XXXVI 



RECREA TION. 



THE '99 SHOW A HUMMER. 



The Sportsmen's Show to be held at 

 Madison Square Garden, March 2d to 15th, 

 is under entirely new management, and will 

 eclipse anything ever seen before in this 

 line. The object of the new management is 

 to give a show that will conform strictly to 

 sportsmen's ideas, based on an educational 

 plan to create an interest in gentlemanly 

 sports. 



The greater portion of the Garden will be 

 occupied by an Indian village and a big 

 game park, 90 x 40 feet, containing living 

 specimens of native wild game, including 

 buffalo, moose, caribou, elk, deer, mountain 

 sheep, mountain lion and bear. The game 

 birds will include live specimens of pheas- 

 ants, geese, ducks, swans, quail, etc. There 

 will be live game fishes, such as trout, sal- 

 mon, ouananiche, etc., also a hatchery in 

 operation. Each of these features is in 

 charge of an expert, and no expense will be 

 spared to make these attractions complete. 



Among the exhibits will be a most inter- 

 esting display from the Quebec Provincial 

 Government, showing game mounted in 

 groups. The Adirondack Hotel League, 

 State of Maine, New Brunswick, several 

 Canadian Railways, Maine Central Rail- 

 way, Bangor and Aroostook Railway and 

 the Megantic Fish and Game preserve are 

 among the leading participants in this great 

 sportsmen's show. 



In addition to these natural attractions 

 there will be a Water Carnival given on an 

 artificial lake 75 feet long, 40 feet wide, 8 

 feet deep. Water polo will be one of the 

 chief attractions of the water sports; and 

 the first water polo championship of Amer- 

 ica will be decided during the show. The 

 contestants in all swimming events will be 

 confined to amateurs, professionals being 

 engaged to give exhibits of their skill only. 



Collegiate, Athletic or Boat Club water 

 polo games every evening. Professional 

 swimming exhibition every afternoon at 

 3.30 o'clock. 



LOCAL SPORTSMEN ORGANIZE THE REC- 

 REATION GUN CLUB. 



The La Crosse Gun Club held a meeting last night and 

 reorganized, changing its name to the Recreation Gun 

 Club. It was decided to limit the membership to 25. 

 There were 21 local sportsmen present, all of whom 

 promptly joined the organization. Officers were elected 

 as follows: 



President — Emil Ruprecht. 



Treasurer — George Rose. 



Secretary — W. B. Simonton. 



The list of members so far is as follows: Gus. Ensel, 

 Jule Freas, Chris. Fleischer, Harry Holway, Charles Har- 

 zor, Henry Krenzke, Henry Fisher, Joe Frey, Otto 

 Goetzke, Frank Kimball, Peter Henrichs, Charles Hol- 

 way, Arthur McArthur, Bernard Holway, J. Asher, 

 Emil Ruprecht, George Rose, and W, B. Simonton. 



The old shooting grounds of the La Crosse Gun Club 

 on Barron Island have been leased and all the traps and 

 paraphernalia purchased. 



The club is named in honor of Recreation, a monthly 

 magazine devoted to the interests of sportsmen. — La 

 Crosse, Wis., Chronicle. 



This is only one of the many straws that 

 drift into this office and that show which 

 way the wind blows. Up to the present 



time I have had notices of 72 clubs in the 

 United States which have been christened 

 in honor of Recreation. Some of these 

 are gun clubs, others fishing clubs, others 

 canoe clubs, camping clubs, etc. Over 

 60 summer cottages or camps have been 

 named " Recreation," and 27 yachts, 

 launches, cat boats, etc., are floating the 

 name of this magazine from their mast- 

 heads. 



No such honors have ever before been 

 bestowed by sportsmen on any journal of 

 this class. Why? Because none has ever 

 before done such vigorous and telling work 

 in' behalf of game and fish protection, as 

 Recreation has. No other publisher has 

 been willing to jeopardize his circulation 

 and to make enemies by' the thousands in 

 order to save the game, and fish, and song 

 birds. 



The action of the sportsmen of La Crosse 

 in changing the name of their gun club, 

 simply to line up on the right side of this 

 fight, is another indisputable evidence of 

 the truth of what I have said. 



The attention of the readers of Recrea- 

 tion is called to the ad of Captain C. \V. 

 Riggs which appears on pagexxxviii. of this 

 issue of Recreation. Captain Riggs of- 

 fers for sale a large assortment of Navajo 

 blanket robes, rugs, ancient Aztec mum- 

 mies, vases, bowls and idols, from cliff 

 houses and caves in Arizona; images, 

 pipes, ornaments, old paintings on wood 

 panels, and hand woven canvas, beaded 

 buckskin squaw dresses and leggins; 

 beaded belts, baskets, flint arrow heads, war 

 clubs, eagle feather head dresses, copper 

 bowls, buffalo skins, spears, shields, Navajo 

 Indian spoons, bracelets, bows and arrows, 

 moccasins, cliff pottery, mound pottery, 

 Pueblo Indian pottery, jewel arrow heads, 

 spear heads, stone axes and hammers, tur- 

 quoise, agates, guns, pistols, daggers, etc. 



It is a well known fact that a great deal 

 of the " Indian work " offered for sale by 

 dealers is made by New England Yankees; 

 but I have examined Captain Riggs's stock 

 carefully, and it is all genuine. His prices 

 are entirely reasonable and I believe he will 

 deal fairly with every one who may order 

 goods from him. 



I received the Kenwood sleeping bag you 

 sent me for 15 subscriptions for Recrea- 

 tion, and thank you very much for your 

 very liberal gift. 



W. Dunn, Carman, Mass. 



The Lyman sight you sent me as a premi- 

 um for the little club I sent you is all right, 

 and is just what I wanted. 



W. G. Snider, St. Andrews, N. Y. 



IN ANSWERING ADS ALWAYS 

 MENTION RECREATION. 



