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Description

(No Mod'el.)

F. H BRISTOW.

GAME.

` No. 393,291. Patented' Nov. 2o, 1888-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. BRISTOW, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of I .etters Patent N o. 393,291, dated November 20,

Application filed February 6, 1888.

To aJZZ whom it may concern:

.Be it known that I, FRANK H. BEIsrow, a citizen of the United Statesresiding atBrooklyn, county ofKings, and State of New York, have invented a Novelty in Games,- of which the following is a specitcation.

This invention relates to a game similar to that known as checkers7 or draughts,and like it is played between and by two persons, each player having a set of twelve checkers or men termed, respectively, Democrats and Republicans, and the object of the player is to move his men so'that one of them (previously nominated or selected) will succeed 1n reaching au indicated square on the opposite side of the table or board from which the opposing partys nominee starts, in which case he wins the game, and that partys nominee is said to have been elected. The men are moved and jump or take opposing men when the opportunity offers the same as in checkers. Two additional men are also used, representing Labor and Prohibition parties, their object being to impede and destroy as many men as possible by jumping or taking, and as they can only move by jumping they are stationary until meu of either party happen to be placed next to them, which they must jump.- The man jumped or taken is removed from the board, with the exception of the two nominees. These must be returned to their starting-point. l

In the accompanying drawing, which forms `a part of this specification, the arrangement of the men upon the board, is plainly shown. The board or table A is divided into sixty-four squares, thirty-two of which (shown shaded at B to represent color) are used, the remaining thirty-two being blank, as shown at C. The al-A ternate arrangement of squares B and Gis well known as the ordinary checkenboard The checkers or men D, or Democrats, are arranged Serial No. 263,100. (No model.)

in order on the squares on one side shown shaded,and the men R, or Republicans, are similarly arranged on the other side, the squares B', indicated by the star shown,being covered by -the nominees of their respective parties. The men l? and L,representingthe Labor and Prohibition parties, are placed, as shown, between the two contending parties, and are permitted movement by jumping (in any direction on the squares B) any man that comes near them,except each other,while they themselves cannot be jumped. The men D and R, however, may only move in the direction of the opposite party, with the obj ect, as before stated, of placing their nominee on the star square of the rear line on the opposite side.

The men may be represented,as in checkers, by pieces of wood or other material suitably shaped, having upon them the names or photographs of prominent politicians, and their parties designated by different colors, such as White for Democrats, black for Republicans, blue for Prohibitionists, and red for Labor. Any two men of the two large parties on be ing nominated are placed on the star-square, and the game, which I term Political checkers,77 proceeds as already described.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A game apparatus similar to checkers or draughts, consisting of a checkered or equivalent eld, two sets of pieces (men) of different color, each set having pictures, names, or other designations upon them, and two additional pieces, (mem) also of different color, with other pictures, names, or designations upon them, as and for the purpose explained.

FRANK H. BRISTOW.

Witnesses:

HERBERT KNIGHT, HAZTE V. BIDGooD.

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