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RECREATION. 



TO LOUISIANA SPORTSMEN. 



Here is a letter from a resident of your 

 State, every word of which should be 

 burned into your intellect so deeply that 

 you can not forget it, until the slaughter 

 and the traffic recounted in this letter shall 

 be completely broken up. 



I have made many appeals to all the 

 sportsmen in your State to join this League 

 and to assist in securing the enactment of 

 such laws in your State as are needed and 

 as already exist in a majority of the States 

 of the Union. Few men in your State 

 have answered these appeals in any way. 

 Now I put before you an appeal for help 

 which comes to me from one of your own 

 citizens. While you have ignored all my 

 entreaties, you should certainly be willing 

 to heed this one. 



I have sent Mr. Deimer a supply of 

 printed matter explaining the nature and 

 aims of the L. A. S., and am ready to send 

 any quantity of this literature to anyone 

 and to everyone in your State who will 

 take it and use it. Are you not ready now 

 to join the League of American Sports- 

 men, and to aid in its good work? 



Let me hear from you. 



G. O. Shields, President. 



I have just been informed that some 

 gentlemen in New Orleans are trying to 

 get members enough in this State to start 

 a division of the L. A. S., of which I am 

 highly in favor. If ever a place needed 

 the L. A. S. it is this State. We have deer 

 and some bears and turkeys ; any number 

 of quails, ducks and geese by millions in the 

 winter;- but there are men here who make 

 a business of hunting and shooting for the 

 New Orleans market. I know one young 

 man here who killed and ' marketed 1.800 

 ducks last winter, and many other market 

 hunters who killed nearly that many. Mar- 

 ket hunting is practiced all along the 

 Southern Pacific railroad, but not quite so 

 extensively as here. The man who bnys 

 the game of these hunters owns a large 

 gasoline houseboat. In the fall he gets 

 his crowd of hunters together, generally 

 8 to 16 in number, gets them in the house- 

 boat and runs down to the duck marsh. 

 They stay there all winter and slaughter 

 all the birds they possibly can. The mar- 

 ketman buys everything they kill that is 

 at all eatable. Generally he pays this scale 

 of prices ; mallards, 25 cents a pair ; pin- 

 tails, 20 cents a pair; teal and small ducks, 

 15 cents a pair; geese and brant, 40 cents 

 a pair. 



Will you kindly put me on the road 

 where I can do the most good, for I 

 should like to see this cruelty stopped. 



I am and have been a regular reader of 

 your valuable and highly esteemed Recre- 

 ation and I always look' forward with 

 pleasure to each issue. 



W. C. Deimer, Jennings, La. 



LEAGUE NOTES. 

 John J. Hildebrandt, vice warden of the 

 Indiana division of the L. A. S., who lives 

 at Logansport, Ind., is making trouble for 

 the fish pirates in that region. He has put 

 up a large number of League posters along 

 the Wabash and tributary streams, and in 

 addition has had a cloth poster of his own 

 printed, which reads as follows : 



NOTICE. 

 I hereby offer a reward of $25 to the person 

 giving information leading to the arrest and con- 

 viction of any person or persons who may dynamite 

 fish in our rivers. — J. J. Hildebrandt, Warden of 

 the League of American Sportsmen. 



Hon. L. A. Kerr, of Kendrick, Idaho, 

 chief warden of the Idaho division of this 

 League, has been appointed deputy State 

 game warden for his district, and will at 

 once inaugurate a vigorous campaign 

 against game and fish law violators. It 

 would therefore be well for all such to 

 fold their tents and move to some other 

 and more healthful ground. 



If I had to choose between Recrea- 

 tion and 3 meals, I would go hungry a 

 day. It is the cleanest and most honest 

 magazine that I subscribe to. In fact, it 

 has made me disgusted with some I take, 

 and I have discontinued one of the lot. If 

 the rest do not stop publishing fish and 

 game hog stories, there will be more cut- 

 ting. I have Recreation from the first 

 issue, and would not part with it for 4 

 times the price. Success go with you to 

 the 100,000 mark and beyond. 



D. W. W. Mann, New Bedford, Mass. 



A Chicago firm prints this legend on its 

 envelopes : 



He who whispers down a well, 

 About the goods he has to sell, 

 Will never coin the shining dollars, 

 Like him who climbs a tree and hollers. 



While most of the leading magazines en- 

 ter our house, Recreation is the only one 

 I read the whole of, even to the advertise- 

 ments. There is something drawing about 

 it that can not be resisted. 



Horace W. Scandlin, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Client — I hope you will have those , di- 

 vorce papers soon. 



Lawyer — What's the hurry? 



Client — Oh, I want to get unmarried and 

 settle dawn. 



Recreation is the best publication of its 

 kind I ever read. 



Wm. Bates, West Plains, Mo. 



Recreation is the only original sports- 

 men's magazine. 



Ralph Willis, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



