RECREA TION. 



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O you tvtrw 

 Runt? paddle a Canoe? 



fish ? explore ? 



prospect? Climb Rills? 

 or Sail a Y*cbt? 



No. 51 -FOR CAMP USE 



If so you have had trouble in starting a fire, or in keeping a fire, especially in bad 

 weather. In cold weather, or wet weather, you have wished you could have a fire in your 

 tent to warm you, to dry your clothing and your bedding. 



THE PRIMUS OIL STOVE 



remedies all such difficulties. It cures all the ills that campers are heir to. It is the one 

 thing needful to make camp life a dream of Elysium. 



WICKLESS BLUE FLAME 



KEROSENE-BURNING NON-EXPLOSIVE 



The features which make an oil-burning stove Perfect, are Safety, Simplicity, 

 Efficiency, Economy, Durability, Cleanliness, all of which are Perfectly embodied 

 in the Primus. 



The Primus has no wick, hence its perfect combustion. 



The Primus burns any grade kerosene. The flame can be regulated at will. 

 The Primus develops a heat of 2,ioo° Fahrenheit. 



The Primus will burn, at its full heat, for five consecutive hours on a consumption of 

 only one quart of kerosene. In other words, one-fifth quart per hour, at a cost of less than 

 one cent. 



The Primus burns everyday kerosene, without a 

 wick, with a clear, blue, smokeless and sootless flame. 



The Primus is Positively Non= Explosive. 



The Oil Tank Cannot be Filled While Burning. 



The Primus While Burning May be Turned Com- 

 pletely Over Without the Slightest Exposure to 

 Danger. 



The Burner Lights Without Smoke. The Flame is 

 double STOVE FOR YACHTS Positively Odorless and Sootless. 



It is by no means probable that any reader of Recreation will ever give the Primus so severe a 

 test as did the celebrated Arctic explorer, Fridtjof Nansen, on his famous voyage. His ship, the 

 Fram, was equipped with Primus stoves, and when he left the ship to make his " dash to the Pole" on 



sledges, a Primus went with him. The following extract from 

 plorer's own words, his estimate of its value : 



Vol. II., page 128: " For the heating was used a gas-petroleum 

 lamp known as the Primus, in which the heat turns the petroleum 

 into gas before it is consumed. By this means it renders the 

 combustion unusually complete. Numerous experiments made 

 by Professor Torup in his laboratory proved that the cooker in 

 ordinary circumstances yielded 90 to 93 per cent, of the heat 

 which the petroleum consumed should, by combustion, theo- 

 retically evolve. A more satisfactory result, I think, it would be 

 impossible to obtain. 



" As fuel, my choice fell on petroleum. Alcohol does not by 

 any means generate so much heat in comparison with its weight 

 as petroleum when the latter is entirely consumed as was the case 

 in the lamp used by us. We took with us rather more than 4 

 gallons, and this quantity lasted us more than 120 days, enabling 

 us to cook two hot meals a day and melt an abundance of water." 



An Alaskan prospector, who has used a Primus for several 

 months, writes to a friend thus : 



" Our * Primus' is a gem. A quart of kerosene lasts a week 

 and cooks three meals a day for us. When it rains and is damp 

 and cool we use it in the tent. Having perfect control over the 

 amount of heat it gives out, it is no trouble to care for ; no smoke 

 or odor as in other kerosene stoves." 



Farthest North " gives, in the ex- 



Write for circulars and full particulars. 

 TION, Address 



Mention Rkckea- 



THE PRIMUS COMPANY 



No. 103 STOVE 

 The type used by Nansen 



197 FULTON STREET 

 NEW YORK, N. Y. 



