XXiv RECREATION. 

O YOU EVER 
Hunt? Fish? Paddle a Canoe? 
Explore? Prospect ? Climb Hills 
or Sail a Yacht? 
If so you have had trouble in See a 
fire, or in keeping a fire, especially in bad 
weather. In cold weather or wet weather, 
you have wished you could have a fire in 
your tent to warm you, to dry your cloth- 
ing and your bedding. 
THE PRIMUS 
OIL STOVE 
remedies all such difficulties. It cures all 
the ills that campers are heirto. It isthe 
one thing needful to make camp life a 
dream of Elysium. 
Wickless Blue Flame 
Kerosene-Burning Non-explosive 

The features which make an oil-burning stove Perfect, are Safety, Simplicity, 
Efficiency, Economy, Durability, Cleanliness, all of which are Perfectly embodied 
in the Primus. 
The Primus has no wick, hence its fer fect combustion. 
The Primus burns any grade kerosene. The flame can be regulated at will. 
The Primus develops a heat of 2,100° Fahrenheit. 
The Primus will burn, at its full heat, for five consecutive hours on a consumption of 
only one quart of kerosene. In other words, oneefifth guart per hour, ata cost of less than 
one cent. 
SS —— The Primus burns every-day kerosene, without a 
= =< wick, with a clear, blue, smokeless and sootless flame. 
The Primus is Positively Non-Explosive. 
The Oil Tank Cannot be Filled While Burning. 
The Primus While Burning May be Turned Com- 
pletely Over Without the Slightest Exposure to 
Danger. 
= The Burner Lights Without Smoke, The Flame is 
DOUBLE STOVE FOR YACHTS Positively Odorless and Sootless. 
It is by no means probable that any reader of RECREATION will ever give the Primus so severe a 
test as did the celebrated Arctic explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, on his famous voyage. His ship, the 
Fram, was equipped with Primus stoves, and when he left the ship to make his ‘‘ dash to the Pole” on 
sledges, a Primus went with him. The following extract from ‘‘ Farthest North" gives, in the ex- 
plorer’s own words, his estimate of its value: 



Vol. II., page 128: ‘‘ For the heating was used a gas-petroleum o a. a ‘ 
lamp known as the Primus, in which the heat turns the petroleum | ij Mic =i a A SAUIAAMGLL dw hii 
into gas before it is corsamed. By this means it renders the mau fi es AQUA 
combustion unusually cc.nplete. Numerous experiments made @ijeess Ba: nN Th 
by Professor Torup in his laboratory proved that the cooker in “honing i an ie 
ordinary circumstances yielded go to 93 per cent. of the heat rr 
which the petroleum consumed should, by combustion, theo- 
retically evolve. A more satisfactory result, I think, it would be 
impossible to obtain. . 
‘‘ As fuel, my choice fell on petroleum. Alcohol does not by 
any means generate so much heat in comparison with its weight 
as petroleum when the latter is entirely consumed as was the case 
in the lamp used by us. We took with us rather more than 4 
gallons, and this quantity lasted us more than 120 days, enabling 
us to cook two hot meals a day and melt an abundance of water.’’ 
An Alaskan prospector, who has used a Primus for several 
months, writes to a friend thus: 
‘Our ‘ Primus’ isa gem. A quart of kerosene lasts a week 
and cooks three meals a day for us. When it rains and is damp 
and cool we use it in the tent. Having perfect control over the 
amount of heat it gives out, it is no trouble to care for; nosmoke 
or odor as in other kerosene stoves.” 

ails, Weaile foe circulars and full particulars. Mention RECREA No. 103 STOVE: 
, See The type used by Nansen * 
AGENTS. 
HOLBROOK, MERRILL & S™ETSON, San Francisco. 
Los Angeles ard Sacramento, Cal. 
J GLOBE GAS LIGHT CO., Boston, Mass. 
., Phila., Pa, 
JAS. SPEAR STOVE & HEATL’G CO 
197 Fulton St., NEW YORK. GEO. B. CARPENTER & CO., Chicago, Ill, 
