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The Boston Sportsman's Show. 
Preparations for the Sportsman's Show, which is to 
be held in Mechanics' Building, Boston, from Feb. 22 to 
March 10, inclusive, are now so far advanced that there 
is every indication that the show will far surpass that of 
1898 in all its attractive features. Not only will there be 
complete exhibits from Maine, the Provnice of Quebec 
and the Adirondacks, but the Association, through its 
agents, has collected many specimens of wild game to ex- 
hibit independently. There will be besides interesting 
displays by sporting goods houses, although the area for 
trade exliibits has been somewhat decreased from the 
space allowed them two years ago. Only such exhibits 
in this line will be made as will prove interesting to 
sportsmen. , tt n -n r 
The large auditorium known as Grand Hall will be 
devoted almost entirely to athletic exhibitions. The 
whole floor area in view of the galleries will be given up 
to a miniature lake and a good-sized indoor gymnasium. 
In the lake there will be contested A. A. U. champion- 
ships in short distance swimming, relay team racing, 
water polo and diving. In the gymnasium a basket ball 
tournament, for which there has been an unusually large 
list of entries, will be contested, besides many other events 
for individuals, which are suitable for indoor competition. 
Not only will there be canoeing competitions m the 
lake, but Indians from the Northwest of Canada will 
exhibit their prowess in spearing and other feats, natural 
to their life in forest and stream. A realistic Indian camp 
of twenty-six bucks and squaws will be an interesting 
feature. It is proposed to have these Indians hold some 
of their tribal and ceremonial dances during the show. 
The three territorial exhibits will be very large and 
complete representations of the attractiveness of these 
regions for sportsmen. There is very little doubt that 
more specimens of wild game will be exhibited than were 
ever before shown under one roof. Maine, which has 
always had an attractive and large exhibit at past shows, 
will be splendidly represented at the coming show. The 
Fish and Game Commissioners, through Chief Warden C. 
C, Nichols, are making extraordinary efforts to have 
Maine's exhibit surpass any previous showing made from 
that State. All efforts will be concentrated in the Boston 
show, and no exhibit will be sent elsewhere. 
Mr. Nichols in his latest advices says that Maine will 
be represented in the wild game department by four 
moose, one caribou, twelve to twenty deer, two black 
bears, a den of foxes, a half-dozen each of woodchucks 
and muskrats, two wildcats, four mink, a cage of coons, 
a cage of owls and a cage of crows, one of which is white. 
He expects further to obtain specimens of the otter, fisher 
and beaver. Many splendid specimens of stuffed moose 
and deer will also be exhibited. 
A family of Indians will live in their lean-tos in native 
fashion, and will make souvenirs as products of the show. 
These Indians will be from the Oldtown reservation. 
There will also be a camp of guides, with a bureau of 
information. 
Another very interesting and unique feature ©f the 
Maine exhibit will be a fish pond, which will be stocked 
with large trout, which will be lively and take the hook 
readily. Fishermen will be allowed at certain times dur- 
ing the show to cast unbarbed flies into the pond. They 
will thus have the pleasure of getting a rise from a game 
fish without harming it. 
Though the Provincial Government of Quebec had in 
preparation an extensive exhibit of the game products of 
that region at the Paris Exposition, they decided also to 
make a big exhibit at the Boston show, and N. E. 
Cormier, Chief Warden of the Province, has charge of 
the collection of the game. The exhibit will be a very 
large one, and he reports that he already has on hand 
seven moose, six deer, six bears, four beavers, two 
muskrats and one raccoon. These he has collected in 
east Quebec. In the Quebec district he reports that his 
agents are to secure four caribou, two or more otters 
and minks, and a number of hares, wild geese and wild 
ducks. 
Mr. Cormier has a raccoon which is absolutely tame, 
which he intends to bring to the show. This raccoon 
accompanies him from his home to the post-office in 
Aylmer, and carries letters and papers in its mouth, just 
as any well-trained dog. Mr. Cormier tells the_ story 
that recently when he and the raccoon were on their way 
home a dog rashly attacked his companion. The coon 
dropped the letters, whipped the dog coriclusively, 
gathered the letters together again in his mouth, and 
followed his master as unconcernedly as if nothing had 
happened. 
