstances, who wants Mr. Arnold's pictures? And 

 who does not want that which is right? 



In the Fisheries. 

 The foreign powers have now completed their displays 

 in the main Fisheries, and in the anglers' pavilion little 

 more now remains to be put in. Brazil is just finishing 

 one of the most interesting exhibits to be found in the 

 entire galaxy of curiosities. Crude and primitive as her 

 display is, it speaks well enough of the methods used. 

 Never were boats so tipsy looking, so small, so rough, so 

 crude, so upsetty, as some of these Brazsilian dugouts. 

 They nearly turn over on the floor if you look at them 

 hard. It is easy to see that they are warm water boats, 

 and used by men vs^ho would as soon be off as on the boat, 

 just BO they don't have to work too hard. The main ob- 

 ject of interest Brazil shows here is the curious sailing 

 raft, rudely pointed, rigged with seats and a big steering 

 paddle, and supplied with water jars and all the necessi- 

 ties for a day on the water after fish, according to Brazil- 

 ian notions. It is enough to make one's hair cuii to think 

 of going with such a craft on the stillest mill pond, let 

 alone a typical river full of things that aren't particular 

 what they eat. 



Thos. Kane & Co. 

 Brazil can have her boats, but for my part I would 

 rather go across the hall and tackle one of the slippery 

 looking craft shown in the same building by Tlios. Kane 

 & Co., of Chicago. Mr. Carne tells me the house has five 

 different exhibits in the Fair, and I presume it would 

 make one hustle to find them all in one day. At any 

 rate, I could not and must try later. In the pavilion just 

 enough of their well known product is shown to whet the 

 appetite for more. 



Col. Gay's Trout. 



Col. John Gay, in charge of the Pennsylvania exhibit 

 of live fishes, lives just across the way from Forest and 

 Streaji in the pavilion. He is aristocratic and has por- 

 tieres. Back of the portieres there is a corner where you 

 can go in and make coffee and fry fish, also a washstand 

 and personal laundry suppUes. Nearlv all tlie young 

 ladies employed as attendants in this ' building go in 

 behind the elegant portieres, and use Col. Gay's soap, 

 when they slick up for lunch, and Col. Gay explains all 

 about the fish to them. One of them told me she thought 

 Col. Gay was a real nice man. When you pass the 

 portieres you are directly at the back of the aquaria, and 

 can follow the little alley-way entirely across the 

 exhibit. Lately, however, the quaker fish have been 

 obscured on this side by a solution of putty and pipe clay, 

 which the Colonel has spread on the back of each tank. 

 '"That breaks the fight and protects the eyes of the fish," 

 said he, "and at the same time gives you a much better 

 view of the fish from the observing side. At first a great 

 many of our fish went bhnd on account of the strong fight." 



Pennsylvania added to her display not long ago some 

 magnificent trout, brook, rainbow and hybrid, some 

 weighing as high as 41bs. A full show of brovm trout is 

 also made. Additional fish were expected in from the 

 hatchery this week. Pennsylvania corner is cool, hospit- 

 able, tasteful and attractive. 



The Great Wisconsin Trout. 



Adjoining the Pennsylvania State exhibit is that of 

 Wisconsin, and here we have what I presume is the finest 

 show of captive trout ever collected anywhere and at any 

 tune. At least, a great many say so to me. It is really a 

 fascinating place, this Wisconsin exhibit, and it always 

 has a crowd packed in front of the tanks so closely you 

 have difficulty in getting a view of the fish. The State 

 Commission of Wiscon.sin have cause to be proud of their 

 work here. Mr. James Nevins, the superintendent of the 

 ■State Hatchery, ia in charge, with able assistants who 

 <;are for the fish while he is absent with the State car after 

 additional suppUes. 



Wisconsin shows 25 varieties of native fishes. There is 

 one sturgeon weighmg 751bs„ and a number of lake trout 

 of lOlbs. each. There in one tank f uU of beautiful rain- 

 bo-^v trout, some of which go as heavy as 6ibs., and all of 

 which are large. The brook trout weigh up fco 4 and 4+lb3. 

 You can aeejjfish here a@ big as the one that got away, and 



can see reproduced the vividest and most magnified pic- 

 ture of yom' startled dreams relative to the monsterwhich 

 rose, struck, splashed and was gone. The big trout is 

 here, and he eats liver now, or goes hungry. Bass there 

 are also, weighing 51bs,, and big wall-eyes, and big spot- 

 ted pickerel, and all other sorts of fish that bite and run. 

 The State had three mascallonge caught, but they died 

 before they could be gotten to the Fair. 



The big case of rainbows in the Wisconsin space faces 

 directly on the main aisle, and in the afternoon the rays 

 of the sun fall full upon it. Last Monday the temperature 

 of the water in a cooler part of tlie exhibit ran up to 66'. 

