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A BIT OF MAINE, 
Exposition Notes. 
The live game and other animals are the dominating 
features of the first hall. The central game inclosure 
is so large (sox4oft.), so cimningly set off with evei-- 
greens, and so generously stocked with game_, that the 
visitor for a moment loses consciousness of the fact 
that it is all within doors. Here as in the other inclos- 
nres the Page woven wire fence is used. This, while 
abundantly strong and secure, is so open that it offers no 
interruption whatever of the view. OAving to that per- 
versity of inanimate things which every amateur pho- 
tographer has occasion to discover, the Page fence 
stands out in our illustration much more obtrusively than 
it does when acutally looked through. 
In one division of the yard are fourteen elk, brought 
from the Corbin Blue Mountain Park in New Hamp- 
shire. They are in charge of William Morrison, who, 
it will be remembered, had the care of the Corbin buf- 
falo during their stay in the Van Cortlandt Park in 
New York city. The elk are all in capital condition, and 
have their winter coat. The two bulls were wearing 
horns when they reached Boston, but one shed his set 
on Wednesday oi the first week, and on Thursday the 
other showed such symptoms of dropping his that Keeper 
Morrison and the Forest and Stream photographer 
were iit a condition of nervous suspense, until repeated 
attempts with the camera had secured the capital portrait 
here given of the old fellow with his antlered front yet 
intact. 
In another division of this central paddock Mr. Philip 
Selick has his three moose, a mother and two children. 
Mr. Selick comes from New Brunswick. He captured the 
original moose in the snow, at a spot thirty-six miles 
from his home up the Restigouche and twenty miles 
more up the Patapcdia. That was twelve years ago, 
when the moose was a yearling. The captive quickly 
became domesticated, and has ever since roamed the 
Selick farm, making frequent excursions into the woods, 
but never failing to return. 
But the star moose, and the pet of the show, is Tommy, 
the eight-raonths-old baby, which was brought by Mr. 
Leon A. Orcutt, of Ashland, in Aroostook county. Me. 
The little fellow was discovered not a hundred yards 
from the road, was secured with a rope, and readily con- 
sented to lead. Mr. Orcutt was bent on bringing his 
prize to Boston, but the law stood in the way, and the 
Game Commissioners are without authority to permit 
til e taking of live game in close time except for public 
parks.' Some genius discovered a way to solve the 
problem, by securing from the Commission a permit to 
hold 'the game and transport it to the Portland Park. 
Accordingly Tommy set out for Portland, and is now on 
his way thither by way of Boston, where he has a stop- 
over ticket good until the close of the Sportsmen's 
•Show. FoUoAving the nature of many of the wildest 
..creatitres when they are met Avith kindness by man, Tom- 
my became almost immediately as tame as Mary's lamb. 
In the Mechanics' Building, independent of woven wire 
caging, he holds one continuous levee the livelong day 
through, and is the recipient of fondling that bids fair 
to turn hi^ foqliali young head. . 
It Avas not to be expected that all the animals Avould 
stand the ordeal of transportation and confinement. The 
most serious loss has been of the Maine caribou, Avhich 
was captured in the snow and forAvarded to Boston 
without a sufficient supply of moss for food. Thursday 
afternoon, Avhen it was manifestly sick beyond recovery, 
from fever and inanition, the managers humanely dis- 
patched it. The next morning the skin was hung up on 
the drying scaffold in the Indian camp, and Louis 
Michel was at work upon it Avhen one of Forest a^d 
Stream's photographs was taken. 
The most Avinsome creature in the shoAv is the Rockj'^ 
Mountain ewe. She would need onl}-' to be taken from 
her cage to shoAV herself as confiding as the baby moose 
and as responsive to the friendly advances of the good 
people of Boston. As for the unhappy Rocky Mountain 
ram, Avith his cruelly deformed limbs, one may not look 
on him Avithoitt compassion. The attendant gives out 
that the sheep Avas born crooked-legged; but it is prob- 
able that he Avas once straight of limb, and that the dis- 
tortion of bis legs is due to his having been penned 
Photo for the Torest and Stream by N. L. Stcbbms. 
up for vears Avithout an opportunity to wear down the 
groAvth'of hoof, which has resulted in curvature of the 
limbs. The ram is now the property of the Associa- 
tion; and we are grateful to know that upon the con- 
clusion of the exposition Dr. Bishop, enlisting the co- 
operation of skilled Surgeons, will put the crippled 
creature under the influence of ether, and perfomr the 
operation of tendonotomy, which is the severing of the 
tendons from their abnormal attachment to the integu- 
ment. The operation is one Avhich is attended with suc- 
cess in the human subject, and Dr. Bishop is sanguine 
that it may be performed not less successfully with the 
ram. 