The details of the Adirondack exhibit are not as yet 
known, but Mr. Geo. A. Stevens, Chairman of the Com- 
mittee of Citizens, having in charge this exhibit, in a 
recent communication says that his preparations are 
going on very smoothly, and that his committee will give 
as good a representation of the game life of the Adiron- 
dacks as possible. 
The fish exhibit, of which Mr. Richard O. Harding 
has charge, will be most complete, and assuredly one 
of the most pleasing features of the show. The ex- 
hibit will have a frontage of 120 feet, and will be closed 
in completely. The structure in which the various tanks 
will be inclosed will be after the style of log cabins in its 
architecture. The tanks will be made of French plate 
glass an inch thick, and will be larger than any ever 
shown in Boston. The tanks will be 7 feet long, and 
hold about 550 gallons of water. These large tanks were 
selected in order to show larger fresh-water fish than 
have previously been shown tn captivity. A strong light, 
both in the day time and at night, will be concentrated in 
these tanks, so that aided by filtered water the fish will 
be shown at the very best advantage. A complete fish 
hatchery, under the supervision of the United States 
Commission of Fish and Fisheries, will be displayed in 
full operation in front of the fish tanks, but at a lower 
elevation. The Commission will furnish trout eggs and 
fry for a complete hatchery, showing process in different 
stages of development. 
The United States Commission will also send from 
their Maine station, at Bucksport, several hundred each of 
steelhead trout, Swiss Lake trout, rainbow trout, brook 
trout and salmon. They will also send specimens of albino 
salmon- , 
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission will 
furnish several large landlocked salmon, 5 to 10 pounds 
each; lake trout, 10 to 16 pounds; brook trout, 5 to 8 
pounds; golden or Sunapee trout, 4 to 6 pounds; Loch 
Laven or Scotch trout, 4 to 6 pounds ; rainbow trout, 5 to 
8 pounds; a number of specimens of large pickerel and 
cusk, and some Dublin Pond trout, which are peculiar to 
tlie waters from which they are named. These fish from 
New Hampshire will be taken especially for the Sports- 
man's Show, from Newfound Lake, Sunapee Lake, Lake 
Winnepesaukee and other waters which are noted to 
fishermen. 
Extensive plans were made to make a salt-water ex- 
hibit, showing a large variety of strange and rare speci- 
mens of fish, but owing to the fact that these fish during 
the winter months leave the shallow waters near shore and 
go out into deep water, it was impossible to secure speci- 
mens ; therefore, this exhibit had to be given up, and 
all efforts were concentrated in making a first-class fresh- 
water exhibit. 
Maine will also be represented adequately by a fish 
exhibit other than that in the fish pond, showing speci- 
mens for which her lakes and .streams are famous. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST 
Movements of Sportsmen. 
Chicago, 111., Jan. 27.— Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mussey 
got back Wednesday from their trip to the Sea View 
Hotel, High Island, Tex. Mr. Mussey says that the 
weather was phenomenally mild, so that the ducks and 
snipe were not gathered in along the sea coast, and he 
did not exert himself to do any shooting, although he 
could have had good sport at no great distance. So 
far as I can discover he put in most of his time eating 
oysters and sitting in the sun smoking cigarettes. I 
believe this is the first time Mr. Mussey has ever been 
so far South, and to say he was delighted is putting it 
very mildly. The open and hearty ways of the 
Southerners were a revelation to him, after many years 
here in Chicago, where a gentleman keeps a gun trained 
on a guest, and has a customer walk under care of a 
private detective. Mr. Mussey says that the Sea View 
Hotel is an excellent place to go to. Capt. Cade, its 
owner, is a wealthy ranchman who owns a few thousand 
acres of land and a few thousand head of cattle. He 
seems to run this hotel for amusement, and to get good 
fellows to come down and visit him. No Northern man 
need be afraid to chance it there. 
Capt. A. W. Money, of New York City, was in town 
this week on his way West to Omaha for the inter- 
city shoot between Omaha and Kansas City. Capt. Money 
is looking well as usual. He calls his son Noel a very 
foolish fellow for wanting to go to the South African 
war, but admits that he would probably have done the 
same thing himself had he been in his son's place. 