 If it goes to 70" it may make trouble with the trout, but I 

 truly hope nothing will go wrong with this excellent dis- 

 play. There are few things in the entire exposition which 

 will afford the angler more genuine delight. 



Some Reels. 



As you pass down the aisle beyond the Natchaug Silk 

 Co.'s busily whirling braiding machines, which are now 

 turning out mile after mile of all sorts of silk lines to de- 

 light the caster, you come first to the case of fine angling 

 tniplemenfs shown by a A. B. Shipley & Son, of Philadel- 

 phia, and next to the case of reels, exhibited by Julius 

 Vom Hofe, of New York, Iti this latter there is nothing 



DETAIL OF COLUMNS, FISHERIES BUILDING. 



but reels, but certainly a plenty of these, of aU sorts, from 

 the size of a bushel basket down to the multiplying bass 

 casting reel. There are also sectionals, showing to the 

 anatomically inchned a complete view of the intestinal 

 tract of a multiplying reel, something which a great 

 many people don't know anything about and think they 

 do. 



StiU beyond this and down the aisle is the show case of 

 Meisselbach & Bros., of NeAvark, N. J., whose reels are of 

 the open-work sort that the wind can blow through. This 

 refreshes a reel on a warm day, and it also refreshes a line 

 on almost any day. 



A Glittering Generality. 



Between the reels and next to the big rod case of the 

 Horton]\Ifg. Co., whose steel rods now, by the way, re- 

 pose against a background of white instead of oak, stands 

 the admirable display made by Gardiner M. Skinner, 

 maker of spoon hooks. You never knew until you saw 

 these t^vo cases, what a pretty effect could be made out of 

 spoon hooks. As you look at the case you do not see the 

 individual spoon at all, but only the glittering generality, 

 banded in silver, gold, and flaming colors. The wish op- 

 presses one to be a fish big enough to swallow the case 

 bodily, for it looks quite good enough to eat. Samples of 

 fish which have had a fancy for Mr. Skinner's food pro- 

 duct are to be seen near the case, one a photograph, en- 

 larged to life size, of a mascaUonge taken in the St. Law- 

 rence, whose weight was Sllbs., length, 4ft. Sin. "It is 

 amusing," said Mr. Pond, who attends to the Bristol 

 rods next door, "what funny things folks say about those 

 spoon hooks. Some of them call them 'souvenir badges,' 

 and one learned countryman thought they were 'flies.' 

 They see the metal and the feathers and the glitter, but 

 they can't always name the purpose." 



The Little Finger Does It. 



Passing Mr. Pond on the other side we strike two cases, 

 very much alike in get-up and contents. These contam 

 numbers of the Yawman & Erbe automatic reels. These 

 reels are seff -winding, and are so much better than an 

 eight-day clock. You have to wind an eight-day clock 

 every four days, and it takes both thumbs to do it, but 

 you don't have to wind up an automatic reel at aU, and 

 when you are playing a fish the little finger does it. I 

 never knew before that these reels grew to so large a size, 

 or m such great variety of style and finish, but I am dis- 

 covering a great many thmgs in the sporting goods Une, 

 about which I thought I knew all there was to learn and 

 didn't. That is the useful part of this exposition and of 

 ' these exhibits. They teach the public at a glance, and by 



the most convincing of aU methods, that of the object 

 lesson, of a progress in sporting manufacture of which the 

 public would otherwise never dream. There is a great 

 deal of thought and time and money being spent over 

 the fellow with the fishing rod— just how much, the lat- 

 ter gentleman can best learn by reading Forest and 

 Stream. 



The Remington Exhibit. 

 Me. H. W. Bkadley, of the Eemington Arms Co., was 

 looking at one of the new "Lee English" military rifles, 

 one of the unique modern small bores, .330, when I met 

 him, and was good enough to show me that arm and its 

 American counterpart, the Navy Lee, .45, and to explain 

 the use of this arm as a repeater or single-shot. The Lee 

 rifle weighs a,bout lOilbs. , and is unlike any gun, a stiff, 

 unhandsome, tough-looking affair. Most people would 

 think that to get elevation for long-ra,nge shooting, one 

 must raise his hind sight; but who would believe that this 

 same thing could be done by lowering the hind sight? 

 WeU, it can, if you put the hind sight below the barrel 

 and not above it. The Lee rifle is so arranged that when 

 you want to shoot a couple of thousand yards or so, you 

 sight through a sight which can be thrown down under 

 the barrel, at one side. This is all very well, while one is 

 at revolutions in ideas. Another new notion in sights is 

 the Lee split fore sight. You don't draw a bead, but line 

 up through a crack. It is a good thing to know aU these 

 things. 



The Remingtons also show a full line of sporting rifles, 

 Nos. li, 2, 3 and 4, some very handsome Hepburns, 

 There are some navy revolvers, and some double Derrin- 

 gers, .41cal., and fourteen sorts of shotguns, from $40 to 

 flOO in price, no duplicates shown. There are target 

 rifles of aU models, from the old Creedmoor down, and 

 there is a baby carbine, .44, made for the Mexican trade. 

