FOR A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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Mr. Lydecker's suggestion is a good one 

 and I am ready to be enrolled as a member 

 of the L. A. S. 



W. S. Bates, Chicago. 



It will give me great pleasure to co- 

 operate with you in the organization of a 

 L. A. S. L. C. Whiton, 



Times Building, New York City. 



I shall be. very glad to join the L. A. S. 

 as indicated in October Recreation. 

 Julius H. Seymour, 35 Wall St., N. Y. 



I am in hearty sympathy with the move- 

 ment for a League of American Sportsmen. 



Arthur Audley Brownlee, 63 Wall St., N. 

 Y. 



I have read the article about a L. A. S. 

 and am with you. 



Wm. W. Seymour, 35 Wall Street. 



I am in entire sympathy with the plan for 

 a L. A. S. 



A. W. Dimock, 66 Broadway, N. Y. 



The idea of a L. A. S. is a good one. 

 Count on me as a member. 



D. I. Simmons, Troy, N. Y. 



I am heartily in favor of a League of 

 American Sportsmen, and believe the idea 

 would meet with general favor in this sec- 

 tion. 



Chas. Bailey, Garner, la. 



CALL FOR A CONVENTION. 



A merciless war of extermination is be- 

 ing waged against the game, the game 

 fishes, and the song and insectivorous birds 

 of North America. This destruction is be- 

 ing wrought by skin hunters, market hunt- 

 ers, plume hunters, game hogs, fish hogs, 

 market fisherman and, we regret to say, by 

 some men who call themselves sportsmen. 



We realize that in order to check this ter- 

 rible slaughter, and to prevent the total ex- 

 tinction of all game, all birds and all 

 game fishes drastic measures must be 

 adopted, at once, for the enactment of bet- 

 ter game laws, where needed, and for the 

 enforcement of existing game laws every- 

 where. 



We believe this can only be brought 

 about by concerted action on the part of 

 all true sportsmen, naturalists and lovers of 

 nature. Such action can only be secured 

 by and through a national association of 

 sportsmen and naturalists. 



In union there is strength. 



We therefore invite all who are interested 

 in the preservation of our American wild 

 animals, birds, and fishes, to meet with us 

 at Hardman Hall, 5th Ave. and 19th St., 

 New York, at 10 a.m., January 18, 1898, for 



the purpose of organizing an association to 

 be known as The League of American 

 Sportsmen. 



(Signed.) 



Rdlph D. Lydecker, Englewood, N. J. 



Hon. W. A. Richards, Governor of Wyoming. 



Prof. W. T. Hornaday, Director New York Zoological Soc. 



Hon. W. M. Kennedy, Pres. B'd of Game Commrs. of Pa. 



Dr. H. M. Beck, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 



Hon. J. O. H. Denny, Ligonier, Pa. 



Hon. John S. Wise, 44 Broad St., N. Y. 



John Boulton Simpson, 5 E. 14th St., N. Y. 



Hon. W. D. Jenkins, Sec'y of the State of Wash. 



B. F. Bennet, Prest. Fish and Game Association, Mary- 

 land, N. Y. 



Col. C. W. Dimick, Gen. Mngr., New England Sports- 

 men's Exposition, Boston. 



A. F. Crossman, No. Clarendon, Pa. 



Dr. J. N. Hall, 1517 Stout St., Denver, Colo. 



Ralph H. Hendrick, Wolcott, N. Y. 



Meriden S. Hill, Sec'y. Ferry Museum, Tacoma, Wash. 



F. S. Hyatt, Cashier, Clinton Bank, New York City. 



J. Elmer Pratt, Adv. Mngr. Grand Rapids Cycle Co., 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Dr. R. D. Pratt, Shelbyville, Ky. 



W. L. Simpson, Jackson, Wyo. 



Clinton A. Smith, East Albany, N. Y. 



F. J. Huntley, Oneida, N. Y. 



T. G. Bredington, Cranford, N. J. 



Samuel Lowry, Johnstown, Pa. 



W. W. Coleman, Carson City, Nev. 



W. Scott Jones, Akron, O. 



Dr. M. L. Tyler, Chebanse, 111. 



Fred. W. Moffett, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



M. M. Elliott, Detroit, Mich. 



D. H. Eastman, Little Falls, N. Y. 

 Otto C. Rottsted, Cattatonk, N. Y. 

 Paul W. Gardner, Honesdale, Pa. 



C. E. Butler, Salina, Kan. 

 W. S. Bates, Chicago, 111. 



J. C. Young, Sec'y, Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. 



E. J. Breeze, Forestport, N. Y. 



F. B. Guion, New York City. 

 M. L. Miner, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



R. Newton Finck, 32 Nassau St., New York City. 

 Ernest Seton Thompson, New York City. 



A. Clinton Wilmerding, New York City. 

 Hon. L. A. Huffman, Miles City, Mont. 



B. C. Broome, Jersey City, N. J. 



A. W. Dimmock, 66 Broadway, New York City. 

 J. H. Seymour, 35 Wall St., New York City. 



L. W. Walker, Pasadena, Cal. 



L. C. Whiton, Times Building, New York. 



F. A. Musser, Witmar, Pa. 



Dr. A. J. Marling, Greenville, O. 



W. A. Ballard, Scranton, Pa. 



Edward W. Wild, Keene, N. H. 



Arthur F. Rice, Passaic, N. J. 



Chas. F. Hickok, Grand Marais, Mich. 



M. A. Bates, Star, Idaho. 



W. S. Allen, Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City. 



H. C. Wilcox, Friendship, N. Y. 



S. M. Perrigo. 



W. R. Chadwick, Port Huron, Mich. 



E. Shelley Morgan, Portland, Ore. 



Earl Barber, Swarthmore, Pa. 



Wilmot Townsend, Bay Ridge, N. Y. 



L. H. Sargent, North Chelmsford, Mass. 



John A. Tumwall, Lynn Centre. 111. 



Robert C. Fletcher, 382 Elmwood Avenue, Providence. R T. 



J. C. P. Leek, Sec. Marysville Fish and Game 1'ruUc 



tive Assn., Marysville. Mont. 

 O. B. Johnson, Orion, 111. 

 W. S. Mead, Woodstock, N. Y. 

 Dr. Robt. T. Morris, New York City, N. Y. 

 Jas. W. Jacobs, Jasper, Mich. 



B. F. Ellsworth, Jr., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

 Thos. V. Farrell, Portland, Ore. 



W. B. Cuckler, Athens, O. 



W. S. Ga'vitt, Lyons, N. Y. 



A. J. Duranrt, Moorestown, N. J. 



T. S. Van Dyke, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Dall De Weese, Canyon City, Col. 



J. S. Stangroom, New Whatcom, Wash. 



Chas. Bailey, Garner, la. 



Paul W. Gardner, Honesdale, Pa. 



Mark H. Warner, Ten Sleep, VVyo. 



Nelson Yarnall Dubois, Wyo. 