Mr. A. C. Ely, of the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, 
is absent in the South on a stay of some extent at 
Thomasville, Ga., where he is shooting and having a 
good time. Mr. Ely is one of Chicago's most widely 
traveled sportsmen. 
Mr. J. T. Fanning, of this city, goes South for the field 
trials and for a little incidental shooting, having a dog 
which he thinks has a very good show to get into first 
honors. 
Mr. W. S. Draper, of Dyersburg, Teno., outfitted here 
this week for a trip in the Western country, including 
Rocky Mountain points. 
Mr. A. A. McKay, of this city, has gone to Palm Beach, 
Fla., this week, where he will luxuriate safe from the 
blizzard which has just struck us. 
Mr. John Bartl, of Chicago, starts soon for Florida, 
going to Port Byers and other points. 
Mr. Frank O'Connell, of this city, starts soon on an 
extended winter tour which will take him into Cuba, the 
Bermudas, etc. 
Mr. Frank Butler and wife. Miss Annie Oakley, of 
shooting fame, are in the city this week and will begin 
an engagement here within a few days. 
Humanity in Excess. 
President John G. Shortall, of the Illinois Humane 
Society, is a man of good impulses, and has without doubt 
done a great deal of good in the world in relieving or 
preventing suffering among dumb animals. One is dis- 
posed to think, however, that he is carrying humaneness 
almost to excess when he protests to the Lincoln Park 
Commissioners against the feeding of live chickens, rats, 
mice, etc., to the boa constrictors. The keepers say that 
the snakes will not eat unless they can kill their own food, 
to which Mr. Shortall replies that the snakes should then 
starve, an answer which seems somewhat illogical, un- 
less Mr. Shortall draws the line just this side of snakes. 
The matter will probably be compromised by the keepers 
feeding the snakes in private, which is perhaps a better 
way than allowing the public spectacle, which has hereto- 
fore attracted crowds. Mr. Shortall can hardly alter tlrut 
law of nature by which some animals prey upon othei s.g 
nor is he apt to set aside the natural fashion in which, 
it is done, but there is no use showing the unpleasant 
sight of a fowl cowering in terror before a snake from' 
which it has no means of escape. 
San Aatonto as a Big Game Region. 
Recently we had occasion to note the killing of a 
panther within the city limits of San Antonio, Tex. This 
week there comes another item, to the effect that on Jan. 
17 Mr. Irvin Vorhies killed a large coyote, which had 
got into John Fest's corral near San Pedro Park, in the 
city of San Antonio, and which was discovered in the 
act of devouring a muscular Texas hen. There are those 
who profess to believe that this coyote is the missj ig 
panther, but rather let us think the panther is still at 
large and adding to the glory of San Antonio as big 
game region and winter resort. Here in Chicago we have 
always made the proud boast that we could play almost 
any kind of a game, but with meekness it must be ad- 
mitted that Chicago has no panthers and wolves, and is 
obliged to depend on other things for advertising pur- 
poses. ... , . 
Tte 'Tallest Building in Chicago. 
Chicago, for instance, advertises herself by quantity. 
She is bigger than anything else, and has some things that 
are bigger than anything else. This morning, as I left 
the Illinois Central station at Randolph street, I had 
occasion to turn up Michigan boulevard, and as I did so 
had the best possible view of the new Montgomery, Ward 
& Co.'s building, which is now nearing its completion. 
The tall spire required that, at a distance of three blocks, 
one should tilt his head well back to get a view of the 
top, where a pigmy workman stood. Investigation shows 
this new building of the big firm to be the tallest structure 
in all Chicago. The Masonic Temple is 302 feet to its tip- 
top, and all the famous Auditorium tower can claim is 
298 feet. The tower of the Montgomery, Ward & Co. 
building reaches up 385 feet above the street, and is the 
best view point in Chicago, the more especially as it is 
close to the lake front. It is not to be open to the public 
for obvious reasons. It will be a grand place to view the 
yacht races with a glass, and perhaps Mr. Chas. Thorne, of 
the firm, and a member of the Chicago Y. C, may take a 
run up there on a busy day to see what is going off out- 
side the port. 
