[Jan. I, i^. 
WESTERN TRAPS* 
Mussey's Hall Destroyed by Fire, 
Chicago, 111., Dec. 24. — At ten minutes before 1 o'clock yesterday 
afternoon tire broke out in the Tossetti Cafe,' 106 Madison Street, 
this city, and in less than an hour thereafter the tipper floors, coti- 
taining Mussey's magnificent billiard rooms, the finest in America; 
and one of the best known sportsmen's reridezvous in America, 
were sacked and ruined. This morning the front of the building 
is a mass of ice, and even at this hour, twenty-four hours after the 
fire broke out, iiose lines are playing on the ruins, which still burn 
and smoke. At the bottom of the interior pit ot the building lie 
two-score of the finest billiard tables in the world, with a wealth of 
ivory, and with pictures, furniture, etc., footing up a total of some 
$35,000. Against this is an insurance of some $25,000, which latter 
must also be offset against a loss of holiday trade, whose profits 
would run much over |100 a day. Billy IVlussey is to-day busy 
among insurance people, and a couple of hundred sbooters, fish- 
ers, and other sportsmen are homeless ,ind at large upon the 
streets. It is early to announce any plans about the continuance 
of the business, but 1 heard a few moments ago that already a new 
room is in view, and that as soon as possible the public will be in- 
vited to a new hall. As the old building at 106 will be rebuilt, it 
is likely that Mr. Mussey will in due time be back in his old quar- 
ters, tie had just added an extra floor to his tabic space, and had 
fitted this second room up with lavish expenditure, giving the Chi- 
cago public two large rooms superbly equipped. The tables used 
were specially made and cannot at once be replaced, but any one 
who knows Uilly Alussey and his ambitions about his business 
knows that he will never rest until he is as well fixed up in every 
detail as he was before the fire. This may take time, but it will 
be done, and then the homeless shooters and fishers of Chicago 
may again be at peace. 
The hall of Parson Hilly Mussey was a place tmique in the con- 
cerns of sport in this country. More shooting matches have been 
made there than in all the rest of Chicago, and more gossip and 
new^s of the shooters came there than to any place in the \Vest. 
If you did not know where to catch a trap-shooter, address him at 
Mussey's, Chicago, and you caught him. Many of the anglers and 
:field shooters also dropped in there, and the better-class sports- 
men of many lines made it a rounding-up point. Any day would 
See the tables crowded, and the chairs also full along the room 
sides, and any man wanted was sure to be there, the place being 
practically a club without a fee or dues, and one elegantly comfort- 
able. 
It was at Billy Mussey's that there was located the famous safe 
with its ever-open door. Alas! the old safe is now about forty 
fathoms deep under the ice, thovigh it will rise again, let us hope, 
with the hinges unhurt. In the old days of Chicago, when we were 
having a little fun now and again with the pigeon shooters, the 
froiit door of Billy's .safe was about the hottest place in Chicago. 
Things were a trifle warm around there this week and last week, 
and we w'ere in a way to have a little futi, until the advent of tliis 
unlucky fire brought Billy a Christmas present of disaster and set 
things of sporting nature second to those of business. Of course 
all the races which Billy might otherwise have shot will now be 
set aside, even if for no other reasons than those of business. 
At the time of the fire both the halls were full of people, and 
these thought there would be no trouble, and that the fire would 
soon be extinguished in the lower floor and basement of the res- 
taurant where it had broken out. Three-quarters of an hour after 
the fire began some fireman broke a^as pipe in the basement, and 
the whole lower part of the building was flooded with gas. A 
heavy explosion followed, and then all was up with 106. Some 
forty-seven persons were hurt, many of them seriously, by the 
force of this explosion, but tliese were chiefly persons who were 
standing on the street near the building watching the fire, and who 
were blown about when the whole front of the sidewalk was lifted 
out and a stream of fire gushed into the air. In the balls on the 
second and third floors no one was hurt seriou.sly, though the 
cashiers, Messrs. Sweet, Barstow and 'Gene Day, had narrow 
enough runs for the firemen's ladders, after tarrying in the attempt 
to save some of the ivory and the cash. Roil Organ, one of 
Billy Mussey's stanchest friends and steadiest patrons, carried out 
a few boxes of balls in his arms, but left his new overcoat inside 
the hall. When he started back it was too late to save the coat. 
