Show CITY aru i i MEN GET GE GAME terrible death struggles with bear Is proven by picture photographic studio Is equipped with every accessory for producing thrilling hunting scenes while you walt wait greenville me mr City hunter will be be broo trooping ping in due season in scores to the maine woods with his bulky new and shining impedimenta and well stuffed pocket docket book it if the former will not encompass the destruction of of a moose or two deer the latter will be unerring in its aim of course the great majority of hunters who come to maine for the big game shooting are not satisfied unless they do their own killing hilling but there are others who come after a moose or the two deer allowed by the maine law and they dont doat care much how they get them many mcallef so called hunters got gei no further north than this little village which at the toot foot of the great moose head lake la is the gateway of a vast hunting region they find others who are equally indisposed to venture out of reach qt it the comfortable hotels daily papers with the sporting news and stock reports and other marks marka of civili civilization on to be found here they see BOO game enough but it has to do with pasteboard affairs and Is pursued in a comfortable corner not far from the great open faro alro in the hotel office they may buy souvenir cards in great variety to send to friends depicting thrilling scenes in the maine jungle homemade home homo made ones of birch bark may bo be had from tho stock of the several souvenir stores and are said to bo idore effective and convincing A most original enterprise born of the demand by this class of fireside hunters Is the place where hunting scenes while you walt would be an appropriate sign it if any sign was ne needed eted it Is a photographic studio conducted by an enterprising firm of young men whoso choso specialty Is providing convincing proofs A city hunter may go home with ills his allowance of game ao and fall to impress upon his friends the fact that it fell before ills his fatal rifle but when he produces photographs to showing himself jn in a forest defile standing over the yet quivering monarch of the forest and others of caal camp scenes with much game hung up our hero surrounded by picturesque glades and looking the part of a real hunter bunter such are arc convincing proofs the studio referred to Is an interesting place located near the lako lake shore just outside tho the village and has been there for a number of years it started in a small way but Is now elaborately equipped it Is an odd affair r built of logs like a hunting camp but having each of its four sides got up to show a different front thus when a customer appears he la Is asked diplomatically of course what camp he intended to visit but was detained etc it if he says camp comfort a well known resort the s ade ilde of the studio which most lesem iles bles camp comfort Is selected and in it a few minutes a sign Is produced and hung over the door reading tamo camp comfort this makes the background then tho the properties are arranged according to tho the wishes of the customer stuffed moose deer bear and game birds galore are carried in the equipment of the studio T these ase may be hung up by the heels la in a ro row or disposed in picturesque heaps on tho the ground the hunter lg posed equipped in full hunting regalia if he Is lacking any essential part of the regulation outfit the studio will sup ply it it if he wants sporting companions to appear the studio people call in their regular supers who are ready to go on without much change of costume these are the hangers bangers on around the steamboat landing at the foot of the lake who are too lazy to do anything more arduous than having their pictures taken so it is that mr Cl Ci tyman without going a mile from his hotel here may have photographs taken of himself in full hunting rig apparently at a camp miles from civilization and surrounded by trophies of the chase it if he cares for the pose after the fallen forest monarch he la is taken to a little glen a short distance from the studio and two of the supers bring out the fallen forest monarch on their shoulders and dump it down being careful to handle I 1 it carefully for tear fear of 0 wearing off the hair quick drying and rapid printing processes aro are employed andin and in an hour or two the customer la Is supplied with finely mounted convincing photographs to all intents and purposes taken I 1 in the heart of the wilderness by one of our party who had the snapshot snap nap shot bug very badly dont yer know the photographing of fake hunters Is not the only business of the greenville studio for many genuine hunters come with their game and the studio sends artists into the camps where large parties pay well for real photographs another class of work is supplying photographs for the railroad guide books and for illustrators by means of the well equipped studio the supers and properties a series of hunting scones scenes may be arranged by the exercise of a little ingenuity the studio has several stuffed moose and bear and more than a dozen stuffed deer so mounted that they may be propped in any position and so it Is that sets of game p pictures supposed to cover the vast gamo game re glons alons of maine are made on half an acre of moosehead Moose head lake shore |