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FOREST AND STREAM. 
LMabch 20, 1897. 
THE SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 
The third annual Sportsmen's Exposition in Madison 
Square Garden, this city, is in progress as the Forest and 
Steeam goes to press. The exhibits are manifold and in- 
teresting, and are attracting large throngs of visitors. We 
give to-daj' a review of the principal exhibits. The thirty 
odd illustrations aiford a capital example of the possibili- 
ties of the illustrated journalism of to-day. The work was 
necessarily done in a rush. The photographs were taken 
in one day and developed and printed by night; and the 
prints were given to the engravers early the following 
morning for reproduction as the half-tone engravings 
TOION METALLIC CAKTEID6E COMPANT, 
which are presented herewith. By this expedition it was 
possible to supply in the mid-week of the Exposition ad- 
mirably comprehensive and accurate pictures of the indi- 
vidual exhibits. From these iUustrations and with the 
text accompanying them readers who did not visit the 
show may gain a very satisfactory notion of just what it 
was. 
The Exposition opened last Saturday with sixty exhibits 
in place. There is a noticeable divergence of the character 
of the exhibition this year from that of the original one; the 
show of 1897 is not so closely confined to the sports of the 
rod and gun as was that of 1895, although it is clearly 
manifest that the real interest centei's about the gun dis- 
plays, the powder exhibitions, and the hunting boats and 
the field equipments. One feature of the present Exposition 
is the largely increased number of trophies and prizes shown 
by representativesof^allbranches of sport, including rowing, 
fencing, swimming, yachting, la crosse, running, football, 
tennis and athletic sports in general; there are extensive 
collections of such trophies shown by individuals and 
societies. There is also a novelty in an exhibit of live 
game birds, including snow, Canada, Hutchings and blue 
geese; black brant, black ducks.mallards, domestic call ducks 
and others; and Mr. Verner de Guise shows English ring- 
neck pheasants, dark-necked pheasants and Mongolian 
pheasants. The rifle-shooting contests are attracting de- 
cided interest and promise to be a success exceeding the 
anticipation of the promoters. There is also revolver 
shooting, and fly-casting contests are held afternoon and 
evening over a miniature pond provided on the south side 
of the Garden. 
The attendance at the Garden has been very satisfactory 
in number, and there is a noted improvement in its 
character. Many trade representatives are here and the 
Exposition has proved a meeting ground for dealers and 
sportsmen from far and near. 
IT. M. C. Company. 
In arranging for a display of its manufactures at this 
year's exposition, the U M C. Company, of Bridgeport, 
Conn., devised something in the way of an exhibit that is 
not only novel, but decidedly striking. The arrangement of 
LAFLIN & BAND. 
the different kinds of goods manufactured by this company 
is boun^ to attract the notice of all visitors to the Sports- 
men's Exposition. 
The location and the amount of space occupied by the 
firm lhi« year is precisely the same as in the expositions of 
'95 and '96. This year, however, the black and gold pagoda- 
hke structures that held the U. M. C. Co 's goods ia those 
years are absent. In their place is a mammoth lozenge- 
shaped pyramid composed entirely of cartridges in the 
origmal packages, that is, in the paoer boxes that contain 
100 cartridges, and which are so well known to trap-shooters 
generally. The base is built of the green paper boxes con- 
taining Trap shells. The next few steps are built of the 
white paper boxes, lettered in red, that speak of the Smoke- 
less shells inside. Next ceme the maroon boxes with Nitro 
shells, followed step by step by boxes of Acme, Black Club 
and High Base in order named. The whole is capped with 
more of the green boxes of Trap shells. The pyramid 
bristles -with ammunition for rapid-firing guns from I pound- 
ers up to 12 pounders. 
The pyramid occupying a square space, but being lozenge- 
shaped, there are necessarily four small corners to utilize. 
And here again the display is simple but effective, the pyram- 
idal style being adhered to. Each of the four corners is 
occupied by a miniature pyramid of wads in the original 
packages, and each pyramid is surmounted by a glass globe 
filled to the brim with samples of the wads that go to form 
the base such globe is resting upon. The four kinds of wads 
represented are: white felt, field, pink edae and black-edge. 