One of the porters had a narrow squeak of it, but so far as can 
be learned no sportsman known to the public, nor indeed any oc- 
cupant at the lime in the halls, received any serious injury- The 
fire occurred just around the corner from the Fokest and Stream 
office. All the evening the street was full of the black smoke of 
the fire engines. All the street cars for the West and North divi- 
siojis of this big city were absolutely stopped all night. It seems 
to have been Billy's idea, if he had a fire, to have a good big one. 
A great number of readers of Forest and Stream in many dif- 
ferent parts of the country will read with regret the destruction of 
a place familiar to them, and will hope for Mr. j\Iussey a speedy 
restoration of liis business in a proper home, this to be made in 
duplicate of the old place as soon as may be possible. 
The Chicago Challenges. 
On Monday of this week the gentlemen earlier mentioned as 
being desirous of shooting a race with the regular team in the 
intercity race met and formally resolved that they were prepared 
to shoot such a race. They signed their names as published two 
weeks ago in Forest and Stream, to wit; VV. VV. McFarland, T. 
P. Hicks, R. Kuss, £d Steck, Silas Palmer, and publislied in a 
local paper the "news" of their willingness to shoot. Meantim.e 
there was published long ago in Forest and Stream the forma! 
acceptance by the original and regular team of the proposal of 
these gentlemen for this race. This counter-acceptance, or coun- 
ter-challenge, does not appear to carry much signillcauce, there- 
fore I fear there wdll be no race between the teams. At the same 
time Tom Hicks and Si Palmer printed in ihe /imcrlcan Fieid, of 
this city, their acceptance of the individual challenge of W. P. 
Mussey, printed two weeks ago in the Times-Herald, a Chicago 
daily, in which he offered a 100-bird race, |100, to any of these gen- 
tlemen who wanted to shoot the regular team. All this was taken 
up last week in Forest and Stream, and not mucli news of in- 
terest attaches to it at this date, as the time set by Mr. Mussey for 
the acceptance of his challenge had long ago lapsed, and his for- 
feit money had been returned to him by the Times-Herald. It is 
rather curious what could have been the motive of these gentle- 
men, to wait so long, to try to change the conditions of the chal- 
lenge (as was sought in the Kuss acceptance), and then finally to 
pcJst money with quite another paper, where the challenger had 
not posted his money nor addressed anj' challenge. I shall not 
accuse any one of these gentlemen of wanting a little easy noto- 
riety, for I should not think any of them disposed for that sort 
of thing, but if any of them was really looking for a race was it 
not easy, natural, and in accordance with all the rules of sporting 
procedure, to just cover the money at the oi'fice where the chal- 
lenger had his up? Why go to the office of another local paper? 
Were the acceptors afraid that tjieir money would be lost else- 
where? Now, if they really did want to slioot, they should either 
have gone to the Titnes-Jierald office, or to 106 Madison street— 
they ^11 knew both addresses — and settled the matter with a word. 
But if they did not want to shoot, they took just the right way to 
m^ke it appear that they did not, by going over to the office of 
the Aprerican Field, where the doings were enshrouded in compar- 
afive secrecy both before and after tfie publication of their ac- 
ceptance, Of course I suppose all these gentlemen really did want 
to shoot, but I api just sfiyipg they woji't get to shoot, for the 
above very reason. I hope they will know better ne.xt time. I asked 
Mr. Mussey what he was going to do about this acceptance printed 
jp a different paper, and in the interview he said: 
''Do about It? I shall of course do nothing at all about it. I 
don't know anything about it at all. If any one wanted to shooft 
me a race, there were the terms and the money up, why not agree 
at once? If any man had come in here and said a word to me, he 
could have gotten the same terms as were openly published. I 
held the thing open five days extrji for the sake of appearances, 
but now it is getting toward the end of the year, and I shall be so 
busy I shall not have time to think of shooting matters. 
"As to the publication in the American 1-iicld," continued Mr. 
