Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1894 — CHASING THE DUOK IN STYLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHASING THE DUOK IN STYLE

Sportsman can Now Paddle fifing Their Game in a Pnuematic Boat. New York Sun. Sportsmen whose tastes induce then! to seek duck and other waterfowl as a quarry should feel particularly happy this season. They are being catered to in a way which promises to render their amusement as comfortable as watching a kinetoscope fight, and after some little experience they may even dispense with the luxury of a yacht. The innovation which is to work this tran formation among aquatid marksmen is a pnuematie boat which can be carried around as a small parcel when not in use. When duly inflated and ready for active service the new sporting craft presents the appearance of a circular soup tureen on feet. The marksman gets inside and having adjusted his feet in the rubber boots attached to the boat, he has only to paduie away and enjoy himself. The outfit is completed by a storm cape, which protects the sportsman from the chin down and practically encloses him in a waterproof suit.

The effect is not very impressive from an artistic point of view, but as an antidote to rheumatism and other ills which victimise hunters of water fowl, it has a practical appearance which looks encouraging. Having shut in everything but his head and gun, the sportsmati may still further impose on the watchful game by filling the loups around the boat with whatever he deems best adapted to screen him from the eves of his future victims. Foliage" from the bank, artificial flowers, old newspapers, or, in fact, anything which is not transparent, will suffice to complete his bower. The outfit exclusive of the trimmings referred to, weighs only twenty pounds. The boat is made in four compartments and is of rubber duck cloth. The boots,- which take the place of a yacht’s centreboard, are provided with fins, by the expert use of which a duck shooter may attain i fair speed in his voyages. (The disappointment of a light bag may thus be modified by a race against time to the nearest landing point, and the idea might be worked into a tournament by clubs to relieve the monotony of off days.

BOAT WITHOUT STORM CAPE.

BOAT WITH STORM CAPE,