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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 12, 1910. 
The Sportsmen’s Show. 
The chief feature of the sixteenth annual 
Sportsmen’s Show, now being held in Madison 
Square Garden, New York city, is the immense 
collection of live wild waterfowl and birds. The 
former are quartered in screened ponds near the 
main entrance to the Garden, and the latter in 
cages under the gallery. 
Other exhibits on the main floor are camps, 
portable houses, rustic furniture, a large num¬ 
ber of power boats, and the exhibits of the vari¬ 
ous railways and summer resorts that make a 
specialty of catering to sportsmen. The lower 
end of the arena is occupied by a huge handball 
court, and space is left for the various features 
that are a part of the show. 
The galleries are occupied by sportsmen’s out¬ 
fitters and exhibits of guns and fishing tackle. 
The concert hall is devoted to illustrated lectures 
on shooting, fishing and vacation trips along the 
lines of the Boston and Maine and the Maine 
Central railways. Moving pictures are shown 
several times daily, with a lecturer to explain 
them, and there is a fine exhibit of trophies, en¬ 
larged photographs and other interesting matter. 
The basement is occupied in part by the rifle 
range of the Public School Athletic League and 
the sub-target gun machine, and the exhibit of 
trophies to be given the winners of the various 
matches is an attractive one. This includes sev¬ 
eral large silver cups, a bronze statuette, medals 
and several target rifles. The donors are the 
Winchester Repeating Arms Company, the Sub¬ 
target Gun Company, the Union Metallic Car¬ 
tridge Company, E. I. DuPont de Nemours & 
Co., the Peters Cartridge Company, the New 
York State Rifle Association, the Remington 
Arms Company, the J. Stevens Arms & Tool 
Company, Schoverling, Daly & Gales and Hop¬ 
kins & Allen. 
The wildfowl and the birds exhibited on the 
main floor are from the G. D. Tilley place at 
Darien, Conn. The number and variety of wild¬ 
fowl in the tanks are confusing, and consider¬ 
able time is required to look them over with 
any care. The appearance of the woodducks, 
teal, mallards, pintails and blackducks especially 
shows how readily these handsome birds respond 
to proper care in a domesticated state, while the 
geese, swans and brant are healthy specimens. 
Among the land birds are specimens of nearly 
all of our upland game birds, with pairs and 
groups from the South and the tropics, and par¬ 
tridges and pheasants from the old world. 
The New York Sporting Goods Company has 
a very large and attractive exhibit. Guns and 
rifles are a feature, and fishing tackle of every 
description attracts attention. It also makes a 
bid for the patronage of motorboat and motor¬ 
car owners, and shows everything from wind 
and waterproof clothing and footwear to fittings 
and parts of engines and equipment. Bicycles 
and their accessories; motorcycles and their 
parts; lights and various other articles are on 
hand. This company has equipped an unusually 
large number of outdoor folk during the win¬ 
ter with skis and snowshoes, and exhibits all the 
accessories of both sports. As it makes a spe¬ 
cialty of furnishing reliable information, it is a 
popular firm with sportsmen. 
The J. Stevens Arms & Tool Company ex¬ 
hibits the sporting and target rifles and rifle tele¬ 
scopes made by it, together with double guns, 
repeating and automatic guns and target pistols. 
In this exhibit are some beautiful examples of 
the work in steel and wood by Stevens gunsmiths. 
Abercrombie’s Camp is one of the features of 
the show. This is the trade name of the David 
T. Abercrombie Company, of 311 Broadway, 
New York city. Outfitting is its specialty, and 
tents are one of its strong bids for patronage, 
while the number of useful articles that it makes 
from canvas is astonishing. There is a certain 
similarity between traveling by canoe in the 
backwoods and “pushing a burro over the moun¬ 
tains,” as they say in the Southwest, and in this 
exhibit all the equipment for both sorts of travel¬ 
ing is at hand, with experts to explain all details. 
The firm handles mountain climbers’ outfits, fine 
instruments, life ropes, foot gear and feather¬ 
weight silk tents; cameras, cutlery, firearms, fish¬ 
ing tackle, snowshoes, skis and moccasins. An¬ 
other line exhibited in great variety is camp 
cooking utensils in aluminum and tin. 
The exhibits of the Adirondack camps and 
hotels; the Boston & Maine, Bangor & Aroos¬ 
took, Maine Central, Canadian Northern and 
Grand Trunk railways and the Richelieu & 
Ontario Navigation Company are all attractive 
and are looked after by men who are well 
posted on the country traversed by each. 
