Feb. 29, 1908.1 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Motor Boat and Sportsmen’s Show. 
The annual show of the National Sportsmen's 
Association, which is being held in Madison 
Square Garden, New York City, is attracting 
widespread attention and the immense crowds 
that have been found there every afternoon and 
evening see much that pleases, entertains and 
instructs. 
The show opened last Thursday and will con¬ 
tinue every day and evening, with the excep¬ 
tion of Sundays, until March 7. The weather 
last week was favorable for large attendances, 
Washington’s birthday saw the Garden crowded, 
and during the present week the show is attract¬ 
ing even greater numbers. 
The arrangements of the present show are en¬ 
tirely different from those of other years. In¬ 
stead of a large pool or an oval lagoon, there 
are two, one at the Madison avenue end of the 
arena, containing wild fowl, and one at the 
Fourth avenue end, to accommodate the contest¬ 
ants in the various aquatic events,, which always 
attract and hold the attention of the crowds. Be¬ 
sides these there is a long, narrow and shallow 
tank on the Twenty-seventh street side of the 
arena, which is devoted entirely to the fly- and 
bait-casting events which anglers take so much 
interest in. Otherwise the main floor is laid out 
somewhat like a huge camp, with narrow streets 
and rows of exhibits, while the rim of the oval 
is lined with still other exhibits. This arrange¬ 
ment gives more space for walks and divides 
the crowds, so that congestion at certain points 
is partly done away with. 
The first gallery is devoted to trade and trophy 
exhibits; the concert hall—off this floor-=—to In¬ 
dian goods displays; the basement to rifle shoot¬ 
ing and moving pictures. Birch bark, cedar and 
canvas are everywhere. There are more mounted 
specimens and trophies and fewer large boats 
than in former years. Less that is green and 
more that appeals to all who are fond of con¬ 
tests of skill, but with a wealth of trophies and 
people from the forests and the streams. Alto¬ 
gether it is a show that pleases. 
The fly- and bait-casting tournament has been 
made one of the most prominent features of the 
show. When these contests were made a part of 
the old-time sportsmen's shows, years ago, very 
few of the visitors knew, except in a vague 
way, what was a creditable and what a poor 
showing. To-day the sixty-yard tank is lined 
with men and women during every contest, and 
the gallery immediately overlooking it with other 
hundreds, nearly all of whom understand the 
game fairly well, can tell whether a fly-casting 
event is for five or for ten-ounce rods, and are 
always ready to praise skillful work and to 
make allowances for errors fallen into easily 
under the difficult conditions of light and air to 
be found indoors. Of course in a crowd there 
are always those who believe that because a man 
is casting a fly, he must be fishing, but the great 
majority appreciate the fact that the warm, dry 
air of an inclosure is not buoyant and that no 
man can do his best when he cannot see his line 
and fly and must therefore proceed by blind 
reckoning. Some of the best fly-fishing, how¬ 
ever, is done after dark, and men who can do 
this successfully are not so very badly handi¬ 
capped in the Garden, after all. It happened 
that one of the casting contests last year in Cen¬ 
tral Park took place after sunset and most of 
the men finished their scores in the dark rather 
than postpone the affair. Their average was al¬ 
most as good as usual, showing that those skilled 
in a certain thing can adapt themselves to all 
conditions if the need arises. There are two 
contests in the Garden every day, one. at 2130 
and the other at 8:30 P. M. 
The rifle shooting is held under the auspices 
of the Junior Branch of the National Sports¬ 
man’s Association, and will continue every day 
and evening during the show. There are four 
individual and two team events, open to school 
boys and those who have attended summer camps. 
The water sports are under the auspices of 
United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps and 
the Bath Beach Swimming Club, and include all 
sorts of swimming, tilting and canoeing con¬ 
tests. The boys of the Kyle Institute .of Flush¬ 
ing, N. Y., give daily drills. Music is furnished 
by D’Aquin’s Military Concert Band. 
The Adirondack region is well represented by 
exhibits from Saranac Lake and Lake Placid. 
Trophies of all descriptions and many beautiful 
pictures are exhibited, and the information bu¬ 
reau is looked after by a corps of intelligent 
guides and woodsmen. 
Canada makes a strong bid for the patronage 
of the sportsmen. She is represented by the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, the Richelieu and On¬ 
tario Navigation Company, the Grand Trunk 
Railway, the St. John, Fredericton and New 
Brunswick Tourists’ Associations and the Inter¬ 
colonial Railway Company. 
Maine has exhibits given by the Bangor and 
Aroostock Railway Company, William Cooper 
of Milo, Walter D. Llinds of Portland, the Sum¬ 
ner L. Crosby Company of Bangor, Capt. F. C. 
Barker of Bemis, A. F. Cox and Son of Port¬ 
land and the Maine Central Railway. 
The Waramaug Bass Hatchery of New Pres¬ 
ton, Conn., exhibits a number of handsome 
black bass in tanks. 
