Show UNO NG MAR MARCH I 18 IS 1922 OUTFIT Coil GOL ROOSEVE ROOSE var AS COWBOY Equipment Used on Ra Rai 2 Exhibited by Memori Association It NEW NEV YORK March 18 A A co II tion of guns knives chaps and cooP coon utensils utensils the the original equipment by Theodore Roos Roosevelt during his ci boy days in tho the Dakotas was Dakotas was on view here today y by th the Ro RoOs n s Memorial association for the since the collection was The association received the cc cot tion recently from A. A W. W Erick i New York who obtained them I j A. A W. W Merrifield of Somers Mont I of Colonel Roosevelt's ranch part partIn In the early SOs A relic of th the colonels colonel's first c es In big game bunt hunting Bunting S lr Incle in the e collection is an old AO 60 iber rifle known to old frontiers l las Is la decorated as a bear gun It 1 engravings of an elk a bear a 1 mr Bill Bm se Rocky mountain sheep Bin L I Roos' Roos Roosevelt's velt's old guide and partner partner visited the association while the the the-r i were being unpacked recognized the the-I 1 old gun instantly j the gun ho be used when when 1 shot his first bear he lie exClaim exclaimed was a favorite fa with him and was wa s' s one he used on a thief hunt wh I- I caught the three men who s and I his boat Next to the old rifle rested a I q 1 looking weapon which Roosevelt made to order to take on his for big game in tho the Big Horn m mo It Is is- isa a three comb tion shotgun and rifle and while timers shook their heads and q its it'll it usefulness It U proved t tan tan tc an effective instrument In n the COI colo hands H C The first pair of ot chaps worn worn Roosevelt back in the days when was hardly more than a compared with the ruddy advent iii j who made up the Wild West Vest of ot 1 Is f day is also on view They show and have a hole burned In knee 1 It was caused by us sleeping a one night without bedding and ad he II he-II too close to the campfire was M MEi fields field's explanation of ot the hole i ithe 1 I the chaps is an old hat braided horsehair band made mane b byk es of the cowboys in Roosevelt's The rhe smaller t contained int hitt collection include a pocket comp carried by the colonel during years in the West a silver cup up made from the top of a wh 1 flask and a pair of ot nose glasses wt wi wg according t to tv Merrifield the colonel ways WhYS carried with him in case oft of t ident but left on the ranch wh went to New York Wk |