In keeping with the new building is the business it 
houses. Its total floor space is twenty-five acres, and it 
is twenty-five stories high. Out of this little hive there are 
shipped to all corners of the world 1,400 packages every 
hour, or one package for about every two seconds, from 
morning to night. San Antonio may have a few panthers 
and wolves to brag about, but she has no store like this. 
In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that San Antonio 
buys her groceries here, all except her rawhide and 
cactus whisky, and although Chicago is out of these 
commodities, she has probably ordered some. 
Chance for a Good Presetve. 
Mr. W. I. Spears, of Ingram's Mill, Miss, (close to 
Capt. Bobo's present residence), has for some time been 
trying to establish a big game preserve of 25,000 acres, 
and has leases recorded on the tract by which he controls 
the lumting privileges. It is a grand country for all sorts 
of small game, with plenty of foxes for hunting, and any 
amount of quail, rabbits, coons, etc. Finding the burden 
of so big an undertaking somewhat trying, financially, Mr. 
Spears wants some half-dozen gentlemen to chip in_ with 
him and push this thing into the sort of enterprise it 
ought to be. From what my friends tell me who have 
been there, it could not be surpassed as a hunting place, 
and it is within easy reach of all Northern points. Mr. 
Spears has a good pack of fox hounds, and can show 
fun any day of the season. Of all the many game preserve 
ideas which have come up within the past few years, I 
believe this to be the most practical and desirable, and 
if any one would like a really good shooting and hunt- 
ing place, he can get it here if he wishes to make the 
proper investment. 
From Powelville. 
It was at Mr. Spear's place in Mississippi that our 
friends, Powel and La Rue, had such a good time. The 
last advice from Powelville reports Mr. Powel at home 
and the whole family revelling in corn bread made from 
a sack of genuine Mississippi cornmeal which Mr. Powel 
brought home with him. I don't know what La Rue took 
home, but it seems to me that it ought to be pretty near 
enough, after liA'ing with a friend the way these folks did 
with Mr. Spears for a month or two, to call it square 
without taking home victuals enough to last the rest of 
the year. Mr. Powel also says with exultation that he 
has imported a fine coon dog with him from Mr. Spears' 
place, and purposes to hunt coons from now till next 
quail season. La Rue is reported now at Philadelphia, but 
"threatening to come back" to Powelville. We are go- 
ing to have an addition put on the house if Mr. Powel 
seems crowded next fall. 
Captive Wild Ducks. 
By the way, if any man anywhere in the country has a 
wing-tipped or otherwise slightly injured wild mallard 
duck, he can dispose of the same by addressing Mr. W. A. 
Powel, in my care. Mr. Powel is collecting a fleet of 
mallards, and would rather hear of a new mallard duck 
that a new coal mine. E. Hough. 
300 BoYCE Building, Chicago, III. 
A Virginia Turkey Hwnt. 
Millwood, Va., Jan. 23. — I thought I would let you 
know of a little turkey hunt I had last Saturda}'. Buck 
and I went up into the mountain after turkeys, for we 
heard they were pretty plentiful up in the Big Hollow. 
We started about 5 o'clock, and after a three hours' walk 
we ran upon a flock of twelve fine turkeys. I was the 
first to see them, and crack went my .38 Winchester, down 
went a fine gobler. I got a hen at the third shot, having 
missed a fine gobler — my second. Buck got a big hen. 
We hunted for four hours more, but didn't get a 
f.y.glimpse of any more turkeys. As we went home we ran 
*upon a fine buck; he jumped from a bunch of pines 
!bout twenty yards, but as we had our turkeys tied on 
lur gun barrels, we could not get a shot at him. I am 
going after that buck next week, and will let you know 
ibout it. L. M. 
Hotels fof Sportsmen. 
Persons who are conducting hotels or camps in regions 
where there is good shooting or fishing should under- 
stand that the best way to make their places known to 
persons interested in these sports is by advertising in the 
Forest and Stream. Sportsmen have come to depend 
on the hotels which are advertised in Forest and Stream, 
and registered in its Information Bureau, and the hotel 
keepers wlio patronize these columns are unanimous in 
declaring that they receive most satisfactory returns for 
the money invested. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday, 
Corre^nondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
' ~ Monday aad m aauCh earlier aa practicable. 
