576 TESTIMONY. 



That tlie fur-seal skin business had become an important industry in 



T7„„iioii ^,T.i+<.i the city of London in whicli a hirce amount of capital 



was invested and a large nuniber ol workmen employed, 



Labor employed. amounting, including the dressers, dyers, handlers, and 



persons employed in the manufactories of the furriers, to about 3,000. 



It is difiBcnlt to make any correct estimate of the number of people so 



employed, but deponent says that he has recently had occasion to look 



into the question in his capacity as master of the Skinners' Company 



and he believes the above hgure to be substantially correct. 



That a large number of persons so employed are skilled laborers and 

 most of them have families dependent upon their labors for their sup- 

 port. The wages paid in some cases are as high as £3 or £4 a week, 

 and perhaps the average wages of the whole number may be safely 

 estimated at £1 per week. That many of these persons know no other 

 business than that in which they are at present engaged. 

 That the continual existence of the fur-seal business is dependent, in 

 deponent's judgment, upon the X)reservation of the seal 

 sirabie ^*^ ^"^^^"^ '^^ herds frequenting the Kortheru Pacific regions, and it 

 is also a most important element in the industry that 

 the supply of seal skins coming to the market each year should be 

 regular and constant. 

 That deponent further says that some regulations are necessary for 

 the preservation of the seal herds frequenting the 

 ^jrotection neces- ^N^orthem Paciflc rcgiou, because it is a well known 

 ^'''^^" fact that in the absence of any such regulations the 



seal herds which were formerly found in the South Atlantic and Pa- 

 cific Seas have been practically exterminated. 



On the Lobos Islands and in New Zealand governmental regulations 

 exist, and I am told, although I know nothing about 

 ^^^^uiations else- |^^ ^^^^^. regnhitious of soiiic kind have been made in 

 the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 



W. C. E. Stamp. 



Sworn at the Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, in the city of Loudon, 

 England, this 14th day of June, 1892, before me. 

 [seal.] Francis W. Frigout, 



Vice and Deputy Consul- Genera I of the 

 United iStates of America at London, Enyland. 



Deposition of E mil Teivhmann, furrier, London. 



GENERAL SEALSKIN INDUSTRY. 



Emil Teichmann, being duly sworn, doth depose as follows: 

 First. That he is 46 years of age, a native ot the Kingdom of Wurtem- 

 berg, and is noAV a naturalized subject of Her Britannic Majesty. 



That since the age of manhood lie has been engaged in the tur busi- 

 ness; that from 1800 to 1868, inclusive, he resided in America in that 

 business, and since 1868 he has resided in England and done business 

 in the city of London, and is now and has continually been during all 

 these years engaged in one way or another in the fur business. That 

 he is now a member of the firm of C. M. Lampson & Co., and has been 

 a member of such firm for the period of twelve years last past. That 

 prior to the time he became a member of such firm and from the years 