The four corners of the space occupied by the U. M. C. 
Co. are markf d by gilded pillars; on the lop of each pillar 
is an electric hght of high power, whose rays are softened 
by being inclosed in a ground glass globe. Each corner also 
contains a gla s showcase tastefully arranged, and each dis- 
tinctively of its own kind. No. 1, for instance, shows sam- 
ples of the various kinds of military rifle ammunition manu- 
factured by the company : No. 2 is' devoted solely to sporting 
rifle ammunition ; No 3 exhibits shells for shotguns, loaded 
and ) ectionalized to show wadding and powders used ; No 4 
shows the immense variety of caps and primers siill in use 
lor the fireariBs of the world. That showcase. No. 4 con- 
tains an excellent object lesson on the old adage of "many 
mf-n, many minds," and we might add, "many guns " 
In addition to the brilliant lighting obtained from the 
electric lights all over the Garden, and the lamps at each of 
the four cotners of the space occupied by the company, an 
electric sunburst (no other name is so appropriate), hanging 
just above the apex of the central pyramid, adds greatly to 
the effectiveness of the U, M. 0. Company's exhibit during 
the evening sessions. 
It is unnecessary to add that Mr. J A. H. Dressel, the 
secretary-treasurer of the Sportsmen's Association, and also 
a representative oflicial of the U. M. C. Company, is nearly 
always in evidence around the company's exhibit. But the 
exhibit itself is directly in charge of "U. M. C." Thomas, 
CLEVELAND TARGET COMPANY. 
the company's ballistic expert at Bridgeport, Conn., who is 
always on hand, and who is untiring in his efforts to explain 
the nature of his firm's exhibits to those interested in the 
same. We believe the originality of this year's exhibit is 
due mainly to Mr Thomas's consideration of this matter. 
Mr. Herbert F. H. Dressel, son of Mr. J A H. Dressel, as- 
sists Mr. Thomas in looking after the exhibit. 
Liaflin & Band Powder Company. 
In the space occupied by the Laflin & Rand Powder Co. 
are two very catching exhibits. The first is a working model 
of the entire plant of the company at Wayne, N. J., known 
as the Wayne Powder Works. The buildings and machinery 
are so faithfully reproduced in miniature that it is possible 
under the tuition and guidance of Mr. John Lyon, the 
masttr mechanic of the company at Wayne, and the gentle- 
man whose deft fingers so skillfully framed the model, to 
pass, as it were, with the raw material from building to 
builfling until it finally becomes the finished product" for 
blasting purposes for which this firm is noted. At Wayne 
nothing but blasting powder is manufactured. At New- 
burgh, N y , and at Schagbticoke, Renssi laer county, N. 
Y, , the company's bli3ck powders for sporting purposes are 
manufactured. The firna's W-A Smokeless powder is manu- 
factured at Pompton, N J , under the superintendence of 
Capt. Aspinwall. Thus, in looking at Mr. Lyon's model of 
the Wayne Powder Works, it is just as well to remember 
that one is not looking at a reproduction of the entire plant 
of the companv, evc'n if those works do cover a great" deal 
of ground and do employ about 135 hands. Mr. George 
Paterson, who has the superintendency of the entire operat- 
ing plant of the Laflin & Rand Powder Co,, makes his head- 
quarters at Wayne. 
After the model mentioned above, the second article of 
great interest is the beautiful rock of crystallized saltpeter, 
the interior of which has been hollowed out to admit of the 
whole being suffused with the rays of an electric light in- 
closed in a red globe. The effect is very beautiful indeed, 
the formation of the ci'ystals being bold and rugged. 
The remaiuder of the exhibit of this company is mainly 
made up of kegs indicative of the many products in the pow- 
der line manufactured by the company. The company's 
W-A always attracts attention from its peculiar features. 
As one lady expressed it: "It looks more like something good 
to eat than gunpowder!" 
