New-York tribune., 1905-02-26
NAVAL OFFICERS In LAKE.
Upset IN Canoe at the Garden-Fly
Casting Popular.

The big amphitheatre of Madison Square Garden
was filled with thousands of visitors yesterday
afternoon and last night Interest in the motor
boats and the sportsmen's exhibit is growing daily
judged by the increase in attendance. Attention Is
competed for by the motor boats and the woods
wild animals and artificial nature shown In the
Garden. student of nature finds something new
at every turn to interest. the natural appearance
of the woods. the Indian camps, the Maine and
Adirondack guides and the exhibit of wild animals
all calling for admiral ton.
The big lagoon stl serves a magnet. with
good sales result. There was plenty OF eX-
citement in the afternoon when two naval officers
in full uniform. dumped from canoe into
the lake. The canoeist said 1t was an accident put
the officers in their wet uniforms, inclined
to think 1t was joke with the humor all on one
sde
The display from Pretoria, South Africa, is at
tracing much attention. The exhibit is in charge
of r. Douglass. who for the last sixteen years has
been a resident of South and Central Africa, trav-
elling from Cape Town far north as Lake Tan
ganyika, the east, and from the Mozambique
Bay around to DelagOa Bay. and on the west up
the Congo and Kafni and the Upper Zambesi rivers.
In the space taken at the show there 10 dis
tinct specimens shown, ranging all the way up from
the diminutive blue box and dix dix. each with
anters only about one inch long. There is also the
head of the Livingston box, with antlers a trifie
longer, this box little heavier. weighing from
twelve to fourteen pounds. The greater kOodOo and
the roam and sable antelopes have antlers from
thirty to fifty inches in length. There is fine
specimen of the Cape buffs To- with horns showing a
spread of forty-six inches. The largest pair of
horns TO be in the exhibit is that of the Mang
water OK, or bullock, which has a spread of eight
feet and measures eleven feet over the curves.
In this collection also sixty varieties of
South African karosses; lions. beautifully mounted
leopards. ranging from eight and one-haf feet up
to ten feet in length. and several trophies from
King Lewaneka. of BarotsiIand. Among these is q
cat tail kaross, which contains 1,730 tails, and is
valued at $500 Never before, it is said. has
of these cat tail karosses been brought of the
country. when King Lewaneka came to the
coronation of King Edward
Among the different types of engines shown, the
Meitz & Weis engines attracting much atten-
tion They are the only oil engines using common
kerosene fuel Oil The engines have automatic
ignition and are extremely simple in mechanism.
They equipped with reversing friction
clutch for operating the propeller They are on
exhibition in 10 and 10 horsepower units In opera
ton there Is also small direct connected oil
gne generator set for illuminating the electric sign
at their booth
In the anglers casting tournament, single handed
bait casting for distance and accuracy open to all
excepting those who had cast more than 100 feet
with quarter ounce lure in either club or open
tournaments, L. c. Darling the winner, with
1875 points His distance throwing good, but his
accuracy was not so good c. r. Woodward
second with 1895; Charles Stapath. third, 1910; c.
w. Lucky, fourth 1874; d T. Abercrombie was fifth,
with 1l2S points. HIS accuracy was eXcelleht' OUT
he unfortunate in using new reel that did not
work well for distance casting. c. c. Ingrah ham
sixth with 100.
Among the visitors yesterday were Lloyd Phoenix,
Yacht Club; Daniel B. southqrd Chicago Yacht
Yacht club; Augustus Moe6us, Commodore j. k.
Walsh Keystone Yacht Club Mrs Richard Mans
field and Henry S Harper. Henry S. Harper, New
York bought the two talking crows at Dr. French 5
live animal exhibit. Mrs. Richard Mansfield bought
a lot of silkwoTms and cocoonS for Richard. jr.
who will try to raise silk at his country home
NeW-IOndOn
sculptress, bought the baldheadcd eagle for a
model.