Mussey, "I don't know anything about that. I have not read that 
paper for five yCfiTs; don't know what it is printing, and of course 
I don't care wh^t it is printing about these challenges. If 
any of them wanted to shoot, they had their cliance all right, but 
what they may see fit to do elsewise and elsewhere is matter of 
indifference to me," 
I am sorry about all these misunderstandings, which do nothing 
to cement the shaky brotherhood of Chicago shootingdom. We 
were all in hope some of these races would come off, and that we 
should see some fun here once more, where things have been dull 
as a directors' meeting for lo! these many years. Of course none 
of these gentlemeii would care to offer or urge a race on Mr. Mus- 
sey now, at the time of his business trouble, for they would be 
too sportsmanlike for that. About all the lesson one can find in 
the little matter is that there is no official organ of the trap-shoot- 
ing cult in Chicago, or if there is it isn't located in the Masonic 
Temple by .several majorities. Yet good, clean sport may flourish 
without an official or officious organ. Let me beg to offer this 
general rule of sport: If you are honing to get at a fellow on a 
sporting proposition, get to his money, or get to him quick as you 
can. Don't go at it in the most roundabout way, but the most 
direct way. It leaves a better impression and is more apt to be suc- 
cessful. -In this case, however, no one is injured except Billy Mus- 
sey, and his is fire loss only. We shall all be dwelling here in 
(Chicago) harmony again before many moons. 
More Challenges Among Cracks. 
Heikes and Grijnm are to shoot again, and Gilbert and Elliott are 
to shoot again. What a narrow, circular competition, and how de- 
void of genuine sporting interest or sporting news! This is the 
quickest way to kill these trophies— perhaps I should say the quick- 
est way to bury the stove-lid badge, which is already dead, even if 
Roll Heikes does use it to fry eggs on just now. Can't some one 
scare up a contest at the traps with a finish that is a finish, and 
not a divide, a split or a circular arrangement, vi'ith no variety and 
no end to it? This intercity shoot was a little fun, and if it had 
brought out new competitors for some of these more prominent 
trophies it would have been a still greater week we had here in 
Chicago, But to do it all over again, at Dayton on New Year's 
Day, at Kansas City on some later day— what's the news to it if 
the same men shoot all the time? Why not coax out new men? 
It would sell more goods, if it comes to that. For my part, if i 
knew where I could find a real good Christmas dog fight to-mor- 
row, where some two dogs wouldn't divide the purse or challenge 
each other over again, I believe 1 should make tliat part of my cele- 
bration, such being my old-fashioned ideas of sporting principles 
and such my notion of a Roman holiday. The dift'erence between the 
day of Rome and the day of modern trap slioots is that then some- 
body got licked, and now nobody ever does get licked. I want to 
see some one licked once at the trap score. This is barbarous, 
Roman, foolish. Yet think how we respect the old gladiators, 
even though they are dead! After a couple ol those ducks had 
tangled up, the fellow that was licked never ciiallenged back for 
the badge. All he wanted was a place to lie down and be quiet. 
Of course I don't want any of our good folks killed just because 
they have lost a race or so, but they might lie down and be quiet, 
and give the amphitheater a look at new talent now and then. 
As the gladiator said to the boss of the show, "Colonel, there are 
others." 
The Williamson Challenge. 
On last Tuesday Dr. J. L. Williamson, of Milwaukee, issued 
challenge at large to any shooter resident in Chicago for a race at 
100 live birds, .^lOO, race to be shot in Milwaukee at the National 
Park grounds. At this writing no acceptance of this challenge has 
been made. You can come into Chicago now and carry off any 
kind of a proposition you like. We are wearv and cast down. 
Give us a chance to forget Kansas City. If Dr. Williamson cared 
to come down here to shoot, we might get up nerve enough to 
find a man to trot him a heat or so; but when we think of how 
many pigeons he would kill on those grounds in Milwaukee, w-e 
shudder, and get goose meat on our collective Chicago spine. It is 
not hkely the doughty blonde will get a victim to come to the Cream 
^''it^ ^ ^ E. Hough, 
1206 BQyCE-BulCmNG, Chicago. 
Chicago, Dec. 25.— The Garfield Gun Club, of Chicago, held its 
second monthly contest at Watson's Park, Burnside Crossmg, 
111., to-day. The event was attended with success, and many shoot- 
ers who were not members of the club were present. The day 
was cool, with a strong wind from the right quarter and an over- 
cast sky, and many good birds were sent out from the two sets of 
traps used. 
