PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



A NEW CAMERA IDEA. 



In December Recreation I announced 

 that a new style of camera was being made, 

 and that it would be put on the market at 

 an early date. The coming of the camera 

 has been delayed several months beyond 

 the time previously announced ; but it is 

 here, and is so much the better for the 

 waiting. It is called the Reflex, and is 

 made by the Reflex Camera Company, 

 Yonkers, N. Y. 



This camera has several qualities about 

 it that make it especially attractive to 

 sportsmen, i need not take time to list 

 these, because the company has issued a 

 catalogue that gives all the information any 

 one could possibly desire. Furthermore, it 

 contains some beautiful full page original 

 photographs, pasted on the leaves of the 

 book, that any artist would be delighted 

 with. One of these, showing the U. S. 

 cruiser Raleigh in the Hudson river, is alone 

 about worth the price of admission. An- 

 other shows a group of nearly 200 ladies 

 and gentlemen on the Ardsley Golf Links. 

 and is one of the most beautiful golf pict- 

 ures I have ever seen. Nearly all the peo- 

 ple are in motion, yet every figure and 

 every feature is sharp and distinct. A 

 camera that can make such a picture must 

 prove invaluable to amateurs who do out- 

 door work. 



Here is a letter that tells what Professor 

 Bickmore thinks of the Reflex : 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York, November 17th, 1899. 

 Dear Sir: — We are gratified with 

 the excellence of your negatives of 

 animals, made in the new Zoological 

 Garden, that we wish you would go to 

 Washington and Philadelphia and se- 

 cure views of the various mammals 

 and birds, which you have not already 

 made and delivered to us. We also 

 suggest that in filling this order you 

 make use of the same Reflex camera 

 with which you made the negatives 

 which please us so highly. 

 Truly yours, 



Albert S. Bickmore. 

 Send for a copy of the Reflex catalogue 

 and then if you do not agree with me as to 

 its beauty and its value, write and tell me 

 so. Mention Recreation when writing the 

 company. 



Charles S. Fee, G. P. A. of the Northern 

 Pacific Railway, prints in April Recrea- 

 tion a full page ad, which every; amateur 

 photographer in the land should read. It 

 shows a bit of Yellowstone National Park 

 scenery, presumably a section of the Yel- 



lowstone river, with a few elk, a buffalo 

 and a grizzly roaming about the banks. One 

 of the park stages has halted on the road- 

 way, and 2 passengers, a pretty girl and an- 

 other fellow, have hopped out and are tak- 

 ing snap shots at the game. 



A.nd this leads me to remark that the 

 Yellowstone Park offers the best oppor- 

 tunities to be found anywhere on the Con- 

 tinent for photographing live wild animals. 

 There are hundreds of bears, thousands of 

 elk and plenty of deer, antelope and moun- 

 tain sheep there, and they have become so 

 accustomed to the sight of human beings 

 that they are no longer so wild as they 

 formerly were. It is an easy matter to ap- 

 proach them within camera range. A good 

 photograph of one of these creatures is 

 worth more, as a work of art, than 100 

 pictures of scenery, or of dead game, or of 

 camps, or any of the various things that 

 many amateurs work on. 



The Western Gas Engine Company, 

 Mrshawaka, Ind., has put out another of 

 the beautiful catalogues that are making 

 this year of 1900 memorable. This book 

 contains 5 full page reproductions of pho- 

 tographs in colors that are perfect dreams. 

 Not the kind of dreams a man has after 

 eating lobster salad or welsh rabbits, but 

 the kind he has after having paid all his 

 debts. Furthermore, these pictures deal 

 largely with nature — with the beautiful 

 lakes in Northern Indiana — and those ap- 

 peal with special force to sportsmen. 



Then this book also has an important 

 business side to it. It describes in detail a 

 line of motor launches made by this 

 company, under the general name of 

 Recreation Launches. These are made in 

 various lengths, from 16 feet up, and with 

 carrying capacities from 6 people to almost 

 any number you care to invite. The work- 

 manship and materials used are all up to 

 blue print, and if you think of buying a 

 launch you should have a copy of this book. 

 In writing for it please mention Recrea- 

 tion. 



Three years ago, while I was superin- 

 tendent of the Metal Back Album Com- 

 pany, you sent several specimen copies of 

 Recreation to that company and they fell 

 into my hands. I was much interested in 

 them, and passed them on to the mosl 

 noted sportsman in the factory. Charley 

 Yeo. He also became interested and or- 

 ganized a club, securing a camera as his 

 first premium. Since that he tells me he 

 has organized several clubs. One of his 

 first subscribers, Mr. Russell, also started 



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