XXVI 



RECREATION. 



The Wisdom 



of selecting a beverage 

 with care as to its purity 

 and quality must be ap- 

 parent to everyone. 



Champagne 



— the sloudiu'd of American wines 



is the • choicest, purest 

 Product of the grape, 

 without a superior under 

 any label, foreign or 

 domestic. 



"Of th© six American 

 Champagnes exhibit- 

 ed at the Paris Expo- 

 sition of 1900, the 

 GREAT WESTERN 

 was tKe only one 

 that received a GOLD 

 MEDAL." 



Pleasant Valley Wine Co. 



Sole Makers, Rheims, N. Y. 



Sold by respectable wine dealers everywhere 



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 SQUARE 



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Luxurious rooms, single or en suite. European Plan 

 Exclusively. Excellent cuisine and fine orchestra. 

 Centrally located and convenient to theatres and shop- 

 ping districts, at the same time being in the most refined 

 part of the city. Two minutes from Back Bay sta- 

 tion of N. Y., IS. H. & If. R. R., and Huntington 

 Avenue Station of N. Y. C. & If. R. R. R. and 

 B. & 4. R. R. Rates from $ 1 .OO per day and up. 



E. W. BOYCE, Manajcr. 



MORE PROTESTS AGAINST THE 

 AUTOMATIC GUN. 



Winchester Arms Co., 

 New Plaven, Conn. 



Gentlemen : 



I am not a fanatic on game protection, 

 but I am an ardent lover of the gun and 

 rod. Without the game, I should have no 

 interest in the gun, and it looks to thinking 

 people as if the gun makers are determined 

 to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. 



Upland game birds and wild fowl are 

 every year becoming fewer and fewer, and 

 were it not for such men as G. O. Shields 

 and such associations as the League of 

 American Sportsmen guns would soon be 

 useless, as far as game is concerned. If you 

 put an automatic shot gun' on the market, it 

 will be but little use for Mr. Shields or any 

 other person or association to try further 

 to preserve or increase the feathered tribe. 



There is but one of 2 things to be done, 

 if you insist on putting an automatic shot 

 gun on the market. One is, to give up and 

 let our game birds be exterminated. The 

 other is for the L. A. S. to have laws passed 

 prohibiting the use of such guns. I am 

 sure I should have no trouble in getting 

 such an act passed by the Legislature of 

 this State. 



No. sportsman would want such a gun. 

 None but pot hunters and market hunters 

 would use them. 



As the L. A. S. is spending money and 

 time to put such men out of business, wc 

 do not want such weapons put in their 

 hands. We hope, therefore, you will not put 

 such a gun on the market. Yours respect- 

 fully, > C. F. Dill, 



Chief Warden, S. C. Division, L. A. S. 



Saginaw, Mich. 

 Winchester Repeating Arms Co., 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Gentlemen : 



The Saginaw Evening News, last Satur- 

 day, contained an editorial, and a good 

 strong one, against the use of automatic 

 shot guns. 



I register my protest against putting 

 on the market an automatic shot gun. 

 A pump gun is damnable enough, the 

 weapon of pot hunters and market hunters. 

 Of course, it sells, and you are in business 

 to make money, but there is no necessity 

 for going any farther. There is no need of 

 an automatic gun. Do have some senti- 

 ment. Think of the protection of our feath- 

 ered game, and discourage, instead of en- 

 couraging, the making of such instruments 

 of murder. A business like yours will be 

 narrowed down, in the long run, if you put 

 an automatic gun on the market, for it 

 would only be a year or 2 before all the 

 game birds would be completely cleaned 

 out by the use of it, and the field that you 

 now occupy by catering to the' sportsmen, 

 by selling good shot guns and shot gun 

 ammunition, would be closed. Yours truly, 



W. B. Mershon. 



