HJfeLtSttEk'S NOTES. 



WITH DOG AND GUN AT PINEHURST. 



The latest enterprise of Leonard Tufts, 

 owner of Pinehurst, the attractive North 

 Carolina winter resort, is the establishment 

 of a shooting preserve of 30,000 acres of 

 the best quail lands in that State, for the 

 exclusive benefit of the guests of the Pine- 

 hurst hotel and cottages. This magnificent 

 tract, wh.ch comprises nearly 50 square 

 miles, is adjacent to the village, and is eas- 

 ily reached by carriage. It is in this sec- 

 tion of country that the annual Eastern 

 Field Trials are held, a fact which suffi- 

 ciently proves the abundance of birds. 

 Quails, always plentiful here, are abundant 

 this season. This is due to the enterprise 

 of Mr. Tufts. During the past summer he 

 caused about 100 large patches in various 

 places throughout the shooting grounds to 

 be planted with peas, in order to increase 

 the food supply of the b.rds. The peas 

 have been left out and the birds have 

 thrived as never before. Apparently none 

 have gone South because of scarcity of 

 food, which has occasionally happened in 

 former years. 



The shooting privileges at Pinehurst are 

 restricted to guests of the hotels, and 

 sportsmen from the North will find here 

 hunting facilities unequaled elsewhere in 

 the South. Competent guides are always 

 available, and a large kennel of well 

 trained dogs is maintained for the use of 

 visitors. Weekly trap shooting tourna- 

 ments are held at Pinehurst, from Febru- 

 ary 1 till the end of the hunting season, 

 thus enabling sportsmen to keep in good 

 training for the field. 



GOOD MUSIC IN CAMP. 



The pleasure of camp life may be greatly 

 enhanced by providing music for the long 

 evenings and for rainy days. Many sports- 

 men have been carrying with them into 

 the woods, or to their summer cottasres or 

 on their yachts, gramophones or grapho- 

 phones or phonographs, but these have all 

 proven unsatisfactory, in one way or an- 

 other, and most persons tire of them in a 

 short time. A much better form of musi- 

 cal instrument is the old, standard Swiss 

 music box, with metal cylinder. A high 

 grade instrument of this class produces 

 true musical tones and appeals to people 

 of refined musical taste and education. 



Mr. E. L. Cuendet, of 7 Barclay street, 

 New York city, whose ad appears in this is- 

 sue of Recreation, handles a large line of 

 these instruments, varying in size and in 

 price from $3.75 up to $140. Any of the 

 larger sizes can be conveniently carried on 



a train or placed in a trunk and shipped as 

 baggage, and any camping party supplied 

 with one of these can always have high, 

 class music whenever wanted. Mr. Cuen- 

 det publishes a complete catalogue of musi- 

 cal instruments of various kinds, and every 

 reader of Recreation who is fond of mu«ic 

 should have a copy of it. 



OUR ROADS ASTONISH FOREIGNERS. 



The development of passenger transpor- 

 tation in the United States astonishes all 

 foreigners. Edwin A. Pratt, a representa- 

 tive of the London Times, was making 

 some investigations recently at the Grand 

 Central Station with a view to writing a 

 comprehensive article on American rail- 

 roads. His inquiries developed the fact 

 that the New York Central has 8 passen- 

 ger trains a day between New York and 

 Chicago, and when he learned that the dis- 

 tance was 980 miles he remarked that it is 

 a marvelous thing. He was still further 

 astonished to find that 4 of the 8 trains 

 make the 980 miles in 24 hours, and that 

 one, the Twentieth Century Limited, goes 

 the distance every day, in either direction, 

 in 20 hours. His amazement grew when he 

 was informed that the West bound Twen- 

 tieth Century Limited carries only Chicago 

 passengers, and will not take a passenger 

 for any other point. He remarked that his 

 people would be equally astonished on 

 learning these facts. — New York Press. 



HAVE MOVED CAMP. 



Abercrombie & Fitch have moved to 314 

 Broadway, where they have taken much 

 larger quarters than they had before, and 

 they are now in the center of the sporting 

 goods district, being next door to the Win- 

 chester Repeating Arms Co., Schoverling, 

 Daly & Gales, the U. M. C. Co., the Rem- 

 ington Arms Co., and Hartley & Graham. 

 As I have said before, Abercrombie & Fitch 

 are both practical sportsmen and campers, 

 and if anybody on earth knows how to out- 

 fit a man for a hunting or fishing trip, these 

 men do. They have added to their stock 

 complete lines of guns, ammunition, fish- 

 ing tackle, hunting boots and shoes, pack- 

 saddles, aparejos, and so forth. Their silk 

 and waterproof tents and sleeping bags are 

 becoming more and more famous all the 

 time. If you have not one of their cata- 

 logues, it is high time you should get one. 

 In writing for it, do not forget to mention 

 Recreation, for thereby you make another 

 mark to the credit of this magazine. 



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