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RECREATION. 



THEY STILL REMIND PETERS. 

 Binghamton, N. Y. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati, Ohio: 



Dear Sirs: — I have been reading your 

 troubles in Recreation and fail to see that 

 Mr. Shields has done anything injurious to 

 you. It looks to me as if you were in 

 your own light, and going wrong. I have 

 used your ammunition for years and find it 

 good but had trouble with shells in the 

 Winchester repeater, the same as men- 

 tioned in the article to which you object, 

 though I never took the trouble to tell 

 of them through the press. I think it a 

 personal affair between you and every 

 sportsman. I believe the sportsmen will 

 stand by the editor of Recreation, and that 

 the sale of your goods will decrease if you 

 do not advertise in that magazine. I spend 

 one to 4 months in the game fields as guide 

 and game protector, always dictating the 

 kind of ammunition to be used, besides 

 using large quantities myself. 



Last fall, while in the Adirondack moun- 

 tains with a party of 4, I had trouble with 

 some U. M. C. shells, and wrote the firm 

 about it. They at once remedied the 

 trouble and sent me, express prepaid, some 

 of the improved make. Perhaps it would 

 have been well for the man who had trouble 

 with your goods to have written you per- 

 sonally instead of doing as he did ; but I 

 hope and trust you will reconsider, drop 

 your ill feeling towards the editor of Rec- 

 reation, and continue doing 'business in a 

 businesslike manner. 



R. R. Mathewson. 



San Antonio, Texas. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati, Ohio: 



Dear Sirs: — In Recreation for May, I 

 note an article wherein you claim you have 

 a grievance. I do not think you have, and 

 think you have acted unwisely in ordering 

 your ad discontinued. If Mr. Radcliff's 

 letter had been false, it would have done 

 you good rather than harm. It would have 

 drawn as much comment, favorable to your 

 goods, from Shields' 75,000 subscribers, as 

 he could have printed. This would have 

 given your firm thousands of dollars' worth 

 of free advertising. I would have contempt 

 for a 6-year-old boy who would get red 

 headed about a thing like that. Just look 

 at the note in a recent issue from a man in 

 Edmonton, N. W. T. See how he condemns 

 the Winchester rifle, which is the best 

 made. Did the Winchester people get mad 

 and order their ad stopped? No, they are 

 too old for such foolishness. 



I have used your ammunition and found 

 it O. K. The W. R. A. and the U, M. C. 

 companies, however, make just as good and 

 have done so for a long time. 



Recreation is the official organ of our 

 League, and is published by one of us. 

 The editor, Shields, goes down in his jeans 

 for many a dollar to protect our game and 



deserves great credit for his good work. 

 If your ad is permanently discontinued in 

 Recreation I have shot my last Peters' 

 cartridge. 



L. A. S., 2235. 



Schenectady, N. Y. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati, Ohio : 

 Dear Sirs : — I see by a letter in May 

 Recreation that you have withdrawn your 

 ad from the magazine because Mr. 

 Shields allows a reader to express his 

 opinion of your shells. I am more 

 than surprised that a firm that makes 

 a good shell should play the baby act. 

 Recreation is the official organ of the L. 

 A. S. and as such must be open to its mem- 

 bers. When I see anything to criticise, 

 even though it is advertised in Recreation, 

 I want and expect its pages will be open 

 to me. When it refuses me that right, I 

 shall refuse to take it. I lost $16 through 

 an ad in a paper where the editor was 

 constituted judge by the advertisers; but 

 we don't put Shields up for that position,. 

 We reserve the right to judge for ourselves. 



J. W. Furnside. 



Mount Morris, N. Y. 

 The Peters Cartridge Co., 



Cincinnati. Ohio: 

 Dear Sirs : — In the May number of Rec- 

 reation there appears a copy of a letter 

 written by you to Mr. G. O. Shields, editor 

 and manager of that magazine. This letter 

 puts forth a vigorous kick about some 

 slight criticism which was made against 

 your shells. If any irregularity exists in 

 your shells you have taken a queer stand 

 toward rectifying it, as you actually con- 

 cede the superiority of other brands. The 

 action you have taken toward a magazine 

 which has upheld you so nobly in the past 

 is childish and it is reasonable to believe 

 that all the true sportsmen will uphold 

 Mr. Shields in this matter. 



K. S. Chamberlain. 



We are all down on Peters' shells here. 

 Our dealer says he can not sell goods of 

 theirs that he bought 5 years ago. I have 

 the highest possible regard for Recreation, 

 as I am receiving more information from its 

 pages than from all the other magazines I 

 take. 



F. G. Ellis, Lime Grove, la. 



I think it far better that Peters' goods are 

 not advertised in Recreation. I bought 

 some Peters' Ideal shells in 1900. I tried 

 15 July 4th, 1902, and none of them would 

 go. The primers were driven in 3-16 of 

 an inch. All the rest is trash. 



Chas. Vitous, East Pittsburg, Pa. 