The regular medal contest was at 20 live birds from five traps, 
30yds. rise, and members not in attendance in the previous con- 
test were allowed to shoot up one back score. Following are 
detailed scores of medal contest: 
R Kuss 20212110212222222222—18 
F Liddy 20221020022222212122—16 
N ^u.sby 01210122221120211220-16 
S Palmer 210211*2022122220200—14 
Dr Shaw ; 22220212212112111221—19 
D Russell 11021010100211010000—10 
J;,atti . , 20122212220022221122—17 
I P Hicks 111200011021*1010222—13 
S V oung X . 1 122122200'*00201000*2— 10 
*Patff 21112221*11*01011112—16 
:^ usby 11200220101221101121-15 
Von Lcngerke 22020220222220222222—16 
Fehrman 222202020*2121121211—16 
*V on Lengerke 2222222**22222222*22—17 
*Fehrman 100212121011112101^-16 
* Back scores shot up to-day. 
The following are scores of members and visitors made in prac- 
tice. De Merest, who is the wife of one of our prominent shooters, 
and a member of Garfield Gun Club, shows very creditable work 
[9^,"'^^ tirst time before the live-bird traps by killing 8 out of 15 
birds. She has been shooting only a short time, and has made some 
good scores at targets. 
Among others worthy of note was H. Vetter, one of Montgomery 
\\ard & Co.'s good gunsmiths who, while he shoots but little, 
killed 14 out of 15, and did it gracefully. 
Hollister 12]21112mni0112112212021111— 28 
f^ufs „„ 0211222022222122222221i!02 —23 
S Palmer 1121122 - 7 
Dr Liddy , 22102210222211222100 —16 
Nusb V Ti.it. . .10221 
R B Carson .....20201021001001001012 
H F Carson 20112210101120222112 
C U Carson 00001102221002020001 
C C Hess 22222221222222022002 
E V Pattison 10020220212010002011 
Biith 0121122200 
*H F Carson 11202120001112222012 
I erguson 0^020002021222 101200 
Dr I.iddy 
C W Carson 
.20110212021 
.1101200211 
— 4 
—10 
—16 
— 9 
—17 
— 9 
— 7 
—15 
—10 
H Vetter; 7 1112020100 
Goldsmith ..ij, . . i , 0121112110 
H Livy 12022 
— 7 
—12 
— 5 
—10 
— 7 
— 6 
— 4 
— 4 
— 5 
—12 
— S 
—11 
— 8 
— 7 
—14 
— 7 
— 7 
stiers 0211210 
Nusby ..,ijLft»i 0211001100 
Shaw IIIIIIOO222222 
De Merest .10201220001*021 
Krantzen 000110211211211 
Wolf 1112222100 
Murphy 002021022001002 
Vetter 112212122122202 
T L Jones .0021021121 
Kuss ..1222122 
Russell , 02201201222 
T Hicks '. -0122 _ 4 
Healey , ....20011111122011012200 —14 
Ruple 00110202222222222202 —15 
Levy 01130111211101122100 —15 
Goldsmith .....02000221112121202201 —14 
Liddy 12100102202220012102 —13 
Mussey's Challenge. 
In consequence of the heavy financial loss sustained by Mr. W. 
P. Mussey, by reason of the disastrous fire that destroyed his place 
of business, the following gentlemen, who either challenged Mr. 
Mussey, or who accepted his challenge, withdrew their challenges, 
and sympathize with him in his loss. Their names are Thos. P. 
Hicks, Silas Palnier and Ralph Kuss. 
Elgin Gun Club. 
The Elgin Gun Club, of Elgin, 111., announces a target tourna- 
ment to be held on its grounds at Elgin, 111., on New Year's. 
Day— Jan. 1, 1898— to be governed by the American Association 
rules, and to commence at 9 o'clock A. M. Three moneys divided 
in all events of twelve starters or under, and four in all events of 
over twelve starters. a. C. Paterson. 
Audubon Gun Club, of Chicago. 
Dec. IS.— Below are the scores made to-day by members of the 
Audubon Gun Club. Felton, Bissell, Rice and Aniberg tied on 
highest possibles. Scores: 
Gillespie, 28 110002212211112—12—2—14^ 
Felton, 26 022121120222211—13—2—15 
Bissell, 25 120222222222222—14—2—15 
Frothingham, 30 .....121222022122122—14—0—14 
E S Rice, 30 222002112122102—12—0—15 
Amberg, 30 011212122222222—14—2—15 
Mrs Shattuck ..221121011200021 —11 
Mr Shattuck 202212121122112 —14 
Leve .222011110220200 —10 
The above four ties on highest possibles (15) will be shot off 
next month. Below are the four shoot-offs of the tie in the No- 
vember shoot: 
First tie. Second tie. 
