Aug. 12, 1893. 



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Chicago C. C. Calamity. 



Chicago, III., Aug. 4.— Calamity of the most serious sort befel the 

 Chicago C. C. last night, and one from which it can arise only with 

 difficulty. Its boat house and contents, including 14 individual canoes, 

 their fittings, and much clothing and belongings of members, were 

 utterly destroyed by fire. Moreover, the lease of the club to Its site 

 not having been renewed, and the site being now vacant in a manner, 

 it is thought perhaps that there will be difficulty in holding the site 

 in tenure undisturbed by the owner of the ground, the Illinois Central 

 BaUway. The club should at once fence in its site on the old lines and 

 put up a building of some sort as soon as possible. The sympathy of 

 the craft over the country will readily be extended the Chicago boys 

 in their hard luck. It tates more than flre to kill Chicago or Chicago 

 enterprise, however, and the logical influence after all is that the 

 Chicago C. C. will put up a bigger building than before and fill it 

 with better boats than ever. Their main concern is about their build- 

 ing site. The railroad companv surely should extend them every 

 courtesy in this matter, as the responsibility for its fire rests solely 

 on the corporation's carelessness. 



"During the whole of the day the railroad company had been burn- 

 ing old ties on the bank of the lake not far from the boat house. At 

 night there remained a huge bed of embers which the breeze fre- 

 quently fanned into flame. Sparks from the blazing pile set fire to the 

 boat house, and at 10:33 o'clock a citizen who saw the boat house burn- 

 ing ran to the fire alarm box and turned in an alarm. Several pieces 

 of the apparatus approached the scene of the fire on Thirty-sixth 

 street. "When they reached the Illinois Company's right of way their 

 progress was barred by an iron fence recentlj' put up by the com- 

 pany. The engines and firemen could not get across the ti-acks and 

 stood helplessly by watching the destruction of the building. A great 

 crowd of people gathered arid soon realized the situation. 



" 'Pull down the fence,' called out some one. 



"The call was repeated with emphasis from a hundred or more per- 

 sons, and in a few moments a crowd of 2,000 people were at work, 

 tooth and nail, pulling down the fence. The task was not a difficult one 

 for a big crowd and the fence soon came down. The apparatus was 

 driven across the tracks and one line of hose for each engine com- 

 pany was laid. The first lead of hose was cut by a World's Fair ex- 

 press train going in one direction and the second was cut by another 

 world's Fair train going in opposite direction. The crowd of 2,000 

 people grew excited a.vd threats of violence to the trainmen were 

 heard on every aide. They succeeded in stopping the World's Fair 

 express trains both ways, however A stray freight train came along 

 next- and cut the third lead of hose, and the crowd again became angry 

 and demonstrative. 



"By this time a number of police officials were on the scene and 

 further trouble was prevented. It was too late for the flre depart- 

 ment to perform effective work, however, for the boat house, with its 

 contents, was effectually destroyed. The loss is probably $2,000." 



E. Hough. 



The Elliott Trophy. 



The cut represents the handsome copper trophy presented by Mr. 

 W. S. Elliott to the Atlantic Division, and raced for at the recent 



lELLIOTT TROPECY. 



meet. The trophy was won by Mr. Barrington, of the New York 

 C. C, in Torment, the other two competitors being Wm. Whitlock, in 

 Hornet, and F. W. Noyes, in Fineen. 



The Forest and Stream /.<t put to press each iveek on Tues- 

 day. Correspondence intended for publication should reach 

 us at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 



Cincinnati. 



CiNCnos'ATi, O., July 30.— The Cincinnati Rifle Association held its 

 regular practice shoot at its range to-day, and made the scores as 

 appended below: Oonditions: 200yds. off hand at the standard target: 



Gmdele 10 7 10 6 10 10 9 8 8 7—85 



9 7978 10 989 10-86 

 98 JO 99 10 677 8—84 



Weinheimer 67669696 5 9-69 



5 10 7497784 8—69 

 555487888 7—66 



Payne 569769876 6-69 



S5874S795 8-69 

 58697 10 665 6-68 



Martin 798368575 9—67 



678452859 7—61 

 556757556 9— 5S 



Topf 9 7 8 7 4 3 6 3 6 9—62 



3 4 7 10 4 4 5 8 5 5-.55 

 .786324874 .5— .54 



See 10 5 6 7 8 9 6 9 10 9—76 



8 8 8 6 10 6 7 10 10 4—77 

 874 976 10 8 10 6—75 



■Randall 58865965 10 9-71 



747887896 10—74 

 797767896 5-71 



Puthoff, 7 6 5 8 6 5 8 0 0 0—15 



Nagels 0 0 5 5 A 8 2 0 6 1—31 



New York Central Corps Prize Shoot. 