No single exhibit in the show is more instructive or 
more carefully studied than the excellent display of live 
game fish. Here one may see every variety of trout 
knoAvn to New England, and may observe their develop- 
ment from the ova to the big fellow of dyilhs. As was 
told last week, Messrs. Bayard, Thayer and Richard O. 
Harding, Avho have in charge the live fish exhibit, have 
drawn upon the generous resources of the United States 
Fish Commission, the Maine and New Hampshire Com- 
missions and the Plymouth Rock Trout Co. From the 
National Commission were brought the Atlantic and 
quinnat salmon, steelhead, Loch-Leven, rainbow, brook 
and hybrid aureolus trout, silver and golden tench, crap- 
pie and large- and small-mouth bass. Maine and New 
Hampshire contribute lake, rainboAV and brook trout. 
The Plymouth Rock Trout Co. have in operation a set 
of hatching trays Avith 10,000 trout eggs in various stages 
of development, and in the troughs are 25,000 fry. The 
hatching trays are of the all-metal style, in Avhich the 
Avooden rims are dispensed Avith; and the troughs are 
equipped with the automatic aerator and feeder, an in- 
genious contrivance devised by Supt. C. C. Wood for 
feeding the fr}' and supplying them Avith currents of fresh 
water. Some tanks are devoted to an illustration of the 
variations of size of fish of same age. There are shown 
three different sizes each of fish one year old and tAVO 
years old; the smaller of the two years old are not larger 
NEW BRUNSWICK. 
than the largest of the one year old. The fish have all 
been reared in the same Avaters and fed in the same 
Avay with the same food. They vary in groAvth just as 
human beings do. It is impossible to determine from 
size alone the age of a trout. In other tanks is shown 
the decided difference in growth of artificially fed fish 
over others which have been left to shift for themselves 
on the natural food supply. Thus, all in all, the fish tanks 
afford an interesting series of object lessons. 
Mr. Wood reports a growing bhsiness to meet a 
widening demand for trout 'eggs and fry for stocking 
purposes. The Plymouth Co. supply a number of States, 
which find it much cheaper to buy the fry than to main- 
tain hatcheries. It would be economy for Massachu- 
setts to adopt the plan; the CommonAvealth could se- 
sure at Plymouth trout fry for a fraction of what it 
costs to provide them under the present expensive, an- 
tiquated and inefficient system. 
The Indian camp, in the main hall or auditorium, has 
been constructed on a scale Avhich makes it the central 
object of interest and the dominating feature of the en- 
tire exposition. It is an elaborate piece of stage setting, 
filling a space 52ft. in height by 84ft. wide, and having 
a depth of gsft. from the lake to the back of the scene. 
The camp is laid out on the great stage against a back- 
ground which is a triumph of the scenic artist's skill. 
In front lies a lake, on whose placid surface are mir- 
rored camp and cliff and cloud; Indian canoes rest on 
the bank; just beyond are the bark tepees of Micmac 
and MeUicete; the camp-fire is burning; men and women 
are busied in their several tasks, cooldng, dressing skins, 
mending canoes, fashioning spears; on one side romps 
a bear, on the other is tethered a pony. Back of the 
camp, in the center, rise beetling cliffs; on the left are 
mountains, with cascades falling doAvn their precipitous 
sides, and summits lost in the clouds; on the right opens 
an enchanting vista of valley and winding river, with 
the tepees of an Indian encampment dimly seen in the 
distance. All in all, it is well done, admirable alike the 
beauty of the scene and the realism 6f the eft'ect. 
INDIAN SALMON SPEARING. 
Louis Michell with the spear; Jim Paul at the paddle. 
Photo for the Forest and Stream by N. L. Stebbins. 
