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that memorable subscription list will appear in full later 

 on in this Statement. 



The campaign then inaugurated attracted the support of 

 many organized bodies of protectors and sportsmen. In the 

 end, the opposition was swept off its feet as if by a tidal 

 wave. The "too drastic" measures that were proposed were 

 driven through the legislature by an overwhelming tide of 

 public sentiment, and "the Bayne Law" was the result. The 

 passage of that law was the signal for a masterful recodifi- 

 cation of the game and fish laws of New York, for the enact- 

 ment of a Bayne law in Massachusetts, a nearry similar 

 law in California, and a vastly improved new code in 

 Louisiana. 



Without that $5,023 it is extremely probable that not one 

 of those five great reforms would have been carried into 

 effect by this date. The total fund raised and expended in 

 those campaigns by the writer alone amounted to about 

 $8,000, which was only $1,000 short of the sum asked for 

 in the first forlorn-hope circular. 



Having learned the enormous potential value of a wise 

 distribution of campaign funds at critical moments, in 1912 

 it began to seem impossible to live without sufficient funds 

 to meet the demands of each year. Many of the calls for 

 help that came to New York were so urgent that they 

 could not be denied. The office of the campaigning trustee 

 became a permanent clearing house for wild life campaigns 

 and expenditures. 



Campaign Funds. — In 1913, through the initiative and 

 the energy of Mr. Madison Grant, Chairman of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, the New York Zoological Society, which 

 always had been a liberal supporter of the wild life pro- 

 tection causes, raised a new special subscription of $10,500 

 for the purpose of placing before the public 13,000 copies 

 of a book of 418 pages entitled "Our Vanishing Wild Life.' 1 

 That volume was placed actually in the hands of every law- 

 maker in the United States, and many other persons be- 

 sides. With that effort, the Zoological Society completed 

 the expenditure on wild life protection of about $14,000 in 



