The Boone and Crockett Club 



"offense" for which a member may be suspended 

 or expelled from the Club. 



Forest and Stream had for some years carried 

 on a bitter war against water-killing deer, and 

 on this account had become very unpopular in the 

 Adirondacks. Bills introduced by the late Gen. 

 Newton Martin Curtiss had many times been 

 defeated, although one of them had been passed 

 and for a short time became law. There was a 

 constant struggle between the two parties in the 

 Legislature, one desiring to put an end to the 

 practice, the other to have it continued. 



Early in 1897 bills were introduced, one by 

 Hon. Wm. Gary Sanger, a member of the Club, 

 forbidding the use of dogs for hunting deer at 

 any time, and also forbidding owners of dogs to 

 permit them to run at large. This bill was intro- 

 duced at Mr. Grant's request, but was subsequently 

 withdrawn in favor of the Ives bill, introduced a 

 week later, January 20, which forbade fire-hunting, 

 the use of traps or salt licks, the use of dogs in 

 hunting deer, or permitting such dogs to run at 

 large. This bill, earnestly pressed by the Boone 

 and Crockett Club, finally became a law, and the 

 hounding, and so the water-killing of deer ended. 



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