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[Feb. i6, 1901. 
way to the Coast, making Dniuth his next slopping point 
after Chicago. Mr. McMurchy seems 10 have redis- 
covered the great truth that paradise lies all about us if we 
only know how to break off a section of it. Al the first 
of November, when the dull season in the trade begins, 
Mr. McMurchy takes his family and hies himself for the 
southern coast of California, where he has a cottage, and 
an extensive ranch acquaintance, which assures h:m the 
best kind of sport. Here he enjoys himself out of doors 
until Jan. i, when, leaving his family at the cottage in 
California, he works east across the Southern country, 
takes in New York and then starts west. He is this far 
west on the circuit, and will be on the Coast again before 
very long. About April i. when the climate of Fulton. 
N. Y., is beginning to get more Christian-like, he takes 
his family back to the home city of the gun firm, and 
spends his summer and early fall at that point. This 
gives members of the firm a chance to take their own 
vacations, which, after all, is a very desirable thing for 
members of a firm to do now and then, if they do not 
make a habit of it. Thus the arrangement is perfect, as 
above suggested. Mv. McMurchy says the Hunter Arms 
Company never had so much to do as they have this year, 
and that prcspects for a continued good trade were never 
better. . 
^Mr. F. K. Dunn, of the Board of Trade, and his brother- 
in-law, Mr. William Wright, have gone to Florida for 
tarpon. They will be gone about six weeks. 
^ Hon. James R. B. Van Cleave, president of the Illinois 
Sportsmen's Association, and Superiniendent of the In- 
surance Department of the State of Tlliaois, leaves this 
week for Pass Christian, to join his family at Lynne 
Cfl^tk After a rest of a day Or so in the mild climate 
of the: Gulf Coast, he will retlirn to Springfu ld and re- 
sume his same place in his several harnesses. 
Storms in the West, 
The tljermometer touched i&rti tliis week in Chicago 
for the first time this^ winter, and we have a foot and 
a half of snow. This heavy snow fall came in a big 
storm, and the snow was very wet and heavy. I seized 
the occasion to get out and do a little snowshoeing. and 
foimd that the twelve-mile walk from Whiting. Ind.. lo 
the city, was something of a task, as the snow balled on 
the shoes fearfully. I have never been out in a much 
worse storm, and in fact experienced the singular sensa- 
tion of being lost in Chicago. The limits of this city run 
down into the edge of Indiana, but I have discovered to 
my own satisfaction that there are A-ast open spaces be- 
low here in which, after night, and in a driving snow, it 
is hard to tell which way is north and which east. 
This big storm is general over Illinois. Wisconsin and 
Indiana, _ and the great fear is entertained that it may 
prove injurious to the quail crop, which, up to this time, 
has done so splendidly. 
Mr. Marvin Hughitt, Jr., and his friend, Mr. R. C, 
Cox, have taken this opportunity to get away for a snow- 
.shoe trip north of here. These gentlemen had snowshoes 
made by an artist of their own selection, but upon seeing 
the pair of long Alaska shoes which I secured a while 
ago, they promptly telegraphed for duplicates of the 
Alaska model, and I may add with pride that they had 
straps put on them after the Blackfoot design, which my 
friend McChesney and myself discovered some years 
ago at the Blackfoot agency in Montana. With these 
shoes and these straps, snowshoeing is not a terror, but 
a delight. I have been doing a few miles every night in 
the wilderness of lower Chicago, and it is good as the 
drowsy poppy for sleep. ^ 
Chicago Sportsmen's Exposition. ";Z!r 
Matters are getting pretty busy down at the office of 
the International Forest, Fish and Game Association, for 
the time is getting short and the crowd of detail begins to 
multiply. _ The show looks like a winner, and it will not 
only be big but good. 
Mr. C. W. Norris, the same being my old friend. Charlie 
Norris,of Peace River andKlondike fame, blew in the other 
day, and seeing in him a very good woodsman, the man- 
agement of the show promptly engaged him to go up into 
Wisconsin_ and bring down a hundred Norway pines, 50 
feet in height. These pines will be used as columns to 
face the arches of the roofs, and their bushy tops, meet- 
ing high in the air. will make green arches of their 
own along the sides of the big hall. The oak woods south 
of Chicago will be called upon to furnish the material for 
the connecting garlands. There will be abundant use 
Jtiade of autumn leaves as a floor covering, and the whole 
interior decoration will be not only suggestive of out of 
doors, but indicative of a well composed color scheme. 