Morris, 4 212210200012221—11-4—15 112110102120120— 11— 4r-15 
Hollester, 2 ....111212220121111—14—2—15 121021111210212—13—2—15 
Felton, 2 012211212221020—12—2—14 
Third tie. Fourth tie. 
Morris, 4 210221221220002—11-^15 002222200202101— 9-^—13 
Hollester, 2 . . . . 2imi012111211-14— 2-15 111211 120mill-14-2— 15 
Is there Too Much Shooting'? 
A FEW days ago we heard the following remark : 
"The trouble is. there's too much shooting. What I mean is that 
a fellow goes out to shoot nowadays, whether it's a tournament or 
an ordinary club shoot, snd wants to be shooting all the time. He's 
not satisfied with less than 150 shots for an afternoon, or 200 for a 
day. A few^ years ago we'd go out for a Saturday afternoon's shoot 
and take along fifty or seventy-five shells, and if we fired them all 
off, we'd think we'd had a jolly good time. Then on Sunday we'd 
set to work and load up another fifty or seventy-five for next Sat- 
urday." 
The above remark came home. It's a fact that at the present 
time an ordinary programme for a tournament calls for 165 shots; 
sometimes the number scheduled amounts to 200 or more. The 
object of a club should be to please as many shooters as possible;, 
and we conclude that when the management draws up its pro- 
gramme, it takes this fact into consideration, and fixes the number 
of targets according to the popular taste. The next conclusion is- 
therefore that the majority of shooters want to fire off their guns- 
as ofteii as possible in a given time. Speaking from actual ex- 
perience, we would say that this was the case most certainly at 
present. 
Wants Smaller Programmes. 
The party who made the above remark was arguing in favor of 
smaller programmes of events, with more variety in the styles of 
shooting, and more time for social intercourse. It's a fact that 
at an "up-to-date tournament," with its two or three sets of traps,, 
there s very little time betw^een shots. Conversations, if of any 
length, can verj' seldom be finished without interruptions from 
the squad hustler. It is business all the time at most shoots. 
Squads enter "for all day" and march to the score like trained 
bands. Its bang-bang-bang until the scorer calls "Out"; then 
comes a grouping around the score board; the man with "20 
.straight ' sticks out his chest; the man who has "got 'em all— but 
five or six" looks dissatisfied. Then comes the putting up of the 
^^'""'i'.Tt marking down of the scores on the pocket score board; 
the How many have you lost now?" etc. By the time that's all 
over, m pops the squad hustler with his "No. 1 squad, you're 
wanted on lSo. 2 set of traps. We're ready for you right away." 
And so It goes on until the programme's out. 
fjf course there is the obvious retort: "What are you kicking 
about? You needn't shoot unless you want to." And right there 
is the pith of the whole matter— you do "want to!" There's a 
fascination in it, an excitement in trvmg to get that straight and 
beat out so and so. If there's going to be any shooting, you want 
to be in it. 
Clubs Want to Throw Targets. 
Then it suits the club. The more you want to shoot and will 
shoot, the more targets will be thrown during the day, and the 
more money will it rake in to pay the expenses. If you are a con- 
tributor, and not any kind of a manufacturers' agent, you can 
^n^i'n^ "P,^' 'J"^ '^^y somewhat as follows: 200 shells at 
$2.20 per hundred, $4.40; paid entrance fee for all day (at the rate of 
10 cents per target) $20. Total, .$24.40; this does not include rail- 
road, hotel, or any other expenses. With so many good shooters 
up m the crackerjack's class now, a man has to shoot an abnormal 
gait to hope to clear his expenses, whether it is the Rose system 
or any old system that is used. What chance «oes the contributor 
get to draw^ down any money? Ask Fred Gilbert what he did 
last spring. 
A good friend of Forest and Stream, who lives way down in 
l-londa on Hobe Sound, took the trouble last summer to figure 
out the division of the purses in all the events shot at the New 
York State shoot at Auburn this year. He figured the purses both 
under the Rose system and under the "old system." The results 
^^J:'"^/^ astonishing that we verified them to satisfy our curiosity. 
