12 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
Sportsmen’s Club of Grand Rapids says its President cannot 
make a speech, thus intimating that I can. I will say that while 
President Felger is too diffident to talk he is one of the finest 
shots in Michigan and takes pleasure in trying to teach me how 
to shoot, so that I am pleased to do some one thing better than he 
can. While not professing to be a public speaker I am inspired 
by the eloquence of your President and our Mayor, who preceded 
me, to say, that we are glad your Society has come to Grand 
Rapids to hold its annual meeting. I am connected with the 
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Company, which has always 
taken great interest and done much for the propagation of fish 
in Michigan and we welcome any effort to increase and maintain 
the finny tribe in our waters. The people of Grand Rapids and 
Michigan would be astonished and pleased to know the wealth 
the State gains by her fisheries; to know the number of people 
who come into the state only because it is a place to fish and be- 
cause it has the “Fishing Line” to bring them. Tourists coming 
to Michigan to fish do not have to be told “when they go to a 
certain place that they should have gone over to the other place.” 
They can catch fish anywhere in our rivers and lakes. 
Our Mayor calls attenticn to “This being your noon hour” 
and I will not detain you longer because after becoming better 
acquainted with you, will be able to talk more interestingly to 
you, but on behalf of the Sportsmen’s Club I welcome you to 
Grand Rapids and hope your visit will be pleasant and the ob- 
ject of your Society materially advanced by your presence and 
stay among us. 
The registered attendance at the meeting of the society is as 
follows: 
Alford, Jabe, Madison, Wis. 
Atkins, Chas. G., Hast Orland, Maine. 
Avery, Charles, Hutchinson, Minn. 
Bartlett, S. P., Quincy, Ill. 
Bassett, C. R., Paw Paw, Mich. 
Bean, Tarleton H., New York City. 
Birge, E. A., Madison, Wis. 
Boardman, W. H., Central Falls, R. I. 
Bower, Seymour, Detroit, Mich. 
