XXX11 



RECREA TION. 



PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



A MODERN CAMP FOOD. 



Sportsmen, tourists, yachtsmen, and tim- 

 ber hunters, are using large quantities of 

 the Standard Emergency Ration, and the 

 American Compressed Food Co., of Pas- 

 saic, N. ]., the manufacturers, are receiv- 

 ing the most flattering letters regarding 

 the value of the food for camp use. Many 

 of these letters are from gentlemen who 

 ask that their names be withheld, but the 

 following will give a fair idea of how the 

 food is regarded by those who have tried it. 



The company has issued a book entitled 

 ''Woodcraft," a sportsman's hand book of 

 information, which is sent free to those 

 who request it. It is one of the most ele- 

 gant and costly bits of art printing I have 

 even seen. The cover is a representation 

 of birch bark in five colors, and each of the 

 pages is a photographic reproduction of 

 birch bark, with beautiful illustrations. 

 The book contains a great deal of valuable 

 information as to how to live in the 

 woods. In writing for it mention Recrea- 

 tion. 



American Compressed Food Co., 



Passaic, N. J. 

 Gentlemen : — The sample of the Stand- 

 ard Emergency Ration is at hand, and is 

 entirely satisfactory. I am sure all sports- 

 men will appreciate it. Please quote prices 

 or give address of dealers who handle the 

 goods in this section. 



A. H. Jennings, Winooski, Vt. 



Saginaw, Mich., May 7th, 1900. 

 American Compressed Food Co. 



Gentlemen : — The samples of your Stand- 

 ard Emergency Ration, received and they 

 stood the test nobly. Hereafter I shall 

 always have a supply with me on my tim- 

 ber hunting trips. Every sportsman should 

 use your ration, and if small samples could 

 be sent them you would need no better ad- 

 vertisement than the food itself. 



E. J. Brogan. 



Duffryn Mawr, Pa. 

 American Compressed Food Co. 



Gentlemen : — Please send me a copy of 

 "Woodcraft." I have used your com- 

 pressed food for camping, and it is im- 

 mense. 



Morgan W. Ruth. 



American Compressed Food Co. 



Passaic, N. J. 

 Gentlemen : — * * * * Your soups 

 are excellent. I enjoyed them greatly, and 

 consider them an excellent and convenient 

 article for camp life. 



J. E. Nichols, of Austin Nichols & Co., 

 Wholesale Grocers, New York City. 



1 have made a thorough test of the goods 

 and can heartily endorse all these gentle- 

 men say of them. — Editor. 



R. 11. [ngersoll & Bro. have within the 

 pasl 3 years built up a great mail order 

 business from a very humble beginning, and 

 now occupy 2 entire buildings. These are 

 163 Washington street, and 67 Cortlandt 

 street. They employ nearly 100 people, and 

 all of these are kept on the jump filling or- 

 ders, answering correspondence, etc. In- 

 gersoll's aim has been from the start to sell 

 good goods at minimum prices, and I doubt 

 if these people make a profit of more than 

 3 per cent, on anything they handle. They 

 have large factories in which they make 

 many of their goods, and those they buy 

 from other people are sold at less than fac- 

 tory prices. It is not my intention to say 

 anything to take trade away from coun- 

 try merchants, but it is a fact all the same 

 that you can buy many lines of sporting 

 goods from Ingersoll & Bro., pay express 

 on them, and lay them down in your own 

 house at much less than they would cost 

 you in your own town. 



Send for a catalogue, study the prices 

 carefully, and see if you do not agree with 

 me. When writing please mention Rec- 

 reation. 



In one of the shops of the United States 

 Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co., Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio, the company has fitted up a 

 room with drawing tables, boards and T 

 squares as a study room for the use of a 

 number of its employees who are students 

 of The International Correspondence 

 Schools, Scranton, Pa. The class, which 

 numbers about 50 men, and includes the 

 general manager, studies on company 

 time and is supplied with drawing paper 

 bv the firm. All promotions in the shops 

 will hereafter be made from students of 

 this class. 



The International Correspondence 

 Schools have nearly 100 courses treating of 

 all branches of mechanical and engineering 

 work. Instruction is carried on wholly by 

 mail, and there are nearly 200,000 students 

 and graduates. 



The Ideal Manufacturing Company, of 

 New Haven, Conn., has put on the mar- 

 ket another machine that will interest rifle 

 men. This is a bullet sizer, and even a 

 picture of it is so interesting that I long 

 to get one of the real machines, attach it 

 to a work bench and set it going. It is 

 too intricate a bit of machinery to be fully 

 described here. Mr. Barlow has issued an 

 illustrated circular, giving full details re- 

 garding it, which will be sent on applica- 

 tion. Kindly mention this magazine when 

 you write. 



Do not fail to contribute to the Lacey 

 watch fund at once. 