The annual festival and prize sboot of the New York Central 

 Schuetzen Corps at Washington Park, on Wednesday and Thursday 

 of last week, was a grand success. The parade of the corps oh 

 Wednesday under the command of Captain A. Richter. brought out 

 a larger number of members in full uniform than has been seen since 

 the days of Captain Geo. Sieburg, who of the many prominent New 

 York Schuetzen commanders was par excellence as an executive. 

 The Central Corps is composed of a membership that has been promi- 

 nent for a generation among the shooting fraternity of New York 

 and vicinity, and at the pi"esent time the corps has many members 

 prominent in the ranks of the New York Schuetzen, among whom 

 may be mentioned, ex-Captain C. F. Gennerich, ex-Captain Jacob 

 Dax, Fred Barfaman, John Eisenhardt, W. Seppenfeldt, Jas. Jordan, 

 Pliilip Sciimidt, Wm. A. Roos, Gus Zimmerman, Aug. Luck, Fred 

 Schmidt, Emil Berckman, and a host of others of the lesser lights in 

 the shooting fraternity. Of the many prominent riflemen of New 

 York, none have a greater circle of acquaintance than Gus Zimmer- 

 tnan, who among the German shootej-8 is styled "IJnser Gus." 



The constitution and by-laws of the Central Corps says that when 

 a member has been king once he is debarred from further competition 

 for kingship for five years. Gus Zimmerman having been crowned in 

 JSS6, has been as it were, laid on the shelf until this year, when he 



again became eligible for the honors. His well-known liberality and 

 social qualities give him a large following of enthusiastic admirers, 

 and when it became known in the shooting house during this festival 

 that Gus was eligible for the kingship for 1893, there was a strong 

 element of partisanship evinced in his favor. 



It is customary in this corps for the members to draw numbers for 

 their turn to shoot on the target of honor. Zimmerman's number 

 proved to be one of the highest or last on the list, and as a consequence 

 his many friends were kept on the ragged edge untU his number was 

 called for. Philip Schmidt, the king of last year, had put up 63 out of 

 a possible 75. He was followed latter on by the shooting master, John 

 Eisenhardt, with 64. When Zimmerman's number was called there 

 was a general movement of all present in the direction of the Honor 

 target. His first shot was 20, his second 21, the third 23, a total of 64, 

 and a tie with Eisenhardt on the total. But Zimmerman's last shot 

 outranking that of Eisenhardt, "Unser Gus" was declared to be the 

 king of the New York Central Schuetzen Corps for the year 1893-4. 



The readers of Forest and Stream, being familiar with the modus 

 operandi of crowning the Schuetzen king, we will omit further descrip- 

 tion and proceed to give our readers a list of the prize winners on the 

 several targets. On the ring target there were 25 prizes, ranging from 

 S25 to .'$1. Tickets 3 shots, German ring target, ties to be decided by 

 the best last shot. Scores: 



LP Hansen 71 R Busse 67 HRadloff 62 



F CROSS 67 GebKrauss 61 



RFlierdl,.. 67 MSchneeweis 61 



Wm Hayes 67 M Tonjes 61 



John Dietz; 64 J Jordan 61 



B Zettler 64 E Berckman 60 



Jacob Dux 64 J Eisenhardt 60 



L Vogel 63 M Ficken 60 



On the man target there were twenty prizes ranging from §20 to gl, 

 3 shots, possible 60: 



RFlierdl 60 Geo Schlicht 54 P Schmidt .51 



G Zimmerman 58 L Flach 54 E Berckman 51 



R Busse 57 M Ficken 53 M Reitenweis 51 



WSeppenfeldt 56 W A Ross 52 JJordan 51 



LP Hansen 55 C G Zettler 52 GebKrauss 50 



AVm Hayes 55 



BuUseye target. For the most flags, ten prizes, $10 to SI : 



G Zimmerman 44 L Flach 10 Wm Hayes 7 



P Schmidt 22 L P Hansen 9 F Jutjens 4 



G Schlicht 19 F Schraeder 8 J Eisenhardt 4 



L Flach 



G Zimmerman 70 



Geo Schlicht 69 



F Schraeder 69 



P Schmidt 68 



GWPlaisted 67 



CG Zettler 67 



Greenville Rifle Club. 



