SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 199 



Mr. Leopold, 7 new game protective organizations were created 

 at the following places: Silver City, Carlsbad, Magdalena, Ros- 

 well, Cloudcroft, Taos and Raton. A campaign periodical called 

 "The Pine Cone" was started, and about 2 00 campaign articles 

 were published in New Mexican newspapers. 



Jan. 1. — A new law was scheduled to go into effect in Italy on this 

 date prohibiting the killing of any song and insectivorous birds 

 for food. This is a revolutionary step. Just how it was made 

 . has not yet been discovered. 



Jan. 3. — Edw. Cotulla, Special Deputy Collector of Customs at 

 Laredo, Texas, received an entry for transportation in bond 

 from New York to Laredo, covering four cases of feathers de- 

 scribed as "light plumes," valued at £1,856. 17s. 6d., and con- 

 signed to Abraham Kallman, Mexico City, Mexico. 



Jan.. 4-5. — Senator George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon, and Repre- 

 sentative Carl Hayden, of Arizona, introduced in their re- 

 spective Houses of Congress a bill for the creation of game 

 sanctuaries in National Forests, closely following the lines of 

 "the Hornaday plan" as set forth and supported in the West. 

 (S. 3,044; H. R. 6,681). The Senate Bill was referred to the 

 Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of 

 Game, and the house bill went to the Committee on Agri- 

 culture. 



Jan. 10. — Maps were furnished by three districts of the Forest Ser- 

 vice showing that Colorado and Wyoming should have 2 6 game 

 sanctuaries, Oregon and Washington, 18, and New Mexico and 

 Arizona, 13. 



Jan. 15. — Bulletin No. 2 of the Permanent Fund was published "for 

 the information of Congress," in support of the game sanctu- 

 ary cause. 



Jan. 15. — The Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund assisted in or- 

 ganizing the National Educators Conservation Society at the 

 Hotel Belmont, New York City. Officers for first year: Presi- 

 dent, Prof. Charles L. Bristol (N. Y. University) ; First Vice- 

 President, for Wild Life, Prof. James E. Peabody (Morris High 

 School) ; Second Vice-President, for Forestry, Prof. James W. 

 Tourney (Yale Forest School); Secretary, Nomer Gray (P. S. 

 62, i\ew York); Treasurer, Jacob Holman; Chief Counselor, 

 W. T. Hornaday; Attorney, Abraham Goodman. 



This organization is intended to arouse the professional 

 teachers of the United States to the necessity of entering act- 

 ively into the practical work of promoting the protection and 

 increase of our wild life and forests. 



Jan. 2 2. — Four packages of feathers, unopened, were exported into 

 Mexico at Laredo, Texas, via the International Foot Bridge. 



Jan. 2 8. — A large trunk believed to contain the "light plumes" ex- 

 ported in bond to Mexico by Abraham Kallman, was smuggled 

 across the Rio Grande at a ford about two miles from the city 

 of Laredo, and hidden in the underbrush on the American side. 

 Mounted Customs Inspectors Robert Rumsey, Jr., and John C. 

 Chamberlain observed the operation, and kept the trunk under 

 constant surveillance. 



