RECREATION. 



XXXI 



PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



YOU NEED ONE. 



This age of progress and invention has 

 extended the well-to-do sportsman's sup- 

 ply of guns and ammunition until it has 

 reached the proportions of a miniature 

 arsenal. Few sportsmen are able to get 

 sufficient' sport with less than 3 or 4 guns. 

 Many are inclined to own a dozen, but a 

 disadvantage arises as to where he can 

 keep them. Where can he keep his supply 

 of cartridges, his hunting suit, his wiping 

 sticks? If he fishes, where can he keep 

 his rods and tackle? These questions have 

 been a torment to all sportsmen for years. 

 The only answer has been, any old corner, 

 garret or closet will have to suffice; but 

 inventive genius has now enabled us to 

 answer the questions very satisfactorily, as 

 follows: 



Keep your outfit in an up-to-date Sports- 

 man's Cabinet, where your guns, fishing 

 rods, etc., will show off to advantage, and 

 be clean and convenient. Where every- 

 thing will be at your finger ends, yet un- 

 der lock and key, if desired. 



When you have a little time to take a 

 jaunt, you simply unlock the glass doors 

 and take out what you want, without trying 

 your patience rummaging from cellar to 

 garret for various articles you can not find, 

 and finally, being compelled to go shop- 

 ping to replenish. 



A sportsman's cabinet is indeed a boon 

 to hunters and fishermen. An excellent ar- 

 ticle is now being manufactured and put 

 on the market by the West End Furniture 

 Co., Williamsport, Pa., whose ad appears 

 on another page of this issue. In this cabi- 

 net are 3 roomy drawers in which the hunt- 

 ing suits, boots, etc., may be kept. Above 

 is the compartment for guns and ammuni- 

 tion. The guns are arranged on a padded 

 rack, and the ammunition is kept in the 

 small drawers, the handles of which are 

 provided to hold an indexing card, by 

 means of which one can tell at a glance the 

 contents of the drawer. Between the 

 lower drawers and the gun compartment 

 there is a sliding table which is adapted 

 to writing and loading purposes. These 

 cabinets are constructed of first-class ma- 

 terials, are hand polished, have hand 

 carved claw feet, quartered oak front, 

 double thick glass doors, rifle twist mould- 

 ing, and are an ornament to any room. 

 They are substantial, will last a lifetime., 

 and can be handed down to the next gene- 

 ration. 



The West End Furniture Co. is the 

 pioneer in this line, and makes several de- 

 signs. They finish their cases in any wood 

 desired. 



HAS EARNED SUCCESS. 



I am in receipt of a modest note from 

 Arthur Savage, General Manager of the 

 Savage Arms Co., Utica, N. Y., stating 

 that his company has been awarded the 

 grand gold medal for the best display of 

 firearms at the Paris Exposition. 



Few men in the world know what this 

 means to Mr. Savage personally. Thous- 

 ands of gold medals were awarded at 

 Paris, and doubtless many of them went 

 to men or corporations who did not really 

 merit them. While the medal I have men- 

 tioned above goes to the Savage Arms 

 Co. it means a great deal to Arthur Sav- 

 age personally. He invented the Savage 

 rifle, perhaps 20 years ago, when he was 

 a poor young man. He worked 10 years 

 or more to induce capitalists to furnish 

 means to build a factory, and put the rifle 

 on the market. In this part of his exper- 

 ience he went through an ordeal such as 

 many a man has experienced under similar 

 conditions, but of which the. world takes 

 no note. He met with reverses and re- 

 buffs by the hundred, but he is not the 

 kind of a man'to submit readily to defeat. 

 When he was turned down in one place 

 he went to another. When he failed in 

 one effort he made another. He kept up 

 the fight until he finally won out. I 

 know nothing of his arrangements with the 

 Savage Arms Co. ; but I do know he is 

 a mechanical genius; a sportsman in the 

 broadest sense of the term; a genial, good 

 natured, big-hearted gentleman, whom 

 everyone who knows him loves. Those of 

 us who have been through similar years 

 of hardship, who have sweat blood, as 

 he has, and eventually won out as he has, 

 will no doubt be glad to rejoice with him. 

 It is always a pleasure to me to commend 

 a worker and a man who has accomplished 

 a great undertaking by persistent and 

 determined effort against adversity. I 

 congratulate Mr. Savage most heartily and 

 sincerely, and I commend him to the 

 kind consideration of all sportsmen. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPRESS. 



The "Pan-American Express" train of 

 the New York Central was put in service 

 in both directions between New York and 

 Buffalo Sunday, May 7, 1899, and was 

 so named in honor of the Pan-American 

 Exposition to be held in Buffalo in 1901. 



The main object of this train is to fur- 

 nish the best possible night service be- 

 tween New York and Buffalo, Rochester, 

 Syracuse, Niagara Falls and Toronto, the 

 leaving time at either end of the line hav- 

 ing been so arranged as to permit patrons 

 to dine leisurely at home, or at their 

 hotel, and have ample time to make the 

 train and arrive in New York or Buffalo 



