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RECREATION. 



LOCAL CHAPTERS — CONTINUED. 



Davis, W. Va., 

 Dowagiac, Mich., 

 Evansvihe, lnd., 

 Kalispell, Mont., 

 L,ake Co., lnd., 

 Loganpsoit,Ind., 

 Mechanicsburg, Pa. 

 New Albany, lnd., 

 I'enn Van, N. Y., 

 Schenectady, a. Y., 

 Syracuse, N. V., 

 The Dalles, Ore., 



J. Heltzen, 

 W.F. Hoyt, 

 F. M. Gilbert, 

 John Eaknght, 

 Dr. R. C. Mackey, 

 E.li. McConneil, 

 , Dr. J. H. swartz. 

 Dr. J. F. Weathers, 

 Lr. H. R. Phillips, 

 J. W. Purnside, 

 C. C Truesdell, 

 C. B. Cushing, 



Rear Warden 



DISCOUiNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 



The following firms have agreed to give 



members of the L. A. S. a discount of 2 



per cent, to 10 per cent, on all goods bought 



of them. In ordering please give L. A. S. 



number: 



Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Guns. 

 Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 



guns, rifles. 

 Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 



goods. 

 Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y. Photographic goods. 

 The Bostwick Gun and Sporting Goods Co., 1528 



Arapahoe St., Denver, Col. 

 James Ache # son, Talbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario- 



Sporting goods. 



THE LEAGUE DID IT. 



There is a sleepy, old, back number pa- 

 per printed in this town which occasionally 

 remarks that Recreation claims more for 

 the League than it is entitled to claim. 

 The League claims the credit of securing 

 the passage of new and greatly improved 

 game laws, during the past winter, in In- 

 diana, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Da- 

 kota, Connecticut and Montana. And we 

 have the documents to prove up. Here 

 is a part of our evidence. The following 

 editorial, written by the Hon. John C. 

 New, owner and editor of the Indianapolis 

 Sentinel, was printed in the issue of that 

 paper for March 17: 



"It is not generally understood that the 

 fish and game laws passed by the last Leg- 

 islature were secured by the League of 

 American Sportsmen, which has a large 

 and growing membership in this State. 

 Neither is it generally understood that this 

 organization does not restrict its labors to 

 the protection of game birds. It gives 

 quite as much effort to the protection of 

 song birds and wild animals of various 

 kinds. Its line of work is much the same 

 as that of the Audubon societies, though 

 it seems to be much more aggressive. Its 

 enthusiasm may be gauged by the fact 

 that a late circular specifies, as part of the 

 good work of the league officers, se- 

 curing 'the release of J. L. Tooker, who 

 was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment for 

 killing an Italian who was shooting song 

 birds in violation of law. With this il- 

 lustration of devotion to the interests of 

 song birds there certainly can be no claim 

 that the League of American Sportsmen is 

 devoted to the selfish work of cultivating 

 game for the amusement of its members. 



"There is another commendable feature 

 of the League. It goes after the big of- 

 fenders just as vigorously as the little ones. 

 One of its notable cases was the prosecu- 

 tion of the American Line Steamship com- 

 pany, which was charged with having 

 quails in possession in New York city, in 

 violation of the State law. An action was 

 begun against this company and a proposi- 

 tion was made to the defendant that if it 

 would go into court and tell where it 

 bought the birds it would be released on a 

 fine of $100. This proposition was accept- 

 ed and the league was informed that the 

 birds were bought of A. M. Robins, game 

 dealer in Fulton market. He was accord- 

 ingly taken into court and fined $1,000. 

 Probably no case was ever prosecuted in 

 this country for violation of the game law 

 that caused so much comment, and from 

 which so much good resulted to the cause 

 of game protection as this double action. 

 There are few game dealers in the United 

 States who have not been made aware in 

 one way or another of this prosecution and 

 conviction. The League has also secured 

 the co-operation of the Pullman company 

 and some railroad companies to prevent 

 serving game out of season on dining cars. 

 In some States it has secured laws for the 

 search of cold storage houses for game 

 kept there out of season. Such a law was 

 passed by the late Legislature of this State, 

 but the storage companies had sufficient 

 pull with the Governor to get it vetoed, 

 much to the disgust of the League mem- 

 bers. As a matter of course there can be 

 no effective protection of game and fish as 

 long as the rich are allowed to get their 

 'short-billed snipe,' 'prairie ducks,' etc., 

 out of season. 



"It is obvious from the record made by 

 the League that it is an organization de- 

 serving the support not only of every 

 sportsman, but also of every lover of na- 

 ture and everyone who believes in the 

 preservation of song birds and wild ani- 

 mals. The State organization is growing 

 rapidly tinder the supervising care of Mr. 

 Frank L. Littleton, of this city, who is 

 chief warden of the Indiana division. 

 There is a movement on foot at present 

 for the organization of an active local 

 chapter for the special purpose of aiding 

 in the enforcement of the fish and game 

 laws, and it ought to have .the warm sup- 

 port of all our local sportsmen. Indiana 

 has great natural advantages for fish and 

 game, and there is needed but little care 

 in the prevention of their wanton destruc- 

 tion to make both plentiful. The Lacey 

 bill, whose passage through Congress was 

 secured by the League, virtually makes 

 all State fish and game laws federal laws, 

 and there is now no obstacle left to full 

 enforcement, unless it be public sentiment. 

 That certainly should not be an obstacle 

 in Indiana." 



