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RECREA TWN. 



Captain J. 

 A.J. Dressel, 

 Treasurer, 

 and a mem- 

 ber of the 

 Executive 

 Committee, is 

 and has been 

 for 14 years 

 the manager 

 of the Union 

 Metallic Car- 

 tridge Com- 

 pany's New 

 York office. 

 During that 

 time he has 

 served long 

 terms in two 

 of New 

 York's crack 

 23d and 79th 



CAPTAIN J. A. J. DRESSEL 



militia regiments — the 

 -rising to the grade of 

 captain in each. This shows that people 

 who know him like him and, better 

 still, that he has marked executive and 

 business ability. 



Mr. P. G. 

 Sanford, also 

 of the Execu- 

 tive Com- 

 mittee, 

 though last in 

 this group is 

 by no means 

 least. He is 

 the manager 

 of the Win- 

 chester Re- 

 peating Arms 

 Compan y's 

 New York 

 house, and a 

 look through 

 that great 

 store will 

 satisfy any 

 man as to his business capacity. 



There are several other good men on 

 the board of managers, whose portraits 

 will be shown in future numbers of 

 Recreation 



MR. P. G. SANFORD. 



OUR CONTRIBUTORS. 



III. 



The author of the interesting paper 

 published in this number of 

 Recreation, "The Strike of a 

 Muskalonge," when asked for some 



PROFESSOR H. HAUPT, JR. 



facts as to his career and his profes- 

 sional work, replied so modestly and in 

 such quaint humor, that I cannot do 

 better than quote his words. He says : 

 " Your request for facts in regard to 

 my life has put me up a stump. I do 

 not know how to blow my own trumpet, 

 but will give you something to con over. 

 My pedigree dates back to Adam. I 

 have not yet found all the connecting 

 links, nor indeed have I tried. All I 

 can say is that I am the son of Gen- 

 eral Herman Haupt, whose reputation, 

 after a long and useful life, stands un- 

 challenged. I was born in Philadelphia 

 and after leaving school applied myself 

 to the study of chemistry, intending to 

 become an " Ironmaster." While so 

 occupied a panic struck the country. I 

 was left without funds. The furnaces 

 in the east were all shut down. An 

 opening was secured in a drug house, 

 at the munificent salary of $3 a week, 

 for the first year, and $4 for the second. 

 I did not at any time during that period 

 feel like a bond holder, but completed 

 the two years of service and graduated 

 from the Philadelphia College of 

 Pharmacy. The Bureau of Experi- 

 ment, of the Pennsylvania railroad, was 

 in need of a chemist and metallurgist, 

 and Dr.Charles M. Cresson appointed me 



