PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



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or B. W. Evermann, of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, writes entertainingly of a trip 

 to the wonderful Crater lake, in Oregon; 

 Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson, the eminent 

 artist-naturalist, tells a most amusing bear 

 story; Mr. W. T. Hornaday, Director of 

 the New York Zoological Park, contributes 

 a beautiful poem on the mountain sheep; 

 Mr. Carlin writes of hunting with a camera, 

 and many other able writers tell good 

 stories. The January number will be un- 

 usually rich in pictures, and in its various 

 departments. This is a good time to send 

 in your subscription, and that of your best 

 friend, in order to begin with the new year. 



Recreation now has over 25,000 actual 

 paid subscribers. If each one of these 

 should induce one friend to subscribe, this 

 would give it over 50,000 subscribers. The 

 American News Co. is handling 13,000 

 copies a month. If each man who buys 

 Recreation, at a news stand, would induce 

 a friend to buy a copy, each month, this 

 would give me a news trade of 26,000 copies 

 a month. 



Recreation is a great power for game 

 and fish protection. Think how much 

 greater its influence would be if its circu- 

 lation were doubled. How many men will 

 do their part, toward this work, within the 

 next 60 days? Will you be one of them? 



Nearly 500 grizzlies have been killed in 

 — 3eptember number of Recreation. The 

 names of the hunters who put the 3 shots 

 in the right places, according to the 

 diagram on file in this office, will be pub- 

 lished in January Recreation, together 

 with another picture of the bear, showing 

 where these shots were placed. 



All persons are warned against paying 

 money to Geo. Roessler, who has been 

 canvassing for subscriptions to Recrea- 

 tion, in Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Troy and 

 other points in this State. He is a swindler 

 and is not authorized to take subscriptions 

 for Recreation, anywhere. 



With this issue my circulation reaches 

 the 50,000 mark. Now I start out for the 

 100,000. I shall have it by December '98. 

 Make a note of this and see if this predic- 

 tion proves correct. 



I am now offering a $750 upright piano 

 for 200 yearly subscriptions to Recreation, 

 at $1 each. Here is an excellent opportu- 

 nity for some energetic woman to get a high 

 grade piano for a few days' work. In any 

 city of 5,000 inhabitants, or more, a club of 

 this size can be enrolled in a week. Write 

 for particulars. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



The Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. 

 Y., has issued a book entitled " Kodak 

 Works " which contains 25 full page cuts, 

 illustrating the Eastman factory and the 

 branch stores. This book contains a lot of 

 valuable information and food for reflec- 

 tion. Nothing ever before published has 

 shown, in a more forcible way, the great 

 hold which amateur photography has on 

 the American people. Here are millions of 

 dollars of capital and thousands of people 

 employed, in one institution, to manufact- 

 ure cameras and photographic materials, 

 nearly all of the output being used by ama- 

 teurs. Yet this is only one of a dozen large 

 concerns, in this country, whose product is 

 absorbed by this class of people. 



A prominent business man asked me. a 

 year ago, if I did not think the taste for 

 amateur photography was declining. If he 

 or any other thinking man will examine 

 this new book of Eastman's, he will not, for 

 a moment, entertain such an idea. Amateur 

 photography never had so strong a hold on 

 the people as now, and it is growing as the 

 days and years multiply. The art is yet in 

 its infancy and the time will come when 

 thousands of people will practise it, where 

 now only dozens do so. 



HANDSOME AND MAGNIFICENT. 



" The Black Diamond Express " of the 

 Lehigh Valley Railroad — rightly termed 

 " The handsomest train in the world," has 

 been reproduced in miniature, in the shape 

 of a toy train which is an exact fac simile, 

 so far as outward appearance is concerned, 

 of the famous Black Diamond Express, 

 operated between New York, Philadelphia 

 and Buffalo. It is s l A feet long, weighs 20 

 pounds, and consists of engine, tender and 

 cars, representing the cafe, library and par- 

 lor cars of this magnificent moving palace. 

 This ingenious and unique toy is on sale 

 at the principal hardware stores, along the 

 Lehigh Valley, whose addresses may be ob- 

 tained by communicating with Chas. S. 

 Lee, G. P. A. L. V. R. R., Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Union Metallic Cartridge Co. ad- 

 vises me that the notice of its book of the 

 game laws, published in October Recrea- 

 tion has brought such an avalanche of 

 orders for the book that the first edition is 

 already exhausted. Another edition is in 

 press which will be out within a few weeks, 

 when all pending orders will be promptly 

 filled. 



Friends of Recreation will render valu- 

 able aid to this magazine by buying goods 

 advertised therein, in preference to those 

 that are not. 