The decorations will not be made up of actual heads and 
trophies, as these, placed at so great a heieght as the 
balcony face, would seem small and out of proportion. 
Hence the artists have decided to use colossal heads made 
up of staff, the same material which was employed so 
successfully in reproducing the big animals at the World's 
Fair. In this way the whole scheme can be brought down 
to one consistent treatment. The idea of the decorations 
is the product of the Art Committee, Mr. W. L. Wells, 
Mr. Geo. Schrieber and H. G. Maratta. The management 
may feel proud of the decorations, which will be har- 
monious and inviting, and free of all crude and bizaare 
effect. 
Mr. Maratta is well advanced with his work on the 
panorama of the Grand Canon of the Colorado. The 
Southern Pacific is getting together the big outfit for its 
display. The big Craine collection of Alaskan trophies, 
costumes, products, etc., handled by the Alaska Geo- 
grai^hical Society, is to be put up here by the White Pass 
Yukon R. R., and will itself be a great educational ex- 
hibit. We are beginning to hear now from the different 
guides who have promised to be here. Among these is a 
Mickmac Indian, who brings his family along from 
Quebec. Dr. Heber Bishop, of Boston, has sent on his 
big record moo.<5e, the ex-champion of New Brunswick, 
the famous Tim Lynch, which, in his time, used to chase 
everybody up a tree. This big moose will have a promi- 
nent place on the main floor of the show. Billy Hofer is 
expected here about the middle of this month, to take 
charge of some of the animal work in all likelihood. Most 
of the animals are already waiting. There are several 
hundred ducks, as many gaudy pheasants and a large 
ptock of pmc fishes of eyery variety, all in ^fl^ 
ready for installation. The athletic programme is ar- 
ranged, and in fact the whole show is a success as it 
stands to-day. It is not likely that Chicago will fail to 
patronize it understandingly and generously. 
E. Hough. 
Hartford Buildsno, Chicago, 111. 
Moose Back of Trousers Lake. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Having noticed during the past few months atticles 
from different men who have been hunting in New 
Brunswick, and having particularly noticed that many of 
them have returned unsatisfied both with the amount of 
game found and with the country generallj'-, it gives me 
pleasure to state that a trip which I had the pleasure of 
enjoying last September in the northern part of this 
Province of Canada was one of the most enjoyable of my 
life. 
The only unpleasant feature of the whole trip was that 
a guide named Perry Jenkins, whose home is about ten 
miles from Plaster Rock, disappointed us at the last 
mumeiit. He had been employed by us eight months be- 
fore, and had been promised his money, no matter 
whether we went upon the hunt or not. There were two 
of us. Mr. N., of Chicago, and myself. I had employed 
David Ogilvy, of South Tilley, Victoria county, and to 
any man wishing to hunt in the northern part of New 
Brunswick, especially in the Tobiquc country, I would 
certainly recommend him. C)gilvy had secured the 
services of Jenkins, who was to meet us twenty miles 
from the railro;id, but upon <ntr arrival there we found 
he had gone off with another party the day Ijefore, and 
for this reason my friend did not go on with the trip, but 
turned back and left the woods without having shot any- 
thing. After getting uut of the woods 1 took the matter 
up with Mr. L. B. Knight, Chief Game Commissioner 
of New Brunswick, St. John, N. B., and it gives me 
great pleasure to give him credit for the way he treated 
us. He not only refu.nded the money which "Mr. N. had 
l*aid for a hunting license (which amounted to $30), but 
he has also assured us that Mr. Jenkins will in all prol) 
ability never have the opportunity to similiarly dis- 
appoint any hunting party from the States, as guides are 
compelled to secure licenses from the Province, and he 
will meet with some trouble in securing a license in the 
future. Mr. Knight further says, "At the next sitting of 
the Legislature I will take such steps as Avill protect 
sportsmen from a repetition of Mr. N.'s case." 
