THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S. 



President, G. O. Shields, 19 W. 24th St., 

 New York. 



1st Vice-President, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 Washington, D.C. 



2d Vice-President, E. S. Thompson, 144 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



jd Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Richards, 

 Cheyenne, Wyo. 



4th Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 69 

 Wall St., New York. 



3th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 93 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



Secretary, Arthur F. Rice, 155 Pennington 

 Ave., Passaic, N. J. 



Treasurer, F. S. Hyatt, National Exchange 

 Bank, 90 West Broadway, New York. 



General Counsel, Julius H. Seymour, 35 

 Wall St., New York. 



NEW YORK DIVISION. 

 A. E. Pond, Chief Warden, 124 5th Ave., 

 New York City. 



PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. 

 Hon. J. O. H. Denny, Chief Warden, 

 Ligonier. 



NEW JERSEY DIVISION. 

 Vacant. 



MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION. 

 Dr. Heber Bishop, Chief Warden, No. 4 

 Post Office Square, Boston. 



CONNECTICUT DIVISION. 

 Rilph B. Lawton, Chief Warden, Bridge- 

 port. 



MICHIGAN DIVISION. 



J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand 

 Rapids. 



MONTANA DIVISION. 



Professor Elrod, Chief Warden, Missoula. 



WASHINGTON DIVISION. 

 J. S. Stangroom, Chief Warden, New 

 Whatcom. 



WYOMING DIVISION. 



Dr. Frank Dunham, Chief Warden, Lan- 

 der. 



Applications for membership and orders 

 for badges should be addressed to Arthur 

 F. Rice, Secretary, ig W. 24th St., New 

 York. 



LOCAL WARDENS IN 



County. Name of Warden. 



Albany. C. D. Johnson, 



Allegany, J. D. Holden, 



M. 



Broome, 



Cayuga, 



Chemung, 



Erie, 



A. Maker, 



H. M. Haskell, 

 Fred. Uhle, 

 E. P. Dorr, 



Marvin H. Butler. 



NEW YORK. 



Address. 



Newtonville, X. Y. 



Belmont, N. Y. 



Whitney's Point, 

 N. Y. 



Weedsport, N. Y. 



HendyCreek,N.Y. 



103 D. S. Morgan 

 Building, Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. 



Morilla, N. Y. 



County. 

 Essex, 



Montgomery, 

 Oneida, 

 Orange, 



Rensselaer, 

 Richmond, 



Schenectady, 

 Suffolk, 



Tioga, 



Washington, 



Westchester, 



Name of Warden. 

 Warren H. Broughton, 

 Charles W. Scharf, 



E. J. Breeze, 

 Wilson Crans, 

 J. H. Kidd, 

 Capt. J. B. Taylor, 

 Lewis Morris, 



J. W. Furnside, 



F. J. Fellows, 

 P. F. Tabor, 

 Geo. Wood, 

 C. L. Allen, 

 George Poth, 



Address. 

 Moriah, N. Y. 

 Canajoharie, N. Y. 

 Forestport. N. Y. 

 Middletown, N. Y. 

 Newburgh, Is. Y. 

 Rensselaer, N. Y. 

 Port Richmond, 



N. Y. 

 Schenectady, N.Y. 

 Islip, L. I. 

 Orient, L. I. 

 Owego, N. Y. 

 Sandy Hill, N.Y. 

 Pleasantville. N.Y. 



LOCAL WARDENS IN CONNECTICUT. 

 Fairfield, George B. Bliss, 2 Park Row, Stam- 



ford, Ct. 

 Harvey C. Went, 11 Park Street, 



Bridgeport, Ct. 

 Hartford, Abbott C. Collins, 783 Main Street, 



Hartford, Ct. 

 (County Warden, care Conn. Mutual Life Ins. Co.) 

 Litchfield, Dr. H. L. Ross, P. O. Box 100, Ca- 



naan, Ct. 

 New Haven, Wilbur E. Beach, 318 Chapel Street, 



New Haven ,Ct. 

 Harvey C. Went, Sec.-Treas. 



HE JOINS THE LEAGUE AND TALKS BUSINESS. 



Chicago, 111. 



Editor Recreation: Your letter received, 

 and I hand you herewith $1 for membership 

 in the L. A. S. I am greatly pleased to learn 

 that the New York game markets are closed. 

 This means the saving of tens of thousands 

 of birds to the people of the West, to say 

 nothing of the East. The repeal of Section 

 249 N. Y. Game Laws is a great achieve- 

 ment for the L. of A. S. Great reforms in 

 game protection laws and their enforcement 

 must always be accomplished through a 

 national organization of sportsmen. 



I read Recreation every month. It is an 

 ideal sportsmen's magazine. The reports 

 and letters from all parts of the country are 

 deeply interesting. 



I am pleased with the stand you have 

 taken on the question of market hunters and 

 the sale of game. The taking of game for 

 purposes of merchandise, is simply theft of 

 the people's property for personal gain and 

 should not be tolerated anywhere. It is a 

 disgrace to the name to call men sportsmen 

 who are engaged in this infamous business. 

 They have been recognized for years as ig- 

 norant, shiftless and lazy. They are of little 

 account as citizens in any community. 



While at our club house on Post lake, 

 Wisconsin, last fall, I made a trip down the 

 Wolf river and there, miles from any habita- 

 tion, was a ragged, dirty old man living in a 

 hut. He was trapping and killing every- 

 thing he could convert into money. He 

 said that had been his occupation for years; 

 that when he cleaned out all living creatures 

 in one locality he moved to another. This 

 species of mephites must be driven out of 

 every locality. 



