EDITOR'S CORNER. 



Webber is out of it. He kept on writ- 

 ing abusive and insulting letters to readers 

 of Recreation, on government stationery, 

 after having been reprimanded and warned 

 against such action by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury. For a time he used Canadian 

 Pacific Railway paper and envelopes, but 

 apparently exhausted his resources in that 

 direction, and went back to using Uncle 

 Sam's materials. Many of these letters 

 passed from hand to hand until they 

 reached the desk of Secretary Gage in 

 Washington, and now Mr. Webber is look- 

 ing for another job. 



The following letter tells the story offi- 

 cially: 



Treasury Department. 



Office of the Secretary. 

 Division of Appointments. 



Washington, D. C, Feb. 17, 1900. 

 Mr. G. O. Shields, 

 23 West 24th St., 

 New York City. 

 Sin- 

 Replying to your letter of the 13th in- 

 stant, enclosing a note written by George 

 H. Webber, formerly Deputy Collector 

 and Inspector of Customs at Vancouver, 

 British Columbia, addressed to Doctor 

 George L. Cable, you are informed that 

 as Mr. Webber is now out of the service 

 the Department can take no further action 

 in the matter. 



Respectfully, 



O. L. Stanton, 

 Acting Secretary. 



A lot of Chicago sportsmen, headed by 

 the veteran ex-game warden, M. R. Bor- 

 tree, have arranged with the farmers along 

 the Des Plaines river to post their lands 

 and to prohibit all shooting thereon for a 

 term of years. This is a new departure, but 

 a good one. Usually sportsmen dread the 

 sign which says "No trespassing"; but this 

 Des Plaines river country, lying within 10 

 to 20 miles of Chicago, has been so per- 

 sistently overrun by ignorant foreigners, 

 who kill every living thing they can find, 

 that the sportsmen have decided it would 

 be better to defiy themselves the privilege 

 of shooting there than to allow these van- 

 dals to continue their destructive work. 

 Thus an effort is being made to make the 

 strip of timber and the swamps along the 

 Des Plaines a game preserve, and I trust 

 my friends may be eminently successful. 



The A. D. G. H. prints, without com- 

 ment, in its issue of January 27th, this let- 

 ter from Currituck, N. C. : 



We have had a cold snap at Currituck, lasting about 

 ten days, which gave us some good sport in the beginning 

 of" it ; but the birds soon became so thin that we had to 

 give it up for a few days. One of the old Palmer Island 

 Club members shot \6* geese in one day. This is the 

 largest bag I ever heard ot at Currituck. This club, 

 founded some thirty years ago by Capt. Nat Palmer, have 

 given np their lease and will disband at the end of the 

 season. 



Any real sportsmen's journal, if it pub- 

 lished such a thing as this, would also have 

 printed an editorial in condemnation of 

 such slaughter, but the A. D. G. H. is not 

 one of that kind. 



Please study the Official Directory of the 

 L. A. S., printed on pages 307-309 of 

 this issue. Note how it grows from 

 month to month. Where you see that a 

 Secretary-Treasurer has been appointed 

 for any division it means that the mem- 

 bership of that division exceeds 50. Where 

 you see the name of a Vice-Warden an- 

 nounced, it means that that division has 

 over 100 members. The L. A. S. is grow- 

 ing steadily, and will have 5,000 members 

 before the end of this year. It should 

 have 20,000, but many sportsmen are slow 

 to do their duty. They will all come into 

 line in time. 



A. E. Pond, Chief Warden of the New 

 York Division of The League of Ameri- 

 can Sportsmen, has donated to the New 

 York Zoological Park 5 wild turkeys that 

 have been credited to the Recreation 

 group. There is still lots of room in the 

 park for this group to expand. Who will 

 be the next to push it along? 



A remarkable album for holding amateur 

 photos was recently made by the Buechner 

 Mfg. Co., of Battle Creek, Mich. It was 

 of solid coin silver, and was made to order 

 for a member of the Vanderbilt family. 

 The price was $2,500. This is probably the 

 costliest album ever made. As the Buech- 

 ner Co. also makes albums at prices rang- 

 ing down to 75 cents, it will be readily 

 seen that their line is extensive, and no 

 ''snap shot" fiend need be without an 

 album. 



Recreation is the best sportmen's 

 magazine published, and it is a great pleas- 

 ure to me to read it. I heartily endorse 

 your crusade against the game hogs. I 

 was one of them in days gone by, but you 

 may put me down now as a hog butcher. 

 Thanks to Recreation for so much good 

 work. 



C. V. Miller, Humboldt, la. 



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