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RECREATION. 



sportsmen, such documents repel them. I 

 am the editor and publisher of Recre- 

 ation, a magazine which has a circulation 

 of 65,000 copies a month, and I rarely miss 

 an opportunity of publicly rebuking men 

 who make such catches of fish as are 

 shown in this picture, or who kill excess- 

 ive numbers of game and then have them- 

 selves photographed with it. Such ex- 

 hibitions are repulsive and disgusting to 

 decent sportsmen and the sooner all man- 

 agers of transportation companies learn 

 this the sooner will they succeed in secur- 

 ing the approval and the patronage of the 

 better class of sportsmen. Yours truly, 



G. O. Shields. 



FISH HOOK BOOK. 

 726,509. — Combined Card and Book for 

 Holding Fish Hooks. Albert W. 

 Connor, St. Louis, Mo., assignor to 

 Simmons Hardware Company, St. 

 Louis, Mo., a Corporation. Filed De- 

 cember 22, 1902. Serial No. 136,094. 



Claim. — 1. A combined card and book 

 for fish hooks, the card divided into sec- 

 tions by perforations, a single flap pro- 

 vided with perforations coincident with 

 the perforations of the card, gummed to 

 the body of the card at several points to 

 form a plurality of pockets at one end of 

 the card to receive the loop ends of the 

 leaders, and a single flap at the other end 

 of the card also provided with perfora- 

 tions coincident with the perforations of 

 the card and adapted to be folded over 

 on to the body of the card to cover the 

 hooks. 



in April Recreation, were well timed. His 

 more conspicuous personal qualities are 

 self conceit and a tendency to slop over. 

 The first named prevents his having a 

 realizing sense of his frequent indis- 

 cretions, while the second is continually 

 leading him into new difficulties. After 

 being forced to pay a large sum in a suit 

 for slander some 2 years ago, he had the 

 sublime nerve to run for the city council 

 at the last municipal election. Need- 

 less, to say, he was snowed under 

 Now comes this show up of his 

 sportsmanship in Recreation, and we can 

 easily imagine the rest. Just how much 

 publicity of this type he can stand and re- 

 fuse to accept the lesson is, of course, a 

 problem; but it is safe to say he has 

 enough "to hold him for a while" and that 

 caution and moderation in sport will have 

 a significance new to him. 



It is pleasant to find the enlightened and 

 superior Swedish residents in universal 

 support of Recreation's position and to 

 hear, as I have heard, a generally ex- 

 pressed sentiment that Hanson got what he 

 needed most — a call down. 



Subscriber, Worcester, Mass. 



GRAHAM WAS DEFEATED. 



Your article in the June number of 

 Recreation, entitled "Salt Porkers," deal- 

 ing with the extraordinary catch of 2,304 

 pounds of kingfish in one day by ex-Con- 

 gressman William H. Graham and his 

 friend, and the sale of the fish afterward 

 to a fish dealer, concludes with the state- 

 ment that Mr. Graham's election to Con- 

 gress is a disgrace to the sportsmen of 

 Pittsburg and vicinity. Mr. Graham was 

 defeated for Congress last November by 

 the well known sportsman, George Shiras, 

 III, whose work with the camera and wild 

 game photography is so often commended 

 in your journal. Kindly make the above 

 correction in justice to all true sportsmen 

 of Pittsburg and vicinity. 



Meredith R. Marshall, 



Pitsburg, Pa. 



SCORES HANSON. 

 From all I can learn, your remarks con- 

 cerning Hanson, the Massachusetts fish 

 hog, whom you so appropriately roasted 



YIELDED GRACEFULLY. 

 A farmer in this vicinity posted a stream 

 running through his lands with the usual 

 notices forbidding fishing. But in his case 

 prohibition did not prohibit. For 2 seasons 

 he tried valiantly, but vainly, to protect 

 the stream, and prosecuted several tres- 

 passers without obtaining satisfaction. The 

 third year he retired from the contest and 

 tacked on his sign boards the following : 

 Notice ! 

 "Fish and be Damned ! 

 "Dig worms anywhere in the garden." 

 T. A, Waterman, Johnson, Vt. 