Photographs, maps, booklets and transparencies 
and trophies make the booths attractive. The 
New Brunswick Provincial Government exhibit 
is also full of interest for the sportsmen, and 
here, as well as in other parts of the Garden, 
comparisons of the numerous different styles 
of snowshoes used in the North and East may 
be made. Maine, Adirondack and New Bruns¬ 
wick guides are there to tell all about th'eir re¬ 
spective localities. 
* The Hall Camera Company, of Brooklyn, ex¬ 
hibits a variety of reflecting cameras that are 
strongly made and equipped with the most 
■modern appliances for photographing game. 
At the lower end of the arena will be found a 
score or more model yachts, the exhibit of the 
Brooklyn Model Yacht Club, which sails these 
little boats on the large lake in Prospect Park. 
Some of them are by no means small, stand¬ 
ing, with all sail set, higher than one’s head. 
The Indian Exhibits Company, of New York 
city, displays all of those useful and ornamental 
articles, in the making of which the Indians 
are skilled. Blankets, bows and arrows, baskets 
and trinkets of every sort make an attractive 
exhibit. 
For a number of years the Adirondack maple 
sugar candy made by John B. Burnham has de¬ 
lighted the palates of every visitor to the shores 
of Lake Champlain at Essex, N. Y., and at the 
show every visitor has an opportunity to try 
these delicious candies, at one of the booths 
near the Concert Hall. 
The M. Abbott Frazar Co., of Boston, is an 
exhibitor of the mounted natural history speci¬ 
mens for which it has long been famous. 
A. F. Cox & Son, of Portland, Maine, ex¬ 
hibit all of the best liked patterns of snow- 
shoes, together with moccasins, shoepacs and 
other footgear for snow, ice and woods travel. 
This firm has had a busy season during the 
long winter. 
Mauser rifles and carbines are exhibited by 
H. Tauscher, of Broadway and Pearl street. 
The Mauser carbine, a handy little weapon, at¬ 
tracts no little attention. 
The fishing clubs of Asbury Park, N. J., com¬ 
bined and sent an exhibit which is presided over 
by H. E. Denegar. Specimens of the fish taken 
along the coast, fishing gear and trophies at¬ 
tract attention, but the large number of en¬ 
larged photographs and colored transparencies- 
are worth an hour’s close attention, for they 
are beautiful. 
The Detroit Boat Company exhibits a number 
of power boats, launches, tenders and engines 
and equipments for all. 
A. B. Moncure and Old Uncle Jerry, with 
their turkey calls, rabbits’ feet, traps, trophies 
and Virginia woods lore are much in evidence 
at the Garden, and are always the center of a 
crowd. 
The list of exhibitors from New York city 
follows: 
The D. T. Abercrombie Company. 
The New York Sporting Goods Company. 
II. Tauscher. 
W. J. Ulery Company. 
Indian Exhibits Company. 
Mehlbach Saddle Company. 
Otto Mampe. 
Jacob Meyers. 
Nugget Polish Company. 
A. I. Root Company. 
Outing Publishing Company. 
F. E. Nevins. 
H. I. Pinckney. 
Rustic Manufacturing Company. 
H. M. Stevens. 
Schieffelin & Company. 1 
I. J. Stringham. 
Steinfeld Bros. 
Sterling Hardware Company. 
John J. Young. 
Y. M. C. A., West Side Branch. 
M. Fleischman. 
C. IT. & F. A. Stirrup Company. 
Clifton Game and Forest Society. 
Colgate Gum Company: 
Amateur Sportsman Company. 
Field and Stream. 
Eureka Vibrator Company. 
D. J. Guccione. 
F. E. Nevins. 
And these exhibitors from other places: 
John B. Burnharp, Essex, N. Y. 
A. F. Cox & Son, Portland. Maine. 
M. Abbott Frazar Co., Boston. 
Hall Camera Company, Brooklyn. 
Adirondacks Exhibit, Saranac Lake, N. Y. 
Asbury Park (N. J.) Exhibit. 
Boston & Maine Railway, Boston. 
Bangor & Aroostook Railway, Bangor, Me. 
John Rollbach, Brooklyn. 
Brooklyn Model Yacht Club. 
Canadian Northern Railway, Toronto. 
Detroit Boat Company, Detroit, Mich. 
A. B. Decker, Lake Hopatcong, N. J. 
Grand Trunk Railway, Montreal. 
E. T. Hodgson Company, Boston. 
Maine Guides. 
Public School Athletic League. 
Provincial Government of New Brunswick. 
Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, 
Montreal. 
Shinnecock Indian Exhibit, Southampton. 
N. Y. 
A. B. Moncure. Dinwiddie, Va. 
G. D. Tilley, Darien, Conn. 
