PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE GUN BORE 

 TREATMENT. 



Some months ago I sent a .30-40 Win- 

 chester rifle to the Gun Bore Treatment 

 Co., 9 Warren Street, New York City, to 

 be treated by their well-known process for 

 preventing rust. I have recently had an 

 opportunity of giving this gun a severe 

 and practical test. I took it to Newfound- 

 land, where I carried it in a canvas case, 

 and when making a trip up the Humber 

 river, in canoes, it rained all day. The 

 gun case was, of course, thoroughly wet, 

 and on reaching camp late at night I did 

 not take the gun out of the case. The 

 next morning when I started out I was 

 surprised to find that the outside of the 

 gun barrel and the lockplate were badly 

 rusted. I at once lost faith in the Gun 

 Bore Treatment Co., but on my return 

 home I got some fine pumice stone and 

 rubbed off the rust. To my astonishment 

 it left the barrel in exactly the condition 

 it was when I left New York. The rust 

 had not penetrated the barrel a particle, 

 and, in fact, had not passed through the 

 coating formed by the acid with which the 

 gun had been treated. 



Every hunter knows that to carry a gun 

 in a wet case, and especially to leave it in 

 such a case over night, is about as severe 

 a trial as it can be subjected to. If any- 

 thing will rust a gun a wet case will do 

 it; yet my gun is now in as fine order as 

 when it came from the Gun Bore Treat- 

 ment people. The rubbing I gave it with 

 the pumice stone would have taken the 

 ordinary browning off the barrel entirely, 

 yet as I have said, it did not touch the 

 brown put on by this chemical process. 

 I can therefore recommend the Gun Bore 

 Treatment Co.'s process much more 

 strongly than heretofore. 



EASTMAN S NEW CARTRIDGES. 



A recent announcement by the Eastman 

 Kodak Company is one which will be of 

 interest to kodakers everywhere, and 

 when it becomes generally understood 

 will turn the scale of many a hesitating 

 buyer in favor of the kodak. If, in the 

 past, there has been one strong point that 

 could be made against the kodak it was 

 the unavoidable waste of film which oc- 

 curred when one wished to make but one 

 or 2, or even a half dozen, exposures. 

 This anti-film argument will no longer be 

 valid, for the Eastman people are now 

 furnishing cartridges of 6 exposures each 

 for all kodak sizes except the 1^2x2 



Pocket, and cartridges of 2 exposures 

 each for 3 l Ax3 l A, 4*5, and 5x7- .Thus 

 equipped the amateur can work his in- 

 strument with convenience and economy, 

 whether it be for 2 exposures at home 

 or for 100 pictures on his vacation. 

 Just at this season of the year, when home 

 portraiture, both by time exposure and 

 flashlight, is so much in vogue, the small 

 rolls will be highly appreciated. They 

 load in daylight in exactly the same man- 

 ner as the dozen exposure rolls do, thus 

 removing all need of "the dark room except 

 for developing. This is a long step in ad- 

 vance for film photography, and is one 

 which every amateur will surely appre- 

 ciate. 



A SILVER REEL. 



The Shakespeare reel is to all fishing 

 reels precisely what the Bard of Avon 

 is in the poetic firmament — without a peer. 

 For accurate long-distance bait-casting it 

 leaves nothing to be desired, and its splen- 

 did performance is the result of a me- 

 chanical construction rarely encountered 

 outside of a fine chronometer. It is made 

 throughout by hand, and in its various 

 parts the range of variation in size is less 

 than 1-1000 part of an inch. From the per- 

 fectly poised spool of the Shakespeare reel 

 the line flows smoothly and swiftly, tell- 

 ing by its eloquent silence of the conquest 

 of friction, while a simple, automatic de- 

 vice insures the uniform distribution of the 

 line along the spool. The crank is ever 

 in perfect balance and cannot work loose. 

 All bearings are ground to the acme of 

 accuracy and on the finest material only 

 is such workmanship expended as enters 

 into the Shakespeare reel. This reel is a 

 quadruple multiplier, is beautifully fin- 

 ished in triple silver plate, oxidized, and 

 each one is sent out in a fine chamois 

 lined orange leather case. It is made by 

 William Shakespeare, Jr., Kalamazoo, 

 Mich. Write for circulars and mention 

 Recreation. 



ANOTHER N. Y. CENTRAL EXPRESS. 



The "Pan-American Express" train of 

 the New York Central was put in service 

 in both directions between New York and 

 Buffalo on May 7, 1899, and was so named 

 in honor of the great Pan-American Ex- 

 position to be held in Buffalo in 1901. 



The main object of this train is to fur- 

 nish the best possible night service be- 

 tween New York and Buffalo, Rochester, 



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