Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1879-07-26

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y A Marvellous Pistol ohet.
D Almost any evening may 30 seeI
= mt the gallery OF James 8. Conlil
0 feats of pistol Workmanship whic
!. would make any of the old.style, Of
: hand shooters stand IN wonde
, The marksman is Mr.. Frank e
y Lord, the most expert and anlshe
. plstol.shot in the country. He Ia
l young man Of thirty-two, the young
. est son OF the late Thomas Lore
He is all athlete and gymnast, an
t about 1867 began to try his skill q
a shot at the Old Conlin gallery
! The feats of Captain John Traverl
/. now of Cleveland, had become q tri
ditiOn, though when Sandy Law
renee kept ten-pin alley on til
site of the present AstOr HOUSE
} Travers' gallery attached to 1t saw
some wonderful exhibitions of stead
mess and skill with Nsmall arms
One OF Captain Travers' feats wa
to shoot away o silver three-cen
} bit placed between his toes, an,
when Blondin crossed the Niagar,
; he allowed Travers to put a bal
through his hat. From doubling
friend Captain Travers won a dia
mond ring by putting shot through
the ring, and his feat of picking al
orange from his sous head -
tried again and again. Sinc5 0hp'
tain Travers' time billiards mas
driven out ten.pins, and rifles 1oot
ing at long distances has cYwded
pistol-shooting at twelve pafs into
disuse. Mr.. Lord, howepr, con
fines his sport almost entirely to
the smaller weapons, though he is a
fine rifle shot. He is alnember Of
the New York Club, and his bach
elor chambers are adoped with a
curious stock of pistols In Paris
he met Paul de Cassagnhc and 9th
ers of the French duding clique,
and astonished them blythe certain
ty OF his aim. The Forest and
Stream, in an article enriched with
drawings of Mr.. Lofts targets,
says:
For ten seasons pas he has been
chosen by the Englishspeaking res
idents of Paris as their champion,
and q well-chosen representative
has he proven. OYone occasion he
performed among Gher feats Of ac-
curate Workmanship, the follow
ing: A cap of an ordinary musket
was placed upon the neck Of cham
payne bottle, and Mr.. Lord, stand
ing at thirty-six feet, or twelve
PAGES, with an ordinary dueling
pistol picked off the cap without
scratching the glass. The same
feat was repeated, but with the pts.
tol transferred from the right to the
left hand. Two more caps were
picked off with right and left hand
firing, respectively, but in these in
stances the pistol was held in re-
verse position, with the line Of sight
below instead Of above the line Of
fire. The next shot wa2 o fancy1
one, Mr.. Lord standing with his
back to the object fired at, leaning
far forward, and then, with pistol
pointing back between his legs,
picked off the cap as before. The
asst of the six shots was made sit
ing in chair, again with back to
;arget and leaning back until the
.arget could be seen by the head
md eyes bent back. 1t is a favor
te feat to suspend his watch-a
inc imported piece, costing two
hundred and fifty dollars-and put
hot after shot through the loop at
hirty-six feet. A match or wood
n tooth-pick laid across the open
ng of the golden loop is cut clearly
trough, and, though the watch has
cen under fire scores and hundreds
t times, it still ticks on towards
he day which may come when a
ullet, a fraction of an inch out of
ne way, may scatter the works in
shower of wheels and pinions.
III shooting at the word of CON-
'and, as in dueling, when the sac.
nds cry out. "Are you ready ~ !.
Ready y s.Fire !-one-two-
lree," the shooter being required
shoot between the words "Fire"
nd "three," Mr.. Lord, with duel
g pistol at twelve. PAGES, struck : ,
own six three-quarter inch bullets
ing up by threads. Such an ad. !
srsary Oh the field of honor would ::
'tisfy the chivalric yearnings of "
'out any mortal. At the word !
me" Mr.. Lord fred ten coLsecu- :.
We shots into a one and a half inch
role, same distance. IL.
In Paris where fantastic shoot nj
& is very much in vogue, lie is ",
Town as lie diable Americana
e has time and again at fifteen
ices put one hundred shots con-
cutively into a SDace of on 0rdi. NJ