“Our Guest" was very enthusiastically drunk, 
     
     and all the speakers paid tribute to the deep 
     
     interest Mr. Heartz has taken, not only in 
     
     the gun club, but in various branches of 
     
     athletics, which he has encouraged by the 
     
     presentation of valuable trophies, and in 
     
     other ways. He is certainly one of the best 
     
     patrons of sport this Island has known. Mr. 
     
     Heartz, in his reply to the expressions of 
     
     appreciation and congratulation made an 
     
     exceedingly clever after-dinner speech, 
     
     sparkling with gems of wit and aphorisms. 
     
     Seventeen members were present, three being 
     
     absent from the Province. It is the ambition 
     
     of the Club to have a clubhouse of their own, 
     
     and this will probably be ready for next 
     
     season." 
     
    
   
   
    
     Five additional members had been voted into 
     
     the Newstead Club during the winter...Tom W. Morris, a 
     
     brother of Charter President John Morris and the other 
     
     partner in J & T Morris Ltd; JimG. Jamieson, a city 
     
     druggist whose business was located on the west side 
     
     of Queen Street; Dr. S. R. Jenkins, Prince Edward 
     
     Island's senior medical practitioner; J. L. Claxton, 
     
     and Major A. A. Bartlett. While new members were 
     
     being introduced to trapshooting, others were leaving. 
     
     Dr. Blanchard had not attended a shoot all season due 
     
     to a lingering illness, Justice Louis Haszard was 
     
     seriously ill, and Major Jack A. MacDonald had re- 
     
     cently passed away. There are those living today who, 
     
     as very small children, remember the colorful funeral 
     
     procession for Major MacDonald, as it moved in 
     
     Brighton Road from the Military Compound, as the 
     
     Commander of the P.E.I. Lighthorse was buried. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first Maritime Trap Tournament was held in 
     
     Port Elgin, New Brunswick on July 3-5, 1912, and was 
     
     attended by representatives of every Maritime Club 
     
     except Charlottetown. There were 28 different events 
     
     that ranged from 20 to 50 targets each. All were shot 
     
     on the newly accepted 16-yard rise and each event cost 
     
    
   
   
    
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