EDITOR'S CORNER. 



SOME SENSIBLE ADVERTISERS. 



Among the advertisers who are carrying 

 full pages in Recreation, regularly or al- 

 ternately, are The Marlin Fire Arms Co., 

 Gas Engine and Power Co., The Century 

 Co. (Century dictionary), Erie R. R. Co., 

 The Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co. 

 (Vim tires), The J. B. Williams Co. (shav- 

 ing soap), B. T. Babbitt, Northern. S. S. 

 Co., Santa Fe Railway, John H. Woodbury, 

 Overman Wheel Co., Eastman Kodak Co., 

 Rochester Optical Co., Manhattan Optical 

 Co., The Kenwood Mills, Fowler Cycle 

 Mfg. Co., E. R. Durkee & Co., Puncturoid 

 Mfg. Co., Acme Cycle Co., E. C. Stearns & 

 Co., Wing & Son (pianos), Monarch Cycle 

 Mfg. Co., Gundlach Optical Co., The Hor- 

 ton Mfg. Co., Forehand Arms Co., Henry 

 C. Squires & Son, Yawman & Erbe (auto- 

 matic reels), Ames Mfg. Co. (bicycles), 

 Hall & Ruckel (Sozodont), Hiram Ricker 

 & Sons (Poland water), C. B. & Q. Rail- 

 way, National Gramophone Co., Derby, 

 Abercrombie & Co. (tents and sleeping 

 bags), John F. Douthitt (interior decora- 

 tions), B. & O. Railway. 



Many of these people started in Recrea- 

 tion with quarter pages, or half pages, for 

 short terms, and have since contracted for 

 full pages, for long terms. Any advertiser 

 who is in doubt as to whether Recreation 

 is a good medium is invited to correspond 

 with these houses. 



but boycott this one. Then why should I 

 advertise their wares, in my reading col- 



Here are the names of some of the good 

 stories that are booked for September 

 Recreation: " Hunting Near Steamboat 

 Springs," by S. N. McAdoo; "A Yale- 

 Princeton Foot Ball Game," Courtland 

 Nixon; "A Canoe Trip to Rainy River," 

 Harry Silver; "The Bear, the Belle, and the 

 Blackberries," Francis Webster; " Catch- 

 ing A Tartar," Captain J. G. Leefe, U.S.A.; 

 " The Opening of the Season," R. B. Buck- 

 ham; "A Bicycle Race, With A Sequel," 

 Miss C. H. Thayer: "An Autumn Horse- 

 back Ride," J. F. Gordon; "A Buck Ind- 

 ian and a Buck Deer," J. B. Jennett. 



The departments will be as generously 

 filled as usual. 



Several strong testimonials of guns and 

 rifles, not advertised in Recreation, have 

 lately been sent me, for publication, but all 

 have been promptly returned to the writers. 

 It is a rule as old as the printing press that 

 the man who does not advertise gets no 

 free puffs in the reading columns. Rec- 

 reation approves of this rule and adheres 

 ♦ to it, in all cases. 



Some of the makers referred to adver- 

 tise in all the other sportsmen's journals, 



umnsr 



Sportsmen who like Recreation will be 

 slow to buy goods from people who fight 

 it. 



Two ladies of Williamsport, Pa., Miss L. 

 M. Schneider and Mrs. C. V. Taylor, have 

 recently sent in clubs, of 75 subscribers, 

 each, and have received, in return, high 

 grade bicycles. Williamsport is credited, 

 in the census reports, with a population of 

 27,132. If 150 subscriptions can be ob- 

 tained in Williamsport, in a week, why not 

 in any other town of like size or larger? 

 Why walk when you can get a bicycle for 

 nothing? Several smaller clubs have been 

 sent in from Williamsport within the past 

 2 years. 



The Vim Tire people write me they con- 

 sider Recreation the best advertising 

 medium, of its class, published. They have 

 tried it, with full pages for 3 months past, 

 and should know. 



I am always glad of suggestions as to 

 how to improve Recreation. Every read- 

 er is invited to speak out in meeting, and 

 say what he thinks is wrong about it. 



There are still some unfortunate sports- 

 men who are not readers of Recreation. 

 If you know any such send in their names, 

 and greatly oblige them and 



The Editor. 



Will some of my California readers please 

 send me some fine, sharp photos of a rabbit 

 drive? I want them to illustrate a story 

 of that peculiar institution. 



Don't fail to read " A Montana Dream," 

 on page 158 of this issue. It is good, and 

 you will like it. 



I have been in a good many game coun- 

 tries, but this is the best I have ever seen. 

 Goats and bear are more plentiful than 

 needed, for good sport. Elk are fairly nu- 

 merous; mule deer are plentiful on the 

 mountains, and white tail deer are thick on 

 all the bottom lands There are blue grouse 

 on all the mountains and fool hens and 

 ruffed grouse in the low lands. The fish- 

 ing cannot be beaten. I have seen a good 

 many elk this summer. 



M. P. Dunham, Woodworth, Mont. 



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