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FOREST AND STREAM* 
ThelSportsmen'sfShow. 
_ The eighth annual Sportsmen's Show given by the Na- 
tional Sportsmen's Association opened in Madison Square 
Garden in this city on March 5, and will continue until 
the 20th, As is customary with the management, the 
exposition this year has novel features which distinguish 
it from the shows of the past. The novelties this year, 
which are on the most extensive scale, are the painted 
woodland panorama, and the central island set in the 
lake, which takes up practically the floor space of the 
garden. The forest scene is an admirable simulation of 
Live Game. 
So far as exhibits of wild animals are concerned, this 
year's show is not so strong as was last year's. At the 
same time, there is here to be seen one mammal which is 
worth journeying a long way to behold. This is the baby 
musk-ox, so called, of which so full an account was pub- 
lished in Forest and Stream of Feb. 22. The animal is 
not far from the size of a short yearling steer, but 
its heavy coat makes it appear much heavier. It 
looks as though it would weigh 400 pounds, but 
perhaps 200 pounds would be nearer the mark. 
It seems in the pink of condition, and is 
A WOODLAND VISTA. 
the actual woods; the trees are bright with autumnal 
foliage, a foamy stream sings and dashes down the 
slope into the lake, and there are far-stretching vistas, 
which it takes but the slightest imagination for us to 
look upon as real. Many expressions of genuine pleasure 
and admiration are heard as the visitor looks upon the 
scene; and the opinion is general that in providing this 
forest picture Manager Dressel has scored a distinct 
success. 
The island contains cages- of game birds, with deer, 
elk and squirrels; and there is an Indian teepee and a log 
healthy and seemingly contented. Of course, it is to 
be regretted that the pen in which it is confined is so 
small, but on the whole it appears to thrive wonderfully 
in confinement. The reader who wishes to learn more 
about this most interesting little beast is referred to the 
number of Forest and Stream in which it was recently 
described. 
There are a pair of elk in one of the pens in fair con- 
dition. Next to them are two calf moose, then a male 
axis deer in excellent condition, then some white fallow 
deer. 
variety of pheasants occupy half a dozen cages, and be- 
side these, there are the more striking Reeves, Lady Am- 
herst and Elliott pheasants. 
Immediately across the aisle from the wild birds is the 
Child's collection of mounted game birds, which is very 
interesting, and is perhaps the most useful and informa- 
tive exhibit in the whole show. For the most part the 
birds are well mounted, and with most species is exhibited 
a clutch of the eggs of the species. Men and boys — to 
say nothing of women and children — who are interested in 
our native birds used for food, have here an opportunity 
to study them, and to study them in a way which enables 
a person to learn something. The least informed per- 
son, if he has intelligence to look, let us say from the 
mounted canvasback to the mounted redhead and back 
again, can see for himself the differences between the 
two species, and can clear up in his mind the doubts and 
confusion which he may hitherto have felt. Most of 
the birds are labeled, although in some cases there is only 
a reference to the catalogue— which looks like a device to 
force the public to buy that pamphlet— and the whole- 
exhibit is most instructive and may be studied with great 
profit, whether the visitor knows birds or does not know 
them. 
The Indian Exhibit. 
Up stairs in the concert room is the very large and 
extremely attractive exhibit of the Hyde exploring ex- 
pedition. Within the past few years a number of expedi- 
tions have been sent out to the Southwest by Messrs. 
T. & Fred E. Hyde, Jr., for the purpose of collecting 
ethnological material for the American Museum of 
Natural History. These expeditions have discovered, col- 
lected and brought back a great deal of material of the 
very highest scientific importance, but they have done 
more than that. The gentlemen in charge being thrown 
among the Indians, and being impressed by their miser- 
able condition, have set on foot a variety of business 
plans by which that condition has been, and will still 
further be. improved. The work has been handled with 
great judgment and discretion. It has not been sought 
to give charity to the Indians, but to give them work, a 
means by which they can earn money. This is the great 
need felt by the Indian who, confined with a thousand of 
his fellows on a barren reservation, where none of the 
ordinary vocations of life can be practiced, even if he 
were familiar with them, has been made by the system of 
Government aid a pauper without any hope for the future. 
The work of the Hyde exploring expedition has been 
done chiefly among the Navajoes, and it is the brilliant 
and beautiful Navajo blankets that are especially dis- 
played, and that attract the most attention. Some of 
these pieces of work, done in ancient times and with a 
skill that has almost been lost, are startling for beauty 
of design and for fineness of texture. They are almost 
as fine as a piece of broadcloth, and being absolutely 
unique, are worth almost, if not quite, their weight in 
gold. From such perfect specimens of the textile art one 
may pass down through blankets tight enough to carry 
water in, to others more modern, looser and at last to 
those made of Germantown wool and dyed with aniline 
dyes. All these blankets are admirable for camping, or 
for_.use as rugs for the floor or as hangings on the wall. 
As one walks through this room he longs for an unlimited 
bank account. 
Beside the blankets, there are fine and beautiful baskets, 
woven by the Indians of the Southwest; baskets for 
cooking, for eating, for storing acorns and for winnow- 
ing seeds. All these are admirable in design, and are 
woven with the old-time care which made the woman 
feel a pride in her work so great that she refused to turn 
LOOKING FROM THE ENTRANCE. 
cabin. The Ojibway Indians pose picturesquely about 
the teepee, and the cabin is the home of the French- 
Canadian trappers Joe Labrea and Ferdina Voyer, and 
their two dogs Chasseur and Gaspe. The water sur- 
rounding the island affords opportunity for the fly-casting 
tournaments which are a feature of the show, and for 
mimic canoe voyages in the Indian canoes manned by the 
Ojibways. 
On the other side of the building near the musk-ox are 
pens containing wildfowl and pheasants. There are 
Canada geese, brant, white-fronted geese, snow geese, 
Hutchin's geese, barnacle geese and Egyptian geese — 
these last two from Europe — and all seem in good con- 
dition. For the ducks, there are canvas, redhead, broad- 
bill, sprigtails, wood ducks, black ducks and blue and 
green winged teal and some others. The more cort}m,or) 
out anything that was not up to her own ideas of what 
a basket ought to be. Every day in this room two In- 
dian girls may be seen weaving baskets ; one of them 
is Abenaki, the other Iroquois. They show the products 
of the Northeast, though for most part the baskets here 
displayed come from the Southwest. 
Aside from blankets and baskets, which are the prin- 
cipal objects shown by the Hyde expedition, there is a. 
