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people who are willing to violate the game law, and the 

 utmost vigilance is as necessary as ever. The association 

 put in a vigorous protest against the repeal of the anti- 

 hounding law last year, and every member has expressed 

 himself as entirely satisfied with the game law as it is. 



A few guides in the Adirondacks who are 

 opposed to the anti-hounding law, and who 

 are constantly violating it, claim that all the 

 others are too. Mr. Church's report seems 

 to indicate that they are mistaken. 



I received my membership card and your 

 letter asking me to hustle more members. 

 I will get everyone I can to join, but as I 

 live in the mountains I have a poor chance. 

 Am living about 27 miles from any place. 

 There is one section house about 5 miles 

 away and only 10 people live there. Nyack 

 is not even a post office. Essex is about 

 29 miles away. That is my post office, and 

 it is only a section house. So you see 

 this country is not very well populated. I 

 have been here 10 years. Made my living 

 from hunting and trapping, but never sold 

 a pound of meat in my life. There is plenty 

 of game here yet, and will be for some 

 time to come. The deer are being killed 

 off by mountain lions. They kill a lot of 

 deer, and it would be a great benefit to 

 have a bounty on them that would make 

 it worth while to hunt them. I got 4 lions 

 in the last 5 days. There should be a bounty 

 of $5 on lions, and paid in cash. All kinds 

 of game is plentiful in this country — that 

 is to say, about 50 miles square. We have 

 goats, sheep, deer, elk and some moose. 

 The elk and goats are safe for years yet, 

 because few know anything about this 

 country and strangers can't get at them. 



I shall be on the East side of the range 

 early in the'spring and I expect to rustle 

 some members for our League. 



Dan Moody, Forest Ranger, 



Nyack via Essex, Flathead Co., Mont. 



The following is from Hon. J. H. Wal- 

 lace, a prominent member of the Alabama 

 Legislature and who recently introduced 

 and pushed through that body the first 

 measure ever enacted in that State for the 

 protection of game and song birds: 



House of Representatives, 

 Montgomery, Ala., February 17, 1899. 



Dear Sir and Friend: Replying to your 

 favor of 14th instant: I have just called on 

 Governor Johnston, and he gladly accepts 

 your invitation to become a member of the 

 League of American Sportsmen. Inclosed 

 please find my check for membership fee 

 for Governor Johnston and myself. The 

 Governor is an enthusiastic sportsman, a 

 fine shot, and an ardent advocate of song 

 bird and game protection. He gave my bill 

 the most cordial support, and I hope at the 

 succeeding term of the General Assembly 

 to have a law enacted that will apply to the 

 entire State of Alabama. 



Your efforts in behalf of the protection 



of game arc most commendable, and one 

 possessed of your energy and diligence will 

 certainly arouse an interest that will bear 

 rich fruition. 



I will be glad if you will command me 

 at any time when I can serve you, or serve 

 Recreation. Fraternally yours, 



John H. Wallace, Jr. 



Who will head a movement to educate 

 the masses and especially the children of 

 the present generation to preserve the birds 

 of plumage, of which millions are annually 

 killed, exported and sent back to the United 

 States to adorn the ladies' hats and for 

 other purposes of decoration? A wanton 

 destruction of these birds is continually go- 

 ing on along the coast country, and unless 

 checked in its incipiency these beautiful sea 

 birds which have so long been one of the 

 chief attractions along the coast country 

 will be exterminated. — San Antonio, Tex., 

 Express. 



The movement is already " headed " and 

 is sweeping over the whole country. Its 

 influence is already shown and felt in 36 

 States, including yours. Tell your readers 

 to join the L. A. S., Mr. Editor, and aid in 

 this great work. The League is doing the 

 very things you say should be done and 

 it needs the co-operation of every sports- 

 man and nature lover in Texas, as well as 

 in all the other States. May we not have 

 the aid of the " Express " ? 



Since the last' issue of Recreation* the 

 Illinois Division has been organized, as will 

 be seen by reference to the official directory. 

 This makes 12 divisions now in working 

 order. There are others to be formed soon, 

 and every friend of Recreation should 

 make it his business to aid in extending the 

 membership of the League. 



The chief warden of this, new division is 

 Air. H. W. Loveday, the present State game 

 warden of Illinois. He has deputies scat- 

 tered all over the State who will be appoint- 

 ed local wardens of the League. Thus the 

 State force will greatly strengthen the 

 League and vice versa. 



Your crusade against game hogs inter- 

 ests me. The L. A. S. is opposed to the 

 sale of game. Why not make it binding 

 on members, that they shall not sell any 

 of the product of their rods or guns. Let 

 us practice what we preach. Let us stand 

 up, declare and maintain, that any man 

 who turns his hunting or fishing skill to 

 pecuniary profit, or who over-kills, is a 

 " professional hunter," not a " sports- 

 man," and therefore ineligible to member- 

 ship in the League. Then turn about and 

 see if better privileges cannot be obtained 

 for sportsmen than for professionals. 



Wm. G. Reed, Boston, Mass. 



