SCR00007.196

MISS ANNIE OAKLEY.

An interesting ceremony took place on Saturday, the 29th October, in Miss Oakley's tent at the "Wild West Exhibition," when Mr. Withers, on behalf of the Schultze Gunpowder Company, Limited, presented that lady with a gold medal commemorative of her stay in England. Mr. Withers said his visit was one in which pain and pleasure were involved—pain in having to bid Miss Oakley farewell, pleasure in handing her a token of appreciation from the Company he represented, which he hoped she would accept, with best wishes for her happiness and success "in storm or in sunshine, on land or by sea." Miss Oakley, with a grace peculiarly her own, expressed herself as being very proud of the gift, which she would much value, and desired Mr. Withers would thank his Company for her. She added, with much naiveté, that had she not found "Schultze" powder to be the best powder she had ever used it would have found no favour with her. The medal, which is of pure gold, is suspended by a colored ribbon from a clasp and bar, is circular in form with a cable edging and bears, in blue enamel, the Company's Trade Mark, a close hand grasping lightning, with the motto "Inter fulminasecurus." Pendant from the medal is a smaller one of like pattern with the monogram A.O. likewise in enamel, on the obverse of the large medal in the inscription "Presented by the Schultze Gunpowder Company, Limited, to Miss Annie Oakley, as a souvenir of her visit to England, and in appreciation of her skill in the use of Schultze Powder.—October, 1887." Messrs. Hunt & Roskell, the eminent jewellers in New Bond Street, executed the work from an original design. The style was very highly approved, one very charming lady, a visitor and friend of Miss Oakley, describing it as "perfect, and very artistic." This opinion, emanating, as it subsequently transpried from an artist, was regarded as most gratifying.