March 18, 1911.] 
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The Sportsmen’s Show. 
By comparison with any sportsmen’s show 
that has been held at the Madison Square Gar¬ 
den in recent years, that of 1911 shines out pre¬ 
eminent. The show held at the Grand Central 
Palace in 1907-08 was a real Sportsmen’s Show 
and was appreciated by real sportsmen, but many 
of the sportsmen’s shows of late years have 
too closely resembled country fairs, where there 
was a heterogeneous mass of everything that 
would take the fancy of men, women and chil¬ 
dren, but very little that appealed to the practi¬ 
cal, serious side of the sportsman. This show 
has a different aspect and has in it a very great 
deal that is of real interest. Arms, ammunition, 
tackle, canoes, cameras, snowshoes, are things 
that the sportsman uses when he is out of doors; 
the trophies which he brings back from his ex¬ 
cursion are preserved by the taxidermist as 
shown in Madison Square Garlen, while in the 
long winter evenings he may read the books 
offered at one of the stands, and while he hopes 
for joys to come may dream over happy memo¬ 
ries of joys that are past. 
It is no new thing for the interior of Madison 
Square Garden to be made to look like anything 
but what it is, and this year the decorations of 
evergreens usually seen at the sportsmen’s show 
are as attractive and sweet smelling as ever. 
The eastern end of the Garden being devoted to 
the sport of trapshooting makes the space avail¬ 
able for exhibits on the ground floor somewhat 
less, and the spaces smaller than usual, but there 
is a great deal gathered here, and one no sooner 
steps within the entrance doors than he finds 
himself with really too much to look at. 
To the right of the door is the great exhibi¬ 
tion of Fred Sauter, the taxidermist of New 
York city, who shows among other things a 
dozen big buffalo heads and a number of other 
heads of American game. Walter D. Hinds, of 
Portland, Me., and the Nova Scotia Guides’ As¬ 
sociation, of Halifax, N. S., show a lot of fine 
and well mounted specimens. An exceedingly 
interesting fact which strikes one who looks 
over the taxidermists’ exhibition is that now¬ 
adays almost half the material is of African 
animals, while a few years ago such heads and 
skins were almost unknown. 
The Old Town Canoe Company’s exhibit is 
close to the door, and from there going around 
to the right the visitor finds himself constantly 
confronted with fishing tackles, guns, rifles. All 
the spaces seem interesting to visitors to the 
show, and the persons in charge are constantly 
busy explaining the different implements and 
tools. The J. Stevens Arms and Tool Company, 
of Chicopee Falls, Mass.; H. Tauscher, of 320 
Broadway, New York; the Fox Gun Company, 
of Philadelphia, Pa.; the Savage Arms Co., of 
Utica, N. Y.; the Du Pont Powder Co., of Wil¬ 
mington, Del.; all have exhibits, and all of them 
claim the close attention of gunner or big-game 
hunter. 
A wider field is occupied by concerns which 
do a more general retail business and do not 
confine themselves wholly to guns. Schoverling, 
Daly & Gales have a large space containing most 
things needed by gunner, angler or camper. So 
it is with the New York Sporting Goods Co., 
Abercrombie & Fitch Co., David T. Abercrombie 
Co. and R. H. Macy & Co. 
A number of clubs exhibit here, and of these 
the Boys’ Camp exhibit is one of the most in¬ 
teresting. The boys of to-day, who will be the 
men of to-morrow, ought to be taught how to 
camp and camp properly. They might learn 
something from the Camp-Fire Club of America, 
the Megantic Club, of Maine, and the Anglers’ 
Club of New York, while the Guides’ Associa¬ 
tions of Halifax, N. S., and St. Johns, N. B., 
contain a lot of veterans whose knowledge of 
camps and camping is by no means confined to 
the vacation time of summer. 
Interesting exhibits are the portable houses 
shown here, such as those of R. L. Kenyon Co., 
Waukesha, Wis., and the E. F. Hodgson Co., of 
Boston, Mass., while the Rustic Mfg. Co. and 
H. L. Pinckney are no doubt in shape to put 
up buildings of a more permanent character. 
Useful is the lubricating oil shown by the Vertex 
Company. 
Clothing is offered by all the general outfit¬ 
ting concerns, but the Bird, Jones and Kenyon 
Co., manufacturers of Utica, N. Y., show their 
cloths—Duxbak, Ivampit—which the experience 
of a great number of gunners has shown to be 
among the very best and most durable articles 
for sportsmen’s clothing. 
Some of the things referred to are in the 
gallery which runs about the Garden, where 
there is plenty of room and where things are 
well displayed. Here at the Hall Camera Co.’s 
space you may borrow a camera, carry it over 
to the rail, take a picture of a trapshooter, take 
it back and presumably have it developed while 
you wait. It is chiefly in the gallery that the 
various food products are exhibited by the 
American Kitchen Products Co., the Washington 
Coffee Refining Co. and some others, but Park 
& Tilford’s large exhibit of candies and other 
things is on the ground floor. 
