Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-11
Sportsmen's Show in Light In
fantry Armory.
OVER SEVENTY EXHIBITS
Appliances for Making an Outing
Successful.
MANUFACTURERS COOPERATE
Will Work With Local Dealers to-
Make the Exhibition q Success.
Some of the Entries.

With all preliminary ARRANGEMENTS
practically completed the sportsman
show - ready to open its doors tonight
ana thenceforward for one week the lat
est appliances of every sort which go to
make an outing a success will be on ex-
hiDition. The whole of the Washington
Light Infantry Armory, 10Th street be-
tween pennsylvania avenue and street
northwest, has been engaged for the af-
fair and today the finishing touches are
being put upon the booths and stands
where the exhibits will be placed
The idea of the sportsman's show
round its inception with the local dealers
IN sporting goods, and comparatively lit
tie difficulty was experienced in obtain
ing the cooperation Of the manufacture
ers; as result the display will include
every modern improvement in guns, fish
ing tackle. camping outfits, canoes,
motor boats, automobiles, cameras, bicy-
cies and everything, in fact, which goes
toward increasing the enjoyment of man
IN his spring. summer, autumn and win
ter outings in the woods and fields and
on the streams of the country.
Over Seventy Exhibits.
Altogether the show has brought to-
gether upward of seventy exhibits, and
since the display is made at the most
propitious season. when the spring
breezes and sunshine have caused man
kind to dream about the pleasures of
life in the open. the show is sure to at
tract great attendance. The manage
ment has contracted with Haley's Band
to furnish music for each daily session at
the hall, and there will be other features
besides the actual exhibits to make the
Washington Light Infantry armory a
source of attraction.
Included in the list OF exhibits will be
the largest single collection of cameras
Eastman Kodak Company, the Century
Camera Company, the Rochester Optical
Company, Bausch & Lomb, and others
having placed their choicest goods in
one series of booths, which will be under
the personal management of Reid S.
Baker. The Hemmeter Company of Bal
timore will have a booth to show it's
Simplicity and Lackawanna engines and
display OF every mechanical appliance
which enters into the construction of a
motor boat.
Commercial Aeroplanes.
Commercial aeroplanes, something new
even In this age of aerial navigation,
will be displayed by the Church Aero
plane Company. Coca Cola. Welch's
Grape Juice and the Chaplin Saks Com
pany, with Velvet Kind ice cream, will
be among the reminders of summer time
In the beverages and sweet things The
Gold Medal camp outfits will have a sepa-
rate booth
John Il. Thomas will show the Max
well sportsman's car and the Ford COM
pany will show the Indian motorcycles
and runabout. Other motorcycles in
cluded in the show will be the Merkel,
Emblem. Light Reading Standard. Har-
ley-Davidson and Haverford. r. C. Will
son e Co. will have a booth to display
The Emerson Engine Company of
Alexandria has a booth for all sorts of
marine gas engines, and one Of it's prize
showings will be four cylinders of the
same type as the eight-cylinder engine
which it will offer later in the season
In the International speed races.
The National Sporting Goods Company
has one Of the largest booths on the floor
and it has already arranged for display OF
Stevens, Savage. Winchester, Ithaca
and Remington firearms, besides fishing
tackle galore. a Sisti camping. trunk, RAJ
cine canoe and other articles peculiar to
It's trade.
One corner Of the hall has been reserved
for the bicycle display.