PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



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PUTMAN OF MINNEAPOLIS. 

 I have just discovered that the ad of 

 H. J. Putman & Co. appeared in October 

 Recreation without the address of the firm 

 having been given in large type, as intend- 

 ed. However, it is given on the pictures 

 of several envelopes which the youngster 

 is emptying out of a Putman boot. Fur- 

 thermore, every person who has traveled in 

 the West knows that Hennepin avenue is 

 in Minneapolis, and every person who has 

 ever worn a Putman boot or shoe knows it 

 is made in Minneapolis. Those who have 

 not been so fortunate should make note of 

 the fact, now, that the Putman factory is 

 at 36 Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis, Minn., 

 and should write at once for a catalogue. 

 Putman boots and shoes are exactly as rep- 

 resented. A pair of them will stand any 

 kind of rough usage to which sportsmen 

 may ever have occasion to subject them, 

 and will keep his feet dry. 



Education has always hitherto been re- 

 garded as the peculiar privilege of youth. 

 If anyone was compelled to leave school 

 insufficiently trained for the work of life 

 his case was commonly supposed to be 

 beyond remedy. Hence, until the Inter- 

 national Correspondence Schools, Scran- 

 ton, Pa., were established, no attempt had 

 ever been made to reach men and women 

 engaged in earning a living with an or- 

 ganized course of study intended to fit 

 them for higher efficiency in their chosen 

 pursuit or to train them for another. The 

 Schools are now doing this important 

 work for thousands in middle life and 

 beyond. Such as these value educational 

 opportunities most highly and know ex- 

 actly what they want. Success that comes 

 after many years is the best. 



The C. P. Goerz Optical Works are now 

 ready to fit their new plate attachment to 

 the No. 3 Eastman Folding Pocket Kodak, 

 so that both plates and films can be used 

 where heretofore films alone could be used. 

 The advantages of using a plate attach- 

 ment of this description are that pictures 

 can be focused on the ground glass, that all 

 kinds of plates can be used, whereas there 

 is only one kind of film made ; also the 

 saving of the cost of material, plates cost- 

 ing about one-half and being much easier 

 to handle, the difference soon paying for 

 the cost of the attachment. Write for fur- 

 there information to the C. P. Goerz Opti- 

 cal Works, 52 East Union square, New 

 York City, and mention Recreation. 



de-cap any and all shot gun shells with 

 center fire holes, whether of domestic or 

 foreign manufacture, brass or paper, from 

 10 to 28 gauge, without any extra parts ex- 

 cept a bushing for each gauge. It makes 

 no difference what the shape or size of the 

 shell may be on the inside, or what the 

 thickness of the head, or what primer 

 may be required. 



The company has issued a circular de- 

 scribing and illustrating this new tool, 

 which will be sent to all who ask for it. 

 Please mention Recreation. 



New York National Exchange Bank, 

 No. 90 Broadway, New York, 

 Mr. J. R. Buckelew, No. in Chambers St., 



New York : 



Dear Sir— The Collan Oil I purchased 

 last spring has been put to severe test 

 on _ the golf links during the summer, 

 owing to the unusually wet season. It has 

 exceeded my expectations. Shoes treated 

 with it seem to exclude water to a greater 

 extent that when treated with any other 

 dressing I have been able to obtain." I an- 

 ticipate much comfort from its use on my 

 trip into the woods this fall. 



Frank S. Hyatt. 



The Ideal Manufacturing Company, 

 New Haven, Ct., is now ready to take or- 

 ders for its new straightline re- and de- 

 capper, which, it is claimed, will re- and 



The Ithaca Gun Company, Ithaca, N. Y., 

 is building a new shop which is to cost 

 $20,000. The building is to be 90 feet long, 

 2 stories high, and will give place to a 

 large plant of new and improved ma- 

 chinery. Fifty new men will be employed, 

 and the company expects to turn out 20,000 

 guns a year from the time the new shop 

 opens. These people are 2,000 guns behind 

 their orders at this time. And they carry 

 a full-page ad. in Recreation regularly. 

 Some of the other manufacturers of 

 sportsmen goods who find it difficult to 

 get business enough to keep their men go- 

 ing should make a note of this. 



Doctors Phillips & Wrean, Penn Yan, 

 N. Y., have on hand a large number of 

 first class pedigreed Belgian hares of well 

 known strains, such as Champion Fashoda, 

 Lord Lurgan, Lord Noble, Sir Styles, 

 Banbury Mystery and others. These men 

 breed nothing but first class stock and sell 

 nothing but the best. Their prices are al- 

 ways as low as any one can afford on 

 good stock and they guarantee all the an- 

 imals as represented. I have 4 of the 

 Penn Yan hares at the Mashipacong Club, 

 and they are splendid animals. You will 

 make no mistake in ordering from these 

 people. 



D. T. Abercrombie & Co., 2 South street, 

 New York City, make a pantasote overcoat 



