THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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A black tail deer was shot here recently, 

 and the tracks of others followed. They 

 must have come from Dr. Webb's. I 

 understand he let some out a year ago. 



Adirondack, Keene Valley, N. Y. 



MR. LOVEDAY NOT GUILTY. 



In December Recreation I see a Mr. 

 Loeffler, of Keokuk, la., most unjustly 

 criticises Mr. Loveday, our efficient game 

 warden, and calls him to account regard- 

 ing the new game license law. This law 

 is at fault only in that it should read $25 

 for non-resident and $10 for resident hunt- 

 ers. As to Mr. Loveday, he is doing 

 everything in his power to protect the 

 game, and results of his work show that 

 he is on the trail of lawbreakers. We are 

 but a few miles from the Mississippi river 

 and but 14 miles from St. Louis. In con- 

 sequence, we have, for years, been over- 

 run with hunters of the Sunday variety, 

 until quails are getting scarcer every year. 

 The lakes are shot out, and the farmers are 

 completely disgusted with hunters in gen- 

 eral, having had their poultry killed in 

 their barnyards, their cattle, and even their 

 nouses, riddled with shot. Now, thanks to 

 Mr. Loveday and his co-workers, the 

 farmers can live in peace, and the resident 

 hunter will occasionally be able to kill a 

 little game, for the license-paying sports- 

 man is not a tough nor a game hog. I am 

 inclined to think that if some of the record 

 breakers, as Mr. Loeffler calls them, were 

 to cross over to Iowa and begin opera- 

 tions Mr. Loeffler would think the boot 

 pinched the other foot and he would be 

 among the first to howl. If he wishes to 

 shoot in Illinois he should be willing to 

 pay his $10 toward protecting the game. 



If not, he is perfectly welcome to stay 

 at home; or he may come without a li- 

 cense and test that law, as to whose valid- 

 ity he expresses a doubt. We can hardly 

 expect him to do that, however, as some 

 of his fellow Iowa sportsmen have had a 

 taste of that medicine dished up by the 

 lavish hand of Mr. Loveday. Hence Mr. 

 Loeffler's kick. 



Enclosed find $1 for my membership in 

 the L. A. S. May it live long and prosper. 

 J. M. Nixon, Columbia, 111. 



SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 



The second annual meeting of the L. A. 

 S. will be held at the Hotel Marlborough, 

 in this city, on Wednesday, February 14th, 

 1900, at 10 o'clock a. m. Eligible for mem- 

 bership therein: 



All general officers of the League. 



All chief wardens of divisions having 25 

 or more members. 



/ All secretary-treasurers from divisions 

 having 100 or more members. 



All vice-wardens from divisions having 

 200 or more members. 



All delegates chosen by the several divi- 

 sions, and the chairmen of all standing 

 committees. 



All members in good standing are also 

 requested to be present. 



Topics of general interest to the League 

 will be discussed, and it is hoped that a full 

 attendance may be realized. Members 

 who may determine to attend are re- 

 quested to send notice to the Sec- 

 retary at once, in order that a hall of 

 suitable size may be engaged for the meet- 

 ing. We hope to have at least 20 States 

 represented in this meeting. We espe- 

 cially invite all local wardens to be pres- 

 ent. It will greatly benefit the cause to 

 have the members from various States and 

 from various portions of each State meet, 

 become acquainted, exchange views and 

 ideas, and 1 .us fit themselves for better 

 and more effective work at home. 



TWO NEW DIVISIONS. 



Two more State divisions have been or- 

 ganized, namely: Vermont and California. 

 Mr. W. E. Mack, of Woodstock, has been 

 elected chief warden of the Vermont divi- 

 sion, and President David Starr Jordan, of 

 Leland Stanford University, has been 

 chosen as chief warden of the California 

 division. 



Doctor Jordan does not pose as a sports- 

 man; in fact, he told me years ago that he 

 had never killed a bird or an animal for 

 sport, and that he did not expect ever to 

 do so; that he had never sacrificed the life 

 of any such creature unless needed for 

 scientific study. President Jordan is a nat- 

 uralist of world-v/ide renown, and few men, 

 living or dead, have done more to promote 

 nature study or to educate the public in 

 nature's works than he. The fact that he 

 has joined this League and has accepted 

 so high a position in it should induce thou- 

 sands of other men, who love the birds and 

 animals, to become members. 



LEAGUE NOTES. 



I have decided to offer Recreation to 

 members of the L. A. S. at 50 cents a year. 

 Anyone who has any knowledge of the 

 publishing business will readily understand 

 that it costs me more than $1 a year to 

 print and send Recreation to each sub- 

 scriber. Yet I am anxious to see the 

 League grow rapidly, and am therefore 

 willing to furnish the magazine at less 

 than half the actual cost as an addi- 

 tional inducement to sportsmen to join. 

 No true friend of game protection should 

 require such an inducement; but unfor- 

 tunately there are thousands of people who 

 always ask, "What do I get out of it?" 

 Here is what you can get out of it, in ad- 



