Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-16
NAMES SPLENDID EXHIBIT
10 BE Made at the Coming Spottsmen S
Show at New York.

Inc principal part of the Maine exhib-
!! II az tne sportsmens show to be held in
ready to ship on Wednesday. 1t will be in
charge OF Miss Cornelia 7. Crosby. Fly
hou. MISS Crosbys part of the show
Will be made in a log cabin.
Inc CABIN will be shipped to New York
and put together there. Inside will be
found all of the utensils usually used in a
Maine sporting camp and there will be
guides there from every region in Maine.
who will tell and also show the visitors
how nice dinner of roast moose or
broiled venison is prepared.
The crack guides of Maine will accom-
pany Miss Crosby to New York. They
are ID. l.. Cummings of Caribou, Leon Or
cult of Ashland. ArooStook county; Bert
Haynes of katahdin. Joe Francis the
famous Old Town Indian: Grant Fuller
of Dead River; Granville Gray of Moose
head, George Gates and Walter Twom-
bley of the Rangeley region.
These guides probably know more about
the woods of Maine than any other eight
men that ever visited them. Joe Francis
has reputation which is almost world
wide. He has spent his life in the woods
hunting and trapping. and now runs one
of the most picturesque sporting camps
to be found in the Maine wilderness. 1t
is annually visited by scores of Boston
and New York men. Francis can call a
moose like no other man that ever lived.
Mr.. S. l.. Crosby of Bangor will send
a big lot of stuff to the New York show
to be used in the Maine cabin. His ship
ment alone will fill three cars. and is
worth $4,000 or more. He will send four
of the largest mooseheads ever killed in
Maine. This quartet is one well worth
seeing The biggest head in the lot is the
largest head in the world. The moose
was shot in Aroostook county, last fan,
by DIR. G. II. Gray of Lynn. Mass. One
of the antlers shows q points and the
other II.
The antlers belonging to the Prince of
Wales. which are the second largest in
the world, have IS and Is points. The
length of the blades OF the antlers is
three feet two inches, and each is ID IN
ches wide. The blades are of nearly the
Same width throughout their length. and
this produces the appearance of immen 81
solidity. Usually the antlcrs are much
wider in the middle than elsewhere. The
antiers spread 81 inches which is not "A
remarkable measurement. but the spread
on the brow antlers is nearly as great as
at the widest point. This moose WAS
probably II or II years old.
Dr. Jones, also of Lynn. accompanied
DIR. Gray on his trip, and he brought out
a moosehead which spread % inches, but
it did not have SO MANY points. The four
rlooSeheads are valued at $1,000.
.lThe exhibition of birds in the Maine
camp will consist of ruffed grouse, the
Canadian grouse or spruce partridge, ana
a number of snowy and Arctic owls which
were shot by different sportsmen in
northern Maine last fall. A big moose
head belonging to ]. A. Worth of Spring
field Mass. will be exhibited. also two
which were killed by Alex McLain of
BroWnVille and George Dine OF MaSardls,
guides in that region
A large buck deer the biggest killed in
Maine last year. will be shown. This buck
weighs 257 pounds. A big caribou and
two other deer of large size, and when
have been mounted whole will be exhib-
tied together with six caribou heads.
20 deer heads and several heads which
the sportsmen know as freaks one OF
the deer heads shows 81 points, ana Is
owned by George X. Greeley of Bangor
Another will be exhibited that will show
the antlers in a vertical growth, ana TWO
heads which were found near Ashland. IN
Aroostook county, and which were locked
tocether showing that the bucks had
heen fighting will be part OF the eXhip-
Several mounted trout will be shown.
including the largest square taii causnt
and was captured at Eagle lake. lin Aroos-
took county. by Col. S. B. Gates of VIM.
Outside Of the Maine cabin there will
be a brush ''lean-to when WIN De uSea
nv the guides as their Headquarters. 1t
will be built of spruce and III from the
Maine woods. and will be % feet long.
Two carloads of fir and spruce will be
taken TO New York to give away as SOU
venirs. . a., y.
horse Moosehead lake, will make novel
exhibit He will have two tents pitcned.
to show the method of camping in the
Maine woods There win be canoes
hauled up alongside the tents; and inside
Cant Sam Cole and Frank smith of
Mnosehcad lake. will tell of the beauty
and comfort to be seen and had on a
camping trip in Maine.
number of years ago when ID. :.
Reed, now in business at West Dres-
den, was employed in Richmond, he
marked his initials on two flfty-cant
pieces the first he ever owned. Tie
other day the two pieces came back