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The managers have adopted a much 

 broader plan for this show than ever before 

 and are all working hard to secure some 

 novel and attractive features that have not 

 before been offered in the Garden. The 

 idea of making the Sportsmen's Show a 

 straight trade exhibit has been abandoned 

 and it is but fair that sportsmen should now 

 co-operate, actively and earnestly, with the 

 management of the Sportsmen's Association 

 in making this forthcoming show at least the 

 equal of any that has ever been given in 

 the world. 



Further information as to the progress of 

 the association's plans for the show will be 

 given in Recreation, from month to 

 month, and we may confidently expect that 

 the show to be held in March next will be a 

 great one. 



Some of the good stories in December 

 Recreation are: 



"Hunting and Hunted," W. H. Hilton; 

 " Battling with the Elements," by W. H. 

 Hollis; "How We Saw the Park," A. B. 

 Hood; " Flagging Antelope on the San 

 Louis Plains," R. V. Schuyler, all illus- 

 trated; "Christmas Shadows," Capt. J. G. 

 Leefe, U. S. A., etc. 



The usual great fund of valuable informa- 

 tion will be given in the various depart- 

 ments. 



Hon. W. O. Owen, Auditor of the State 

 of Wyoming, F. S. Spalding, of Erie, Pa., 

 John Shive, of Elk, Wyo., and Frank Peter- 

 sen, of Jackson, Wyo., climbed to the top of 



the Grand Teton mountain in August last. 

 They are believed to be the first men who 

 have accomplished this feat. Several other 

 parties have tried it, but have failed. 



These gentlemen built a stone monument 

 on top of the peak and left there the metal 

 flag of the Rocky Mountain Club with a 

 copper box containing their names, the date 

 of the ascent, etc. 



They report the height of this peak as 

 13,800 feet, and on the summit found no 

 trace of previous exploration. 



Readers of Recreation are again re- 

 quested to buy the goods advertised in Rec- 

 reation in preference to those not so adver- 

 tised, when they can do so consistently with 

 their needs. There are 3 powder manu- 

 facturers and at least 2 large gun makers 

 who persistently refuse to use this maga- 

 zine, for reasons best known to themselves. 

 Not only this, they have frequently advised 

 the other advertisers who are in Recrea- 

 tion to withdraw their business from it. In 

 view of this fact, it would seem only fair 

 and right that friends of the magazine 

 should sustain it by giving their trade to 

 the companies advertising in it. 



Persons subscribing for Recreation dur- 

 ing November and December will get the 

 Christmas number free. Such subscriptions 

 will date from January, 1899. 



When you write to a busy man on busi- 

 ness, use flat letter paper and write only on 

 one side of it. 



PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT. 



PROSECUTION OF RAILROAD TICKET 

 SCALPERS. 



A new phase of the ticket scalping ques- 

 tion has just been developed in the West. A 

 number of cities in the Western States that 

 aspire to be called convention cities, and 

 whose citizens are anxious to secure meet- 

 ings of large bodies of people from time to 

 time, have undertaken to assist in protecting 

 the railroads against the manipulations of 

 ticket scalpers, by passing local ordinances 

 regulating the traffic in tickets, and provid- 

 ing among other things that scalpers shall 

 have a license, and that they shall not sell 

 spurious, counterfeit or stolen tickets. 



Cincinnati, which has for years been a 

 favorite city for conventions, has such an 

 ordinance, and has within a week convicted 

 and fined 8 ticket scalpers, and 6 others 

 have been arrested and are now in jail. 



A number of railroads have recently made 



it a condition in making reduced rates for 

 conventions, that the city where the meeting 

 is to be held shall undertake to clear out 

 the scalping orifices, which have been proven 

 to be " fences " for the receipt of counterfeit 

 and stolen tickets. 



If this rule is made general, ticket scalpers 

 will be obliged to give up business, as there 

 will be no important cities where they can 

 ply their trade. 



A GOOD TEST OF A SLEEPING BAG. 



Portland, Oregon, August 14, 1897. 

 F. C. Huyck & Sons, Albany, N. Y. 



Dear Sirs: A few weeks since you sent 

 me a set of Kenwood sleeping bags for my 

 trip to Mt. Rainier. This is the highest 

 snow-peak in the United States (14,519 ft.), 

 and it is customary for climbers to camp, on 

 the night before and after the ascent, at an 

 elevation of 10,000 or 11,000 feet, several 