The Asbury Park interests are very at¬ 
tractive, for besides the pictures, literature and 
information given out, the tackle men of this 
seaside resort exhibit sea rods and tackle that 
appeal to surf casters. 
Old Virginia has sent A. B. Moncure, Uncle 
Jerry and his pet coon and crow, and this quaint 
camp is always surrounded by a crowd eager 
to listen to tales of the South. 
From famous Blue Point, L. I., comes Capt. 
Bill Graham with his little shack and his duck 
boats, scooters, decoys and shooting parapher¬ 
nalia. There is never a dull moment when Capt. 
Bill is around, and the other Long Island re¬ 
sort men add to the salty flavor of the place, 
while the fly-casters show scant appreciation of 
the seashore sand that surrounds the booth and 
eventually finds its way into their reels and lines. 
The sportsmen’s publications that have booths 
are Forest and Stream, the Amateur Sports¬ 
man, Yachting, Motor Boating, George C. Crow¬ 
ley, and Field and Stream. 
The David T Abercrombie Company, a new 
corporation of 311 Broadway, New York City, 
has a very large exhibit of sportsmen’s supplies, 
tents, fishing tackle and firearms. 
Henry C. Squires’ Sons, of 44 Cortlandt street, 
New York City, exhibit canoes, boats, firearms 
and outers’ goods. 
The New York Sporting Goods Company of 
17 Warren street, has its usual large exhibit of 
all sorts of sportsmen’s goods. 
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The R. E. P. Sporting Goods Company of 
1384 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, exhibits fire¬ 
arms, fishing tackle, motor supplies, etc. 
The W. H. Mullins Company, Salem, Ohio, 
exhibits the duckboats and metal rowboats for 
which its name has become famous. 
Among the other exhibitors are the following: 
Pennsylvania Tanning Company, Great Bend, 
Pa.; the Springfield Portable Construction Com¬ 
pany, Brooklyn; E. F. Hodgson, Dover, Mass.; 
J. F. McLaughlin, I. J. Stringham, C. P. Buck- 
land, Watres Manufacturing Company, Harry 
M. Stevens, the Indian Exhibits Company, John 
Wanamaker, G. H. Terry, Powell Engine Cor¬ 
poration, William Laurier, E. Baecker, Walter 
C. Hill, Decker Electrical Manufacturing Com¬ 
pany, Chesebro-Whitman Company, Auto Ig¬ 
niter Company, C. F. Splitdorf, G. .V. Lyons, 
Triumph Engineering Company, Sunlight Gas 
Machine Company, Roberts Motor Company, 
Palmer Bros., Ovington Motor Company, Nug¬ 
get Polish Company, Sulpho-Napthol Company 
and F. A. Baker & Co., all of New York City. 
Exhibitors from other places: Michigan Steel 
Boat Company, Detroit Boat Company, Gray 
Motor Company, P. R. Mfg. Company, all of 
Detroit; W. Hjorth & Co., and the Gokey Shoe 
Company, Jamestown, N. Y.; Miami Cycle & 
Mfg. Co., Middletown, Ohio; Potter & Wright- 
ington, Boston; Posterity Company, Rubberset 
Brush Company, Newark, N_ J.; Visor Knitting 
Company, Niagara Falls; Wheelock Fence Com¬ 
pany, Worcester, Mass.; Lintz-Wallin Company, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.; Snow & Petrelli Mfg. Co., 
New Haven; Andorra Nurseries, Philadelphia; 
D. P. Van Gorden, Orange, N. J.; Ferro Ma¬ 
chine & Foundry Company, Cleveland; the D. M. 
Tuttle Company, Canastota, N. Y.; Mianus Mo¬ 
tor Works, Cos Cob, Conn.; Hildreth Mfg. Co., 
Lansing, Mich. 
Mountain Sheep Growing Tame in 
Colorado. 
Trainmen on the Denver and Rio Grande, 
says the Denver Republican, report the recent 
appearance of two bands of mountain sheep on 
the cliffs just beyond the Royal Gorge, near 
Spike Buck. 
The animals are roaming about on the rocks 
hundreds of feet above the tracks. They pay no 
attention to the trains and as the law forbids 
any one to shoot at them they have not become 
frightened at the appearance of a human being 
in the distance. 
One band contains eight sheep, as near as 
they could be counted from the moving trains, 
and the other contains about fifteen. The train 
crews have come to watch for the agile animals 
in and about the Royal Gorge, and there is sel¬ 
dom a day when they are disappointed. The 
precarious pasture they have found is apparently 
almost inaccessible for other animals and the 
feeding is proportionately good in consequence. 
Legislation at Albany. 
Mr. Mance has introduced in the Assembly a 
bill relating to eel weirs in the Delaware, Never- 
sink and other rivers in Orange, Steuben, Che¬ 
mung. Broome and Cayuga counties. 
Mr. Smith has introduced a bill in the Assem¬ 
bly relating to ice fishing in certain waters. 
In the Senate Mr. Smith has introduced a bill 
relating to hunting hares and rabbits in certain 
counties. 
