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pelled to adopt this course in order to meet 

 its demands. 



This would seem to mark the beginning 

 of a new era in the gun business. It has 

 been several years since any gun factory, so 

 faf as I know, has been required to work 

 nights. It is a most flattering endorsement 

 of the Syracuse gun that the demand for it 

 should have grown so great as to necessitate 

 this course. One cause of the great reputa- 

 tion of this gun is that it is advertised in 

 every issue of Recreation, to the extent of 

 a full page. 



An astonishing number of personal ex- 

 periences of sportsmen is grouped under 

 classified headings in each number of Rec- 

 reation, the official organ of the League 

 of American Sportsmen. It is not so 

 surprising that these sportsmen have such 

 good stories to tell, as it is they all seem to 

 tell them so well. There is a great amount 

 of valuable information contained in their 

 recitals, with very little of unpleasant 

 egotism or suspicious exaggeration ol ac- 

 complishments. The illustrations are capi- 

 tal, and the magazine bears other indisput- 

 able evidences of prosperity, with a capital 

 P. — Newark Daily Advertiser. 



Canon City, Col., May I, 1897. 

 Prof. Gus Stainsky, Colorado Springs, 

 Col., Dear Sir, My moose head and the 2 

 caribou heads are certainly the work of 

 an artist. They are not stuffed but are 

 mounted in the natural pose of the living 

 animal. I cannot compliment you too 

 highly. Your work is the best of any in 

 my collection, which numbers 45 heads, and^ 

 which have been done in all parts of the 

 United States. Yours truly, 



Dall DeWeese. 



W. H. Mullins, Salem, O., builder of the 

 celebrated sheet metal boats, has just issued 

 a new catalogue which contains cuts and de- 

 scriptions of all his boats, and which is 

 deeply interesting to all who are fond of the 

 water. Send for a copy of it, and mention 

 Recreation. 



Last spring I bought from Charles Payne, 

 of Wichita, Kan., 11 dozen quail, and had 

 them shipped to me by express. When they 

 reached me there was only one dead. The 

 next day I liberated them, in dozen lots, 

 and they are doing well. 



F. M. Arnold, Clarion, Pa. 



Recreation has brought us a great many 

 orders. If I were to advertise in but one 

 magazine, yours would be the one. I have 

 taken great pains to speak a good word for 

 it, and find everyone else thinks just as I do. 

 Pneumatic Mattress & Cushion Co. 



EDITOR'S CORNER. 



A MOOSE STORY. 



" The Times" of Crookston, Minn., prints 

 a story to the effect that one Octave Mon- 

 treuil, who lives on the Clearwater river, 

 recently went up that stream at night, to- 

 gether with his hired man, to spear fish by 

 the aid of a jack light. It is said these men, 

 while pursuing this questionable avocation, 

 were attacked by a moose which they found 

 feeding in the river, and that they were com- 

 pelled to kill him in self defense. Of course, 

 they had a rifle in the boat. Men who are 

 afraid of being attacked by moose, when 

 jack spearing, always take a rifle with them. 

 It is said this moose became very angry 

 when he saw the light; that he walked 

 rapidly toward the boat until within 10 feet 

 of it, when Mr. Montreuil shot him between 

 the eyes. Of course a man who is engaged 

 in the peaceful occupation of spearing .fish, 

 and who is attacked by a vicious wild ani- 

 mal, is always cool and deliberate. He al- 

 ways plants his bullet between the animal's 

 eyes. 



The men 'in the boat put a rope around 

 the horns of the moose — which rope it is 

 supposed they had taken along for the pur- 

 pose of lassoing the big fish, which they 

 might not otherwise be able to get into 

 the boat. They started down the river, tow- 

 ing the carcass of the moose behind them, 

 when, according to their remarkable story, 

 they were attacked by another moose, which 

 they were also compelled to kill in self 

 defense. They fortunately had another rope 

 in the boat. This was made fast to the car- 

 cass of the second moose and both were 

 towed safely into camp. 



The lies some men tell, in order to clear 

 themselves of crime, would make old Ana- 

 nias ashamed of himself. 



If you would live next to nature, read 

 Recreation. 



THE '99 SPORTSMEN'S SHOW. 



The Managers of the National Sports- 

 men's Association have taken off their coats, 

 rolled up their sleeves and gone to work, 

 and it really looks now as if the next sports- 

 men's show would be a hummer. The idea 

 of a straight trade show, on which these men 

 have acted for 3 years past, has been aban- 

 doned and the entire floor of the Garden will 

 next year be given up to forests, lakes, 

 mountains, canyons, duck marshes, camps, 

 live game parks, aviaries, and other natural 

 and artificial features dear to the hearts of 

 sportsmen. 



These features will be put in by the State 

 of Maine, the Adirondack people, the gov- 

 ernments of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, 

 Quebec and Ontario; by the Canadian Pa- 

 cific, the Grand Trunk, the Northern Pa- 

 cific, the Great Northern and other railway 

 companies. Thus when the visitor steps into 

 the ,Madison Avenue door of the Garden he 

 will find himself buried in a howling wilder- 



