New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-13
GA ME BIRDS AT THE GARDEN
A NOVEL FEATURE OF THE SPORTSMAN'S
SHOW
ARRANGEMENTS ALI. PERFECTED FOR THE OPEN
ING OF THE EXHIBITION TO NIGHT

ARRANGEMENTS ALI. PERFECTED FOR THE OPEN
ING OF THE EXHIBITION To NIGHT.
Everything Is in readiness for the opening of the
Sportsman's Exhibition at Madison Square Garden.
when takes place tonight The management has
been active in getting together exhibits of a sort
which will not only Interest the follower OF field
track and indoor sports but the general public as
well This Is an age Of sports and there are few
healthy people who are not interested in sort.
or recreation or sport. Albert Chassaud and the
rest of the committee who have been in charg. OF
the preliminary arrangements have worked hard
10 make the exhibition success and from present
indications they will succeed beyond their fondest
anticpations.
one of the trophies which the competitors In the
revolver contests anxious to win is The Trib-
une prize TO the revolver expert who makes the
highest twelve-shot the bul,s-eyc target
The Tribune offers IA handsome trophy emblematic
of the sport.
novel feature in the show will be exhibit OF
live wild game birds. TO sportsmen who have shot
sportsmen who hope to shoot them. and pre-
sumably TO the general public. these birds Will be
Interesting Every specimen shown is perfect one
The plumage of every species IL beautiful and their
characteristics even In close confinement furnish
interesting study for the sportsman. Most OF
these birds will come from "IIaddington.' the farm
Of Timothy Treadwell, Of East Wlliston. Long
Island. who Is enthusiasts. in his organized effort
to retain and breed wild game birds. His collection
has rival this continent Besides partridgeS
and quail. and members of the grouse family. there
may be seen at the Garden six snow geese, four
Canada geese TWO Hutchngs geese. two blue geese.
two laughing geese and ten Egyptian geese There
will be flock OF twenty-five black brant, two Wild
black ducks white call ducks four wild mllards
ana five blacl: Cayuga ducks. whose name is
derived from their habitat. Lake cayugd. In the
Empire State.
This exhLsi OF wild water fowl includes and
expensive birds and some OF them are probably
not duplicated anywhere in captivity. Many OF them
we'll known to the sportsman. and he therefore.
Of all others best knows that 1t is with the greatest
difficulty and little expense tina. they are pro-
cured alive and domesticated 1t is not the easiest
thing in the word to get wild duck with gun.
as many city sportsmen have learned by hard ex-
perience In the bays and marshes OF the Atlantic
coast. Much difficult is 1t TO trap or net them
without choking them. breaking their legs or wings
or frightening them badly that collapse ana
death result
Mr.. Treadwell was at the Garden yesterday look
ing after the arrangements for his large ana IN
teresting feathercd family Wild as>is their nature
some OF them have been responsive to his Kind
ness as foster father that they will come at ms
e@ fend from ms pos nahH o T bird to dis
play Mr.. Treadwe has succeeded III making solne
varieties of these birds such as the CANADA goost
and the mallard and Cayuga ducks, feel so much
at home at "Haddington' that they breed In cap
A little black brant OF which the largest flock
will he shown has been seen 10 fly 10 the north
wa I'd in the highest points which man. until lately
has reached and from this fact MI 1read"eH
thinks the Inference might be deduced That there
Is a great open country and certainly open water
somewhere UP toward the Pole. IL Is not recorded
by omit biologists that man has yet discovered
their northernmost resting place.
The snow goose comes from Alaska but ~ ~
also seen in the South. II breeds far to the north
Int not go far as the brant. The blue goose or
white headed brant. is found principally in the
Western States. is the whie-fronted or speckieu
berry brant Although this last mentioned species
will not DO found the catalogue, II VIII ne repre-
scented in the exhibition The Hutchings goose,
nopularlv called the bantam wild goose OF America
j. a most Interesting exhibit. from the fact that IL
represents a genus almost extinct
Among ths wild ducks. none will be round more
interesting than the call duck. which are USED by
nx-Prcsident Cleveland and others OF the DUCK
hunting craft for decoys. and with good success;
Thev are active little fellows. and when well
trained are great hustlers in drumming up business
Tor the concealed hunter.
Although there will be nothing remotely AKIN 10
tho Streets of Cairo I'm the sportsmen's show.
,he land of the Ptoomies, the Pyramids and
srbvnxes Will be brought to mind by the Egyptian
pteese They are among the most beautiful or al
nater fowl Each goose Is marked with a brlSnt
red snot on the breast. and the entire plumagc Is
beautiful The only objection Mr.. Treadwell raised
70 tho arrangements made and provided Tor MS
Soa thered flock was that he was afraid the wild
water fowls observation OF the artificial water
onuree nroyided for the fy-casting tournament
,o,,Id tantalizc them into vain efforts 10 burst
nd ak "A