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FOREST AND STREAM, 
[Makch 20, 1897. 
firearms, fishing tackle and sportsmen's supplies, exhibited 
at space 17, which was decorated in red and maroon. The 
stand was in charge of Manager Disch, of the New York 
store. The principal exhibit was of fishing rods, including 
Kiffe's $1 split-bamboo, and also a split-bamboo weighing 
4^02. and retailing for f B, 
A self-opening penknife was also shown, the blades open- 
ing and shutting under the influence of an electric current. 
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. 
The interesting exhibit of E I, du Pont de Nemours 
• & Oo. is in the able hands of Mr. Pierre Gentieu, the gentle- 
man who has fi'led the same position so courteously at pre- 
vious expositions. Mr. Gentieu has reason to feel phased 
^with the general appearance of the exhibit this year. Occu- 
pying precisely the same space as last year, the nature of the 
'exhibit and its character are necessarily much the same. A 
Kjhange, however, has been made in the upper part of the 
white and gold framework that adorns the rear of the ex- 
E. I. DTJ PONT DB NEMOTJES & CO. 
Mbit, and the change is for the better. The scroll work with 
the name of the firm and the age of the company — 1802-1897 
— ^in gold letters on a white ground, call one's- attention 
rather forcibly to the fact that one is looking at the exhibit 
of probably the oldest powder company in the Unitefl Spates; 
ninety-five years in one place — Wilmington, Del — may be 
said to be a record in the powder makine line. 
Until quite recently the firm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours 
& Co. was noted among shotgun men chiefly for its Eagle 
Ducking Nos. 1, 2 and 3. In the last two or three years it 
has rapidly forged ahead and now puts on the market a nitro 
powder that has found considerable favor, known as Du 
Pout's Smokeless, Trap-shooters all know of this powder, and 
probably there are some who think that the manufacture of 
this powder is the chief part of the products of the Da Pont 
Oo. They have only to come to the exhibit this year toleara 
that actually the manufacture of nitro powders by the firm 
is but a drop in the bucket when compared with the blasting 
and black shotgun and rifle powders made at the Wilmington 
powder works. The nitro powder works, it will be remem- 
bered, are located across the river from Wilmington at 
Carney's Point, and are as complete as any similar works in 
the country. The kegs that adorn the rear of the exhibit 
tell the tale of what this company manufactures both at 
Wilmington and at Carney's Point. 
The show case on the left of the exhibit is surmounted by 
a pretty piece of crystallized saltpeter. Below it are the two 
grades of charcoal used, the black and the red, together with 
the raw material (willow wood), a card announcmg that only 
the branches of the tree are used for makiner charcoal. Still 
furthet below are the three ingredients for black powder: 
charcoal, sulphur and niter. Other articles displayed in this 
case arc : Spht ro hexagonal and cubical powders for high 
power rapid fire guns ; service gun cotto" ; smokeless powders 
for the new .30cal. rifles; samples of blasting powders; shot- 
EEMTNGTON 4KMS COMPANY. 
gun shells, loaded and sectionalized so as to show the wad- 
ding and powder; also the raw material for and the manu- 
factured article known as Du Pont's Smokeless. This case 
■contains a great deal in a comparatively small space. 
Remington Arms Company. 
As might be expected, the exhibit of the Remington Arms 
Company is in charge of Mr. H. B. Gannon. Scatter-gun 
men and riflemen will find much to interest them among the 
goods under Mr. Cannon's care. For shotgun devotees there 
is primarily the Remington hammerless ejector, several 
beautifully flnished specimens being on view. These guns 
are really "worth far more than a casual inspection, and it 
will well repay a shooter to spend a few minutes with Mr. 
Cannoa and his assistants at the Exposition. 
Riflemen don't need to be told what they will find in the 
exhibit of the Remineton Arms Company. The company's 
factory at Ilion, N. Y., turns out some perfect specimens of 
high class Schuetzen rifles, and some of those Schuetzen 
rifles are on view. In the show case with some of these 
Schuetzen rifles are several innocent-looking derringers, one 
of the best pocket defenders in the world. Some of the 
specimens on view are finished so exquisitely that they look 
more like toys than deadly weapons. 
Military rifles also form no unimportant portion of the 
FRED SAUTER. 
Remington Arms Company's exhibit The Remington mili- 
tary rifle is too well known for Pobest and Stream to dr- 
vote much space to mentioning that part of the exhibit The 
steady march of improvement in firearms is one of the favor- 
ite subjects of conversation with all shotgun aud rifle cranks. 
The ellect of this march can be seen in the Remington Com- 
pany's exhibit, the guns and rifles shown there now being 
capital instances of the strides that have been made in the 
past few years by the gunsmiths of the New World. 
Fred Sauter. 