The weekly rifle shoot of the GreenvUle Rifle Club, of Greenville, 

 N. J., on Friday, Aug. 4, had Its usual attendance. The scores are ap- 

 pended, 10 shots, possible 250, distance 25yds.: Purkess 241, C. Boag 

 239, CoUins 237. Robidoux 237, Spahn 236, J. Boag 233, Dodds 2.32, Gass- 

 man 215, Hill 212. • 



There was not the usual attendance of members of the Greenville 

 (N. J.) Rifle Club, in Armbruster's Park, on Saturday, Aug. 5. A 

 game of baseball is said to have been the counter attraction. H. 

 Mehlenbrock, of the Hudson ulub, was again a visitor. Henry Mang, 

 one of the new members of the club, tried his hand at the "targets. 

 The following appended scores were made by the members participat- 

 ing; 10 shots, German target: 



Plaisted 22 23 23 22 24 20 24 21 24 83-226 



Dorrler 23 21 23 24 23 24 21 22 21 84-225 



Chavant 22 23 25 24 21 23 21 20 21 20—219 



Spahn 20 21 14 21 21 23 11 25 83 19—197 



Dodds 21 20 18 25 35 0 17 19 28 19—186 



Mehlenbrock 22 18 18 22 10 21 9 18 16 80—174 



International Columbian Prize Shooting. 



Chicago Shooting Park, West Pullman, July .30-31.— The wind blew 

 pretty fresh on Monday, therefore some scores were left unfinished, 

 shooters waiting for a fair wind. 



The following shooters were decorated with the Columbian medal: 

 A. J. Vandusen, Winona, Minn.: T. E. Vandusen. Winona, Minn.; C. 

 A. Johnson, Elgin, 111.: J. J. Seewer, Stanford, Ky. : H. Armbruster, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich.; H. M. Pope, Hartford, Conn.; Hans Egh, Munchen, 

 Bavaria; Fred Reichenbach, Mt. Kenney, Ky. ; Robert Hendrichs, 

 Chicago, and Wm. Ott, Chicago. The scores were: 



CoZumftta.— Hans EgU 57, J. Seewer 53, H. Armbruster 53. 



King Target.— Tl. M. Pope 20, Hans Egli 201, J. J. Seewer 174, H. 

 Armbruster 178. 



Standard.— K. M. Pope 45, H. Armbruster 43, J. J. Seewer 38, J. T. 

 Delahunty 32. 



People's Target.—^. M. Pope 70. A. J. Vandusen 65, H. Armbruster 

 63, J. J. Seewer 51, Hans Egli 59, J. T. Delahimty 57. 



Man Target.— TP. Ingersoll 89, H. Armbruster 89, H. M. Pope 85, J. J. 

 Seewer 78, J. T. Delahunty 82. 



Bullseye Target.— Q. F. Schmidt, Chicago, 19 flags out of 100 shot, 

 H. Armbruster 16, J. J. Seewer 16, Hans Egli 13. A. Boese, Sec. 



Turtle Bay Club. 



The outing of the Turtle Bay Rifle Club at Woodside, L. I., on July 

 .30 was highly enjoyed by.every one present. AJl worked hard to bring 

 their scores up to the gold medal series (230) but try as they would, 

 not one succeeded in getting there. The scores are appended, 10 shots! 

 distance 50yds., gallery targets: J. Krampert 229, J. F. Oberle 238. 

 Jantzer 228, Walter 224, J. Ochs. Jr., 219. 



A Bisley Interview. 



THE CHAMPION REVOL^'ER SHOT AT Bl.SLEY. 



To THOSE with any acquaintance of revolver shooting in this country 

 information will not be needed as to the name of the individual who 

 forms the subject of this week's article. It is Walter Winans, Esq., 

 whose ingeniously constructed Bungalow forms, with the Bungalows 

 of Capt. Foulkes and that of the Irish team, quite a unique feature in 

 camp life at Bisley. Mr. Winans's Bungalow, though similar in appear- 

 ance to those of the others named, is of American construction and 

 portable, talcing to pieces and folding up when the main support is 

 removed, with the greatest ease. 



On calling on Monday afternoon I was courteously received by 

 Mrs. Winans, whose conspicuous grace and beauty are more than 

 sufficient to account for the numerous callers partaking of'5 o'clock 

 tea at the time of my visit, the coronets on one or two of the carriages 

 waiting outside being an index of the calibre of the guests. On learn- 

 ing that 5Ir. Winans was shooting at the ranges I hied me thither, 

 after duly admiring the brilliant flowers in the improvised garden 

 which surrounds the luxurious camp dwelling house. 



As he stands at the butts, revolver in hand, attired in an ordinary 

 looking brown shooting suit with soft felt hat dented in at the top, 

 Alpine fashion, which is, in reality, the United States Cavalry hat, 

 Walter Winans has the appearance of a bronzed and bearded traveler 

 to be approached with some degree of reverence, if not positive awe. 

