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FOREST AND • STREAM. 
[Mat 25, 1895. 
The Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
The Forest and Stream was the first journal to show its 
faith in the enterprise of a Sportsmen's Exposition by en- 
gaging space for its own use; and when the time came 
there was provided here an exhibit which our friends 
were so good as to say was in keeping with the character of 
the Exposition and worthy of the Forest and Stream and 
ant truth to be learned in the entire Sportsmen's Ex- 
position." 
No booklet was required to explain the significance of the 
picture; it spoke for itself directly to the heart. As there 
are thousands who|are "chained," so were there thousands 
at the Exposition last week who saw in the man at his 
desk another self. As the throng came through the aisles 
THE "FOREST AND STREAM'S EXHIBIT. 
the place it holds in the sportsmanship of the day. In 
conception and execution, as these same friends were 
pleased to declare, the exhibit was original, dignified, en- 
terprising and creditable. Generous attention was be- 
stowed upon it and appreciative study given it. 
The exhibit occupied two spaces and was divided into 
two distinct and complementary divisions, one of the jour- 
nal itself with its adjuncts, the other of the Native Ameri- 
can Hunter. A carefully prepared booklet added to the 
interest of both of these. 
The " Forest and Stream." 
The central and chief exhibit was of the Forest akd 
Stream, shown in forty-three richly bound volumes, cov- 
ering the entire term of publication from the first number 
in August, 1873, to the beginning of the present year. 
There were also files of the American Sportsman (1871 to 
1875) and of the Eod and Gun (1875 to 1877), journals 
which were merged into the Forest and Stream. Very 
impressive were the stately volumes, standing in line, side 
by side, one added to another, the growth of the years, 
and full of suggestion were they to him who can discern 
beneath the surface of things For amid all the purely 
material features of this great Exposition — the implements 
and accessories and trophies of sport — here was the finer 
essence and the spirit. 
The great hit of the exhibit, if not indeed of the Ex- 
position, was the.oil painting of the sportsman ''Chained 
to Business," that figure now so familiar from the Atlan- 
and paused before the Forest and Stream space, their 
faces would light up with smiling recognition of the pic- 
ture's significance, and as for the expressions of appreci- 
Among the pictures were a framed set of the Forest 
and Stream's color pictures given as premiums — "Jack- 
snipe Coming In," "He's Cot Them" (quail shooting), 
"Vigilant and Valkyrie," "Bass Fishing at Block Island." 
Enlarged copies of some of the Amateur Photography 
Competition were shown; and there was a striking field 
picture by Prof. Osthaus. 
Yacht models illustrated the three leading types, as 
represented by a shoal centerboard of extreme beam, a 
keel yacht similar to the famous Gloriana, and the fin- 
keel Scarecrow. Canoeing was represented by models of 
three different types of early canoes — McGregor's Eob 
Roy, the Jersey Blue and the English canoe Pearl. 
Mounted heads of big game, with birds and fish, were 
employed for decorative effect. The heads were of buf- 
falo, mountain sheep, antelope and whitetail deer, the last 
noteworthy for the size and symmetry of the antlers. 
Locked deer horns from Mississippi told of a death strug- 
in the swamp. 
There were shown the head of a 23^1bs. black bass 
from Florida, and the skin of a 9 or 10ft. rattler from 
Texas. 
Among the arms were a Long Tom flint-lock musket 
carried in the Eevolutionary war by Warren Winslow, a 
powder horn, curiously decorated, of the same period, and 
a flint-lock pistol carried by an officer at the battle of 
Bunker Hill; these were loaned by Messrs. W. A. Abel & 
Co., of Syracuse. A percussion revolver carried by Com- 
modore Semmes excited much interest. 
A pair of holster pistols, which were old when they 
were first used by Kelpie in the early '50s, their horn, 
which is an ancient relic from Vermont, a rifle charger, 
an old Hirschf anger or German hunting sword, a Norse 
fisher's knife and two home-made hunting knives were 
loaned by Mr. F. H. Thurston, of Michigan . 
Then there was a beautiful example of a flint-lock fowl- 
ing-piece, made by Tatham, of London, for George 
IV., and presented by that monarch to Kamehameha 
II., of the Sandwich Islands. The date is not given, but 
Kamehameha died in 1824. This gun was loaned by Mr. 
W. P. Anderson, of Warwick, N. Y. 
The snowshoes and skis were relics of the FOREST AND 
Stream's Yellowstone Park Game Exploration of the 
winter of 1893-94. 
The Native American Hunter. 
That portion of the Forest and Stream exhibit devoted 
to the evolution of the Native American Hunter attracted 
much attention from press and public, and was a center 
of attraction for crowds during all week. The daily 
papers spoke of the exhibit as one of vast interest, and as 
a matter of fact there was nothing in the Garden into 
which so much history was compressed as in this. In 
this exhibit the pages of the past were turned back, and 
the public were told something of the mode of life and 
the methods of hunting and fishing in the old America 
by the real American, as illustrated by his implements 
here shown. In these reminders of the old days the 
changes could be traced which have taken place in the 
hunting of our big game, from the time before the white 
man came, down to the advent of the breech-loading rifle 
which exterminated the buffalo. 
Thus was shown the evolution of the American hunter. 
And this evolution shows why and how the wild things 
CHAINED TO BUSINESS? 
Can't gq fishing? 
Do the next hest thing- 
Head the " Eorest and Stream." 
tic to the Pacific. The canvas, 5x8ft., set in a heavy oak 
frame, showed the victim in life size, and the effect was 
heightened by the employment of an actual chain— not 
in any sense a toy affair, but one of iron, with ponderous 
links, and securely fastened with a padlock. The Forest 
and Stream of the picture was also an actual copy of the 
paper in its file-binder. "The chain is a real one," ex- 
plained the booklet, "as with most of us our chain is. 
Bat the Forest and Stream is real, too; and the lesson 
which the picture is intended to teach is that every one 
may have with his real chain the solace of a real Forest 
AND Stkeam. Remember that. There is no more import- 
THE EOREST AND STREAM'S EXHIBIT OE THE NATIVE AMERICAN HUNTER. 
ative comment these forty pages would not suffice to 
record them. 
Of the books on outdoor sport published or imported by 
the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., the display was 
extensive. The collection covered the several branches 
of fishing, shooting, natural history, travel, camping, 
yachting, canoeing, boating, the dog. 
— whether brute or human — have gone; for it shows how 
to kill became constantly more and more easy. Besides 
this story told by the transition from primitive weapons 
to improved ones, as a centerpiece of the exhibit, there 
was what is even more important and interesting — the 
note-book of a primitive hunter, the tanned skin of a 
buffalo cow, on which he has recorded the story of his 
