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a guest of honor; that the men did not of 

 course expect any such order at this time 

 of night, and that they had been unusually 

 slow in executing it. The Emperor seemed 

 slow to comprehend the situation, and the 

 men were ordered back to their bunks. 



" I was at breakfast the next morning, 

 when my orderly informed me one of the 

 Emperor's naval aides had called to see me. 

 I went on deck to greet him and he asked 

 me how long it really took last night to 

 clear my decks for action. 



" I said I did not time them myself, but 

 that the Emperor did, and he said it wa*s 48 

 seconds. I said I assumed of course the 

 Emperor had timed the men correctly. 



' Xow. look here, Captain,' " he said, 



' please don't trifle with us in such a mat- 

 ter as this. We are pretty good liars our- 

 selves 



Captain Chadwick was the next speaker. 

 He was suffering from a severe cold, and his 

 voice was in such a condition that during 

 the first part of the evening, he had begged 

 the chairman to excuse him from speaking 

 at all. However, just before Captain 

 Evans had finished, Chadwick consented to 

 say a few words. He told us briefly and 

 modestly, but forcibly and eloquently, of 

 the part the flagship New York had played 

 in the campaign; of his personal experi- 

 ences and observations in connection with 

 the pursuit and capture of the last of the 

 fleeing Spanish warships; the capture and 

 treatment of the prisoners, etc. There was 

 not a man in the Camp Fire Club that night 

 who did not feel certain that if Captain 

 Chadwick had been fortunate enough to be 

 at the mouth of the harbor when the Span- 

 ish fleet came out, he and his men would 

 have been in the front of the fight, from 

 start to finish, just as were the other ships, 

 and that his guns would have made as great 

 havoc among the enemy's iron clads as did 

 those of the Iowa, the Texas, the Indiana 

 and the others. 



Captain Chadwick has as warm a place in 

 the hearts of all the members of the Camp 

 Fire Club as have Schley, Sampson, Evans, 

 Clark, Phillips and the other heroes of the 

 North Atlantic Squadron. 



Major Bates told us briefly of the capture 

 of Manila, by the troops under command of 

 General Merritt. Little need be said here, 

 as to that glorious piece of work. The fight- 

 ing was done largely by volunteers and they 

 covered themselves with glory. The news- 

 papers have done them only simple justice 

 and they of course desire nothing more. 



Colonel James M. Bell, of the First Cav- 

 alry (Regulars) told a most thrilling story, 

 but a synopsis of it is reserved for a future 

 number of Recreation. 



If you would live next to nature, read 

 Recreation. 



EDITOR'S CORNER. 



THE 1899 SHOW. 



The preparations for the Sportsmen's 

 Show to be held at Madison Square Garden, 

 March 2 to 11, 1899, are progressing satis- 

 factorily. A number of spaces have already 

 been let to large concerns, who will put in 

 attractive exhibits, and provisions are being 

 made for many features to go on the main 

 floor, which will surprise and delight visitors 

 when they see them. 



The plans for the water tournament are 

 also being rapidly developed. This will con- 

 sist of water polo, diving contests, swim- 

 ming races, log rolling, canoeing, fish 

 spearing, exhibitions by electric launches, 

 and other sports and demonstrations, which 

 up to a year ago were regarded as impossible 

 indoors, and which were never attempted in 

 New York. 



Within the past few weeks the Sports- 

 men's Association has applied to the Ama- 

 teur Athletic Union for a sanction to hold 

 the water-polo championships of 1899. If 

 this cannot be obtained a sanction will be re- 

 quested for an open tournament. The Inter- 

 scholastic Association has also been asked 

 for a sanction for the interscholastic water- 

 polo championship, or, as an alternative, a 

 series of championship swimming races. 

 Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Prince- 

 ton and Pennsylvania universities will be 

 asked to enter teams for a series of competi- 

 tions in water sports, preferably polo. 



It is intended to hold these contests in a 

 swimming tank to be built in the Garden. 

 This tank will be 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, 

 and 8 feet deep and will contain 200,000 gal- 

 lons of water. It will be in the center of the 

 garden, and the appearance of a pool in a 

 forest of green (for the Garden is to be a 

 veritable forest) may readily be imagined. 



Arrangements are being rapidly made for 

 a large exhibit of live wild animals such as 

 buffalo, moose, elk, bear, deer, mountain 

 sheep, antelope, wolves, foxes and mountain 

 lions; also for a great collection of live wild 

 geese, ducks, brant, prairie chickens, ruffed 

 grouse, wild turkeys, quails, etc. There 

 will be a great exhibition of game fishes in 

 tanks, showing the hatching process; there 

 will be a lake, with an island in it; a duck 

 marsh with muskrat houses and live ducks, 

 muskrats, minks, etc., swimming among the 

 reeds, and many other wild, weird and cu- 

 rious things. 



Two of my good friends who are soliciting 

 subscriptions to Recreation have recently 

 written me that they have found several 

 people who decline to subscribe. They say 

 they know this magazine and do not like it, 

 because it talks too much about*game hogs. 

 My friends tell me, however, that further 

 conversation brings out the fact that these 

 men are game hogs themselves. This ac- 

 counts for the milk in the cocoanut. One of 



