RECREA TION. 



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THE ADIRONDACK GUIDES' ASSO- 

 CIATION. 



Editor Recreation. 



Saranac Lake, N. Y. 



The recent convention of the Adirondack 

 Guides' Association, at Saranac Lake, has again 

 brought this organization prominently before the 

 people. It was organized June 27, 1891, but its 

 full strength was not apparent until the recent 

 meeting. Then some of those who had not been 

 especially friendly to the association realized its 

 importance, and saw what a power for good it is 

 destined to become. Many persons who have 

 not studied the matter carefully have misjudged 

 it, but are now willing to believe that the objects 

 of the society are commendable. 



The association desires, above all else, laws 

 that will keep our forests intact ; protect the fish 

 of our streams and the game of our woods. It 

 realizes the wisdom of a judicious management 

 of those vital interests, not alone vital to the 

 people of the Adirondacks, but to every citizen 

 of the State of New ^ork, and it aims to assist, 

 in every legitimate way, in the accomplishment 

 of these ends. 



There was a time, not long ago, when the 

 people of this region looked upon the carcass of 

 a deer in the light of the market man, who won- 

 ders how much he can get for the meat ; but 

 that time has gone by. The Adirondack Guide 

 of to-day uses more logic in his calculations. 

 He sees plainly, that it is to his interest that the 

 noble game of our mountains be not wantonly 

 destroyed. He sees in the forests, in the fish, 

 in the game his stock in trade, and he does not 

 purpose doing all his business to-day, being idle 

 to-morrow, and suffering the day after. 



The Adirondack Guides' Association desires 

 that the hundreds of sportsmen who annually 

 visit the Adirondacks region shall have the pleas- 

 ure and satisfaction of shooting deer and catching 

 trout, but it is determined that such shooting and 

 catching shall have a reasonable limit. 



Each member of this association intends, from 

 this time on, to work in the interests of the future 

 as well of the present, and he intends to constitute 

 himself a vigilance committee of one with refer- 

 ence to game and forest preservation. The asso- 

 ciation hopes to enroll not only all guides as 

 members, but all lovers of the woods are invited 

 to become associate members and to assist in 

 this work. The hotel men and the railroad people 

 should become associate members. A letter from 

 the editor of Recreation, read at the late con- 

 vention, shows us that that able and influential 

 magazine is with us in this endeavor. 



Other letters read at that convention were 

 from such men as Hon. Verplanck Colvin, Sup- 

 erintendent State Land Survey ; Colonel Wm. F. 

 Fox, Superintendent Forest Commission ; Major 

 J. Warren Pond, Chief Fish and Game Protec- 

 tor ; A. G. Mills, President Adirondack League 

 Club, and many others, all proving that we have 

 the sympathy and good will of a class of peo- 

 ple who have the true interests of the Adiron- 

 dacks at heart. Applications for associate mem- 

 bership were received from Hon. Warner Miller, 

 A. G. Mills, R. C. Alexander, of the New York 

 Mail and Express ; Benjamin Douglass, of R. 

 G. Dunn & Co., New York ; Morton S. Parme- 

 lee, of Malone, N. Y. ; A. R. Fuller, proprietor 



of the Meacham Lake House ; D. W. Riddle, 

 manager Saranac Inn Hotel Association, Upper 

 Saranac Lake ; John Harding, proprietor Hotel 

 Algonquin, on the Lower Saranac Lake ; F. A. 

 Streeter and Wm. A. Dennison, proprietors of 

 The Berkley, Saranac Lake Village ; A. Nelson 

 Cheney, so well and favorably known as a con- 

 tributor to many sportsmen's journals ; Wm. F. 

 Rathbone, attorney for the D. & H. Canal & R. 

 R. Co. ; George S. Grice, proprietor of the St. 

 Nicholas Hotel, Saranac Lake ; S. R. Stoddard, 

 of Glens Falls, N. Y. ; Carl D. Smith, editor or 

 the Adirondack Enterprise ; A. W. Utting, 

 merchant, and F. A. Isham, Saranac Lake Vil- 

 lage, and the editor of Recreation. W r e desire 

 others to unite with us and lend their influence 

 and encouragement. By becoming associated 

 with us you signify your love of true sport, and 

 of the glorious mountain region of which every 

 citizen of this Empire state is so justly proud, 

 and you add strength to the organization that has 

 pledged its fidelity to the woods, the fish and the 

 game, and its determined opposition to their 

 enemies. John H. Miller. 



THE SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 



The general interest manifested in the Sports- 

 men's Exposition is still en the increase. One 

 of the most encouraging signs as the affair pro- 

 gresses, is the evidence of the high character and 

 standing of those who are interested in the 

 event, which is indicated by the applications 

 for information coming from the educated classes 

 of the people of the country. All of the 200 or 

 more letters which have been received by the asso- 

 ciation in the past ten weeks, have come from 

 intelligent and cultivated persons. 



Among the applicants for information regard- 

 ing the exposition and the reduced railroad rates, 

 there are judges, doctors of law and divinity, 

 lawyers, civil engineers and manufacturers who 

 are in any way identified with the manufacture 

 of sportsmen's materials. This is very flatter- 

 ing to the projectors of the enterprise. It was 

 apprehended that the exposition might be con- 

 sidered as purely a trades or manufacturers' 

 affair. That this is certainly not the case is veri- 

 fied by those who are seeking information re- 

 garding the exposition. It is a singular fact, 

 too, that many of the applicants reside in remote 

 parts of the country, including Texas, Oregon, 

 California, Idaho, Virginia, Maine, North Caro- 

 lina, Tennessee and Florida. This infor- 

 mation is worthy of comment, and will be a 

 source of great satisfaction to those manufactu- 

 rers who have made preparations to extend their 

 business, and who are exhibitors in the exposi- 

 tion, when so many have said that it would be 

 useless to calculate on an attendance from dis- 

 tant sections of the country. This having been 

 the general belief, up to the present time, of 

 manufacturers and dealers who have heretofore 

 been lukewarm as to the benefits to be derived 

 from being identified with the exposition, and 

 who are of a very practical turn of mind, some 

 of them were reluctant to identify themselves 

 with the exposition, fearing that no special 

 advantages might come to them from it. But such 

 are feeling quite different now, and are inclined 

 to change their opinion, swing round and get in 

 for their share of the patronage. 



