PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



AGENTS TO MEET STEAMERS. 



Transatlantic travel has reached a point 

 where all the discomforts that used to exist 

 years ago in connection with the details of 

 arranging trips are no longer known, the 

 railroads and steamship companies furnish- 

 ing facilities that remove any difficulty 

 whatever, and making it easy and simple 

 for a passenger to complete his arrange- 

 ments. 



The Lehigh Valley Railroad has made 

 a custom for some years of having passen- 

 ger representatives, located at New York 

 city, meet all incoming passenger steamers 

 from European ports, and passengers 

 arriving by its trains, who are going 

 abroad ; and, in fact, attend to all business 

 in connection with arranging for hotel ac- 

 commodations, sleeping or parlor car 

 tickets and the checking of baggage, etc., 

 etc., that is necessary for passengers des- 

 tined to points beyond New York via the 

 Lehigh Valley line, or the transfer to steam- 

 ers of passengers and baggage, looking after 

 steamship accommodations, etc. 



Mr. Charles A. Foucart, who is the 

 steamship passenger agent representing 

 the Lehigh Valley Railroad, is always on 

 hand to meet incoming steamers, and will 

 also meet parties on arrival of Lehigh Val- 

 ley trains, to see to their comfortable trans- 

 fer to the steamship. Mr. Foucart is a thor- 

 oughly experienced man, and his manner of 

 performing any service for passengers is 

 so cheerful that it is in reality a pleasure 

 for one just coming from a long steamship 

 trip to meet him. 



FOR YOUR SUMMER TRIP. 



David T. Abercrombie & Co. have moved 

 to i and 3 South street, New York City. 

 This was made necessarv by the rapid 

 growth in their business which had gone 

 beyond the limits of their old quarters. 

 And, going back farther, this growth is 

 due to the facts that they have been liberal 

 advertisers in Recreation for 3 years past, 

 and that they treat every one of their cus- 

 tomers with absolute fairness and kindness. 

 Dave Abercrombie is a generous, whole- 

 souled sportsman, of the highest type, and 

 one of the most conscientious men I ever 

 knew. I should feel perfectly safe at any 

 time in sending him a blank signed check, 

 telling him to ship me a complete camping 

 outfit and to fill out the check with the 

 amount desired. I would feel absolutely 

 certain that he would not charge one penny 

 more for any article in the list than it was 

 worth. So may any man deal with him 

 on such lines. 



Abercrombie handles everything in the 

 way of tents and camp outfits. His spe- 

 cialty of course is tents, but he buys the 

 other goods from the factories in such large 

 quantities that he can sell them to you as 

 cheap as you can buy them at the factory. 

 Then when you deal with him you have the 

 satisfaction of knowing he will give per- 

 sonal attention to every detail of your or- 

 der, even if he has to stay at his office all 

 night to finish up his day's work. When 

 you want anything in Dave's line, send for 

 it and tell him I said so. 



A PARADISE NEAR HOME. 



The traffic department of the Long Island 

 Railway has issued one of the most beauti- 

 ful books that has come from any railway 

 company in a long time. It contains sev- 

 eral hundred illustrations of fascinating 

 bits of scenery on Long Island, many of 

 which make one wonder why cities were 

 ever built. There are points of refuge on 

 Long Island that are as wild, as weird and 

 as intensely natural as any that can be 

 found in the depths of the South American 

 wilderness, on the steppes of Russia or in 

 the frozen wilds of Siberia. 



On the other hand, there are resorts on 

 Long Island, such as Manhattan Beach, 

 Far Rockaway, Massapequa, Long Beach, 

 Moriches and Edgemere, that are equal to 

 anything at Newport or Narragansett. 



The delightful drives, bicycle paths, canoe 

 routes, sailing waters and bathing resorts 

 are all set forth in this book in a manner 

 to make a city dweller burst his chains. 

 When the New York resident realizes that 

 he can, in 30 to 50 minutes from the time 

 of leaving his home or his office, be revel- 

 ling in the surf, whipping some clear brook 

 for trout or speeding over a beautiful mac- 

 adam road in a wild country, he is prone to 

 conclude that New York is not such a bad 

 place to live in after all. 



Write H. M. Smith, traffic manager, 

 Long Island Railroad, Long Island City, 

 N. Y., for a copy of his new book and 

 when you come to examine it you will 

 find the half has not been told. 



A POWDER STORY. 



The Laflin & Rand Powder Co., No. 99 

 Cedar street, New York, has issued a novel 

 and interesting little book, which is being 

 sent free to all who ask for it and who 

 mention Recreation. 



It contains a picture story of a young 

 man and his wife who go out from their 

 cosy village home on a shooting trip. 

 The first picture represents the couple 



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