Feb. 15, 1913 
FOREST AND STREAM 
195 
1913 
Nineteenth Annual 
SPORTSMEN’S SHOW 
Third Annual Indoor 
TRAP SHOOT 
Annual 
ANGLERS’ CASTING TOURNAMENT 
February 27th to March 5th, inclusive 
Madison Square Garden 
Exhibits: —Everything the Sportsman Wants. 
Features: —Outdoor Sports and Life Acted and Pictured. Camp Exhibits and 
Activities of Campers, old and young. 
STEPHEN N. VAN ALLEN 
Gen’l Manager 
ADMISSION 50 CENTS 
CHILDREN 25 CENTS 
WILLIAM J. POTH 
Business Manager 
ALLEN S. WILLIAMS 
Publicity 
Telephone Madison Square 5100 
Office: The Tower, Madison Square Garden 
Copyright Judge 
A COLD AND FOGGY MORNING IN CAMP 
This is another of the Camping Series. It is hard to give a real 
idea of the beautiful coloring of this picture. You can almost 
feel the cold, damp, foggy air upon your cheek as you look at it. 
There’s a snap and dash of realism about the Camping Series 
that is irresistible. It’s yours at 50 cents each, or four for $1.50, 
or see special offer. 
Special 
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of JUDGE will 
let the subscribers 
of Forest and 
Stream have a set 
of these pictures 
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JUDGE 
COMPANY 
225 5th Ave. 
NEW YORK 
Pistol Legislation in England. 
liV the House of Commons on a recent day 
the Home Secretary, replying to Mr. Joynsin 
Hicks, said the Government hoped to be able 
next session to introduce a bill regulating the 
possession and sale of pistols. Mr. McKenna 
added that he trusted the measure would be 
treated as imcontroversial. The need for further 
legislation has again been brought into promi¬ 
nence through the recent attempt upon the life 
of Sir Edward Henry, Commissioner of the 
Metropolitan Police. For some considerable 
time past the matter has engaged the attention 
of the home office. The existing Pistols Act, 
passed in 1903 . had for its chief object the pre¬ 
vention of the use of pistols by children. Under 
Section 4 of that Act it is illegal for any per¬ 
son under the age of eighteen to buy, hire, use, 
or carry a pistol. Owners or would-be owners 
of pistols who are of maturer years are re¬ 
quired at the time of purchasing the pistol to 
produce a gun license. The purchaser must 
also give his name and address to be entered 
bv the seller in a "Pistol Register." The 
definition of a "gun” in the Gun License Act, 
1870 , "includes a firearm of any description.” 
Under the Pistols Act of 1903 the purchaser of 
a pistol is required to produce the license 
which, under the Act of 1870 , he was already 
bound to possess. 
The exemptions in the Gun License Act 
are embodied also in the Pistols Act. ihey ap¬ 
ply to naval, military, and police force, posses¬ 
sors of game licenses, unlicensed persons carry¬ 
ing guns for licensed persons, bird scarers, 
gunsmiths and common carriers. To this 
heterogenous list must be added .persons pro¬ 
ceeding abroad to places where British gun 
licenses are not valid, and persons who merely 
desire to keep pistols in a dwelling house, 
where no license is required. A system of 
police permits, which in effect legalizes acts 
already legal, has been instituted to prevent 
abuse of the exemption clauses. A greater dif¬ 
ficulty, m practice, is that persons who do not 
possess gun licenses, are not entitled to exemp¬ 
tion, and do no claim it, are able with impunity 
to ignore the .'kct altogether. Flat, automatic 
pistols carried in a pocket are so easily con¬ 
cealed that the detection of offenses is found 
to be almost impossible. Pistols obtained in 
places where the Pistols Act does not apply are 
not less dangerous than those obtained in Eng¬ 
land. There is no urgent need for imposing 
further restrictions upon those who observe the 
law and do not commit offences. The legisla¬ 
tion proposed should be of such a character as 
to defeat the practice of those who are able to 
set the existing law at defiance.—London Field. 
Fly-Casting at Sportsmen’s Show. 
Trapshooting’s twin feature in the next 
Sportsmen’s Show, which will open Feb. 27, 
in Madison Square Garden, will be the An¬ 
glers’ casting competition of fly and bait¬ 
casting. The chief innovation from condi¬ 
tions of the two preceding annual Sports¬ 
men’s Shows will be transposition of the cas¬ 
ters’ tank from the eastern end of the arena 
to the western half of the northern balcony. 
This year the anglers can make a daily pro¬ 
gram that will run from the time the doors 
open until they close without having to give 
way to trapshooters, cowboys, boy scouts or 
burros in the canon and plains of the show’s 
big scenic stage. The director of the casting 
tournament committee will be David T. Aber¬ 
crombie, who, counseled by a tournament 
committee, will formulate all plans for the 
comincr contest. Among the famous anglers 
already interested are John Doughty, E. iM. 
Gill, C. C. Levinson, A. Jay Marsh and Wal¬ 
ter McGuckin. The general committee in¬ 
cludes the tournament committee and the fol¬ 
lowing: Julius H. Seymour, Fred T. Mapes, 
William C. Metcalf, Jansen C. Lamison, D. 
W. Poor, Harold G. Henderson, Arthur C. 
Rice, Warren ftliller, George La Branche and 
Herbert S. Smith. 
From New Bern, N. C. 
iMany New Bernians, who remember 
Charles Hallock as a winter resident of this 
city some fifteen or twenty years ago, may 
be interested to know that he is alive and 
hearty still, though nearly eighty years of 
age. He resides at Northampton, Mass., 
whence he wrote recently to Forest and 
Stream, the well-known weekly journal of 
outdoor life, founded by him in 1873, ac¬ 
knowledging its Christmas greetings and con¬ 
gratulating the editors on its continued and 
deserved prosperity. 
It was through Hallock’s articles in the 
Forest and Stream that the writer became 
acquainted with the advantages of New Bern 
as a winter resort, and although the old Chat- 
tawka Hotel did not quite measure up to his 
somewhat idealized description of its table 
and accommodations, the writer will always 
feel grateful to him for having called his at¬ 
tention to the town in which he has spent 
twelve consecutive winters, and hopes to 
spend as many more. J. L. K. 
Arsenic That We Eat. 
. It is known that arsenic exists normally 
in the tissues of the human body without 
doing harm. It is a constituent of peas, al¬ 
monds and beans. Fresh lettuce, says Har¬ 
per’s Weekly, though rich in water compared 
with almonds and beans, reveals scarcely less 
arsenic. The foodstuffs poorest in arsenic 
are the banana, chestnut and leek. 
