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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Sept. 19, 1908. 
Barrels open and locks cocker 
The A. H. Fox Gun 
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ordinarily used in hammerless guns and having left a stronger action and a surer one. Note 
the simplicity of mechanism in sectional cuts below. The cocking lug “A,” which is carried by the 
barrels, engages directly with the front ends of both hammers, and this one piece lifts both hammers 
to full cock as the gun is opened for loading. It is the simplest, strongest and smoothest working 
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loose. It is a combination of the best mechanical principles known in gun-making with the finest 
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Barrels closed and hammers down 
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Death of Hood Waters. 
The inexpressibly sorrowful announcement has come | 
to us that the expert trapshooter and renowned trade I 
representative of the Du Pont Powder Co., Mr. Hood 
Waters, passed away from life, at Galveston, Texas, on- 
Friday morning. Sept. 11, at 7 o’clock. He was ini I 
active attendance at the Galveston trapshooting tourna¬ 
ment, and, though feeling quite ill the while, persisted 
in attending to duty till the last day of the tournament, 
Aug. 20, when he was prostrated with what the doctor 
diagnosed as a severe attack of malarial fever. Several 1 
days later, Aug. 27, Dr. Randall, of the Sealy Hospital, 
to which place Mr. W aters had been removed, diagnosed 
it as a case of true typhoid fever. The ravages of the 
disease could not be checked. Thus passed away a 
manly man, of whom it may be truthfully said: 
“■None knew thee but to love thee, 
Nor named thee but to praise.” 
No one in the shooting world was better or more fav¬ 
orably known than was Mr. Waters. He had represented ji 
fiis company in every section of the United States, from ' 
the Atlantic to the Pacific, during a number of years | 
past, making true friends everywhere throughout the 
land, all of whom will have heavy hearts when they ! 
learn that their good friend is now no more. 
The funeral took place from his home in Baltimore | 
on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 11 o’clock. 
MR. HOOD WATERS. 
Besides his sterling manliness, Mr. Waters had the 
grace of speech and courteousness of manner found in 
their highest perfection in the accomplished Southern 
gentleman, to which class he had just title both .by 
birth and breeding. He was of one of. the .first families, 
the W aters family of Maryland and \ irginia, which .has 
he'd distinguished places in matters social, political,! 
judicial and military through a line of many generations. 
The genealogy of this family extends far back into past 
centuries—into the times of tumult in England when 
the houses of York and Lancaster were embroiled mi 
what is historically known as “the War of the Roses. 
The first of the 'Waters family arrived in Virginia in 
1608, as we g'ean from an account published in 190b. 
The’ coat of arms of the Waters family bears the noble 
motto “Tojours fidele.” ,1 
Mr. Waters was an accomplished athlete, a model ot 
physical symmetry and power, yet gentle and tender as 
a girl. ... ! 
The portrait of him herewith is excellent,, the mild, 
amiable expression of countenance being an index of a 
naturally sweet disposition, habitually illuminating his 
face even in repose. 
With his business associates he also was highly es- [ 
teemed for h ; s lovable character and superior businessl 
efficiency and success. A letter to us from Mr. James 
T. Skellv, manager of the Sporting Powder Division, otj 
the Du Pont Company, contains, with other appreciative 
matter, the following: 
“Hood was so well known by the shooting fraternity 
and by the trade, that it is unnecessary to say anything 
about the high esteem in which he was held by all whql 
knew h ; m. By his death the Du Pont Company loses- 
one of its trusted employes, and I lose one of my bes'j 
friends.” . . 
His wife, Mrs. Margaret Waters, was with him during 
his sojourn in Texas and other sections of the country! 
and did all that willing hands and loving heart coulCj 
accomplish in the grievous hours of sickness and dis 
tress. To her and to his other relatives, we extend OU'I 
heartfelt sympathy in their time of loss and grief. 
