PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



H. A. Morine, G. P. A., Reid's New- 

 foundland Railway, has devised a plan for 

 taking care of sportsmen who visit that 

 island, which is certainly unique, and which 

 will be appreciated by all hunters who have 

 occasion to go there. M-r. Morine tells me 

 he will gladly employ guides and buy food 

 for sportsmen, charging them only the ac- 

 tual cost of the supplies and guides' 

 services. He says he has adopted this plan 

 in order to prevent extortion on the part of 

 the guides, which is practiced to such a 

 disagreeable extent in some other hunting 

 and fishing countries. Mr. Morine says he 

 knows personally every good guide 

 on the island, and is in constant 

 communication with all of tliem. He 

 has notified them that he is mak- 

 ing this proposition to American sports- 

 men ; that each guide will be given em- 

 ployment in his turn ; and that whenever 

 any one of these men fails to do his full 

 duty he will be promptly dropped from 

 the list. 



If you contemplate a trip to Newfound- 

 land next year, for the purpose of fish- 

 ing or hunting, it will be well to w.rite to 

 Mr. Morine now, giving him the exact date 

 when you will reach the island, and asking 

 him to provide the guide and the necessary 

 food supplies. 



When communicating with him kindly 

 mention Recreation. 



It may interest the readers of Recreation 

 to know how a big lens factory eats up 

 materials. The Bausch & Lomb Optical 

 Company, of Rochester, has recently issued 

 a book giving some interesting figures in 

 this line. Here are a few of the items, 

 showing consumption in one year : 



600,000 pounds of optical glass. 



30,000 pounds of crown and flint glass. 



7,750,000 screws. 



150,000 pounds of emery powder. 



450,000 paper boxes for packing lens, 

 shutters and other articles. 



10,200,000 pounds of coal. 



30,000 pounds of brass tubing. 



110,000 pounds of brass rod and sheet 

 brass. 



1,200,000 cubic feet of gas. 



210,000 pounds of iron castings. 



30,000 pounds of steel. 



50,000 pounds of brass castings. 



I have not room here to give all the in- 

 formation I should like to give about this 

 business. An idea of the vast output of that 

 factory may be obtained from the statement 

 that these people turn out 20,250,000 spec- 

 tacle lenses in a year, over 10,000,000 simple 



lenses for photographic purposes, and over 

 550,000 photographic shutters. 



It is scarcely necessary to add that a 

 house which has created such a demand for 

 its goods is a safe one to deal with. 



The Syracuse Arms Company has moved, 

 and is now comfortably installed in its new 

 plant at 141 5, 17, 19 and 21 North Salina 

 street, Syracuse, N. Y. 



The new building is equipped with the 

 best and most modern machinery and tools 

 known to the gun making industry. The 

 works now occupy about 25,000 square feet 

 of floor space and employ 90 to 125 men, 

 as occasion requires. Electric power is 

 used exclusively, and the machines are 'so 

 grouped and controlled that with the 7 mo- 

 tors employed each group of machines may 

 be run singly or all together, reducing -the 

 cost of power to a minimum. Skilled me- 

 chanics of the highest order are in charge 

 of the various branches of the factory. The 

 general offices are large, roomy, well lighted 

 and handsomely furnished. 



Eight years ago the Syracuse Arms Com- 

 pairy had one floor in a small building on 

 Walton street, and employed only 8 or 10 

 men. The stock room was full of guns and 

 it was often difficult to market them. To- 

 day, with all its increased force and facili- 

 ties, the company is away behind on its 

 orders and has practically no stock on hand. 

 The company has a full page ad in the 

 first issue of Recreation, and it has been 

 in every issue of the magazine from that day 

 to this. Further comment is unnecessary. 



The Davenport Fire Arms Co., of Nor- 

 wich, Conn., has issued a new catalogue 

 that is a surprise even to those who have 

 watched the development of that factory 

 for years past. When I .first called on this 

 company, in 1894, it had a little shop on 

 the 4th floor of an old brick building and 

 employed perhaps a dozen men. 



To-day it occupies an entire large mod- 

 ern 5 story brick building and employs 

 about 100 men. 



In the old days the company made one 

 style of single barrel shot gun, which re- 

 tailed at about $5 or $6. To-day it makes 

 11 different models of single guns, listing 

 at $8 to $20 each, and a neat, tasteful, ser- 

 viceable rifle, besides. The new catalogue 

 illustrates and describes all these weapons 

 and gives a great deal of useful and val- 

 uable information for shooters. Get a copy 

 of it and mention to the publishers that 

 you saw it announced in Recreation. 



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