ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



THE MILITANT MARY LOUISE IN A NON-MILITANT MOOD 



vacation by filling his game hag with slaughtered song birds. It cost the 

 policeman in fines $190.00 plus court fees. For the five months beginning 

 September, 1919. the fines accruing from arrests made bv Warden Schultze 

 totaled respectively $290.00, $345.00, $120.00, $240.00 and $200.00. It is 

 easy to believe that Schultze made good use of the tin Lizzie furnished him 

 by the Division. It is hinted that two additional machines are to be used 

 in the Chicago District this Spring. 



The efficient wardens named above are three of the fifteen wardens in 

 the district of which Inspector Edward St. Clair is in charge. This in- 

 cludes, Lake. Cook. Mc Henry. DuPage and Kankakee Counties. In- 

 spector St. Clair's office is in the Kimball Building at 25 E. Jackson Blvd., 

 Chicago. A splendid collection of mounted specimens with photographic 

 backgrounds has been installed here and the office is fast becoming head- 

 quarters for information about bird life of the area. Mr. St. Clair is proud 

 of the record of law enforcement his district has achieved and with good 

 right. The most notable achievement of the year in his district was the 

 setting aside of Fox Lake as a refuge or rest for water fowl and other 

 birds. In August the Inspector and his associates secured the necessary 

 signatures of residents of the Fox Lake area to a petition and Chief Game 

 \\ arden Bradford proclaimed the lake a Refuge, September 1st. Now 

 Fox Lake is about five and one-half miles long and two and one-half 

 miles wide and it must have been a great surprise to the migratory host of 

 wild fowl to find that they could float anywhere on this fine stretch of 

 water or feed along its margin without molestation. The record of what 

 happened soon after the area was placarded and the Warden's motor boat, 

 the Mary Louise, began to cruise about the lake is remarkable, to say the 

 least. The accompanying photograph taken within twenty feet of wild 

 birds tells the story. These birds avoided nearby lakes — Grass. Channel, 

 Marie and others where hunting was legal and lingered long in the Fox 

 Lake refuge. A new sport was then inaugurated on Fox Lake, that of 

 hunting without a gun. As many as four hundred canoes and motor boats 

 filled with sight-seers would be out on the lake at one time threading 

 their way among squadrons of wild fowl and enjoying the rare spectacle of 

 wild life at close-up range. 



Publicity should be given throughout the state to what has happened 

 at Fox Lake. The division of Game and Fish has shown in the most con- 



