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AMMUNITION 
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Matches. 
PRESIDENT’S MATCH. 
WIMBLEDON CUP. 
HALE TROPHY. 
HERRICK MATCH. 
CHAMPIONSHIP REGT. TEAM MATCH. 
CHAMPIONSHIP COMPANY MATCH. 
INDIVIDUAL LONG RANGE TYRO LEECH CUP MATCH. 
LIFE MEMBERSHIP MATCH. 
97% of Contestants used (US) AMMUNITION 
UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
New York City San Francisco LOWELL, MASS. 
Pb,o! malch 6 °yd. : 7 M 10-» 
™ mer . 8 10 10 7 10 10 9 10 5 9-88 
979995498 9—78 
10 10 9896867 6—79 
897888687 6—75 
10 10 7 9 6 10 10 9 8 5—84 
9 10 878 10 996 6—82 
87 10 789886 8—79 
9879975 10 8 7—79 
Hav .10 8 9 7 10 9 9 8 8 4-82 
nay " 9788775 10 9 6—76 
9 8 9 10 10 6 8 10 8 6—84 
8 10 7989986 7—81 
10 69 10 98857 5—77 
Sch r ne C rn ? ng matCh ’ "!!!!... 22 25 25 19 23 25 22 8 20 17-206 
acnnerring . 22 19 15 19 18 25 22 21 24 20-205 
Revolver practice: 
c m ;th 9 9 6 10 7 6 5 6 o 5 —68 
Oliver . 9 6 4 8 10 5 4 7 4 4-61 
uuver . g 5 5 4 7 6 5 4 4 6—54 
Sept. 29.—The following scores were made to-day at 
the indoor range, No. 1506 Washington avenue. 
Revolver, 20yds.: H. A. Dill 80,,81. 
Pistol, 20yds.: George H. Smith, 89, 88 , 85, 91, Ur. 
E. A. Palmer 78, 78, 79 84 85. 
Rifle, 25yds.: Dr. E. A. Palmer 235, 237, 236, 237, 23S. 
’ * D. W. Stubbs, Sec’y. 
R V M Cordell. 49. 
S E Sears. 79. 
Members of the Belleville Revolver Club who visited 
the range and did some practice shooting were as fol¬ 
lows: Chas. Zeeban, Gus Mertens, Arthur Weinel, 
Ralph McCullough, James Corwin, James Corwin, Jr., 
R. E. Duwall, Julian Turner, Will Rich. 
Secretary. 
Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association. 
New York, Oct. 1.—At 2628 Broadway scores were 
m j^voH-er, y 20yds°: J. L. R. Morgan 86, 84, 82, 81, 81, 80; 
W. Wadsworth 86, J 83, 78 ; M Hays, 89, 86 86 84; Dr. 
W. H. Luchett 83, 80; R. M. Ryder 91, 89, 88, 86, 86, 84 
T. P. Nichols 91, 89, 85, 87, 86, 85; Dr. C. Philips 87 83, 
81; Fred Alexander 80; Dr. W. G. Hudson 85, T. Keller 
83, 81; G. Grenzer 87, 85; J. E. Silliman 86, 85 
J. E. Silliman, Treas. 
St. Louis Revolver Club. 
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 28.-The scores made to : day are 
appended. There was no shooting on the Colonial Club 
range this week on account of rain: 
W L Schrader . 85 88 88 83 86 —430 
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Paul FresT 63 74 80 81 85-383 
L B Benneti'.:::. 36 46 26 38 42-188 
T E Bunding. 58 64 39 5_, .. 
Geo W Oioman. 67 62 ( 8 .. .. 
Dr M R Moore. 85 •• •• •• •• 
W C Ayre. 42 28 23 .. .. 
TELEGRAPH POLE MATERIAL. 
So enormous is the annual consumption of 
timber in the shape of the so-called poles by 
which telegraph wires are sustained that every¬ 
body who has come to realize the importance of 
guarding our remaining forests will rejoice to 
hear that the Pennsylvania Railway Company 
purposes to experiment on a large scale with 
masts made of concrete. The change of ma¬ 
terial, says the Times, if it prove practicable, 
will make unnecessary the present yearly de¬ 
struction of thousands and thousands of acres 
of woods, for the maintenance and extension of 
telegraph lines involved one of the half dozen 
greatest drains to which our forests are sub¬ 
jected. 
Of course the concrete poles—in reality, no 
doubt, steel poles covered with concrete—will 
cost more than wooden ones, to start with, but 
if made with due regard to the strains to which 
they are to be subjected, they will be next to 
indestructible. A pole that lasts forever will 
soon earn the excess in first expenditure. 
Wooden poles of the size required on all im¬ 
portant telegraph lines are by no means cheap 
even now, and they are constantly becoming 
more costiy, while they deteriorate rapidly and 
require frequent replacement. 
Another economy of the concrete pole will 
come from the diminished likelihood of acci¬ 
dents that interrupt service when serious, and 
at all times require the employment of ex¬ 
pensive repair gangs to attend to minor breaks. 
If, now, the railways would only get some¬ 
body to invent for them a concrete sleeper that 
had a little spring to it, so that enginfes and cars 
wouldn’t be jolted to pieces, and that could be 
made at less than prohibitive cost, the forests 
would have another long reprieve—long enough, 
perhaps, to let the tree-planters catch up with 
the tree choppers. The desirability of using 
substitutes for wood whenever economically 
possible is. becoming apparent to many, and it 
is well that those who have hitherto been 
among the most reckless and ruthless of the 
destroyers should be getting in line at last with 
the preservers. 
FISH KILLED BY LIGTHNING. 
In these islands we seem to escape the severe 
thunderstorms which work havoc in the larger 
areas of Europe and America. The Oesterreich- 
ische Fischerei-Zeitung records two instances 
of the destruction of fish by lightning. At 
Neuhaus, in Austria, a tank belonging to Count 
Czerninschen, and containing about I 5 cwt. of 
carp, was struck by a thunderbolt, every one 
of the fish being destroyed. The same thing 
occurred in a mill-stream near Passau, where a 
large number of fish, including some magnificent 
pike, were killed by lightning. 
The Deutsche Fischerei-Zeitung records a 
curious instance in which a tree on the banks 
of a pond near Orsoy, on the Lower Rhine, was 
struck by lightning. The pond happened to be 
in flood at the time, and the whole of the 
ground surrounding the tree was under water. 
A number of fish, weighing 20 pounds in all, 
were afterward found floating in its immediate 
neighborhood. The cause of death in every 
instance was rupture of the swimming bladder. 
—London Fishing Gazette. 
All the fish laws of the United States and Can¬ 
ada, revised to date and now in force, are given 
in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
