RECREATION. 



Toledo, Ohio. Season closed April 10, 

 1901. At least 6 of these men had decoys 

 out within the city limits. 



Men are now with drag nets taking all 

 sizes of black bass on Maumee rapids, 

 above Maumee, as they did all last sum- 

 mer, unmolested, to my personal knowl- 

 edge. The nets, instead of conforming to 

 law, are strung across all the widest por- 

 tion of the river, and thus these men take 

 their half in the middle. 



Rail shooting is prohibited until No- 

 vember 10. All last fall the rag-tail bri- 

 gade shot rails, while the law-abiding 

 sportsman never touched his gun. No one 

 was arrested. At least 2 markets sell 

 quails as pigeons and owls, feathers and 

 heads off, as long as they can get them. 

 The hotels have in the past served them, 

 regardless of season, and probably will in 

 the future. 



The netting laws allow a certain percent- 

 age of undersized fish to be retained. I 

 know of cases where 75 per cent, of catch 

 was undersized, but by telling each dealer 

 that he got the allowed percentage of small 

 fish, the law was evaded. 



The remedy for these evils is concerted 

 action by genuine sportsmen, and absolute- 

 ly prohibiting the sale of game wherever 

 killed. Don't let the crooked members of 

 Legislatures dictate. Let the sportsmen of 

 every town decide on their most sports- 

 manlike sportsman and in the fall hold a 

 convention. Simmer down this conven- 

 tion to a half dozen good, honest gentle- 

 men who will hear arguments pro and con 

 and recommend a game law which will 

 protect the game and be in harmony with 

 Nature's laws and with those of surround- 

 ing States. Make this a zone law, if you 

 wish. Insist that the Legislature pass this 

 law. Then appoint well known men as 

 wardens and have them push to the limit 

 every offense. Every sportsman should 

 consider it his duty to report violations. 

 Get the sportsmen to join the L. A. S. and 

 punish the violators. To call them game 

 hogs does not hurt them. They are hogs 

 and know it. My plan would be, not to 

 call names, but to arrest. One season of 

 watchfulness would be enough. They 

 know when game wardens are in earnest 

 and when not. 



I am not going to furnish names, but if 

 any man who really wants to enforce a 

 game law will come to me, I will see that 

 he is fully informed. To give names and 

 write the offenders is wetting your gun- 

 powder. They will thank you for the 

 warning and keep on violating the law, 

 only more quietly. I suggest Mr. J. B. 

 Battelle, of Toledo, as the chairman of a 

 meeting of sportsmen to take this matter 

 up in Lucas county. If the L. A. S. will 

 do at, we will all join it. A call can be 



made any time, and should be throughout 

 the State. I should like to have you, 

 through your journal, take this up. 



W. H. Snyder, D.D.S. 



ANSWER. 



I am not around trying to hire people to 

 join the L. A. S. I have done a great deal 

 of hard work and expended several hun- 

 dred dollars of my own money in your 

 State in the interest of game protection. 

 Mr. L. H. Reutinger, Chief Warden of the 

 Ohio Division of the League, is also work- 

 ing hard to enforce the laws, but no man 

 can do everything at once, and especially 

 when handicapped as we all are for want 

 of funds. It would require $100,000 and a 

 force of 1,000 local wardens to police all 

 of your State thoroughly, and to absolute- 

 ly stop all violations of law. I published 

 in June Recreation a synopsis of Mr. 

 Reutinger's annual report, by which it is 

 shown that he has convicted something 

 more than 200 men in the past year for 

 violating game and fish laws. This is 

 probably as good a record as any man 

 could have made with the small ap- 

 propriation Mr. Reutinger has, and the 

 few wardens allowed him by law. The 

 League will go right on doing everything 

 possible to enforce your laws and to pro- 

 tect your game, whether you or friends 

 join it or not. — Editor. 



GAME ALONG THE. CANADIAN PACIFIC. 



Banff, Alta. 



Rat Portage, Manitoba, is the center of 

 a grand country for camping. The lakes 

 are dotted with islands placed in accord- 

 ance with the most artistic and approved 

 methods of landscape gardening. Big 

 game comes within a few miles of the 

 city and fish abound in the lakes and 

 streams. Within a run of 145 miles of 

 Rat Portage the trains have hit and killed 

 6 moose since April 1. A cow moose was 

 killed by the engine near here 2 or 3 days 

 ago. Wolves and bears lend interest to the 

 camper's life and their skins adorn the 

 shacks of the settlers. 



At Field, B. C, we met an interesting 

 young man who is collecting live mammals 

 found in the Canadian Rocky mountains, 

 M. G. W. Fraulin. He is working with 

 Mr. Whymper's exploration party. Frau- 

 lin has a splendid young bald eagle which 

 he took from the nest last spring. The 

 bird is tame and intelligent. Mr. F. has 

 some Richardson squirrels, golden chip- 

 munks, striped chipmunks and an assort- 

 ment of pack rats, gophers and other 

 small mammalia. The pack rats had a fight 

 the other day and, much to the young col- 

 lector's dismay, one devoured the other. 

 Mr. Whymper is an eccentric man, of 

 about 60 years, famous as a daring moun- 



