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FOREST AND STREAM 
June, 1921 
ITHACA WINS 
MAGNUM 12 BORES. 
E 1 mer 
E. Reed 
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New Hampshire 
with an Ithaca 
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targets with an 
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Catalogue 
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game $45 up. 
Singlebarrel trap 
guns $75 up. 
ITHACA 
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Ithaca, N. Y. 
Box 25 
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AT WILDFOWL 
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A CUSTOMER WRITES: 
Dalbeattie. 
Dear Sirs: — The 12-bore “Magnum" I bought from 
you for shoo ting herons has been a remarkable success. 
The first shot was at a heron in a spruce tree — it fell 
dead and we measured the distance, finding it to be 
110 yards. There were 5 No. I shots in the bird’s body. 
The second shot, a day or two later, killed a heron 
at 98 yards. Since then we have had a number of long 
shots, which we have not measured. 
Yours faithfully, W. H. A 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue, 
giving full particulars, with many other 
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G. E. LEWIS & SONS 
32 ajid 33 Lower Loveday Street, 
BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND 
Established 1860 
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WILBUR SHOTGUN PEEP SIGHT, 
deadly addition to the modern shotgun. Makes good 
shots of poor ones. Fast enough for inap shooting, 
ducks, or at traps. Automatically shows hew to 
lead correctly — No More Guess Work. Made of 
blued steel, clamps rigidly on breech of gun barrels. 
12, 16, 20, 28 gauges. Double guns only. Postpaid, 
$2.50 including booklet "Wing Shooting Made 
Easy.'* Booklet alone sent on receipt of ten cents. 
Teaches the art of wing shooting. 
WILBUR GUN SIGHT 
111 West tflh SL, P. 0. Box 111, Times S'oero, New York 
ly recalled, while my heart echoed the 
words of Hamlet: “He was a man, take 
him for all in all, I shall not look upon 
his like again.” 
The president of the Tampa Power 
and Light Company, an old friend, was 
much impressed with the fine Aquar.um 
in connection with the Fisheries Build- 
ing, and its great popularity. We had 
some conversation in regard to the 
feasibility of establishing an aquarium 
as an attraction at the pleasure resort 
park of the Street Railroad Company. 
In the summer of 1894 I went to Tampa 
to look the matter over. The park was 
at Ballast Point, on Tampa Bay, five 
miles below the city. On the shore of 
the park was a very large Japanese 
Pavilion, entirely enclosed with glass 
and open to the rafters, that was used 
for entertainments and dancing. 
I found that on two of the sides there 
was room for at least twenty glass 
tanks of large size for salt water fishes, 
and that with an electric motor and a 
wooden tank on the roof the supply of 
water could be renewed daily, or for 
that matter kept constantly running. 
Food in the shape of anchovies, sardines 
and other small fry could be easily ob- 
tained each day in the immediate vicin- 
ity. There was a pier running from 
the Pavilion several hundred feet out 
into the bay to deep water for the land- 
ing of steamboats. I proposed to place 
on both sides of the pier cages or cor- 
rals of suitable dimensions to accommo- 
date such large aquatic animals as tar- 
pon, jewfish, sawfish, swordfish, sharks 
and rays, sea-turtles and manattes, to 
be constructed of stout plank frames, 
with cracks between, with the outer 
side of heavy galvanized woven wire to 
admit the water which would circulate 
through the narrow openings between 
the plank sides. The inside was to be 
painted with white or light-colored 
paint, and the outside with waterproof 
copper paint. The wooden . frames 
would be of sufficient buoyancy to per- 
mit them to rise and fall with the tides. 
I mention these particulars with the 
hope that some one may be sufficiently 
interested, in the future, to carry out 
the scheme. 
Designs, specifications and estimates 
were made covering the matter, and as 
the plan was very feasible and not ex- 
pensive, it was favorably considered by 
the company. But a deal which had 
been under consideration for a year or 
two was suddenly completed, and the 
plant changed hands. The Aquarium 
did not appeal to the new corporation, 
and it was abandoned to my great re- 
gret, for there was nothing like it in 
the world. 
As I desired to stay in Florida for a 
year or two longer I accepted the posi- 
tion to take charge of the office of the 
land department with some supervision 
of the electric light department. 
r ~ 
E ARLY in January- 1895, I was 
hastily summoned to my hotel to 
learn that a very sick man. who 
had arrived a day or two previously, de- 
sired to see me. He proved to be 
7« Writing to Advertisers mention Vnrest and Stream. It will 
Major General Eustace Hill, of the 
British army, retired on pension. I 
learned that he had been induced to 
visit Florida for tarpon fishing, through 
reading my book, “Camping and Cruis- 
ing in Florida.” He arrived in New 
York during a snow blizzard, had con- 
tracted a severe cold which developed 
into the grippe, and later terminated 
in a severe case of double pneumonia. 
He was under the care of a physician 
and a nurse. Hearing my name men- 
tioned he insisted on seeing me. He 
said : 
“Doctor Henshall, I want you to take 
me in hand. This doctor is doing me. 
no good, and I shall die. I have no con- 
fidence in him, and his medicine makes 
me sick.” 
I explained that I had given up the 
practice of medicine, but if he had no 
confidence in his physician, I would do 
the best I could for him if his doctor 
was willing. I found that he was not 
only willing but glad to give up the 
case; that he had not had any experi- 
ence with pneumonia, and that he con- 
sidered the case incurable. I then told 
the General that I would try to pull him 
through. He said he felt sure that I 
could do so. I employed an additional 
nurse, as he would need watching day 
and night; opened his windows which 
had been closed, but protected him from 
drafts, and told him that I would put 
him on a restorative treatment, with 
but little or no internal medication, but 
would depend on external applications. 
This treatment, designed to assist na- 
ture, but principally owing to his splen- 
did constitution and robust physical 
condition, although sixty years of age, 
finally resulted favorably. 
During his convalescence I learned 
that after leaving school he was entered 
as a midshipman on the Maeander, the 
flagship of his grandfather, Admiral 
Keppel, who, by special act of parlia- 
ment was kept in active service until 
his death at ninety-four years of age. 
As a sailor’s life did not appeal to him 
he obtained a commission in the army 
and was sent to India, where he served 
thirty-five years, and then retired on a 
pension. After his return to England he 
spent his summers salmon fishing in 
Iceland and Norway, and his winters 
snipe shooting on the Mediterranean. 
I have before me two leaves he gave 
me, torn from a small memorandum 
book, which may go to show his prowess 
as a sportsman. I take this from one 
page: 
“Iceland, 1890, six days fishing. 
Salmon 431 ; sea-trout 133. With gun, 
12-bore: One day; Ptarmigan 22; snipe 
12. Another day: Ptarmigan 186; 
snipe 15; ducks 24; plover 33; falcon 1.” 
From the other page I take the follow- 
ing: “Norway, 1891. Between July 17 
and August 20. Salmon 185; sea-trout 
99; river trout 5.” 
He had the usual impedimenta of a 
British sportsman when abroad, consist- 
ing of a tent, cot with canopy, ham- 
mock, air bed and sleeping bag. Also 
two rifles and a shot gun, two salmon 
rods and several trout rods, all English. 
identify you. 
