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Why do you 
go Hunting? 
One of the reasons is, you like to try your 
luck and skill against Nature’s protection of 
game. You like to feel the pride of personal 
accomplishment. One of the chief necessities 
for a satisfactory day’s sport muSt be good am¬ 
munition. In your load of powder you mut 
have confidence in its efficiency, and to point 
the gun right, you must not fear recoil. Use 
Pead Shot 
and you will have the necessary confidence and 
you will not feel the recoil. 
Any ammunition loaded with 
this popular powder gives uniform 
velocity, uniform pattern and 
uniform light recoil. Nearly all 
dealers can supply you with am¬ 
munition loaded with Dead Shot. 
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AMERICAN BIG-GAME HUNTING 
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB SERIES 
Edited by George Bird Grinnell and Theodore Roosevelt 
A thoroughly stimulating book dealing with American big-game hunting, East, 
West and under the Arctic circle, including every phase of sport with the rifle. 
“American Big-Game Hunting’’ is a compilation of the experiences of some of the 
most widely known sportsmen in America. Among the sketches are: The Story 
of the Buffalo, Capt. Geo. S. Anderson; The White Goat and His Country, Owen 
Wister; Old limes in the Black Hills, Gen. Roger D. Williams; Coursing the 
Pronghorn, Theodore Roosevelt; After Wapiti in Wyoming, F. C. Crocker; In M 
Buffalo Days, George Bird Grinnell; Blacktails in the Bad Lands, B. Rumsey. J 
Forest Preserves and Game Refuges are also considered. Aside from the sur- v 
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tion as expert, at least 68 in deliberate fire and at least 
40 in rapid fire. 
Sharpshooter qualifications: 
200yds. 500yds. Total. 
Pvt W L Rogers, Co. H. 32 35 67 
Musician C. Dant, Co. A. 31 35 66 
Corp H H Pelton, Co. K. 32 34 66 
Corp G Grant, Co. 1. 32 33 65 
Musician C Daut, Co. A. 31 35 66 
Pvt A H Kropff, Co. G. 32 34 66 
Necessary for qualification as sharpshooter, at least G5 
out of the maximum of 70. 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
At Trenton, ()., March 2, Mr. C. A. Young, shooting 
Peters’ factory loaded shells, gave a fine exhibition of 
target shooting by breaking 147 out of 150. It is hardly 
necessary to say that the other shooters present, as well 
as the spectators, were much impressed with the shoot¬ 
ing qualities of Mr. Young’s loads. At Xenia, O., March 
9, Mr. C. A. Young, shooting Peters’ factory loaded 
shells, broke every target on the program, 100 straight. 
At Peoria, Ill., March 7, Mr. H. W. Cadwallader won 
high professional average, 133 out of 150, with Peters’ 
shells, and Mr. E. K. Crothers, of Bloomington, Ill., 
was high amateur with the same score and with Peters 
shells. 
Preserve owners and individuals who wish to provide 
for better trout fishing in their favorite waters, should 
write to the Plymouth Rock Trout Company, Plymouth, 
Mass., for its little booklet, “Concerning Brook and 
Rainbow Trout.’’ It is replete with brief, concise in¬ 
formation on all the subjects related to trout planting and 
raising, and is one of the results of the long experience 
of this company in raising trout for sale. 
Among motor boat enthusiasts the popularity of the 
cabin cruiser seems to be increasing every year. In 
this class the 3Gft. raised deck Racine cruiser seems to 
have struck the keynote for convenience, comfort and 
ease of handling. The builders make a specialty fur¬ 
nishing, with the boat, a complete outfit, so that no 
extras arc required by the purchaser. 
New York’s Great Pennsylvania Station. 
One of the greatest works of modern times was the 
construction of the concrete-lined steel tubes under the 
Hudson and East Rivers, the tunneling of Manhattan 
Island, and the erection of the magnificent Pennsyl¬ 
vania Station at Seventh avenue and Thirty-second street, 
New York, bringing the through trains of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Railroad into the heart of New York City. 
An illustrated booklet describing this great work and 
telling what it means to the New York passenger, has 
been issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and will he 
sent postpaid to any address by George W. Boyd, Gen¬ 
eral Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, 
Pa., on receipt of a two-cent stamp. Send for it. 
WHALES IN THE HUDSON RIVER. 
According to early records of New York fish 
and fishing engaged the attention of citizens of 
tlie town to no small degree. Von der Donk, 
tile early historian, relates that the waters about 
New Netherlands abounded in lobsters, and not 
only in lobsters, but in specimens of their kind 
that would make a fish stall of to-day unsafe to 
approach save by a man with an ax or a 
harpoon, for they were “from 5 to 6 feet long.” 
It is recorded in 1753 the oyster trade of New 
York was worth £10,000 a year, and that “shad 
were exceedingly plentiful,” so plentiful, in fact, 
that the New York Gazette of April 13, 1756, 
says that “on Tuesday last 5,751 shad were 
caught at one draught on the west side of 
Long Island.” 
Yet only a few years later fishing seems to 
have fallen into such unpopularity that a fish 
famine existed in New York, and at last, in 1773, 
the general assembly offered a bounty “for the 
encouragement of a fishery on the coast for the 
better supplying of the markets of this city with 
fish. The bounty to be distributed was £200 
per annum for five years. 
The New York Chamber of Commerce like¬ 
wise took the matter up, and added a premium 
of £150 to the most successful fisherman, 
whereupon one Peter Parks went out and from 
the adjacent waters brought in 800 live cod— 
this is July, 1774—and put them on the market. 
The catch won the premium, and a bonus of 
£20 was given one Robert Heartshorne for 
bringing in a catch of 450 sheepshead. 
All this was years after whales were no longer 
taken in the “Hudsons River” and off the city 
in the harbor. There is the authority of Von 
der Donk for the statement that in March, 1647, 
“at time of a great freshet,” two whales of ordi¬ 
nary size swam up the Hudson. “One pro- 
The Story of the Indian 
By George Bird Grinnell, author of “Pawnee Hero 
Stories,’’ “Blackfoot Lodge Tales,’’ etc. 12mo. 
Cloth. Price, $1.50. 
Contents: His Plo-me. Recreations. A Marriage. 
Subsistence. His Hunting. The War Trail. For¬ 
tunes of War. Prairie Battlefields. Implements and 
Industries. Man and Nature. His Creation. The 
World of the Dead. Pawnee Religion. The Old Faith 
and the New. The Coming of the White Man. The 
North Americans—Yesterday and To-day. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
CANOE HANDLING AND SAILING 
The Canoe: History, Lises, Limitations and Varieties, 
Practical Management and Care, and Relative Facts. 
By C. Bowyer Vaux (“Dot”). Illustrated. Cloth, 
163 pages. Price. $1.00. New and revised edition, 
with additional matter. 
A complete manual for the management of the canoe. 
Everything is made intelligible to the veriest novice, 
and Mr. Vaux proves himself one of those successful 
instructors who communicate their own enthusiasm to 
their pupils. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
