Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-09-05
STATE HOUSE.
An Insurance for Sportsmen
Will Soon Be offered.
Gen. Richards Arranges With City
Hospital for Care Of Fever Patients.
Agricultural Meeting At State Falr-A Psrma.
nent Sportsmsn's Exhibit Advocated.

Ills CITY requesting tnat he obtain the
statistics regarding the number of men
who We're injured during the hunting
season in the State Of Maine, and the
whole number killed, as the company
Is about to make out an Insurance pol
icy that will cover all accidents OF that
kind. in fact. the company will have
special policy that they will try to
have all the sportsmen take out.
From source that is not wholly re-
liable it is learned that in the season
of 1897. 1S men were killed in the words
by being shot accidentally either by
their own hand or by the hand of an
other.
Thus it is that the hunting in the
State Of Maine is getting to be of that
size where the insurance companies
recognize it as one Of the possible
ways whereby man may get killed or
injured, and so many indulge in the
sport that it will pay the said compan-
les to have special insurance for the
case.
These companies, however, may be
little previous, for do they not know
that committee, consisting of the
leading authorities on the subject of
fish and game interests of the State,
are now at work on the revision of the
laws pertaining to the same, and they
will not in any case forget the close
time on all men. Many have been con-
| suited on the matter. and they advise
| the committee to have close time on
| killing men from sunset to sunrise and
| on Sundays, and that they shall not be
| lawfully killed at any other month
than when it is lawful to kill deer.
OF course there is no doubt but that
the Legislature will think favorably of
| the law should the committee advise.
| BY an order issued by the secretary
of war, all the adjutant generals of the
states will be placed in charge of the
sick soldiers of the army. Though the
order has not been received by Gen.
eral Richards, he has been all the time
since the arrival ~. the syoops here.
looking out for the Naefesh Of @ sick
men. and working in conjunctiHn with
the surgeons. and the other officers
who are glad to have his advice, which
they have learned IS OF value. He has
made all the necessary Arrangements
for having some of the men cared for
at the city hospital.
/ President c. p. Burleigh and Doctors
Sanborn and Randall representing the
city hospital, met the general with
Captain O'Neil at the generals Office.
that the hospital will care for nine of
the typhoid patients.
AS there was no reason why there
should be delay, General Richards or
dered that the bedding and all the out
fit for nine beds be carried at once to
the hospital. and that four Of the
patients be at once moved there, which
was done in the afternoon.
Soon the adjutant generals office
will assume it's old time liveliness
when the mastering out Of the regi-
ment begins.
An evening meeting will be held at
the State Fair grounds. Lewiston,
Wednesday, September Z, under the
auspices of the board Of agriculture,
this being the evening usually devoted
to the board
Prof Charles D. Woods, director of
the Maine Experiment Station, Orono,
will deliver an interesting lecture on
the subject of Food and Food
Economy" and selections will be rem
dered by the Ceciian Ladies' quartet
Of Portland, with banjo and guitar ac-
compartments.
This meeting will be held in tent
upon the grounds, and will be one OF
the many attractive features OF the
fair.
Those interested in the fish and
game interests are advocating the
building at the State fair grounds al
Lewiston. of building where fish
and game exhibit will be permanent
feature.
The success of the sportsmen's ex-
hibit at Bangor. the past week. VIII
show the wisdom Of the plan, and also
shows that the society itself would
make money by so doing.
: The plan would be to have a pulio'
ing built in a manner that would make
it look nearly like the natural WOODS
of the forests, possibly having OF the
rustic style but roomy anu
,, handily arranged and lighted II
the very best manner pos
sible. Inside this place would be tne
fish tanks such as are often In the ex'
hibit at the present fairs. Then tnert
l .k.