At the east end of the Garden, in the .space occupied last 
year by Messrs. C. G. Gunthers' Sons' cabin, is the large and 
varied exhibit of Fred Sauter, of New York. This ranges 
from fancy pieces and wolves and wildcats holding card re- 
ceivers up to a largfe grizzly bear and a pair of mounted 
beaver kittens. A leaping deer is an excellent piece of work, 
6. L. OEOSBY— MAINE STATE EXHIBIT. 
and so too is a leopard cat which has just sprung on the back 
• of a fawn. 
Among the interesting birds shown by Mr. Sauter is one 
of wHich we should like to know more. It is an unu&ual prai 
rie hen, and is reported to have been obtained from Kuapp 
& Van Nostrand, market men, of this city. It dift'er.s widely 
from the ordinary form of prairie chicken in having the 
ground color a bright tawny, almost a fulvous, which seems 
to blend into the black bars, the edges of which are thus 
made less distinct than in the common form. Can this pos- 
W. W, HAET & COMPANy. 
sibly be a heath hen? If so it would be interesting to learn 
where it came from. The birds still remaining in Massachu- 
setts are so few now that the killing of each one should be 
known. Before long we will be searctiing foj their skins, 
as we do now for those of the great auk and the Labrador 
duck. 
The Maine State Exhibit— Sumner L. Crosby. 
Maine did herself credit as u>ual. Miss Crosby's contin- 
gent of guides were fully imbued with the idea of advertis- 
ing the matchless game resources of their native State, 
which has become the Mecca in the East of all good sports 
men. Features of the exhibit were a log camp and a bough 
lean to. With these the chief interest was shared by a fine ex 
hibit of mounted game and game heads, the work of Maine's 
widely known taxidermist, Sumner L. Crosby. A unique 
background, effectively used for setting off the largest single 
grouping of heads m this exhibit, was made of balsam i3r 
boughs, whose fresh green tint contrasted to the best possi- 
ble advantage with the subdued color of the game, 
A big buck from the Aroostook, mounted entire, was a 
forcible illustration of the size this game attains in Maine; 
also of the fact that the big buck does not always get aiway. 
This old fellow had been raked the entire length of his 
back by a I ifle ball. Mr. Crosby also had a large caribou, 
which was extremely well mounted, and a number of fish, 
including some very large trout. His big moose heads at- 
tracted a great deal of attention. 
There were four of these and each had an enormous 
spread, the group averaging upward of 60in. These heads 
STEVENS AEMS COMPANT. 
BAKER GTJN COMPANT. 
were also remarkable for the broad palmation of the antlers 
and number of points, as well as symmetry of proportions. 
W. W. Hart & Company. 
This exhibit occupies a great deal of room, and includes a 
number of ambitious pieces. We spoke last year in terms of 
high praise of the group of tisrers, which still remains the 
most striking and probably the best group shown in this 
space. There is a cage which contains a tigress lying down, 
with a cub sitting up beside her. It is an excellent piece ©f 
work The roaring lion, and a group of two brown bears 
playing with two cubs, have been spoken of before. Both are 
good. While we have never seen a calling moose, we are 
disposed to give high praise to this figure. The anatomy of 
the body is well done, and judging this piece by what we 
have seen of whistling elk, the attitude is good. In this ex- 
hibit is a large musk ox head, and the great moose head 
which we measured some months ago and described in these 
columns. There is a good head of a calling mule deer, and 
an excellent bear's head. Two groups in this exhibit, each 
representing a panther fighting with a grizzly bear, attracted 
much attention, and many comments were heard about them. 
The Baker Gun and Forging Company! 
The Baker exhibit was found at space 91, in company with 
the exhibit of the Stevens Arms Company Mr. J. F. Car- 
raher was in charge. Col. W. T. Mylcrane, secretary of the 
company, was also present at times during the week of the 
exhibition. Four lines of guns were shown, a hammer gun 
listing at $25, a hammerless with ordinary safety listing at 
|30, and a hammerless fitted with the special Baker block 
safety listing at $3.5, and listly the "Paragon" pigeon gun, 
listing at $80. This latter gun had fluid steel barrels and 
was as handsome a gun as one could desire both in outline 
and also in point of checking and finish. Baker guns range 
in weight from 7 to 9Jlbs. 
The block safety gun shown had exactly the same lock 
plate as that used in a hammer gun. In a sample gun it was 
THOS. W. FEAINEi 
cut away to show the working of the lock mechanism, which 
is remarkable for simplicity . 
There are only four piects to each lock: the main spring, 
sear spring, sear and hammer. The back safety is alwaj^a 
in front of the hammer, except at moment the trigger is 
pressed, and effectually guards against premature discharge 
resulting from accidental or other causes. Of course these 
guns are provided with the ordinary safety in addition, but 
as the block safety works from the trigger the use of the 
gun is in no way complicated. 
All Baker guns are bored for nitros, and all are targeted 
with nitros. 
Thomas W. Fraine. 
Mr. Fraine's exhibit is one of the smallest in the Garden, 
but what it lacks in quantity it makes up in quality, for it ia 
