GROUP ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE
Products of Hunting
Collective exhibit of animals and birds. Gold medal
Arthur B. Strough, for services on game and sporting exhibit.
Silver medal
GROUP ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO
Fishing Equipment and Products
Collective exhibit of fish. Grand prize
John D. Whish, for making collection of fish. Silver medal
A summary of the awards is as follows:
Three grand prizes
Three gold medals
Six silver medals
The exhibit in this department differed somewhat from the State exhibits in other departments in that, with the exception of a very few articles, which were loaned by private parties to complete or supplement the collections, the showing was exclusively a State exhibit.
SOME SURPRISING FACTS
The exhibit as a whole was immensely popular from the very first day. The people visiting the Exposition were largely from the southern and middle western states, and seemed very generally to believe that New York's forests, fish and game has passed away with the advance of civilization. Most of them were greatly surprised to learn that one-fourth of the State is wild land, which will in all probability always be devoted largely to forests, and that the State has so many wild deer that 6,000 of them are killed annually without any apparent decrease of the number.