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RECREATION, 



EDITOR'S CORNER. 



SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS FOR 

 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS. 



Read the deadly parallel columns: 



1895. 

 January. . . .$379 

 February . . 256 



March 300 



April 342 



May 292 



June 307 



July 345 



August .... 306 

 September . 498 

 October . . . 438 

 November . 586 

 December . 652 



1896. 



$723 



693 



1,049 



645 

 902 



770 



563 

 601 



951 

 969 



1,054 



1,853 



1897. 

 $2,146 

 2,127 

 2,215 

 1,921 



1,50 

 1,402 

 1,101 

 1,906 

 2,223 

 2,586 

 2,440 

 4,760 



1898. 



$4,059 



3,562 



3,613 



$4,671 $10,773 $26,423 



Note the figures for March, '98. As Nas- 

 by said "comparisons are odorous"; and 

 as the rooter said, at the country base ball 

 game, " let the good work keep a goinV 



THE NEW YORK SHOW. 



Captain J. A. H. Dressel, Secretary of 

 the Sportsmen's Association, sends out a 

 circular letter announcing that the dates 

 for the next Sportsmen's Show, at Madison 

 Square Garden, have been designated as 

 March 2d to nth, both inclusive, 1899. He 

 adds, good naturedly, that this will be a 

 strictly Sportsman's Show, and that no ex- 

 hibits will be admitted that do not pertain 

 to out door sports. 



I am glad the Association has deter- 

 mined on this course. As I have before 

 stated, the management made a serious 

 mistake in admitting a number of lines to 

 the last show that were not in keeping 

 with the object of the exposition, and in 

 which sportsmen are not interested. The 

 self-playing piano, the Moxie stand, the 

 slot machines, and such like, were not only 

 uninteresting, but were more or less annoy- 

 ing to visitors. The managers recognized 

 this, on the opening day, but it was then 

 too late to remove the objectionable feat- 

 N ures. It is gratifying to know they are not 

 to be seen at the next show. 



STOP THE SPRING SHOOTING. 



The manager of the Hotel Undercliff, at 

 Putnam, 111., sent out a circular dated 

 March 7th, stating there was good duck 

 shooting on Lake Senachwine, at that 

 date, and inviting shooters to come there 

 and participate in it. It is strange that 

 intelligent hotel men should not have 



learned, ere this, that by encouraging 

 shooters to kill ducks in the spring, they 

 are destroying their revenue for future 

 years. At the date of the letter referred 

 to the ducks were on their way North, to 

 their breeding grounds. It is safe to say 

 each female arriving in the Canadian prov- 

 inces would have brought back an average 

 of 10 full grown young ducks next fall. 

 The manager of the Hotel Undercliff 

 would of course congratulate any, and ev- 

 ery one of his guests, who could have gone 

 out, in March, and killed 20 or 50 ducks. 

 Think of the terrible destruction of eggs 

 this would entail! Think of the thousands 

 of ducks that would ) ave come back next 

 fall if their mothers had been let alone this 

 spring, and that will never come back be- 

 cause their mothers were killed! 



Stop the spring shooting! Shut up the 

 resort hotels in spring, if necessary, and 

 let the managers thereof go to farming 

 rather than that they should encourage the 

 slaughter of ducks that are on their way to 

 their breeding grounds. 



THE NEW FISH COMMISSIONER. 



On February 1, the President appointed 

 Hon. George M. Bowers, of Martinsburg, 

 W. Va., to be U. S. Commissioner of Fish 

 and Fisheries, to succeed John J. Brice, 

 removed. The nomination was favorably 

 reported by the Committee on Fish and 

 Fisheries and was confirmed by the Senate 

 February n. 



Mr. Bowers has now been in charge of 

 the office for nearly 3 months, and I have 

 only the most favorable reports of the way 

 he is taking hold of the work. He is a man 

 of excellent business training and is said to 

 possess superior administrative ability. He 

 fully appreciates the value of the scientific 

 work of the Commission, and it can be safe- 

 ly stated that this branch of the Commis- 

 sion's work will not suffer. No changes 

 have been made in the personnel of the 

 Commission and it is not likely many will 

 be made. 



The alarm which was manifested by cer- 

 tain other editors seems to have been 

 groundless, and it appears that the affairs 

 of the Commission will be properly and in- 

 telligently conducted. 



This issue of Recreation contains 11 

 pages of photographic ads. I believe this 

 is a larger volume of this business than 

 was ever before carried in any magazine, 

 other than a photographic trade journal 

 I am so confident of this that I he.reby of- 

 fer to pay $5 for a copy of any magazine 

 ever printed in the United States, other 

 than a photographic journal, containing as 

 much as n pages of this class of ads. 



Recreation must be a good medium for 

 this class of business or manufacturers 

 would not use it so liberally. 



