RECREA TION. 



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This Number of Recreation is the best yet 

 issued, but there are many better ones in prepara- 

 tion for the near future. The present number 

 contains 600 square inches of cuts. This is a 

 greater space than was ever before given to 

 illustrations in a single number of any periodical 

 devoted to outdoor sports, yet some of the num- 

 bers of Recreation, during '95, will contain 

 twice as many cuts as this one. Recreation 

 will deserve all the good things that its friends 

 have said of it, before the year is out. 



Interest in the forthcoming Exposition of the 

 Sportsmen's Association is daily increasing. The 

 spaces are more than half taken by the leading 

 manufacturers and dealers. Many of the ex- 

 hibits will be unique and attractive. Historical 

 and educational features enter largely into the 

 character of the displays. Arrangements will 

 be made with all railways in the United States 

 for one and one-third rates for the round trip. 

 This should insure a large gathering of sports- 

 men from all parts of the country. 



If you have a friend who has some time 

 done you a service, and whom you would like to 

 reward, send him Recreation for a year. It 

 will cost you only a dollar, and he will take many 

 an hour's comfort with it when you are asleep. 

 Remember your guide, your farmer friend, or 

 the ranchman, who was kind and hospitable to 

 you. He will always be grateful for such a 

 token of your appreciation. 



The managers of the Sportsmen's Associa- 

 tion have honored Recreation by appointing 

 its editor to a position on the press committee. I 

 have, however, been compelled to decline. I 

 work all day and most of the night, in order that 

 others may have plenty of Recreation, and can 

 not possibly assume any other duties at present. 



Recreation now has over 2,800 bona fide 

 paid subscribers. Any advertiser who doubts 

 this is at liberty to examine my subscription 

 books, to copy therefrom the names and addresses 

 of 100 people and to write each for verification. 

 The American News Company is buying 2,600 

 copies a month, and returns less than 15 per 

 cent, of these. Write the manager and ask 

 him if this is true. 



The picture on the cover of the February 

 number of Recreation has called out a great 

 deal of flattering comment. It was engraved 

 from a photo bv Mr. J. W. Rusk, Haines Falls, 

 N. Y., and the beagles shown are representatives 

 of his kennel. 



The second annual meeting of the Adiron- 

 dack Guides Association was held in Saranack 

 Lake, N. Y. After the transaction of routine 

 business a camp fire and banquet was held in the 

 town hall. 



Mr. George R. McChesney, of the Mutual 

 Reserve Fund Life Insurance Company, has 

 gone to Florida for a much needed rest. He will 

 do some shooting and some fishing, and will no 

 doubt have some big stories to tell when he re- 

 turns. Those who know him will readily believe 

 them, too. 



If every reader of Recreation could 

 have the opportunity of looking over that mag- 

 nificent work "Sport; or Fishing and Shoot- 

 ing," the entire edition would be sold at once. 

 The artists employed to produce these grand, 

 colored plates have done their best work. Their 

 names are familiar to all lovers of art and in- 

 clude Frost, Remington, Zogbaum, Sandham 

 and others equally prominent. They have here 

 portrayed the delights of the chase in a manner 

 which must fill the soul of every sportsman who 

 sees these beautiful pictnres with rapture. 



The plates of Salmon Fishing, Moose Hunt- 

 ing, Black Bass Fishing, Wild Turkey Shooting, 

 Antelope Hunting and Deer Hunting are espec- 

 ially to be commended as worthy a place in any 

 gentleman's house. The work can now be had 

 on very favorable terms. Write the publisher, 

 Mr. Bradlee Whidden, of Boston, for a circular. 

 May you never have to say, again, that you do 

 not own a set of this most beautiful and valuable 

 exponent of field sports. 



I HAVE BOUGHT out The Club, a magazine 

 formerly published in New York, and have 

 merged it with Recreation. All unexpired 

 advertising contracts, made by The Club Publish- 

 ing Company, will be filled by Recreation, 

 and this magazine will be sent to all subscribers 

 to The Club for the term for which each has 

 paid. This purchase gives Recreation 3,000 new 

 subscribers, nearly all of whom are wealthy 

 society people of this city, and it now goes 

 into all the best residences and all the prom- 

 inent clubs of New York and Brooklyn. The 

 Club has been in existence four years. Recrea- 

 tion having absorbed it, with all its good will 

 and emoluments, may now be considered four 

 years old. Advertisers who wish to reach the 

 best people will do well to make a note of this. 



You are now planning your next summer's 

 vacation — that is, if you are wise. Why not in- 

 clude in your prospectus a trip to the Yellowstone 

 Park, Puget Sound, or even to Alaska. It is 

 worth thinking of. Write Mr. Chas. S. Fee, 

 G. P. A. Northern Pacific Railway, St. Paul, for 

 a copy of "Sketches in Wonderland." In this 

 book you will find a great fund of interesting 

 information and many beautiful pictures. 



Mr. D. G. Carey-Elwees, a prominent 

 sportsman, of Orlando, Fla,, writes that, in 

 making some repairs on one of his outbuildings, 

 he stepped through an opening in the floor and 

 sustained a painful injury to his shin, from which 

 he is confined to his room. If he had been more 

 charitable to himself this would not have hap- 

 pened. At least, we read that charity covereth 

 a multitude of s(h)ins. 



If a sample copy of Recreation has been 

 sent you it is by request of some friend of yours, 

 who likes it and who wants you to know of its 

 good qualities. Why not show your appreciation 

 of his courtesy by subscribing for the magazine ? 



Recreation started out with 56 pages. It 

 now has 80. Before the end of the year it will 

 have 120. 