All day long, since the show opened, the guns 
have been cracking and the targets breaking, 
and unquestionably this has given to the show 
a peculiar interest for all trapshooters. 
There are other forms of entertainment for 
those who are not expert at the traps, and of 
these one of the most interesting is the show 
of ornamental birds exhibited by G. D. Tilley, 
of Darien, Conn. Of these there are a great 
many and most of them in the pink of condi¬ 
tion, but unfortunately they have but little space. 
Swans, geese and ducks from the four quarters 
of the globe are crowded together, and as one 
looks at them and admires their beauty, he can¬ 
not but rejoice that the show, is soon over. 
Then there are golden and silver pheasants from 
Asia, cranes and storks, and the much talked of 
European or Hungarian partridge, for which the 
sportsmen of America have spent so much money 
with so little result. 
Once or twice every day Ambrose Means, the 
cow puncher, who went to Africa with Buffalo 
Jones and put his string on a multitude of 
strange animals there, takes a ride down a moun¬ 
tain trail, unpacks his animals and makes camp. 
It is an interesting exhibition. 
Annie Oakley gives a daily shooting exhibition, 
but, most interesting of all, every day are given 
the motion pictures of Buffalo Jones and his 
men roping and riding in Africa, where they 
performed the wonderful feats of catching rhi¬ 
noceros and lions, to say nothing of giraffes, 
elands and zebras and throwing them all except 
the rhino. These pictures Forest and Stream 
has described more than once, and they are so 
well worth seeing that no one who has an oppor¬ 
tunity to view them should by any means miss it. 
Those who attended the Sportsmen’s Show 
that has just closed may feel that they got the 
worth of their money. It was not one of the 
catch-penny things that of late years have more 
than once imposed on the public. 
Quebec Association Meeting. 
An excellent illustration of the effective work 
being done by the Province of Quebec Associa¬ 
tion for the Protection of Fish and Game was 
furnished at their annual meeting, says the 
Montreal Gazette, when it was reported that 
only that day Game Warden Griffith, of Mon¬ 
treal, had seized two bales of furs valued at 
$2,500. These had been gathered at various 
points in the Province by agents for a New 
York firm, and comprised a big variety of furs, 
including many beaver pelts. It was on ac¬ 
count of the beaver skins that the consignment 
was seized, it being illegal to trap or even skin 
beavers. The skins were put in storage and will 
be kept until the Provincial authorities deal 
with the matter, when if the confiscation is up¬ 
held they will be auctioned off by the Govern¬ 
ment in the usual way. 
There was a fairly good attendance at the 
meeting, at which Mr. W. L. Maltby was 
elected president. The reports for the year 
showed that a good deal of activity had been 
displayed in the way of protecting game from 
illegal slaughter. Several changes in the game 
laws were approved for presentation to the 
Government, these including the raising of the 
fine for hounding deer out of season from $5 
to $20, the imposition of a gun license, and the 
reduction of the fine on hares. It was stated 
that as a result of the association’s activity par¬ 
tridge in this Province had increased greatly in 
numbers, while the protection given to song 
birds was having a splendid effect. 
The following officers were elected: Presi¬ 
dent, W. L. Maltby; Vice-President, Chas. 
Meredith; Hon. Treasurer, D. Robertson; Sec¬ 
retary, J. R. Innes; Committee—Rene Bauset, 
A. Bergerson, Geo. Boulter, L. A. Boyer, E. 
T. D. Chambers, I. M. Craig, A. J. Dawes, O. 
A. Dostaler, H. G. Elliott, Lieut.-Col. W. H. 
Evans, Dr. J. T. Finnie, Geo. H. Ham, W. B. 
Hope, H. R. Ives, J. H. Jacobs, W. L. Maltby, 
Chas. Meredith, W. PI. Parker, D. Robertson, 
A. W. Shewan, J. B. Sparrow, J. H. Stearns, 
Guy Tombs, and J. L. Wanklyn. 
The report of the year’s work shows that 123 
convictions had been secured as follows: Par¬ 
tridges, 6; muskrat, 16: deer, 3; hares, 4; beaver. 
2; hounding, 1; spearing, 5; dore, 13; trout, 12; 
bass, 8; sturgeon, 3; netting, 2; song birds, 45; 
night lines, 3. 
Three test cases taken to court were dismissed 
and twenty-seven other offenders for slight 
evasion of the game laws were let go with a 
warning, as were also a number of boys. 
The treasurer’s report showed a balance on 
the right side, and while a great deal of money 
had been expended it was considered that the 
results warranted it. 
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