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the lump of steel, now become the frame of the gun, at 
the point where the hand work begins. Between stages 
No. 5 and No. 6 the frame has passed through thirty-one 
different millings. Those who attend sportsmen's exposi- 
tions can thus learn what it is to make a gun. The won- 
der is that the result of such mechanical skill costs so 
little to the consumer. 
The Hunter Arms Co. also manufacture the Hunter 
bicycle, an excellent wheel, four beautiful specimens of 
which were shown, two in models for ladies. A great 
many ladies looked with pleasure at these wheels and Mr. 
McMurchy in his new green clothes. 
W. Fred Quimby. 
At the exhibit of the Hunter Arms Co. was the well- 
known sign of W. Fred Quimby, agent for the 
Hunter Arms Co. , as well as for the Empire target and 
E. C. powder. Mr. Quimby was never in better fettle 
THE SYRACUSE ARMS COMPANY. 
than he was this week, and was willing to trade horses or 
swap stories with anyone who came along. Mr. Quimby 
has fittted up handsome display rooms for these goods 
down town, and in his hands they will flourish in the 
East. 
Tatham & Bros. 
Not far to the left of the main entrance was the display 
of Tatham & Bros. , the shot manufacturers. They had 
hard goods to display, but managed it well. A miniature 
shot tower of glass, 10 or 12ft. high, made a good feature, 
and there was a big glass case full of little glass cases 
showing shot in all sizes from the homoeopathic No. 12 to 
the gruff, coarse buckshot. Pyramids of shot sacks 
formed a background and courteous attendants did the 
rest. 
Cushman & Denison. 
The first thing to the right of the main door was the 
exhibit of the firm of Cushman & Denison, makers of the 
Perfeot pocket oiler, a most useful implement for whoso 
owns a gun or wheel. Two different styles of this handy 
contrivance were shown to best advantage, velvet and 
glass aiding as they could in the matter of tasteful and 
creditable display. 
Mullins's Metal Boats. 
The golden Diana which crowns the pinnacle of Madi- 
'son Square Garden was designed by an artist and made 
by another artist, who works in metals. This same man, 
who is Mr. W. H. Mullins, of Salem, O., concluded that 
if he could make a golden Diana he could make a good 
metal duck boat, or fishing boat, or pleasure boat. So he 
did all that, and "at the sign of the sailor" one could see 
them — four of the most unique and beautiful boats ever 
made. Two of these were of manganese bronze, and the 
lines were so beautiful and the embossing so cunning in 
design and so artistic in effect that one could only marvel 
and say, "What next?" These boats are stamped out of 
the sheet metal, and though thin and light, the metal is 
so arranged as to form the stiffest sort of craft. There 
are air tanks which float three men with the boat full of 
water. The ornamentation on these manganese boats 
was in excellent keeping, the dragon-head prow and stern 
reminding one of Norse sailing craft. The seats were 
cane-bottomed and every particular in good finish, though 
the cost of the largest boat was only set at $110. The 
manganese boats are especially to be recommended for salt- 
water use. 
The two aluminum boats are made on excellent clinker 
lines, and this build should give this model a holding 
power on the water which would make it punt much 
better that any smooth-skinned metal boat. The same 
ornamental beading and flower designs are used here to 
conceal yet to convey the quality of rigidity. The boats 
are beautiful indeed, and are seaworthy, sound and prac- 
tical, and should last one a lifetime. Four of these boats 
lave been used on the Kankakee marshes of Indiana in 
duck shooting and are reported a success. These metal 
stamped boats are a new thing in the trade, but are 
rapidly gaining vogue. Mr. Mullins further hands one a 
grand art catalogue, showing the many beautiful things 
he has done in metal. Viewing it, one can only believe 
that all things are possible these days and to no man more 
than the American sportsman. 
The Cleveland Target Co. 
The Cleveland Target Co. occupied the same space they 
had last year, and the scheme of decoration, in black and 
yellow, was the same as that employed then. These were 
bluerock targets and traps, be sure, and likewise a novelty 
in a crate of live bluerock pigeons of the genuine English 
brand, imported by the company for this occasion. But 
the great feature of this exhibit, and that which over- 
shadowed everything else therein and kept Paul North 
perpetually happy, was the new Magautrap, perhaps as 
decided a novelty in the sporting goods trade as any 
shown at the exposition. In the opinion of the Cleve- 
land Target Co., which certainly seems a warranted be- 
lief, the problem of the magazine trap is at last solved. 
A machine which requires only one trapper to operate, 
which breaks not over 5 per cent, and never breaks a 
perfect bird, which throws targets at unknown angles as 
fast as a man can load and shoot at them, and which can 
be put in place at less than the cost of a battery of traps 
— that certainly would seem to be something of an acqui- 
sition to the sport of trap-shooting. 
The Magautrap is operated precisely on the principle of 
a bicycle, or rather gets its motive power in the same 
way. The trapper sits on a bicycle seat and treadles on 
two bicycle cranks, whose chain gearing operates a heavy 
horizontal fly wheel, which balances the arm and carrier 
that throw the targets. When proper speed is attained 
a little bell tinkles continuously, and at that time the fly 
wheel is revolving with very considerable momentum. 
The targets are fed into the carrier in stacks of ten, which 
are lifted in place by the operator who is driving the 
machine with his feet, but who has his hands left free. 
He is screened from the revolving part of the machine by 
a horizontal wire netting, and there can be no danger to 
the trapper, as there sometimes is when trapping at the or- 
dinary trap. As the targets feed down into;the revolving 
carrier, they are whirled off with a strong centrifugal 
force, and released while under that impulse by an auto- 
matic trip worked by the puller. The angles are never 
too sharp for the ordinary shooting, as seen in the use of 
other traps, but of course the puller cannot tell just at 
what point on the circumference of the target's circling 
course it will be when he releases it, so the feature of un- 
known angles is established unimpeachably. 
