Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-01-13
Mr.. CARVER MAKES A HIT.

I'm Fact Many Thousand Hits-His
Big Record I'm Shoot1ng-Various
Hindrances.
The steady firing of the five rifles which
the celebrated marksman, DIR. w. F. Carver,
is using at Lincoln's rink rose above the roar
of the skaters yesterday and attracted the
people from the other sights The COURIER
left the great marksman firing away at about
$40 yesterday morning. He kept it up till
about Z o'clock, when the electric lights were
turned out, and as the rink was very dark
work had to be suspended. DR.. Carver
tired to his bunk, compartment partitioned
off at the lower right end of the building,
and drawing his curtains close attempted to
sleep. His efforts to obtain this rest were
unsuccessful and at $50 he reappeared ready
to resume shooting. The coal had been re-
placed by wooden spheres made of white
pine, which proved much poorer targets so
far as the shooter was concerned, but much
pleasanter objects to be shattered SO far as
assistants and spectators were to be consid-
cred. About half cord of the wooden balls
were on hand. This hindered DIR. Carver.
In addition his right arm troubled him. The
rink was also dark. Despite these little him
ORANGES he kept on steadily.
At the table stood three men engaged in
filling the magazines and cleaning the rifles.
The long steel tubes placed in rows
nearest DR.. Carver and he placed them in his
rifle after rapid scrutiny. 1t took but few
moments watching to see that the marksman
fired at the instant the object he aimed at
had reached its maximum height. Striking
the balls on the side with the grain they
would be split open almost as neatly
: FTI- L i
turn be thrown up to be split in like manner,
and after the quarters had been pierced the
remnants were thrown aside. Dr. Carver
fred into the brick wall forming the of
the building. In front of it was large can
vas screen which prevented the bullets from
rebounding. Before noon the canvas pre-
sented the appearance of mosquito netting,
SO full of holes was it.
AT 9:53 shooting was resumed. The
seventy-fve balls to make the total 5000
were shot at and all but nine were hit.
During the seventh thousand 152 were
missed, and in the eighth 1913 misses were
scored.
With fourteen hours consumed and some
what less than eleven hours devoted to shoot
ing DIR. Carver had averaged over $50 shots
an hour or 10 $40 shots per minute. This
average he must maintain, shooting steadily
for sixteen hours a day to accomplish his
task.
Over an hours rest was taken at noon.
Owing to the poor light the shooting was no
where near DIR. Carver's average His best
run was fifty consecutive shots and his poor
est work was missing thirty-four out of
100.
A beefsteak breakfast during the morning
intermission was all the food he partook of
since the start until 4o'clock yesterday after
noon, when he partook of very hearty din
ner.
With the exception of short stop for a
light supper about O'Clock DR.. Carver kept
on shooting pretty steadily last evening. The
crowd that gathered around him was large
and deeply interested in the work that was
being performed. The doctor complained a
great deal about his wrist. 81 cannot ac-
count for it," he said to reporter. 81
never had anything of the kind before and
it could not have chosen worse time. Dr.
Whittemore says it is species of rheuma-
tism.' The marksman seems to feel that he
is the victim of hard luck. A great MANI
prophesied defeat last night for him.
The thirteenth thousand went slowly. The
doctor stopped longer while changing rifles
and asked anxiously of the scorer how much
more he had to shoot. Finally at 1920 he
finished the thousand and laid down his gun
with an air of relief. Three cheers were Civ
en- for him. He had then made II ,0S9 hits
out of Is, 01S shots. The following is the
RECORD BY THOUSANDS.