Our guide had during the summer built a log cabin 
about six miles soutli of Trousers Lake, and this cabin 
was to be our headquarters during the hunt. We left 
the railroad at Plaster Rock on the Tobique River and 
drove from there to the ford of the Tobique, about eight 
miles. Our plunder was taken over on a wagon, but the 
road was so extremely rough that riding Avas out of the 
question. There is just one bad place in this road, and 
several times called out young bulls, and upon one oc- 
casion called out an immense old bull, but he did not 
show himself in the open until after dark, and then he 
was about sixty yards away, across a small inlet of the 
lake, and we could not shoot, because we were unable^ to 
see the sights of our rifles. We tried for days, following 
the banks of the lakes in the early morning and late at 
night; We lay otlt in the Woods on the banks of the lakes 
night after night; We tried Calling; We followed streams, 
and We tried by every method, manner of ffleahS to cofflg 
within shooting distance of a bull with a good pair of 
horns, btvt did not do so Until We took the hardwood 
ridges and stalked hitn doWtt. 
c. r. .V. N. 0. 
IN CAMP IN THE TOBIQUE COUNTRY. 
1 also secured on this trip two caribou, neither of 
which, however, Avas a remarkable head. The measure- 
ments of the bull shown in the picture are as follows: 
Across horns, 57 inches; around neck, 24 inches; back 
from horns, 56 inches; ears, tip to tip, 28^ inches; nose 
at angle of mouth, 25 inches; length of head between 
horns, 27 inches; between eyes, 9 inches; length of bell, 
22 inches; circumference of neck at point scalp taken. 
MOOSE KILLED BY DR. C. P. AMBLER IN NEW BRUNSWICK, MEASURE ACROSS HORNS 56^ INCHES. 
(hat extends from Plaster Rock to Trousers Lake, the 
bad place being a mixture of rocks and mud most of the 
way. 
We crossed Trousers Lake in birch canoes, made sev- 
eral carries, crossing several smaller lakes and streams, 
and arrived at our cabin on Sept. 15, the day upon which 
the hunting season opens. 
The countrv at this point is entirely covered with 
woods, while' numerous small lakes are found every- 
where. These lakes, generally being about two or three 
feet deep, have been formed by the beaver building shal- 
low dams across what has heretofore been marshes. The 
lakes are ,more or less surrounded by marsh and bog, 
while the underbrush and woodland proper are ex- 
tremely dense and thick. We remained at this camp 
until Sept. 28, and during that time saw altogether 
twenty-nine moose, six of which were bulls. We could 
many times have shot cows and calves at a distance of 
not over fifty or a hundred feet, and had several close 
shots at voung bulls, but inasmuch as we were out for 
a head we let all these alone and awaited our chances. 
The bull moose, the picture of which I inclose, was 
killed about five miles from our main camp on the top 
of one of the hardwood ridges. This bull was killed by 
still-hunting, but I am free to admit that the still-hunting 
wasi ^Qt one of preference l^n my part My gttide ha^ 
84 inches; length of animal, nose to hind foot, 162 inches; 
girth, 84 inches; height to shoulder center, yj^/i inches. 
We encountered considerable rainy weather on thi,s. 
trip, but on the whole had a very delightful time, this 
loeing due particularly to the kind forethought of our 
guide, Mr. David Ogilvy. 
Notwithstanding that many hunters have reported that 
big game was scarce in New Brunswick, I must say that 
it was certainly not our experience. 
We coimted at one time nine canips on the shore 0I 
Trousers Lake, and these campers were patrolling the 
shores of Trousers Lake morning and night, with an 
idea of killing moose. It only remains to be said that 
not one in ten came out with a good head, while those 
hunters who left Trousers Lake and went back into the 
woods, out of sight and sound of others, invariably got 
what they were after. 
It seems to be the impression among a certain number 
of hunters in the States that if they go to Trousers Lake 
they are in the best part of the country. They un- 
questionably are in the center of it, but Trousers Lake 
is no place to camp permanently, as the lake is the stop- 
ping place of almost every crowd that enters the Tobiquc 
section, , r , , 
If one is prepared to canoe and carry for the best part 
of y^^^^ after arriving Trousers Lake, and will not, 
