Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-27

reason for the change was the large mum.
Der Of entries in the national individual
match last year. 1t was expected there
nearly six hundred competitors reported.
Several days were required to complete
the match and disarrangement of dates
resulted.
Individual Prize Of $1,000.
An event that is attracting attention to
an unusual degree this year is the national
Individual match. The winner Is to re-
ceive not only the 800 and a gold medal
provided by Congress, but $40 in cash in
addition, which has been supplied by vol
urtary contributions, which makes the prize
Tor the man who lands In first place II 600
and gold medal.
The prize Is regarded as exceptionally at
tractive, being the largest ever offered in
an Individual rifle match in this country.
Inc second prize is gold medal. $50
appropriated by Congress and $345 from
voluntary contributions. The prizes in adj
dition to the above are as follows: Third
prize, gold medal and $500; fourth prize.
goid medal and $50; fifth prize, silver
medal and 500; sixth prize. silver medal
ana 40; seventh prize. silver medal and s65;
eighth prize. silver medal and $j5; ninth
pre- pre-, bronze medal and $50; tenth prize.
bronze medal and $40: twelfth prize, bronze
medal and $35; thirteenth prize $50: four
teenth prize, $25; fifteenth prize $40; six
teenth prize. SIS: seventeenth prize. s14:
eighteenth prize. $13; nineteenth prize, $40;
twentieth prize, 81; twenty-frs prize. $40;
tWenty-second prize 50; twenty-third prize,
20, twenty-fourth prize, 81; twenty-fifth
Prize 70 and twenty-sixth prize. IS.
One gold medal and cash prize of $40
VIII be given to the competitor making the
ngnest aggregate score in slow fire, one
soio medal and cash prize Of $50 to
inc competitor making the highest aggre-
gate score in rapid fire and one gold medal
and cash prize of $50 to the competitor
making the highest aggregate score in
skirmish fire.
Aston Rifle Club Fund.
Riiemen assembled here are discussing
Win lnterest\the account of the trustees
ol what is known as the Astor Rifle Club
Iuno OF Great Britain. Mr.. William Wal
oori Astor, formerly an American citizen
put now or Great Britain, in 1902 endowed
me National Rifle Association of Great
5 ,s, his adopted country, with 10000
.. s.erilng or 100000, to be held in trust and
70 pe appned to the encouraging rifle prac-
ice: A recent report of the trustees shows
.nat the money has been invested in three
per cent bonds of the London county coun-
e ena D Gl of Canada, New South Wales
anu new zealand, to the amount of f6 O56
Uranus nave been made from the fund
10 the National Rifle Association of Great
! as follows: 1902, $500; 1903, 5000:
93,2 O7 sterling. "a
Six hundred and thirty pounds have been
expended In county and champion and
challenge cups.
The account of the income and expendf
lure OF the National Rifle Association Of
Ireat britain for the year ending Decem-
ner l, 1905, shows that of a total income of
t!'445 sterling grant from the trustees of
the Astor FUND amounted to 1,7O7
Changes Since Last Year.
SINCE the representatives of the District
OF Columbia in the competitions held here
last year departed for home, several radical
changes have been made in the appearance
OF the range. The cottage used as the Of
clfial summer home of the governor of New
Jersey for many years has been supp.anted
WITH the structure which thousands of Wis
itors to the Louisiana Purchase Txnosition
viewed while In St Louis as the New Jer-
sey state building at the exposition At the
close OF the big fair the New Jersey build
ing was taken down and in sections brought
TO Sea Girt and erected here. Work on the
1oundatlons was in progress when the
Wash1ngtonianS bade farewell to Sea Girt
last September. The structure is of the
Will be occupied during the greater part of
the meet by Gov Stokes
The building formerly used here by the
executive of the state has been moved to a
spot about two hundred feet from the new
cottage and is occupied by Gen. C. Edwar1
Murray, quartermaster general of New Jer-
sey. New walks have been made and the
lawn Is always kept so that it resembles
velvet carpet. The governors cottage faces
the ocean and on the lawn in front of it
are two brass cannon. Across a driveway
is big flagstaff. Seated on the porch of
the cottage the governor and his guests
command sweeping view of the entire
range with the one thousand yard targets
and the ocean in the distance.
1t Is claimed for Sea Girt that it is the
best rifle range in the world. The reserva-
ton extends from the shore line westward
more than a miie and it is fully three-quar-
tiers of a/nile in width, being everywhere
as level and almost as green as the surface
of billiard table. One of the long edges
of the parallelogram is lined with stately
trees. The roads are perfect and at night
the grounds are lighted by electricity and
by gas lamps. The latter, scattered through
the camp, are an innovation this year.
Since the shoot of a year ago the admin
istration building, which was then located
directly alongside the clubhouse Of the New
Jersey State Rifle Association, has been
lifted bodily and moved to a position facing
the main roadway about two hundred yards
west of the clubhouse. The latter has I'M
dergone several improvements.