BULLETIN NUMBER ONE 13 



issued The Statement, last January, with $48,000 to be 

 found. During all that long period our "pride" has been 

 locked up in a dark closet, and our "feelings" have been 

 torn to shreds by surprises and disappointments ! 



But the end is worth the effort — a hundred times over. 

 Our belief that the best people will continue to stand by 

 our wild life has again been justified by a fine result. Like 

 Mercutio's wound, "Tis not so wide as a church door, nor 

 so deep as a well ; but it is enough." 



We can "get along" on $5,500 per year for campaign ex- 

 penses ; and we will ! While we could to excellent advantage 

 expend fully $10,000 per year in the defense of wild life, we 

 will ask for no more. If any more funds are offered us, 

 either for our endownment, or for annual campaign work, 

 we will thankfully accept it and put it to work. I do enter- 

 tain the hope that many persons who thus far have given 

 nothing to the wild life cause will some day, in some man- 

 ner, be impelled to do something. We hope that voluntary 

 subscriptions and bequests will some day increase our en- 

 downment fund to $200,000; but we refrain from asking 

 for more. Let us thankfully make use of the power that 

 has been given us. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS SINCE PUBLICATION OF "THE 



STATEMENT" 



SUBSCRIPTIONS INCREASED 



Mrs. Russell Sage, New York $15,000 



William P. Clyde, New York 4,000 



John D. Archbold, New York. 4,000 



William H. Nichols, New York 4,000 



George F. Baker, New York 4,000 



George D. Pratt, New York 2,000 



Miss Heloise Meyer, Lenox, Mass 1,000 



Edward S. Harkness, New York 700 



