The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-11-18
REMINGTON FOSTERS
SHOWN AT DISPLAY
OF the ART LEAGUE.
Fancher's 81, 900 Painting is
Feature of Art Leagues
Display Here.

The exhibition of the Remington
Prize Poster, together with the four
others that competed for the $1,000
prize, also a collection Of we'll execut-
ed posters, many of them contributed
by members of the Bridgeport Art
League, opened yesterday afternoon
at Watkins art store, 1901 Broad
street, under the direction of Mrs.
and Miss Ophelia Foley, teacher of
the class in design and commercial
Poster Art. Because Of the situation
of the Great Remington factories in
this city, the exhibition of posters
commemorating the making Of the
first Remington rifle, in 1916 and an
nouncing the centennial occasion,
should be of particular interest to
Bridgeporters. Louis Fancher Of New
York was awarded the prize.
There were five contestants for the
prize: c. B. Falls, F. G. Cooper, R. J..
Wildback, franklin Bitt,ter and Mr..
Fancher. All Of these artists are men
of wide reputation. They have
achieved success in the decorative
field through sheer merit of their
work. Moreover the artists n1ention-
ed have specialized in poster work.
The Remington poster, therefore, Of
fered wide scope for the exercise Of
their particular talents in this direc-
ton.
The judges were J. FL. Chaplin, art
director of Scribners Magazines; A. c..
G. Hammesfahr, general manager Of
Golfers Weekly, and Bayard Jones,
an artist Of note. The award was
made on a basis of historical accuracy
general artistic treatment and COM
mercial value.
The five artists who competed for
the $1,000 prize had a subject of more
than usual interest. The history Of
Remington arms is closely identified
with the history of our country What
probably gave the artists wide scope
was the thread of romance woven into
the annals of the Remington family
and drawn from the very motive in
spring young Remington to make his
own rifle and to voluntarily found a
great business of a greater nation.
The trite saying that there is no senti-
ment in business often holds good in
so far as administration is concerned,
but a close analysis Of most business
concerns will nearly always develop
an impelling motive of inception that
possesses glamor of romantic asso-
citation. This is especially true with
relation to Reminton arms.
It would tax the vivid Imaginative
of a writer Of fiction to conjure up
the events that directed the birth and
growth Of the Remington business
The son wanted rifle. The father
either could not or would not buy one
for him. In 1916 virtually all gun
barrels came from England, because
we were then pastoral rather than
manufacturing people. Imported bar
rels were expensive and transportation
was more or less uncertain Young
Remington said nothing to, his father
but Immediately started to gather all
the scrap iron around the Remington
forge, and in his spare moments he
lap-we1ded the iron into a barrel.
Then he walked Is miles to Ihtica and
had the barrel rified. The gunsmith
fitted a lock and stock to the barrel
and the first Remington was an actu-
atty. From the little forge at Ilion,
N. Y, cred the great Remington fac
tories Of today.