Visitors to Lafl'n & Rand's exhibit will be greeted by Ed 
Taylor, late of Cincinnati, but now, we are glad to say, of 
Jersey City, N. J. Mr. Taylor and Mr. John Lyon, whom 
we have rei erred to above, have charge of the exhibit. 
Cleveland Target Company, 
The Cleveland Target Company occupies the same position 
this year that it has done in past expositions. The articles 
exhibited by this firm, the makers of the bluerock target, may 
be briefly and effectively enumerated as follows: One mag- 
autrap; four barrels of bluerock targets, draped with yellsw 
and black cloth; four expert bluerock traps, and Paul North. 
If we have omitted anything we are not altogether to blame; 
for, small though the number of articles exhibited may 
sound, the magautrap and Paul, or Paul and the magautrap 
(we don't care which way you put it), are sulficient to keep 
one's attention from anything else while in their vicinity. 
An examination of the magautrap will show at once that 
changes, though slight perhaps, have been made in the con- 
struction of the trap. The attachment of an electric pull is 
the greatest improvement of all; but the magautrap as a 
whole looks far more businesslike than it did last year. So 
popular has "the bicycle trap" become that Paul North and 
the Cleveland Target Company will have to look out next 
HAZARD POWDER COMPANT. 
yeai" for a novelty. Speaking of the number of traps now 
leased and in use by clubs, Mr. North informs us that his 
company cannot keep pace with the orders received. It may 
be as well to mention also that the Brooklyn Gun Club, of 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and theYanticaw Gun Club, of Nutley, 
N. J., have each leased a magautrap and will shortly hold 
special shoots for the purpose of introducing them to the 
trap-shooters of New York and vicinity. 
Of the expert bluerock traps, and of the Muerock targets 
themselves, nothing new can be said; all shooters know 
what these articles are, what they are like and what they 
can do. As for the black and gold drapery, Paul says he has 
to have that, as it sui*s his complexion, 
Hazard Powder Company. 
The Hazard Powder Company's exhibit is in the hands of 
John L. Lequin, secretary-treasurer of the loterstate Asso- 
ciation, also secretary of the Hazard Powder Company; 
and of E. S. Lsnti'hon, assisted by B. H. Norton, the 
company's popular representative in the New England 
States. 
The chief feature of this exhibit is the working model of 
a single- wheel rolling mill used in the process of mixmg 
the ingredients of black powder. This mill attracts lots of 
attention and is an essential part of the company's exhibit. 
The back wall of the space occupied by the company is 
artistically decorated with kegs showing the varieties of 
powders manufactured by the company, among the black 
powders being its Electric, Duck, Trap, Kentucky Rifle and 
India Rifle (the latter for export). Of course readers of 
FoEEST AND Steeam vcry generally know that the com- 
pany's smokeless shotgun powder is the Blue Ribbon. They 
will be reminded of this fact by the draperies of blue ribbon 
that deck the showstand, on which one can see the raw 
material and the finished product, a brick-red, which it 
seems almost a misnomer to call "Blue Ribbon." It is per- 
haps in these exhibits of raw materials and manufactured 
products that most people take the greatest amount of inter- 
est; it is certain anyway that they are worth far more than 
a mere cursory examination. 
It will not do to close this notice of the Hazard Powder 
Company's exhibit without mentioning that a portrait show- 
ing the familiar features of Col Hazard, the founder of the 
Hazard Powder Company, forms part of the decorations in 
VON LENGERKE & DETMOLD. 
the rear of the exhibit. The artistic and effective arrange- 
ment of the many colored ke^s of powder upon this wall is 
mainly the work of Mr. Lequm, the company's secretary. 
Von I^engerke & Detmol^. 
An exhibit which, from the very variety and excellence of 
the articles displayed, is bound to attract and hold crowds of 
interested spectators, is that furnished by the firm of Von 
Lengerke & Detmold, 8 Murray street. During the evening 
the joint signs of E C. and Schultze powder, in incan- 
descent lamps on a white and gold ground, are certain to 
catch all eyes. Once caught, there are other things to look 
at. 
This firm makes a specialty of Francotte guns, and these 
guns need looking at only once to take the fancy of a lover 
