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RECREATION. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. J. G. Messner, a prominent sportsman 

 and trap shooter, of Pittsburg, writes: "I see 

 the Parker people have the good taste and judg- 

 ment to advertise their guns in Recreation and 

 I want to tell your readers something about 

 them. 



I bought four Parker guns in 1894. Had each 

 one fitted to me, and before shooting it many 

 times, some friend would get stuck on it and buy 

 it of me. Then I would order another. The 

 last one I sold was to a friend up in Venango 

 county, while shooting grouse with him in 

 December. He took a fancy to the gun and 

 nothing would satisfy him but to have it. I have 

 now ordered my fifth Parker and hope my friends 

 will let me keep it awhile. I think the Parkers 

 make the best gun in America, or any where else 

 for that matter." 



297 Broadway, New York. 

 Editor Recreation : 



Please change my advertisement. I don't 

 want to sit up all night answering letters, as I 

 have been compelled to do since I commenced to 

 advertised in Recreation. As a rule I don't 

 sell at retail. Please tell your readers to ask 

 local dealers for the " inimitable" flies, and to 

 accept no substitutes. If they fail to get them in 

 the tackle stores then let them write me for a sam- 

 ple dozen, inclosing $1, and I will ship them. 



My advertisement in Recreation has brought 

 me answers from every state in the Union, and 

 from all over Canada. C. B. Fitz Maurice. 



The Union Metallic Cartridge Company, 

 Bridgeport, Conn., is now making the new 25-20 

 Marlin Cartridge, loading it with smokeless pow- 

 der. The result is, that the velocity has been 

 increased about 125 feet a second. With this 

 high velocity the bullet will, of course, hold up 

 better at long range than with the powders 

 formerly used for this class of cartridge, and it is 

 claimed that it will shoot about six inches higher 

 at one hundred yards, than heretofore. At 200 

 yards nitro-powder cartridges will shoot about 12 

 inches higher than if loaded with black powder. 

 The accuracy of this new cartridge is said to be 

 remarkable. At 100 yards 10 shots have been 

 grouped in a circle two inches in diameter; at 

 200 yards 10 shots have been grouped in a four 

 inch circle. These cartridges will be ready for 

 the trade shortly, and are likely to prove popular. 



The Ideal Manufacturing Company has 

 bought the sole right to make the Spangler 

 Crimper, and dealers desiring to handle it are 

 required to order from the I. M. Co., or from 

 the jobbing houses. The tool will hereafter be 

 known as the Spangler Ideal Closer. The 

 same company also makes the Ideal High Grade 

 Closer, which has been popular for years, but 

 which has recently been greatly improved. 



The Pope is in big luck. Not the one in the 

 Vatican, but the Pope — Colonel Pope, who 

 makes bicycles. He has sold all the wheels he 

 can make up to August 1st, and is running his 

 factory day and night. He advertises in Recrea- 



tion because he thinks he may have a few 

 machines to sell late in the season and don't 

 want the people to forget that the Columbia is 

 the boss of the road. 



Editor Recreation 



Missoula, Mont. 



Please tell your readers that when going 

 on a western trip, on horseback, the proper 

 scheme is to slip a Bristol steel fishing rod in the 

 saddle rifle scabbard, as it will not be in the way 

 and is always ready when wanted. Put the reel 

 in the saddle bags. That's the way I have carried 

 my reel and steel rod for the past four summers. 



W. M. H. 



The attention of sportsmen is called to the 

 advertisement of the. Gold Medal Camp Furni- 

 ture Company in this issue of Recreation. I 

 have used these goods for many years and have 

 long since learned to regard them as absolute 

 necessities of camp life. 



Their bed folds into a package 6 inches in 

 diameter and 3 feet long. Then at night it 

 opens out so as to furnish a luxuriant couch for a 

 300 pound man. You can carry a bed, a table 

 and half a dozen chairs under your arm, or on 

 your back, and not be badly loaded either. The 

 company's address is Racine, Wis. Send for a 

 catalogue. Mention Recreation. 



The Daimler Motor Company, Steinway, 

 Long Island City, New York, turns out a novel 

 kind of boat. It appears to run of its own accord, 

 entirely, yet it gets over the course as swiftly as 

 any of them. It has a little vest pocket engine 

 down in the hold, that works a long time on a 

 gallon of gasoline. It makes no steam, no 

 smoke, and has not even a smoke stack. It is 

 something like one of those patent cook stoves 

 you have all heard of. 



It would be a good scheme to get a catalogue 

 of the Daimler Yacht and learn all about it — 

 especially if you are thinking of buying a yacht. 



The Bridgeport Brass Company, Bridge- 

 port, Conn., makes a bicycle lamp that almost 

 turns night into day. People who were wheel- 

 ing and wearing one of these lamps on their 

 main-top-mast on the night of March 10th, say 

 they forgot to look for the eclipse on the moon — 

 that it was so light where they were that it 

 would have been all the same to them if the sun 

 and moon had both been eclipsed at once. Send 

 a few dollars and sixty cents to these people, get 

 one of their lamps and quit cutting cows and 

 horses in two with your wheel. 



H. Boker & Co., who handle the entire 

 crop of Spencer Repeating Shotguns have a sur- 

 prise in store for sportsmen. You will probably 

 learn all about it in the next number of this 

 magazine. Or, possibly you may get the par- 

 ticulars now by writing the house and telling 

 them you read Recreation. Their address is 

 101 Duane street, New York. 



