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RECREATION. 



persons known to be engaged in the busi- 

 ness. For equally well-considered reasons 

 the fixing of responsibility for failure to 

 attack this evil vigorously was not placed 

 on individuals, but was charged to the 

 Game Society collectively. 



However, if Kelley or any other official 

 of the Society doubts my sincerity or the 

 accuracy of my statements, a mere word to 

 the editor of Recreation will result in 

 placing before the public not only the de- 

 tails purposely omitted, but certain other 

 facts connected with the subject which 

 may prove entertaining and instructive. 



The license fee for hunting big game in 

 Nova Scotia is $40. Big game means 

 moose, as caribou are practically extinct 

 and the few deer are under timely protec- 

 tion. This fee seems large to an American 

 familiar with the rival claims of Maine and 

 New Brunswick, where the fee is less. 

 Still, no one but a poor type of sportsman 

 would enter the Province to hunt and evade 

 the fee which the law imposes. I join 

 heartily in all the invectives Kelley heaps 

 on this class of Americans wherever mer- 

 ited, though I can but feel, as Kelley waxes 

 wroth over the matter, that it is the loss of 

 his coveted commissions rather than the 

 actual law breaking which moves him so 

 deeply. If the Game Society would only 

 demonstrate its efficiency by correcting this 

 abuse, as well as that of snaring, it would 

 merit and receive the commendation of all 

 law-abiding American sportsmen. 



I do not wish to be understood as belit- 

 tling Mr. Kelley's work. He is evidently 

 an active, pushing sort of man who, once 

 started on an undertaking, perseveres to 

 the end. His success in acquiring a corner 

 on license fees demonstrates this fact, and I 

 hope his 2 convictions of last year may only 

 be the forerunners of many to follow. His 

 slurs on the standing or sincerity of a man 

 who, though an American, is laboring faith- 

 fully and honestly in the good work of 

 game preservation in Nova Scotia are in 

 bad taste. 



Ernest Russell, Worcester, Mass. 



NEW PATENT TENTS. 

 720,344. — Canvas Covered Knockdown 

 House. John H. Hagedorn, Cleveland, 

 Ohio. Filed July 15, 1902. Serial No. 

 115,645. (No model.) 

 Claim. — 1. The framework for a canvas 

 house comprising the upper and lower hor- 

 izontal pieces, metallic straps uniting said 

 pieces at their corners, and sockets for the 

 corner posts formed within such corner 

 straps, top and bottom. 



2. The frame described having base 

 pieces with sockets in their corners and 

 straps on the outside connecting said pieces 

 around said sockets, the top pieces of said 



frame having inside and outside straps con- 

 necting their corners and the inner of said 

 straps bent to form a socket in its angle, 

 and the corner posts socketed within said 

 straps, top and bottom. 



3 A suitable frame having vertical sides, 

 in combination with a canvas covering the 



side of said frame formed in a single piece 

 and provided with openings between its 

 ends for windows, and having buttonholes 

 to fasten it upon said frame. 



4. A suitable frame having a truss on the 

 top thereof, in combination with a canvas 

 top stretched over said truss and having 

 an inside flap with buttonholes to secure it 

 upon the top of the frame, and the said 

 canvas top overlapping the lower edge of 

 said flap, and the buttons to which it is se- 

 cured, thereby shedding the water, and the 

 side wall of the house overlapped by said 

 top. 



5. A suitable skeleton frame and a can- 

 vas wall having openings for windows, and 

 a covering for said windows consisting of 

 an awning having buttonholes in its edges 

 adapted to be fastened down upon the win- 

 dow and closing the same, said awning pro- 

 vided with a suitable brace at its bottom to 

 hold it open. 



6. The house substantially as described, 

 having a canvas wall with window open- 

 ings and a framework about said openings, 

 provided with buttons, and a window 

 screen having buttonholes in its edges en- 

 gaged on said buttons. 



721,993. Tent, Canopy, or Awning. Effie 

 Arnett, Lincoln, Neb. Filed March 20, 

 1902. Serial No. 99,158. (No model.) 

 Claim. — 1. The combination with a sup- 

 porting frame having oppositely extending 



