The manufacture of lacrosse sticks is an industry in which it is only natural that Cornwall should excel. It is an acknowledged fact that no white man can make or net a stick equal to the product of the dusky aborigines of Cornwall Island and St. Regis. The Indian seems to have a knack all his own in the shaping and stringing of the gutted crosse. Formerly the marketing of lacrosse sticks was done by the red men themselves but to-day we find the Cornwall Lacrosse Company of which J. P. Kervin is proprietor, turning out sticks by the hundred dozen and shipping them wherever the game is played in all parts of Canada, the United States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and even the frozen Klondyke and the Yukon. Mr. Kervin has given a great deal of attention to the lacrosse stick business and that his efforts were not unavailing was shown in 1901 when his stick was selected above all others to be presented to the Prince of Wales, then the Duke of Cornwall and York. Since that time ihe "Duke Special" has been held as par excellence in lacrosse sticks. Other lines manufactured are "Kervin's High Grade" and "XXX". He also manufactures a special goal keeping stick, the style of stringing of which is protected by a patent. The illustration on this page shows some of the best Indian lacrosse players in the world, including the famous John White, finishing sticks for Mr Kervin on the bank of the St. Lawrence on Cornwall Island. The annual output of this company is 500 dozen. Mr. Kervin's headquarters is on Pitt street, where he conducts a first class cigar and tobacco store. He is a popular young man and has always taken an active interest in local athletics, having been for four years a member of the executive of the Cornwall Lacrosse Club and five years on the executive of the Cornwall Hockey Club, of which he was manager. He also captained the Lacrosse team in the last year field captains were permitted in the Senior League.