_ miles above what had been re- 
-AROUND OUR CAMP- PIRE 
I leave this rule ser others when I’m dead, 
Be always sure you’re right—then go ahead. 
§Word from Belmore Browne, RECREATION’S 
special correspondent with the Cook expedition to 
Mt. McKinley, in Alaska, brings the welcome news 
that, by the time this is in print, the party will proba- 
bly have accomplished the ascent of the hitherto 
unconquered McKinley. 
§{The party went up from Tyoonok in the 35-horse- 
power gasoline launch which Dr. Cook took with 
him for the trip, except for three packers, who took 
the horses overland from Tyoonok. Three horses 
fell into the smoldering coals of an abandoned coal 
mine near the Buluga river and were so badly burn- 
ed that they had to be shot. Six 
others of the train ran away 
when crossing rivers and were 
not recovered. This left but 
eleven horses in the string when 
the packers at last arrived where 
the launch was waiting, eight 
garded as the head of navigation 
on the Yentna. 
At the head of the left fork 
of the Yentna, Dr. Cook and 
Capt. W. N. Armstrong, of 
Seward, Alaska, went ahead 
to explore for a pass over the 
Kuskokwim range which Dr. 
Cook believed to exist there, 
judging from observations of 
the contour of the range he 
made on his previous expedi- 
tion two years ago. The pass 
was found, and Capt. Arm- 
strong left the party at the 
pass, which leads from the 
Yentna to the Tonzona river, 
bringing mail to Seward, which 
included our correspondent’s let- 
ter. Mr. Browne stated that he was enjoying the trip 
immensely, and that although Dr. Cook was not 
certain where he would start to climb McKinley, 
it would in all probability be somewhere along the 
northwestern slope. There are ten men in the 
party, and Mr. Browne declares if only Dr. Cook 
and one other succeed in getting to the summit of 
the highest mountain in America and the biggest 
mountain in Be world, he will be oat other man.’ 
ae 
{Equally as iene to vildfow! shooters as is 
the present number to hunters of upland game 
and forever. 
Recreation’s 
Platform 
An uncompromising fight 
for the protection, preserva- 
tion and propagation of all 
game; placing a sane limit 
on the bag that can be taken 
in a day or season; the pre- 
vention of the shipment or 
transportation of game, ex- 
cept in limited quantities, 
and then only when accom- 
panied by the party who 
killed it; the prohibition of 
the sale of game. These are 
“‘Recreation’s”’ slogans now 

—DAVID CROCKETT. 

birds, our October number will by far outclass any 
other periodical for that month. And it will not 
alone be remarkable for its interest to the wild- 
fowl shooters; there will be special articles of wide 
appeal on speed in rowing, horsemanship, the 
Indians of Labrador, hunting big game. Be sure 
to get a copy. 
of a rs 
{It isn’t because we think any less of the boys, 
but the demands for space for new matter of inter- 
est to “grown-ups” has made it necessary to transfer 
the department conducted by Dan Beard for the 
**Sons of Danie Boone” to an- 
other magazine perhaps more 
Closely allied to the younger 
generation. 
§| Now, we believe in the ‘‘Sons”’ 
and are therefore glad to say 
that this change will in no way 
interfere with the growth and 
usefulness of their noble order. 
The founder, Mr. Beard, will 
conduct the pages devoted to 
the “Sons of Daniel Boone” 
to appear each month in the 
Woman’s Home Companion just 
as he has heretofore in RECREA- 
TION, and will contribute thereto 
the lore of woodcraft and manly 
sport acquired in the course 
of many years in the open. 
“|The all-powerful | spirit of 
healthy, generous, optimistic, 
pleasure seeking America which 
finds expression in RECREA- 
TION’S pages is not so critical, 
perhaps, as weare. Atanyrate, 
so far no one has seen fit to 
criticize the cover design of our August number. 
Only one person remarked that he had “‘seen some- 
thing similar in Scribner’s.”” We were interested, and 
we found that indeed he had. We see so many 
magazines that we did not remember seeing a very 
similar drawing by another artist reproduced as the 
frontispiece in the March, 1906, number of Scribner’s 
Magazine. And so it happens that our apologies are 
due to the publishing house of Charles Scribner’s 
Sons, and a new motto adorns the wall of our art 
editor’s sanctum, which reads: 
§|‘‘Be sure you are original—then go ahead,”’ 
