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FOREST AND STREAM 
The Hercules Calendar. 
the shoot for the enjoyment of the diversified at¬ 
tractions which the village offers and among 
which quail shooting plays an important part. 
Socially> numerous affairs are being planned 
with dancing every night at the Carolina and 
formal balls on Wednesday and Saturday even¬ 
ings, Country Cluib teas and various excursions 
to numerous points of interest as special fea¬ 
tures. 
TROPHY PLEASES NEWPORT GUN CLUB. 
Newport, Dec. 27, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
1 have received the cup that you sent, being 
the winner of our shoot on Thanksgiving Day, as 
was suggested in your paper previous to that date. 
It is very handsome and worth going after. I 
wish to extend my sincere thanks and wish you 
every success in future. I think the boys are all 
receiving their papers. Wishing you a Happy 
New Year. 
i| I am, WILLIAM A. DRING. 
L l J ’__ 
FRED GILBERT ANNIVERSARY EVENT 
PLEASES SHOOTERS THROUGHOUT 
COUNTRY. 
Many Voice Their Approval of Appropriate and 
Unique Manner of Honoring One of the 
Greatest Shots and Most Likeable 
Characters in the History of 
the Sport. 
The announcement of the plans to honor Mr. 
Fred Gilbert, the veteran professional trapshoot- 
er, with a twentieth anniversary shoot and din¬ 
ner at Wilmington, Delaware, and to give gun 
clubs throughout the country an opportunity of 
holding local shoots in his honor, has met with 
widespread approval. The offices of the Du Pont 
Powder Company, Wilmington, Delaware, with 
which company Mr. Gilbert has been associated 
for twenty years, are flooded with ldtters from 
shooters in all parts of the country voicing their 
approval of the appropriate and unique manner 
of holding a nation-wide celebration for one 
of the grandest characters the game has evei 
known. 
From Mr. Gilbert’s home town of Spirit Lake, 
Iowa, Fish and Game Warden E. C. Hinshaw 
writes, “I notice the action taken by your com¬ 
pany to honor Mr. Fred Gilbert o'f this city, and 
assure you that this will be appreciated by the 
sportsmen in this section of the country. They 
will take advantage of it in a way that will make 
the event long remembered.” 
Have Known Gilbert for 20 Years. 
Mr. F. P. O’Leary of the Little Falls Country 
Club, of Little Falls, N. Y-, in a communication 
addressed to Mr. Simon Glover, New York State 
representative of the Du Pont Powder Company, 
says, “I have just been reading in this week’s 
issue of the sporting papers where the Du Pont 
Powder Company are going to hold a Fred Gil¬ 
bert twentieth anniversary next March. Know¬ 
ing Mr. Gilbert well for the past twenty years, 1 
will be glad to co-operate with their company 
and hold a shoot during that week on our Coun¬ 
try Club grounds, in honor of the ocasion. If 
your company sees fit to send on a Gilbert cup, so 
much the better, but in any event, we will cele¬ 
brate with a nice little shoot, and will be glad 
to have you with us.” Miles Taylor, of the 
Analostan Gun Club of Washington, also ad¬ 
dresses a most interesting communication some¬ 
what along the same lines, saying, “We would 
like to make application for one of the Gilbert 
cups to be contested for next March. I can as¬ 
sure you that the conditions will be complied 
with to the letter, and that nearer 20 than 10 will 
be in the competition for the trophy. This is a 
great stunt and most pleasing one. I am from 
the West and knew of Fred Gilbert before he 
came East. When he did and met Jack Brewer, 
et al at Baltimore, 1 was there and saw him 
win the match. He was quiet and unobstrusive. 
I rejoiced with him and his friends then and I 
am jubilating a little over this testimonial to 
him. I have one of Brewer’s shells, the kind he 
used on that occasion. It is the long, green, U. 
M. C-, make and loaded with 4 1-2 drams of Du 
Pont—some load for a 12 gauge, but it was a 
Greener and weighed 9 pounds. Those loads 
whistled like a rifle bullet that had been up¬ 
set. It was so noticeable that I asked him for 
one of them and about the load.” 
Fred C. Whitney, the veteran Iowa Winches¬ 
ter representative a)lso expressed his approval of 
the plan as follows: “I have just returned from 
my Eastern trip and see that you are going tc 
give “Fritz” Gilbert a shoot in March. Wish 1 
had put off my trip to the factory till then, as I 
sure would like to be in on this.” 
Mr. Chas. E. Hyde, Chairman of the Shoot¬ 
ing Committee of the Port Washington Yacht 
Club has announced that their organization 
would be glad to stage a Fred Gilbert event in 
connection with their twelfth annual tournament 
which is scheduled for March 17th, and of 
course, have been advised that this would fit in 
nicely with the original plans. The State Col¬ 
lege Gun Club of State College, Pa., are also 
going to stage a Fred Gilbert Event during the 
week of March 17th, and will have a cup to 
shoot for. They say, “We will be glad to have 
a ‘Fred Gilbert Trophy’ for our club and will 
bend every effort to make it a success.” 
Mr. P. B. Plummer, the live wire secretary 
of the Tennessee Trapshooters Association, who 
holds forth at Chattanooga, has issued an an¬ 
nouncement concerning the plan to all the clubs 
in the state affiliated with the association, urg¬ 
ing them to get in line for a “Fred Gilbert 
Shoolt,” and in addition to using it as a means 
of inaugurating a successful season for the 
clubs in that state, they will also assist material¬ 
ly in fittingly honoring one of the most popular 
shooters who ever put a gun to his shoulder. 
The above are typical of the many letters 
which have been received by the Du Pont Com¬ 
pany, and indicate more interest in the Fred 
Gilbert Anniversary on the part of shooters 
throughout the country than in any trapshoot¬ 
ing feature staged in a long time. Certain it 
is, that by the time March 17th, rolls around 
there are going to be thousands of shooters lined 
up at the traps awaiting the signal to “pull” 
on the clay birds with the idea of winning a 
“Gilbert Cup.” - 
MOOSE IN NOVA SCOTIA. 
The following statistics of moose shot in Nova 
Scotia for the last seven years may be interest¬ 
ing to big game hunters. In 1909 the game laws 
were amended by placing cow moose on the pro¬ 
tected list and it has worked out very satisfac¬ 
torily as the following figures will prove. 
In 1908 total moose reported shot including 
cows were . 688 
In 1909 bulls alone. 405 , 
1910 bulls alone.509 
1911 bulls alone. 617 
1912 bulls alone. 678 
1913 bulls alone. 705 
1914 bulls alone.1,000 
