The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
HUNTING MADE EASY.
Enable Sportsmen TO Garry HON Proofs
of Their Prowess.
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All oonquering science has hewed a
why into the Maine wilderness, along
which the MANNED, the halt and the lazy
may travel and find big game awaiting
them, no matter whether they bring
rifles, revolvers or half-pint TASKS.
The invention of smart Bangor man
has enabled all these, who come to
Maine, to get what they want at small
expense and have the satisfaction of oar
rying away indisputable evidence that
they have stood knee deep among the
antlered beauties of their own staying.
The weary tramps through soggy boys
and up hills whose faces are sleeper than
barn doors wide open, the uortuous and
torturing canoe trips that are marked
with blisters instead of milestones, the
aching limbs, bulging eyeballs, high
pressure breath and general sarsaparilla
feeling which follow in the wake of hard
work-all these have been banished from
the woods. and even the woods them
selves have been sent into perpetual soil
tary confinement by q camera wizard
nobsoot, and whose magic brings out
the deer, moose and caribou at SO much
shot.
In the old days, the man who visited
Maine for game were compelled to shoot
1t or buy it-or steal 1t from somebody
who knew how to shoot. To do any one
Of those he had to put out both money
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pedigree was or how many old sun bonnets
there were in the family attic.
Even city alderman who had free
passes to all the theatres was compelled
to pay full fare for this pleasure or go
home without 1t.
The forests were great repu blio where
a man was man, aud where man
as whole army of chaps with tall col
lars and fat pocket books.
The fitness OF things was arranged thus
until this year, when a bright mind that
knew this frailty of mankind stepped in
and bridgsd this wide chasm of exertion
with trestles of ease and springing arches
of oomplacenoy.
large number of hunters do not seek
the woods so much for game as they do
to dazzle and bawilder the confding
friends they have left at home.
The deer which they shot as it stood
on the brink of a precipios overlooking
deep lake, and which leaped and was
lost In the watery abyss, and the masto-
fence, which spoiled before they could
get 1t taken home-these and animals
like these, are the ones which figure in
tales related ut hotel lunches and across
the tables In the olubrooms.
The oallow carcasses that are brought
home-the biue-inented doe and the
moose with wisp brooms for antlers-are
n1thing but ash-barrel refuse compared
with those that were slain and never got
near the railroad stations.
The Bangor man, of whom mention has
been made, realizing the crying need of
tine times, has been at work for nearly
year building up lordly game animals
which shall satisfy the wild cravings of
adventurous sportsmen. and vouch for
the veracity of the yarns which returned
h unters unblushingly tell.
Last year he purchased the biggest and
widest-antlered moose that money could
procure. Than he bought great, guant
carbon and two long-necked deer, all CT
which had horns that looked like brush
heaps.
After skinning them with care and ap-
plying preservatives to the fsahy parts,
he spent months in tanning the hides
and making them flexible, and in
stuffing out the forms so he could ensily
adjust them to different attitudes. No
sooner were these completed than be rent
ed large vacant barn, and lining all
four of its sides with the trunks of trees
stood on end, he festooned the limbs
with whiskered moss. and earpsted she
floor with pine needles.
hen, with the aid of dry goods and
soap boxes covered with wads of green
moss and upholstered with lichens and
liyerworts culled from the forest, he
proceeded to construct his scenery. In
this way he fashioned dim aisles of pines
and long vistas of beech and maple, and
in among them we're cradle knobs and
crags and blocks Of gray granite that
shone and shimmered in the sunlight
like bits of scenery stolen from fairy
land
When he had fitted fitting sashes into
the roof of his barn and chinked up che
cracks so no light could get in except by
the wide window spaces, the photograph
gallery was complete. Having done this,
he bought camera, boarded up dark
room, and WAS ready for customers.
business outlook, considered from
his tandoint, is grand.
accounts have no need of going into the
woods to make big records killing game
Excusing themselves from home asso-
ciates for week or SO, they can now
come to Maine, and finding q uartera at