 After a minute or two"s conversation, however, you are soon at your 

 ease, and you find yourself In the presence of an extremely mild 

 spoken amiable gentleman, without the faintest ostentation or indi- 

 cation of wealth whatever, whose sole desire appears to be to show 

 you anything Ukely to be of interest to you in the camp, rather than 

 to talk about himself. He shows you the exhibition tent wherein all 

 the Association prizes, including a very handsome gilt vase, presented 

 by Henry Whitehead, Esq., for revolver gi-and aggregate shooting, 

 which you know your host is bound to win, although he saj-s nothing 

 on the subject. He accompanies you to witne.ss the shooting for the 

 Queen's prize, and descants upon the merits of the men, which is very 

 nice and kind of him, but you say to yourself, "it isn't Winans,"' and 

 at last you take the bull Cor rather "lion") by the horns and ask him 

 whether he is an American, for so far there has been nothing trans- 

 atlantic in accent or phraseology. His reply is: "My parents are 

 Americans, but I was born and bred in St. Petersburg, where my 

 father was contractor for the Russian Government and built the rail- 

 way there." 



"You are an enthusiast in the matter of revolver shooting. I believe? ' 



"I take the greatest possible interest in it. but if by enthusiast you 

 mean I take no interest in anything else you are wrong, for I am very 

 fond of music, as I am also of sculpture and painting." 



"As an amateur?" 1 asked. 



"Well. I neither sketch nor play for a living,"" he remarked dryly, 

 "but some stag sket<;hes of mine have been adopted by the Field for 

 shooting scores, and my sculpture, which I exhibited this year at 

 Sheffield, has been awarded the medal, and some of it already sold." 



After this informarion 1 thought I saw my way to a feeble joke, and 

 an opportunity to get back to the subject of revolver shooting. 



"You will pardon m.y being personal," I said, "but are you left- 

 handed?'" For I had noticed he fired this afternoon with his left. 



"No; I shot with that hand to-day because the pistol 1 was using 

 kicked so." 



"And vou shoot equally well with the right?" 

 "Yes." 



"I thought so." 

 "Why?" 



"Because a man of your attainments must obviously be more than 

 dexterous— must be ambidexterous." 



After apologizing for my levity I asked him with what kind of revol- 

 ver he usually shot, and this question brought out the fact that he 

 has not only invented a patent revolver, but a patent side-saddle, to 

 prevent ladies being dragged in case of accident when riding or hunt^ 

 ing. On the merits of these, however, he was modestly dumb, and 

 after finding out that he had been champion revolver shot ever since 

 the establishment of the South London Club in 1886, is champion of 

 the North London Club for the present year (the only one of its exist- 

 ence), had taken a hundred first prizes at Wimbledon and Bisley, is 

 equaUj- good at the running deer, and has killed forty-four pigeons 

 out of eighty from the trap with a pistol, I took my leave, explaining 

 that I was not accustomed to interview a veritable admirable Crichton 

 at a moment's notice and without some previous preparation.— Cowrf 

 Circular, London. 



RIFLE NOTES. 



C. H. Chavant, of the Greenville Rifle Club, who is an expert 

 chemist and an enthusiastic rifleman as well, went out with the mem- 

 bers of his club on Saturday last, devoted the afternoon to experi- 

 menting with nitro powder in his .38.55 Winchester. He informs us 

 that if the manufacturers will make a shell which will take the No. 3 

 primer used in the shotgun shells, he believes that good work can be 

 done with nitro powder in the rifle. Our manufacturers have devoted 

 a good deal of time and money in developing the shotgun shell for the 

 use of the nitro powders, now why not cater a little to the interests of 

 the rifle shooters. Outside of the tests made by the Government for 

 the new army rifle, riflemen have begn left to plod along with the 

 old-time black powder and its mulish eccentricities. Who of our 

 many manufacturers wUl be the Moses to lead us out of this wilder- 

 ness of smoke and recoil? 



L. P. Hansen, of the Excelsior Club, of Jersey City, is coming to the 

 front as one of our experts in off-hand shooting. At the Greenville 

 Park two weeks since, during the festival of the New Jersey Schutzen 

 Association, Mr. Hansen put up the winning score, 71 points out of a 

 possible 75, on his first effort. At the festival of the New York Central 

 (Jorps at Washington Park, on Thursday last, he again put up the 

 same score on his first entry and 55 out of 60 on the man. We have in 

 mind some of our old experts with reputations dating from way 

 back, who at the same shoot had tickets sufficient for double pinocle, 

 and could not get beyond 67 on the ring target. 



