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A^IERICAN FORESTRY 



DR. W. T. HORNADAY. 



A leading member of The Camp Fire Club of America and director of 

 the New York Zoological Society. 



it, and approved the suggestion. The 

 lessees exerted their influence on him 

 as they had so successfully done on ^Ir. 

 Blaine, but in vain. Had John Hay not 

 fallen ill, March 1-i, 1905, this treaty of 

 today, the "Hay-Elliott" Treaty of 

 March 7-17, 1905, would have been in 

 effect by June, 1905. 



Mr. Hay's death, July 1, 1905, put the 

 lessees into the saddle again, and not a 

 move to disturb them was made by tl(ie 

 officialism in charge of this business un- 

 til they had nearly finished the full term 

 of their twenty-year lease, in 19(»9, and 

 then attempted to have it renewed with 



the full consent and approval of the 

 Secretary of Commerce and Labor, Mr. 

 Xagel. 



Then the trouble began for Nagel, 

 and incidentally for Knox. When the 

 semi-official press dispatches from Nagel 

 carried the news that he was about to re- 

 new that seal lease, the Camp Fire Club 

 of America, aroused by its sinister im- 

 port, warned Nagel not to do it; it is- 

 sued an appeal to the country which 

 was extensively published December 12, 

 1909; this publication set forth the rea- 

 sons why that lease was one of the chief 

 causes of destruction of the seal herd, 



