THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



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employ lawyers, pay court costs, printing 

 bills, hotel bills, railway fares, and all other 

 expenses out of their own pockets? Gen- 

 tlemen of the 099 class, this question is up 

 to you. 



ANOTHER VALUABLE WARDEN. 



Eugene D. Ramsay, Vergennes, Vt. 

 Dear Sir: 



I am in receipt of a letter enclosing clip- 

 ping stating that you arrested Francis 

 Lamb, of Somerville, Mass., and John R. 

 Vinton, Jr., of Granville, Vt., for catching 

 small trout. Will you kindly give me. par- 

 ticulars. 



To this letter Mr. Ramsay replied as fol- 

 lows: 



I arrested Francis D. Lamb and John 

 R. Vinton, Jr., with 157 short trout. They 

 had 163, but 157 were 1^4 inches to 5 

 inches. Six inches is the law. These men 

 were fishing in the feed streams where 

 trout grow, but do not stay, as there is 

 not water enough for them after they get 

 to a certain size. 



I work for the State as a special, doing 

 the most of the work that a paid man 

 should do. I have 6 men bound over to 

 the next term of court in this State. I 

 am the only L. A. S. man here, but have 

 2 applications now and promise of more 

 by the 5th of August. So you will have 

 some more members here shortly. 



E. D. Ramsay, Vergennes, Vt. 



Here is a warden of the right sort. — 

 Editor. 



ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE LEAGUE. 



In August last E. M. Dixon & Co., of 

 this city, obtained from the State Fish, 

 Game and Forestry Commission a per- 

 mit to set a large number of pound nets 

 in Lake Erie near Buffalo. This firm 

 promptly shipped a stock of nets to Buf- 

 falo, which, it is said, cost $2,500, and were 

 on the point of sending them out on tugs, 

 when Mr. Thomas C. Welch, the League's 

 attorney at Buffalo, learned of the scheme 

 and took measures to have the license re- 

 voked. It was held up temporarily. 



A week later Mr. Welch and I went be- 

 fore the Board of Fish, Game and Forestry 

 Commissioners, at Albany, and Mr. Welch 

 made a strong appeal to the board to can- 

 cel the permit. Dixon's man offered, as 

 a compromise measure, to pay the salary 

 of a special warden, to be appointed bv 

 the board, and who should see that all 

 black bass taken from the nets should be 

 returned to the water alive. The League 

 and the State accepted this proposition; a 

 warden has been appointed and several 



League members in Buffalo have been de- 

 tailed to watch him. If we find that the 

 fishermen violate their pledge by sending 

 black bass to market then Dixon's permit 

 will be promptly revoked. 



GO, THOU, AND DO LIKEWISE. 



Ex-Gov. W. A. Richards, of Wyoming, 

 who is now Assistant Commissioner of 

 the General Land Office, at Washington, 

 has recently sent in 5 applications for 

 membership in the L. A. S., with his check 

 to cover. The men named in the applica- 

 tion are personal friends of the Govern- 

 or's, and I am led to believe he has paid 

 their first year's membership out of his 

 own pocket. This is a kind of missionary 

 work that hundreds of other League mem- 

 bers could well afford to do. There are 

 thousands of good sportsmen in the coun- 

 try who believe in the principles of this 

 League and who intend to join it, but they 

 put it off, from time to time. If some friend 

 should put in their names and put the men 

 in a position to receive the League's bul- 

 letins for a year, all of them would at the 

 expiration of that time renew their mem- 

 berships. Try it on a few of your friends 

 and see. 



In regard to the L. A. S., I am sure you 

 have reason to be not only satisfied, but 

 proud of your work. While there are 

 stingy fellows, there are also others. One 

 man, who supports a family on a small sal- 

 ary, asked me to call and get his dollar for 

 the L. A. S. Another, a young farmer, 

 sent his dollar to me by his sister. 



D. Lange, St. Paul, Minn. 



God bless 'em. — Editor. 



A yearly subscription to Recreation is 

 one of the most practicable and useful 

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 a man or a boy who is interested in nature 

 study, fishing, hunting, or amateur pho- 

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All boys instinctively love the woods. 

 Recreation teaches them to love and to 

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 Recreation. It costs only $1 a year, and 

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The Sidle sight you sent me as pre- 

 mium, mounted on a 22 Stevens Favorite, 

 is just the thing for small game. The 

 glass has all the good points of a snap 

 shot. 



Oscar Elmer, Shelburne Falls, Mass. 