 In aU there are 118 guns, 18 revolvers and 14 D6rringers 

 shown. There are on two racks 48 different makes of 

 guns, turned out at one time or another by the Reming- 

 tons, and some of these record ancient history in flrearms, 

 going back to other days, and taking in products turned 

 out one time or another for Spain, Mexico, South America 

 and China. 



The Winchester Exhibit, 



"It will cost us between |15,000 and |30,000 to make 

 this exhibit, and we do it all for pure glory," said Col. 

 Thos. E. Addis, general agent of the Winchester Repeat- 

 ing Arms Co., as he stood in the middle of the spacious 

 Winchester corner of the Manufactures Buflding, direct- 

 ing the arrangement of the goods. "Yes, we do this for 

 pure glory, and this is the most glory we have laid out, 

 and the largest exhibit the company has made at any 

 national or international exhibit. It has been my fortune 

 to represent the company for twenty-eight years, and I 

 have had charge of the London, Paris and other exhibits, 

 but I intend to make this World's Fair display put those 

 others in the shade, if we have luck, and I think we will. 

 We have 170 guns in these cases, if we can flnd them iall, 

 and after a while we will be ready to keep house. When 

 we put up the display at the works as a preliminary, we 

 surprised even the workmen with the goods. We have 

 over 2,000 men employed in that big building, whose 

 picture you see there; but there was hardly one of them 

 wh-o knew we made so many different kinds of things." 



Not long after the above conversation Col. Addis and 

 his two assistants, Mr. M. D. Trecartin and Mr. W. P. 

 Bonnell, witli the help of divers others, had gotten the 

 display iu order, and it was indeed a surprise and a won- 

 der to see how many different kinds of things there were. 

 The three great cases arranged edge to edge about three 

 sides of the ample space assigned this firm were ablaze 

 with a pageantry of arms and munitions such as would 

 never be dreamed of by one who had only seen an occa- 

 sional Winchester .44 in a local storeroom. There are 

 more sorts of Winchester rifles than I ever knew of, by a 

 good many, nor did I ever know- that weapons and their 

 natural food could be worked out into a display whose 

 appearance is artistically decorative. The blaze of the 

 gold, the silver with ni^el mountings, the glitter of plate 

 glass and of polished brass, and the sheen of burnished 

 steel contrasted here and there with the blue and the 

 brown of duller finished metals and with the grain of 

 rare woods in such a way as allowed no first thought ex- 

 cept one as to the artistic impression conveyed. Especi- 

 ally happy was the idea of fitting the angles at the back 

 corners of the space with plate glass, arranging against 

 this as a background the many different styles of the Win- 

 chester rifle ammunition, from the .83 short up to the .50 

 exjiress or the long single-shot rifle cartridge, about the 

 size and length of a joint of stovepipe. 



There are some sorts of Winchesters of which even the 

 gun trade knows little, for instance the '93 Winchester re- 

 peating shotgun with the sliding or trombone action, or 

 the Winchester with detachable barrel. You must not 

 kick on a Winchsster now because you can't pack it in a 

 trunk, for you can, you see. The flrm now makes a rifle, 

 size from .22 up, which you can break down and take 

 apart and pack away with a turn of the wrist. Pretty 

 soon this gxm will be on the market. If you read Forest 

 AND Stream you will know how and what to ask for. 



Winchester rifles, big and little, repeating and single- 

 shot, are known in a general way through their many 

 grades of improvements since those necessitous days back 

 in the civil war when it was discovered that a body of 

 men armed with the old guns could not stand against 

 half their number armed with the "wound-up guns." 

 But to see what rifles may and can be, you must go to 

 the Fair and note all the care and pains and detail ia 

 manufacture, see the sectional views, examine the 

 handsome and unique engraviag, do everything but to 

 look and see ff it is loaded. Otherwise you think you 

 know all about it, but you don't. 



It seems that a small .22cal. cartridge, if planted, 

 watered and properly watched, wDl in time grow into a 

 big steel-pointed affair as long as your arm and capable 

 of setting a smooth hole through a 4iii. iron plate with- 

 out denting its own point in the least. This I should not 

 have believed if I had not seen it. Neither did I know 

 that the Winchester people made bayonets, or that they- 

 could take their shotgun sheUs, and their gun grease, and 

 their wads, and make pretty things out of them, nor did 

 I know that their reloading tools for all sorts of ammu- 

 nition ran into such infinite variety. In short, a World's 

 Fair is useful, for everybody is ignorant and doesn't 

 know it. Thus, I think, many will reflect who stand 

 before this costly, bu excellent and elegant display— not 

 jumbled, but a.rranged of goods which have done sg 



