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RECREA TION. 



both sides of the question. In my judg- 

 ment, and in that of thousands of other 

 men who have studied this question, the 

 only means of preserving the game, for any 

 considerable length of time, is to stop its 

 sale entirely. We must either do that or 

 submit to the total extermination of such 

 species as the elk, the antelope, the moun- 

 tain sheep, the wild turkey and the prairie 

 chicken, within a very few years. 



We advocated, in the convention of the 

 State Sportsmen's Association, at Syracuse 

 a year ago, an amendment to prohibit the 

 sale of woodcock and ruffed grouse, in this 

 State, at all times. Several States have al- 

 ready passed laws shutting off the sale of 

 certain species of game, for all time. You 

 cannot legally buy a quail in Ohio, at any 

 price, and this law has been in effect for 

 3 years. It gives almost universal satisfac- 

 tion, and a rigid enforcement of this and 

 the other game laws of the State, has re- 

 sulted in the rapid increase of the quail 

 there, during this period. If such laws are 

 good in certain States, why not in all? I 

 realize that the total prohibition of the sale 

 of game means a hardship to certain peo- 

 ple; but you will agree with me that the 

 game justly belongs to the man who can 

 go afield and kill it. In politics, the offices 

 are secured by the men who hustle for 

 votes. The man who stays at home and 

 takes no part in politics does not get an 

 office. True, he may buy one, but even 

 then he must put in some hard work, along 

 with his money. In the commercial world, 

 the business and the dollars are obtained 

 by the man who hustles — not by the man 

 who stays at home and makes no effort. 

 The principle that " To the victor belong 

 the spoils " is as old as civilization, and in 

 my opinion, the man who has not the snap 

 and the energy to go into the field and kill 

 his game, should be satisfied to chew beef- 

 steak. 



A NORWEGIAN VIEW OF IT. 



Dear Mr. Kokaina: 



I live up haar in Minnesoda Gountry 

 State, und I read de Recreation und I 

 tinks I vor up in de big voods, wit a gune 

 wot skoot like all split. But ven I reads 

 of some L. A. S. I daenk det mon Lydecker 

 vor a buly goot vellor; and he yust ought 

 do hafe some moniments ofer his grafe ven 

 he gots dun skuting in dis gountrys. 



I vos not so much a sporting mon mine- 

 selluf, but I am a crank py dot shmall size 

 rifle gun; und I can skoot some many fence 

 posts und stumps as de furst fellor. 



I sees in Yanuary nombar a long line of 

 names of some mans, und I spose day vos 

 Mr. Big Gunners of New York Gountry 

 state; and maby da daenk I vos not got de 

 rite feders uf my pack for de L. A. S. But 

 I skoll like to been on da list mit dem, all 

 da sem. 



I likes to tek me my 22 calibre rifle gun, 

 on my bicycle back, und go me by da 

 lak, und de voods, und hit some many 

 fence posts, vot I can. Den I comes home 

 und I has to tell my vomen some daengs 

 boud de matter vos I don't con hit some- 

 daengs; but I hafe a good laugh vhen I 

 scare a squirrel or rabbit fon of his purch. 



If you daenks I vos in de swim for de 

 membership blese let me know, und I send 

 zyou de monay; und vhen any of dot big 

 fellors by Noo Yark vonts to kome by Min- 

 nesoda, for fisk on the Big Minnetonga 

 lak, I put a dem in de big holes var de 

 bass and de croppies at, if da belongs to de 

 L. A. S. 



Von daengs more: Det mon vot he print 

 de Recreation und send it to die Sports- 

 man he vos a goot fellor; und I tris to ged 

 some many mans to reads de Recreation, 

 if he no kan skoot, or no kan fisk, or no, if 

 he yoost got $1 for de jear. 



Vel I daengs dis been all dot I kan say for 

 now; but me broter Karl vos kome to go 

 a fisking, on de ice, und den I kon tells you 

 a ting or vone. 



Yours to help mit de wheel to push, and 

 long lif de Recreation und de American 

 Sportsmanses League. 



Bamboo Polenotsplit. 



NOTES. 



I am President of the Chase Benchman 

 Gun Club and Game Protective Associa- 

 tion, which is composed of 50 represent- 

 ative business men of this city, nearly all of 

 whom take Recreation. 



Am much interested in Mr. Lydecker's 

 idea of a League of American Sports- 

 men. We will be in it, to a man. The pro- 

 tection of game is becoming more popular 

 every year and our club has done good 

 work, having kept a standing offer of a 

 reward of $20 for information that would 

 lead to the conviction of any person kill- 

 ing game out of season. There are still 

 many deer, bear, lynx, ruffed grouse, foxes 

 and rabbits here, and always will be if the 

 game laws are enforced. 



Dr. V. F. Godfry, Alpena, Cal. 



I hereby apply for membership in the 

 L. A. S. The protection of American game 

 and game birds is now a national necessity. 

 Indiana has struck the keynote in passing 

 laws prohibiting the sale of game at all sea- 

 sons, and I hope other States will promptly 

 fall in line. While the epidermis of the 

 game hog is well nigh invulnerable, I be- 

 lieve the well directed and persistent efforts 

 of Recreation will reduce their number, 

 and so improve the pigs that the future will 

 have no hogs. 



Thos. T. Barret, Henderson, Ky. 



