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route. A copy will be given to each lady 

 patron of the dining cars, and persons not 

 fortunate enough to travel on the Central 

 may get copies by writing Geo. H. Daniels, 

 Grand Central Station, N. Y. 



Here is a partial list of the good quali- 

 ties of the new Mullins sheet metal boats: 



They do not become water soaked. 



They do not have to be calked. 



They do not have to be housed or stored 

 away. 



They can not sink. 



They are lighter and run easier than any 

 wooden boat. 



They will outwear any wooden boat. 



They are the safest boats afloat. 



They are the handsomest boats afloat. 



They are the best boats on the market. 



One of them will last a lifetime. 



They are the cheapest boats on the mar- 

 ket. 



Recreation readers are cautioned against 

 sending money to the Magniscope Rifle 

 Sight Co., of York, Neb. The former 

 managers of that concern, J. A. Coxe and 

 W. G. Boyer, have proven thoroughly un- 

 reliable. They have failed to fill some of 

 the orders entrusted to them by Recrea- 

 tion readers, and have failed to make good 

 their guarantees in other cases. Further- 

 more, they now owe me $80 for advertising 

 in Recreation, and refuse to pay their bill. 

 C. A. Schrandt writes me that he has 

 bought out the business, yet he declines to 

 fill certain orders, or to make good certain 

 obligations of his predecessors. 



The Chicago & Alton railway has issued 

 a beautiful little book entitled "People You 

 Meet in the Dining-Car." Dudley Walker, 

 the advertising manager of the Alton, is a 

 genius, and is always getting up something 

 new and novel ; but in this case he has out- 

 done himself. He has produced here some 

 real gems of the photographer's art and 

 some exceedingly bright bits of text to 

 accompany them. The picture of the girl 

 on page 11 is alone worth the price of a 

 ticket from Chicago to St. Louis, yet you 

 can get the whole book by writing a re- 

 quest for it on a postal card and mention- 

 ing Recreation. 



' Geo. T. Tomlinson, of Syracuse, N. Y., 

 who is well known to thousands of sports- 

 men as the former manufacturer of the 

 Tomlinson gun cleaner, has secured the 

 patents on a recently invented automatic 

 fishing reel, and is organizing a stock com- 

 pany for the purpose of making and putting 

 them on the market. The prospectus which 

 Mr. Tomlinson is sending out is attractive 

 and interesting and it would be well for 

 sportsmen who are interested in the reel 

 problem to get a copy of it. Mr. Tomlin- 



son refers to 2 of the Syracuse banks, so 

 that there may be no question as to his 

 reliability. 



Every sportsman needs a corkscrew that 

 will draw a cork clean and unbroken. The 

 Yankee cork puller is an ingenious device 

 that can be fastened against any upright 

 surface and that will remove and automat- 

 ically discharge the most stubborn cork 

 without effort, leaving no broken bits in 

 the bottle. If you can not find the Yankee 

 corkpuller at the hardware stores, write 

 the Gilchrist Company, 125 Lafayette 

 street, Newark, N. J. 



Persons looking for places in which to 

 spend the summer or autumn months should 

 read the ad of the New Hermitage hotel 

 in this issue of Recreation. The hotel is 

 located at Lake Bonaparte, in the heart of 

 the Adirondack mountains, and is surround- 

 ed with forests, lakes and streams that af- 

 ford capital opportunities for the enjoyment 

 of the open season. You can get a beauti- 

 fully illustrated pamphlet showing many 

 views of surrounding points of itnerest by 

 addressing David Scanlin, Bonaparte, 

 N. Y., and mentioning Recreation. 



The Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N. Y., 

 has issued a new catalogue illustrating and 

 describing some of its new and some of its 

 older models of Hawkeye cameras. The 

 book is elaborately illustrated, the text is 

 full and complete and any one interested 

 in outdoor photography Can get many valu- 

 able points from this little book. Send for 

 a copy of it and say you saw it mentioned 

 in Recreation. 



Minneapolis, Minn. 

 The Mitchell M'f'g Co., 



London, Ohio. 

 Dear Sirs : 



The J. C. hand trap received, through 

 Recreation, and I am much pleased with 

 it. The first time I used it I got 29 out 

 of 30 clay birds. 



Truly yours, O. L. Solberg. 



Messrs. Spratts Patent tell me they 

 penned, fitted up and fed the Coshocton dog 

 show, in March, also the Chicago, Buffalo 

 and Atlantic City dog shows ; in all of 

 which their work was, as usual, most suc- 

 cessful. The week following the show at 

 Atlantic City they put up, on Young's ocean 

 pier, a cat, cavy and pet stock exhibition. 



The Hopkins & Allen Arms Co., of Nor- 

 wich, Conn., has issued a new catalogue of 

 shot guns, rifles and revolvers which will 

 interest all sportsmen who are looking for 

 good serviceable firearms at the lowest pos- 

 sible price. Write for a copy of it and 

 mention Recreation. 