His figures showed that there was very little difference between 
the two systems so far as the Wolves' set of traps were concerned- 
and it wa.s at that set of traps that one found the shooters who at- 
tend for the most part the tournaments of to-day; that is, tourna-. 
ments other than State affairs, or "professionals barred." With•^ 
out going back over the figures again, we venture to say that there- 
w-as hardly a man who shot through every event on the three days 
ot the shoot on the Wolves' set of traps wdio made enough money 
over and above his entrance fee to even pay for the cartridges he- 
used. If this was so with the top-notchers, what was it with the: 
85 per cent, man? 
Trap-shooting is Expensive. 
Without going into the question of the cost of attending ana 
taking part m the tournaments anv further, let us for the sake of 
argument take it for granted that it is an expensive sport for the 
average shots. And let us also take it for granted that the average 
shots cannot afford, or do not care to stand, repealed assaults upon 
their pocketbooks to the tune of $15 to $25 per dav. What then 
IS to be done to get them to come out to shoots, not once a year 
but two or three times? ' 
The party whom we have quoted at the head of this article was 
ol the opinion as stated above, that programmes should be shorter 
and the shooting made more varied and consequently more intei^ 
estmg. Unknown angles, rapid-fire, is most certainly monotonous 
to watch, especially with a squad of crackerjac^s breaking 96 or 97 
out ot 100. tjf course if you cut down the programme you cut 
down the added money" if any is offered; and you also cut down 
the chances of a dub getting out whole on the sfioot. 
W oujd a programme something like this draw shooters together? 
One 2o-target event, one 20-target event, and two events at 15 tar- 
gets each, all at unknovm angles; two events at 15 targets. Novelty 
rule; and two events at 15 targets each, expert rule, one man up. 
1 he above programme calls for 135 targets. Put the entrance fees 
at the average rate of 10 cents per target, or $13.50 "for all day" 
n r-llY .twenty entries as an average, this would make a total of 
2,(00 targets thrown m the programme events, or a receipt for 
price of targets at 2 cents each of $54 to pay for about 3,000 targets 
and the cost of running the shoot. 
Would Not Draw the Sharks. 
Beyond question, such a programme would not draw out the 
?o';J?„0^'^° it- There "d be no banking of 
$2,000 a year ot •'contributors'" money by following such shoots. 
But wouldn t there be lots of fun and good sport at such a shoot' 
And, gentlemen, you who manufacture and sell ammunition and 
guns and targets, wouldn't such sh&ots react beneficially to your in- 
terests by recruiting the ranks of the trap-shooters from those who 
would sit and watch the shooting of such a programme, but who 
wouldn t travel 100yds. to see nothing but a lot of men going 
through over and over agaut the motions at known or unknown 
angles, rapid-fire? 
There's food for thought m ivvhat we've stated, and we can see 
that there s a lot more to be said upon the subject, both pro and 
con. There s plenty of room for argument, and probably we shall 
get It. 
No notice taken of anonymous comiuunicath n*. 
Brooklyn.-^Has the law forbidding "jacking" any kind of game 
in Maine been repealed? Has the law forbidding the killing of 
cow moose in Maine been repealed? Ans. Neither has been re- 
pealed. 
Arkansas.- Does the Arkansas non-expott law in "Game Laws 
in Brief" refer to fish only? I was required to pay this tax two 
years ago for shooting quail at Weiner. Ans. No; the export 
of both fish and game is forbidden. 
Stray Pigeon.— Should you receive inquiry through your paper 
for carrier pigeon, gold ring set in enamel, with figures 1895 W. 12 
on, information could be received by corresponding with the 
writer, C. C. Tunnington, Fremont, O. 
PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. 
"Stinset Limited'' Annex from New Orleans, 
The annex to Sunset Limited will resume service from New 
Orleans on Jan. 4, 1898, leaving New Orleans every Tuesday and 
Saturday thereafter, m.aking connection at that point with the 
Limited train of the Southern Railway from New York and the 
East. The Limited will consist of Pullman latest, drawing-room, 
sleeping car and Sunset Limited dining car. The southern route 
is the most delightful this time of the year, The route lies south 
of the snow line, and is free from snow and excessive cold. Wash- 
ington and San Francisco tourist sleeping car leaving Washington 
every Monday and Saturday goes through to San Francisco with- 
out change. For full particulars, sleeping car reservation, tickets, 
etc., call on or address Ale:{ S. Thwe.\tt, 
Eastern Passenger Agent, 271 Broadway.. 
