PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



SOME IMPORTANT FIGURES. 



The American News Company's original 

 order for October Recreation was 21,500 

 copies. I knew this would not be enough 

 to supply their demands, so I gave them 

 22,000 copies September 24th. On the 27th 

 they sent in for another 500 copies. Octo- 

 ber 3d they sent for 500 more ; October 7th 

 for 700 more, and October 8th still an- 

 other 500, making a total of 24,000 copies 

 the company has ordered and received. 

 These people are not anxious to pay freight 

 on magazines from New York to various 

 cities all over the United States unless 

 needed to supply the demands ; hence they 

 had calls for all of these 24,000 copies of 

 October Recreation. They return unsold 

 copies, and these average 15 per cent, to 

 20 per cent, a month. If Paddy Marlin or 

 anyone else doubts this statement, let him 

 write Mr. Carr, Assistant Manager of the 

 American News Company, who has au- 

 thority from me to give any inquirer full 

 information on this subject. Or if any 

 doubter will call here or send a representa- 

 tive to my office, I will show him the News 

 Company's orders and receipts for these 

 24,200 copies. I will also show him post- 

 office receipts, dated October 9, for 211 

 sacks of mail weighing 19,338 pounds, on 

 which I paid $187.05 postage. At the same 

 time I shall be glad to show any such in- 

 quirer my subscription lists, on which there 

 are 34,000 names and addresses. If any 

 man is critical as to the genuineness of this 

 list, I will allow him to copy 500 names at 

 random from the list and and he may write 

 these people and ask them if they pay cash 

 for Recreation, or if it is sent -them free. 

 The proof of the pudding is in the eating 

 it, and any man who calls here will be 

 given a big wad of Recreation pudding. 



REMARKABLE SHIPMENT OF QUAILS. 



Bloomneld, N. J., May 9, 1901. 

 Mr. Chas. Payne, Wichita, Kans. : 



Dear Sir — I take great pleasure in in- 

 forming you that the 500 quails you 

 shipped for me to Dr. BertilBuhre have ar- 

 rived at their destination, Stockholm, 

 Sweden, in most excellent condition. Dr. 

 Buhre reports that only 10 birds died in 

 transit and that the remainder were in 

 excellent condition, healthy and lively. On 

 a previous steamer sailing a fortnight 

 earlier than the Hekla, several large con- 

 signments of live quails were made by 

 shippers in Nebraska and Virginia on or- 

 ders from prominent sportsmen of Swe- 

 den. Those all arrived in deplorable con- 

 dition. In one shipment of 300 birds, only 



15 arrived alive, and those in such weak 

 condition that they were not expected to 

 live. Out of another shipment of 160 only 

 12 arrived alive. As your birds were a 

 month in transit, 20 days on an ocean 

 steamer, and had to be transferred several 

 times on the railroad trains and ferries, 

 I sincerely congratulate you on this_ most 

 remarkable result, which must be attributed 

 to the great care you exercised in select- 

 ing your birds and to the most excellent 

 and practicable crates you shipped them 

 in. Your directions were also explicit, 

 "How to Care for Birds While in Tran- 

 sit," and I took great care to see that 

 they were followed. 



Thanking you for the trouble you have 

 taken, and wishing you success, I am, 

 Henning G. Taube. 



A NEW PARTNERSHIP. 



Mr. H. L. Jespersen has made a part- 

 nership arrangement with Mr. W. W. 

 Hines, who has been with him as a sales- 

 man for some time past, and the firm name 

 hereafter will be Jespersen & Hines. They 

 are located at 10 Park place, and are carry- 

 ing a full line of sportsmen's goods, which 

 they advertise in Recreation regularly. 

 One thing that every shot gun man should 

 know of this firm is that they are making 

 a specialty of loading shells by hand. Ma- 

 chine-loaded shells are all right for people 

 who want them, but there are others. 

 Many of these want every shell loaded by 

 hand. They want every charge of powder 

 and every charge of shot carefully weighed 

 and measured. They want every wad to 

 be just the same as every other wad in the 

 lot, and they want each kind of wad care- 

 fully placed where it belongs. Mr. Jesper- 

 sen is a careful, conscientious, painstaking 

 business man. He is a German, and served 

 his apprenticeship in Germany, where sys- 

 tem and method in any trade or in any 

 line of business is given much greater at- 

 tention than in most American houses. His 

 early training is now turned to careful ac- 

 count, to the advantage of every one of his 

 customers ; and it is therefore to the inter- 

 est of every one who uses hand-loaded shot 

 gun shells^ to consult Jespersen & Hines 

 when placing an order. They will treat 

 you right. When you order goods from 

 them, please mention Recreation. 



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A ROYAL SOUVENIR. 

 Mr. Geo. T. Bell, G. P. A., Grand Trunk 

 Railway, has recently issued a book en- 

 titled "Through the Provinces of Ontario 

 and Quebec." This is one of the most 



