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RECREATION. 



WHAT THE LEAGUE OF AMERI- 

 CAN SPORTSMEN HAS 

 REALLY DONE. 



It has secured the repeal of Section 249 

 of the New York game laws, which per- 

 mitted the sale of game in this State at all 

 times, if killed in some other State. 



It has detected 6 of the leading hotels 

 and several game dealers of this city in the 

 act of selling game in closed season, and 

 has secured from them written pledges to 

 stop violating the game laws. 



It has detected one large hotel in Syra- 

 cuse and another in Buffalo in the act of 

 serving game contrary to law, and has se- 

 cured similar pledges from them. 



It has absolutely stopped the sale of 

 game in New York city at all times, except 

 in the open season for killing same. 



It has arrested, prosecuted and secured 

 the conviction of 52 men for killing game 

 or song birds illegally, in various States 

 of the Union. 



It has secured hundreds of written prom- 

 ises from others, accused of law-breaking, 

 to cease and to obey the laws in future. 



It has built up a membership of 2,327, 

 distributed throughout all the States and 

 Territories of the Union, and extending 

 into Canada. 



It has organized 19 State divisions, which 

 are now in active operation. 



It has appointed local wardens in va- 

 rious counties of nearly all these States, 

 who are patroling their territory and look- 

 ing for game law violators. 



It has appointed 50 local wardens in this 

 State, and they have arrested, prosecuted 

 and convicted 8 men for violating game or 

 fish laws. Two men, arrested by one of 

 these wardens, are now in jail for dogging 

 deer in the Adirondacks. 



It has sent 4 different circular letters to 

 all hotels, restaurants, game dealers and 

 cold storage houses in the State, advising 

 them as to close seasons on game, and 

 warning them to observe same. 



Its officers and detectives are constantly 

 watching the hotels, restaurants, game 

 dealers and cold storage houses in this 

 city and elsewhere, in search of illegal 

 traffic in game. 



In June, 1899, it induced the United 

 States Government to issue an order which 

 stopped the California Fish Commission 

 from killing 40,000 to 60,000 seals on the 

 California coast, which had been ordered 

 destroyed. 



It is now urging the passage of Senator 

 Hoar's bill in Congress to prohibit the 

 importation of and all interstate commerce 

 in bird skins for millinery purposes, and 

 will no doubt secure its passage. 



It is in the act of introducing to the 

 Legislatures of 20 States bills to prohibit 

 the sale of game at all times, and to pro- 

 hibit the wearing, having possession or 

 selling of the plumage of song or in- 



sectivorous birds for decorative purposes. 

 It has among its members Governor 

 Roosevelt of New York, Governor John- 

 ston of Alabama, Hon. Warner Miller, Dr. 

 Seward Webb, Bird S. Coler, William 

 Brookfield, George H. Daniels, Daniel C. 

 Gilman, president of the Johns Hopkins 

 university; Dr. David Starr Jordan, presi- 

 dent of Stanford university, and many 

 other men of national reputation. 



A meeting of local sportsmen will be held at the Halla- 

 day house this evening to settle the details and determine 

 the date for a big hunt to be held within a few weeks. The 

 plan, as it now stands, is as follows : All the hunters who 

 go will be divided into 2 parties. They will start out 

 alone, however, on the morning of the hunt, and returning 

 at night, will count up the game. The side which has 

 the most will be banqueted at the others' expense. In ad- 

 dition to the banquet the hunter who gets the most game 

 will receive a prize, and a booby prize will go to the one 

 getting the least. The following are the members of the 

 2 sides as they now stand, but they will be somewhat 

 changed before the hunt : Mose Hadley's side — Ernie 

 Hubbard, John Weickgenant, Garfield, Henry F. Beck- 

 man, J. M. Bryson, Ed. Halladay, Frank Halladay Chas. 

 Dorman, Jas. T. Geddes, Lew Adams, W. H. Brown, A. 

 N. Buckner, Robt. Binder, John Bailey, Geo. Williams, E. 

 R. Cole, E. Collins, Geo. Boos, Joe L. Cox, Dallas Car- 

 penter. L. D. Cooley has on his side I.J. Buckley, B. N. 

 Beedon, Fred Lyman, M. E. Brown, Frank Bock, Vic 

 Bramble, Dayton Beach, Sam Howes, Fordy Metcalf, F. 

 P. Pittman, Dr. F. F. Pitcher, D. D. Ford, Mel Tucker- 

 man, Lew Adams, Sherm Moody, Johnson, W. J. Fell, 

 Dave McCamly and Miles Curtis. 



It is safe to say there is not a respecta- 

 ble or decent sportsman in this whole out- 

 fit. These men, by engaging in this an- 

 cient form of slaughter, have branded 

 themselves as pot hunters of the lowest 

 type — Editor. 



Our State game warden, Albert Nelson, 

 has left little to be desired in the way of 

 game protection here and little for the 

 L. A. S. to do. A month ago he posted 

 notices stating that after December ist all 

 persons caught violating the law would 

 be prosecuted. During the last few days 

 of the open season it was made pretty 

 lively for the elk by persons trying to se- 

 cure their 2 carcasses for winter's meat, 

 but promptly after the season closed, No- 

 vember 31st, all hunting ceased. During 

 the hunting the elk were driven back, but 

 since it stopped, although it has been only 

 a few days, they have begun to come in by 

 the hundred. I sincerely hope the game 

 wardens will do their duty and see that 

 the elk are not molested this winter. Two 

 game wardens have gone from here to the 

 Red desert, for the winter, to see that the 

 antelope and elk that go in there to win- 

 ter are not hunted all winter as heretofore. 

 S. N. Leek, Jackson, Wyo. 



RECREATION ONE YEAR AND A 

 MEMBERSHIP IN THE L. A. S. ONE 

 YEAR FOR $1.50. IF YOU_ARE A 

 FRIEND OF GAME PROTECTION 

 MAKE THIS OFFER KNOWN TO 

 ALL SPORTSMEN OF YOUR AC- 

 QUAINTANCE, 