The Zettler Rifle Club is out with programmes for its fall festival 

 to be held at Wissel's Cypress HUls Park, on the 10th and 11th of Sep- 

 tember. Cash prizes to the amount of $550 will be put up for all 

 comers to compete for. It has been remarked that the Zettler Club 

 has a habit of supplying all unfortunate out of town riflemen visiting 

 its festival with a supper and a return ticket home. The shooter who 

 went from New York to St. Paul to attend a Bundesfest and won an 

 order for a ton of coal can appreciate the thoughtfulness of the 

 Zettlers in looking after the interests of their guests. 



Our New York riflemen, who attended the Columbia International 

 Shooting Festival at Chicago last month, say that a rifleman of fair 

 ability can attend the fair and make his expenses out of the Columbia 

 shoot. 



MB. winans's position. 

 From a photograph. 



All ties divided unless otherwise reported. 

 FIXTURES. 



If you want your shoot to be announced here 

 send In notice like the following: 



Aug. 15-16.— Coliunbus (Neb.) Gun CSub tournament. 



Aug. 15-16.— Big Four Gun Club tournament, Burlington. Iowa. 



Aug. 15-18.— Reading Shooting Association, Shillington, Pa. 



Aug. 16-18.— Coney Island tournament at Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Aug. 16-18.— Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers'- Association's 

 fifth tournament, at Charlotte, N. C. 



Aug. 22-25.— Third international Uve bu-d and target tournament, at 

 Des-chree-shos-ka Island, Detroit, Mich. 



Aug. 22-25.— Keystone Tai-get Company, seventh annual tournament, 

 at New London, Conn. 



Aug. 23-31.— Chadwick's tournament, Marmont, Ind. 



Sept. 4.— Frankfort (N. Y.) Game and Fish Protective Association 

 tournament. 



Sept. 4.— Endeavor Gun Club tournament, on Al Hei-itage's grounds, 

 Marion, N. J. 



Sept. 6-8. — The Veteran Tournament, Indianapolis, Ind , during 

 National G. A. R. Encampment, under the management of the officers 

 of the North End Shooting Club. H. S. Humphrey, President. 



Sept. 14-15.— Riverside Gun Club's second annual tournament, at 

 Red Bank, N. J. John P. Cooper, Sec'y. 



Sept. 26-29.— Pennsylvania State Sportsmen's Association tournament 

 at Harrisburg, Pa. H. M. F. Worden, Cov. Sec'y. 



September.— Manufacturers' Trap Shooting Association tourna- 

 ment, at Columbus, Ohio. 



September.— Manufacturers' Trap-Shooting Association tournament, 

 at AUentown and Bethlehem, Pa. (combined). 



Oct. 2-7. — John Watson's tournament, Burnside, 111. 



Oct. 19-20. — West Newburg Gun and Rifle Association fall tourna- 

 ment, at Newburg. 



1894. 



April 4-fi.— Interstate Manufacturers' and Dealers' Association's 

 Grand American Handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island. 



May 23-24.— Knox^rille (Tenn.) Gun Club tournament, $1,000 added 

 money. 



DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 



The coming week will be a lively one for trap-shooters, and thou- 

 sands of targets wiU be sent scaling through the air in various parts 

 of the country. The shooters will have their choice of territory com- 

 prising Cincinnati, O., Charlotte, N. C, Burlington, la., Columbus, 

 Neb., and Reading, Pa. Eacli of these toui-naments is to be under the 

 management of reh'able parties, and each of them will be a first-class 

 affair, which shooters need have no hesitancy in attending. The day 

 has about passed, in fact, when parties can run tournaments with the 

 sole intention of filling their own pockets by putting up "padded" 

 purses and fleecing the shooters, The tournaments of to-day are run 

 by reputable, established clubs, and invariably the management is 

 placed in the hands of men who have not only a substantial stetnding 

 in their communities, but who stand well with shooters at large. 



The Baltimore (Md.) Gun Club held its first shoot on its new grounds 

 in Grason's Park, Pimlico road, on July 27'. The Pimlico Gun Club 

 have consoUdated with the Baltimores. The best work was done by 

 Milton Hunt, who broke 60 targets straight. The officers of the con- 

 solidated clubs are as follows: J. Henry Keene, President; J, A. 

 Wilhar, Vice-President; John Hartner, Secretary and J, R. Malone, 

 Treasurer. 



The Mecca for those shooters who like to combine a pleasant rail- 

 road trip with a pleasant time at tbe trap, will be Charlotte, N. C, 