"Magautrap" is not a Greek or Latin derivative, but is 
supposed to be a condensation of "magazine automatic 
trap." It is therefore pronounced "mag-go-trap." The 
suggestion that Paul North's card hereafter read "P. 
McGaw North" must on the latter account be rejected, 
and Paul North will not have any new cards engraved. 
Paul was about the happiest man in the Garden, and was 
in the saddle of the Magautrap a great portion of the 
time — to which end he was dressed in bicycle costume 
and a bright glad smile which he is said to carry now 
when he is asleep and dreaming. 
"With this trap," said he, "you can have ten bluerocks 
in the air at once, a whole covey — just think of it! There 
is no longer any use for field-shooting, and all the money 
you need for a game preserve is about enough to build a 
couple of panels of fence. Come and see me run it!" So 
he hitched up his bloomers, and when last seen was mak- 
ing the bell jingle behind an imaginary covey of blue- 
rocks. And that is something to think about. 
Otto Goetze, Mannocitin. 
Otto Goetze, 25 Whitehall street, New York, showed at 
Stand 38 samples of Mannocitin, the standard rust pre- 
ventive, for which he is American agent. The exhibit 
included cans, tubes and jars of Mannocitin, illustrating 
the different forms in which it is offered to the trade and 
to individual sportsmen, as well as articles which had 
been rendered rustproof by applications of the preven- 
tive. Among these latter were gun barrels and bicycle 
tubing, parts of which had been left exposed to the action 
of salt water while other parts had been protected by 
Mannocitin. 
Artistic effects were produced by various- methods of 
applying the rust preventive. In some cases the rust was 
produced in bands alternating with the bright metal 
which had been protected by the compound, and in other 
cases words and sentences were thrown out in contrast 
by the same means. Wherever the Mannocitin had been 
applied it had effectually protected the metal from rust, 
though in every case the different articles had been sub- 
jected to the most trying conditions. As far as can be 
judged Mannocitin seems to protect absolutely from rust. 
The Stereopticon Exhibition. 
The Forest and Stream stereopticon exhibition of pic- 
tures from outdoor life, though handicapped by a small 
hall with a low ceiling that prevented a good view and • 
necessitated the cutting down of the screen to small pro- 
portions, was a success in more ways than one. During 
the week upwards of 6,000 persons passed through 
the entrance at the south side of the amphi- 
theater and followed the evolutions of the pic- 
tures that came one after another in rapid succession 
on the screen. Now it was a field scene, an incident of 
paTtridge shooting, now the hunters stand over a fallen 
elk, or a struggle with a grizzly is depicted. Then it is a 
yachting picture, and the salt spray dashes in sheets from 
the bow of the flying boat. The next instant a fisherman 
is shown playing a 61b. bass, and so on through the list of 
more than 150 subjects, which covered most phases of an 
American sportsman's life. In the collection were a num- 
ber of pictures of wild game in their native haunts photo- 
graphed from life, and among these were some remark- 
ably good pictures loaned by Mr. Jay Pierrepont. 
The Syracuse Arms Co. 
The Syracuse Arms Co.'s gun and George Mosher make a 
popular combination; neither of them has an enemy, 
and both have a great and growing circle of friends. If 
you want a gun that as far as the mechanism is concerned 
is simplicity itself, and that is honestly and accurately 
put together, and that is light and symmetrical, and not 
too high priced, you can order one of these guns. 
™ They are made in all weights down to a six and a quarter 
OTTO GOETZE — MANNOCITIN. 
pound 12-gauge gun that is the very thing for a lady, 
and on spscial orders still lighter guns may be obtained. 
Messrs. Herman Boker & Co,, 101-103 Duane street, New 
York, are sole agents. 
Von Lengerke & Detmold. 
Messrs. Von Lengerke & Detmold occupied a liberal 
space, double that of last year. An immense electric 
sign brilliantly lighted the exhibit, and at the same time 
proclaimed Schultze powder. Five new Mott Electric 
Live Pigeon Traps worked by a switch at the opposite end 
of the exhibit gave a practical illustration of the merits of 
this system of trapping. About thirty Francotte guns in 
various grades, from the $80 net gun up to the $400 
pigeon gun, were neatly displayed in a novel and attrac- 
tive manner. On similar tables and in a large show case 
were shown specimens in detail of their fine fishing 
tackle, comprising silk worm gut, flies for different kinds 
of fish, reels, split-bamboo rods, casting lines, etc. One 
of the most novel features was an arrangement of three 
separate cylinders, placed on the same level, so arranged 
that a bicycle could be placed upon them. On this an 
expert rider could balance and give an imitation of riding, 
but, as on a treadmill, there never was any progress 
at all. Many ludicrous happenings to the rider afforded 
the crowd much amusement. The display of wheels con- 
sisted of a half dozen models of the Lu-mi-num, a 
wheel made of aluminum, for which greater strength is 
claimed than is possessed by the steel tubing frame wheel. 
The motor bicycles of this firm, shown in the exhibit and . 
in operation in the basement of the Garden, were an ob- 
ject of admiration. Large numbers of people witnessed 
them in operation. On the unfavorable track, six laps to a 
mile, it was said that the mile was made in two minutes 
and thirty seconds. It is the intention to form a company 
and manufacture the motor bicycle for sale. Miss Annie 
Oakley made V. L. & D. space her headquarters. For the 
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