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showing that 5,000 deer were killed in the 

 Adirondacks during 1895, and they officially 

 expressed the opinion that both jacking and 

 hounding should be prohibited ; but despite 

 such endorsement, and the most strenuous 

 efforts of the friends of the bills, they failed to 

 pass. Some of the arguments used against 

 the measures were, that the proposed legisla- 

 tion was in the interest of a few rich men who 

 owned large preserves ; that it would injure 

 the business of the guides and the hotels ; and 

 that the deer, under the existing law, were in- 

 creasing so rapidly that there was not food 

 enough for them in winter, so that many 

 starved to death. With such statements, mem- 

 bers from certain" Adirondack counties made 

 an earnest personal appeal against the bills, 

 and it was found that it would be impossible 

 to secure their passage. 



A compromise measure was, therefore, 

 framed, which left the open season unchanged, 

 but prohibited hounding and jacking, except 

 between the ist and 15th days of October; 

 and this measure, notwithstanding a most de- 

 termined opposition, was passed, and received 

 the Governor's signature. 



In the autumn of 1895 I was a candidate 



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