PUBLISHER'S NOTES 



INCREASING ITS FACILI1IES. 



The announcement that an additional 

 car is to be attached to the Empire State 

 Express is based on experiments made 

 which have demonstrated that the addi- 

 tional weight will not diminish the 

 speed of the famous train, which still re- 

 mains the fastest long distance train in the 

 world. 



During the Pan-American Exposition 

 the Empire State Express will undoubt- 

 edly be taxed to its utmost capacity to 

 accommodate the people of the East who 

 make the trip to Buffalo, and the addi- 

 tion of one car to this fast train will ma- 

 terially increase its accommodation. 



This train, it has been practically dem- 

 onstrated, is the best money making train, 

 according to its capacity, on the New 

 York Central road. The people like to 

 ride on it because of its speed and its 

 excellent accommodations. It makes 

 fewer stops for the long distance than any 

 train in America ; hence its great popu- 

 larity. 



The fast mail, another popular train on 

 the Central, is but a little slower than 

 the Empire, however, and the Central has 

 many other fast trains which are popular 

 with the public and justify the oft re- 

 peated assertion that the New York Cen- 

 tral is the pride of the people of New 

 York State as well as the admiration of 

 the traveling public generally. 



A SECTIONAL METAL CANOE. 



W. H. Mullins, of Salem, Ohio, has put 

 on the market a new metal canoe, and, to 

 fill an urgent demand, it is made either 

 complete or in sections that can be readily 

 taken apart and put together. The cut 



tions can be nested, making a convenient 

 package for transportation. 



Write for a descriptive catalogue of 

 these canoes and say you saw them adver- 

 tised in Recreation. 



A PROGRES IVEG.P. A. 

 George H. Daniels is one of the men 

 who believes in keeping everlastingly at it. 

 And he knows how to keep at it. He 

 knows how to make it count. This is 

 shown by the great throngs of people that 

 travel on the New York Central trains 

 every day in the year. George gets these 

 by advertising, and he keeps them after he 

 gets them by taking good care of them. 

 George is always springing some surprise 

 on the traveling public. The latest one is 

 his new edition of No. 6 of the 4-track 

 series, entitled "In the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains." This comes opportunely and con- 

 tains an immense amount of valuable in- 

 formation for people who are looking 

 toward that paradise of sportsmen and rest 

 seekers. Everything you could possibly 

 want to know about the Adirondacks is 

 told in this folder. A fine map of the en- 

 tire Adirondack region comes with the 

 book. If interested, write for a copy of it 

 and say you saw it mentioned in Recre- 

 ation. 



herewith shows top view of sectional ca- 

 noe. These boats are water-tight, stiff -and 

 strong, being arranged with hooks and 

 cleats, which make a perfect and rigid 

 construction. When taken apart the sec- 



A SPORTING GOODS JOURNAL. 

 R. H. Ingersoll & Bro. are about to be- 

 gin publishing a periodical which shall 

 contain, in addition to their advertise- 

 ments of sporting goods, such other mat- 

 ter that everybody interested in athletics 

 of any kind will feel it essential to have 



copies. This 

 paper will be 

 of great ben- 

 efit to all 

 amateur ath- 

 1 e t e s and 

 sportsmen on 

 account of its 

 valuable in- 

 formation as 

 to rules, 

 method of 

 play, etc., for 

 s easonable 

 games, arti- 

 cles on physical culture and on nearly 

 everything pertaining to recreation. It will 

 be published several times each year, at the 

 beginning of each principal athletic sea- 

 son. The current number can be had by 



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