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THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BCiLER. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[JUNE 9, 1906. 

Nearly 1500 in use. 
250 pounds of steam. Handsome catalugue free. 
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Cable Address: Bruniva, New York. Telephone Address: 599 Cortlandt. 
THE ROBERTS SAFETY WATER TUBE BOILER COMPANY, 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street, New York. 


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Prince” 
14 foot row boat, as 
illustrated. Complete 
with ore pair oars $80.00, 
13 H.P.,$33.15, Engine Only 
3 H.P., $44.00, Engine Only 
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ew odel, 1906. : 
CONVERT YOUR ROW BOAT INTO A SPEED LAUNCH. 
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material is tested on a testing machine, and every motor goes to the 
user without excuses, under the positive guarantee of the maker. 
The DETROIT AUTO=MARINE MOTOR, New Model, 1906. 
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For stationary power purposes we equip these engines with the 
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one of the most satisfactory gasoline engines for power purposes 
built. Write for catalog describing Auto-Marine Motors, 1 to 20 
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95 Liberty Street, New York. The Bourse, Philadelphia. 
The only builders of Auto-Marine engines in the world. 
Canoe Handling and Sailing. 
The Canoe: History, Uses, Limitations and Va- 
rieties, Practical Management and Care, and 
Relative Facts. By C. Bowyer Vaux(“Dot’’). 
Illustrated. Cloth, 168 pages. Price, $1.00. 
New and revised edition, with additional 
matter, 
A complete manual for the management of the 
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Small Yacht Construction 
and Rigging. 
A complete manual of practical Boat and Small Yacht 
Building. With two complete designs and numerous 
diagrams and details. By Linton Hope. 177 pages. 
Cloth. Price, $3. : 
The author has taken two designs for practical demon- 
stration, one of a centerboard boat 19ft. waterline and 
the other a cruising cutter of 23ft. waterline. Both de- 
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American requirements. Full instructions, even to the 
minutest detail, are given for the building of both these 
boats. The information is not confined to these yachts 
alone; they are merely taken as examples; but what is 
said applies to all wooden yacht building according to the 
best and most approved methods. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 
Manual of the Canvas Canoe, 
By F. R. Webb (“Commodore’’). Many illustra- 
tions of designs and plans of canvas caroes 
and their parts. Two large, full-sized work- 
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Cloth.. 115 pages. Price, $1.25. 
This interesting manual of how to build, cruise 
and live in a canvas canoe is written by one of the 
most enthusiastic of the older generation of canoe- 
ists, who has had a long experience of cruising 
on the Shenandoah River, and of building the 
boats best adapted to such river cruising. With 
the help of this volume, aided by its abundant 
plans and illustrations, any boy or man who has 
a little mechanical skill can turn out for himself 
at trifling expense a canoe alike durable and 
beautiful. 
Contents:. Practical Construction. Cost. Specifica- 
tions. Working Plans and Patterns. Putting on the 
Canvas. Painting.,-Finishing. Camp Equipment. Hints 
on Cruising and Camping. Hints on Camp ‘Cooking. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING CO. 

Gas Engines and Launches. 
Their Principles, Types and Management. 
K. Grain. 123 pages. Price, $1.25. 
By Francis 
Here is a pocket manual indispensable to every man 
who uses a motor-boat. It deals in simple untechnical 
fashion with the running of the marine gas engine, and 
with the difficulties that the marine gas engineer is likely 
to meet with. These engines are described, some pages 
are devoted to launches in general, with practical advice 
to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a-clear descrip- 
tion of the difficulties met with in running a gas engine, 
their causes and how to remedy them. In this discussion 
all technicalities are avoided, and the author has boiled 
down a vast amount of practical knowledge into small 
space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
boat man needs this book, for it will save him much time 
and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
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346 Broadway, New York 
Bear and Boot Heel. 
In 1878, after Fort Custer was built, I took up 
a ranch on the headwater of Tongue River, 
Mont. My place was on Wolf Creek, at the foot 
of the Big Horn Mountains. The country being 
new and very little hunting done, myself and 
John Jacoby had the country to ourselves. Elk, 
bear, buffalo and deer were plentiful. Jacoby 
was one of the best hunters I ever saw. He knew 
no fear of man or beast. You have often heard 
of how the President and John Goff killed bear 
and lions with a butcher knife. Now, did you 
ever hear of a man killing a bear with his boot 
heel? Well, Jacoby killed our bear, seven miles 
up Wolf Creek where I had some little pigs in 
a pen, Bears are very fond of pork, so no mat- 
ter how we fixed the pig pen, every morning one 
of my pigs was gone. Jacoby said: “Look here, 
Charlie, I will find that bear and have his hide 
before night.” 
As we were good trailers we soon found our 
bear, seven miles up Wolf Creek cafion. We saw 
him sunning himself after his pork chops break- 
fast. Jacoby was on the side of the cafidn the 
bear was, so we slipped up within 100 yards of 
his bearship. But he saw us at the same time. 
The bear was looking at me across the cafion. 
Jacoby fired and the bear fell, being shot through 
the back. When the hunter walked up to him 
Mr. Bear made a dash for Jacoby. In turning to 
run the latter slipped and fell, his gun flew out of 
his hand and the bear after him. Not being a 
fast runner the bear was gaining on him, so 
Jacoby jumped up on a large bowlder, but the 
bear could not climb, as he had only his front 
feet. Consequently he could only make a grab 
with one foot at Jacoby’s legs. I was hurrying 
as fast as I could to help him. There I saw the 
most laughable sight that I ever saw in a bear 
fight, 
Jacoby was standing on the rock with his boot 
in one hand—a very heavy miner’s boot with 
steel heel taps. He struck the bear square on the 
head and stunned him, so that he rolled down 
the hill and Jacoby ran and got his gun, still with 
his boot in his hand. I hollered to him to shoot. 
He said: “I won't waste another shell. I will 
kill the bear with my boot heel.’ And before 
the bear came to he hammered that bear’s skull 
into a jelly. Now, if any bear hunter can beat 
this trot yourself to the front. That is a true 
story, but some will doubt it—Cincinnati En- 
quirer. 

A NUMBER of martins take delight in hovering 
around the electric light. Friday a couple of 
these birds built a nest over one of the suspended 
lamps on Commerce street and when the light 
was started last evening. the birds were pretty 
well scorched. The lamp had to be lowered and 
the birds taken out.—Bridgeton (N.J.) Chronicle. 

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