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PUBLISHERS' DEPT. 



A Light Reel. The new aluminium reel, 

 ately put on the market by the A. B. Hendrixl 

 Company, of New Haven, Conn., is a poem in 

 white metal. It is so light that you would never 

 know, from the "heft "of your rod, whether 

 there was a reel on it or not; but it is when you get 

 a strike that this reel makes itself felt. Its action 

 is as smooth and silent as a summer breeze, and 

 it is fitted as carefully and as perfectly as your 

 best girl's watch case. Get an aluminium reel, 

 and if you haven't time to go fishing, put it un- 

 der your pillow, and dream of playing five pound 

 trout in sparkling brooks, all night. .^^a 



The improvements at Smith & Wesson's fact- 

 ory are completed, and the works are running on 

 full time. All the departments, with the excep- 

 tion of the machine shop, were closed a part of 

 the summer, and extensive improvements, in- 

 volving an outlay of about $9,000, were made. 

 The foundations for eight new iron drops were 

 laid, consisting of immense oak blocks set about 

 seven feet in the ground, on a bed of two feet of 

 cement and several feet of hard clay. The 

 drops vary in size, the smallest weighing about 

 4,000 pounds, and the largest over 12,000 

 pounds. An entire new system of sewerage, 

 water service and air pipes has also been put in, 

 making the shop complete in every detail. New 

 boilers, and other minor repairs, make the 

 factory an ideal one. Smith & Wesson run the 

 largest revolver factory in the world. 



Persons who think of buying a wheel will do 

 well to look at the Remington Racer. It is a 

 scorcher, and no mistake. Write the Reming- 

 ton Arms Co., 315 Broadway, New York, for 

 a catalogue. 



The Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 

 Akron, Ohio, is receiving a great many such 

 letters as this : 



Cohoes, August 17, 1894. 



Dear Sir : — I have sent back your spoon for 

 repainting. I also enclose 30 cents in stamps for 

 another just like it. Your spoon gives good 

 satisfaction. In one hour I caught 10 black 

 bass, 3 weighing 4^ lbs. each ; 4 weighing 4 

 lbs. each, and 3 of about 3% lbs. each. 

 Yours truly, 



Alexander L. Cummings, 



The Steamer City of Lowell, plying be- 

 tween New York and New London, is the finest 

 boat on Long Island Sound, If you are going 

 to Boston, or to any other New England point 

 you can make the trip a source of great pleasure 

 by taking the Steamer Lowell, to New London, 

 and thence to New York and New England rail- 

 way. Ticket offices 49 and 353 Broadway. 



It is a pleasure to travel when your route 

 takes you over as good a road as the West 

 Shore. On the trains of that road you can eat, 

 sleep, read or write just as comfortably as at 

 home. The manager handles the matter of 

 heating and ventilation in such a way that the 

 cars are warm in winter and cool in summer. 



The Columbia bicycle is so well known tha 

 it is difficult to say anything new of it. The 

 1895 model, however, will have several new 

 features. The Pope Manufacturing Company, 

 Boston, will tell you all about them. -^ f 



Shoverling, Daly & Gales are old timers in the 

 gun and fishing tackle trade. They have built 

 up an immense business in these lines and, of late, 

 have added base ball, foot ball, tennis and other 

 out-door goods. No matter what your favorite 

 sport may be you can get the implements of it 

 from Shoverling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway, 

 and can rest assured that the goods will prove as 

 represented. Send for catalogue. .-.— ^^^ " 



The Du Pont Powder Company, of Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware, is one of the oldest in the country, 

 yet the managers have wisely concluded that 

 they need Recreation, and have taken a half 

 page in it for a year. Whenever you see goods 

 advertised in this magazine you can rest assured 

 they are good, and the Du Pont powder is no ex- 

 ception to the rule. I have used it myself for 

 many years and know it is good. The company 

 has branches in all the principal cities. 



The latest repeating rifle is the 25-20 Marl in, 

 taking the 25-20 Marlin cartridge. This is load- 

 ed with F. F. F. G. powder, and has an 86 

 grain bullet. The cartridge is made without the 

 usual heavy crimp, and in consequence, shoots 

 more accurately and strongly. This rifle will be 

 found to excel, in accuracy and penetration, many 

 of the larger calibres. The cartridge is one of 

 the cleanest and most pleasant on the market 

 to use. It can be reloaded with various weights 

 of bullets, as the rifle will handle any cartridge 

 varying in length and weight from the empty, 

 shell up to the regular cartridge, as a maximum. 

 This rifle can be furnished with any length and 

 style of barrel or magazine, straight grip Pistol 

 grip rifles can also be furnished in any length or 

 style. 



For prices, weights and description, write the 

 Marlin Fire Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 



H. C. Squires & Son, 20 Cortlandt street, 

 New York, have issued their new '95 catalogue. 

 It is almost a complete compendium of all sports- 

 men's goods made or used in the United States. 

 You can scarcely think of any article that you 

 can use in hunting, fishing, yachting, canoeing, 

 gallery or trap shooting that is not described and 

 illustrated in this catalogue. A copy will be sent 

 you, postpaid, on receipt of request mentioning 

 the fact that you saw it announced in Recre- 

 ation. 



Be sure to read the advertisement of the 

 Buffalo Wheel Co. The correspondence pub- 

 lished there is good enough to go in the Bicycling 

 department as pure reading matter, and would 

 have been printed there had it reached this office 

 here a few days earlier. 



The reed bird, delicate and delicious, lay 

 supine on a bit of toast, when Uncle Caleb, from 

 New Jersey, sat down. 



" Are you fond of the little fowl ? " asked the 

 hostess. 



" Well," he replied, " ez fur taste, they're fine. 

 But ez fur 'pearance, I must say they 'mind me 

 of a mosquiter growed up." — Washington Star. 



