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RECREATION. 



deer on the pack horse. The sun was not 

 bright enough for a good picture, yet it is 

 fair. The boys killed 3 deer a long way 

 from camp. We stayed 4 days, getting 6 

 deer and 3 antelope. That was enough 

 game, and we started home. 



With deer and antelope in sight, we 

 slowly descended the foot hills, recrossed 

 the Mussel Shell, and reached home the 

 next evening, well satisfied with our 8 

 days' trip. 



Jerome H. White. 



DR. KALBFUS NOT GUILTY. 



Harrisburg, Pa. 

 Editor Recreation : 



I notice in Recreation a complaint from 

 A. R. Williams, First Fork, Pa., that the 

 game laws are not enforced in his section. 

 If that gentleman would be as ready to 

 help the Game Commission as he is to com- 

 plain, things might be different. We are 

 doing all in our power to enforce the law. 

 We are spending our time and our money 

 for game and bird protection, and it galls 

 us to have statements of that kind sent 

 broadcast throughout the country. That 

 you may fully understand the situation, I 

 would say, the Game Commission of Penn- 

 sylvania has no appropriation except $800, 

 limited to the payment of postage and ex- 

 press charges. No one connected with this 

 office receives a cent of salary. The gen- 

 tlemen composing the Commission pay their 

 own expenses in attending to the work. I, 

 as secretary of the Commission, and chief 

 game warden of the State, have given some 

 attention to the work for about 2 l / 2 years. 

 I have attended to the correspondence of 

 the office and investigated every violation 

 that has been brought to my notice during 

 that time. I have looked after legislation 

 during one session of the Legislature, and 

 to date have received about $300 for serv- 

 ices. I have traveled over this State many 

 times at my own expense and into your 

 State after violators- of our game law. 



If Mr. Williams has any evidence to 

 support his statement, I will gladly 'give 

 my time to seeing that such parties are 

 prosecuted. We have no doubt there are 

 many violations of the game law in this 

 State. We also think some good has been 

 done by the Commission. I refer you to 

 your friend, Dr. H. M. Beck, of Wilkes 

 Barre, who knows something of what we 

 have to contend with and of the work that 

 is being done. 



Joseph Kalbfus, 

 Secretary of the Game Commission. 



efforts to enforce the State laws. The 

 simple fact that he came to this State, ob- 

 tained a requisition for 3 men who had 

 violated the game laws of Pennsylvania, 

 arrested the men, took them back to that 

 State, convicted them, and made them pay 

 their fine, has placed the sportsmen of 

 Pennsylvania under a debt of gratitude to 

 the Doctor that they could not repay by 

 any act short of making him president of 

 the Board for life, with a salary of $10,000 

 a year. Yet this is only one of the many 

 excellent pieces of work Dr. Kalbfus has 

 done. Nor have his associates been idle. 

 That many law breakers have gone un- 

 punished is due to the fact that the law 

 makers of Pennsylvania have been too 

 short sighted to appropriate money to carry 

 on the work. All good sportsmen in the 

 State should work diligently during the 

 next few months to induce the Legislature 

 to act promptly and liberally in this mat- 

 ter. — Editor. 



ANSWER. 



Dr. Kalbfus is right. The Pennsylvania 

 Board of Game Commissioners has done 

 a great deal of good work, and the Doctor, 

 especially, has worked like a Trojan in his 



ETHICS OF GAME RAISING. 



I have read with interest your defense 

 of wealthy club men who purchase or 

 lease large tracts of fish and game regions. 

 Who supposes for a moment that the pur- 

 pose of such men is game protection? It 

 is solely to prolong the pleasures of the 

 chase for themselves alone. Others may 

 be equally deserving, perhaps more so; but 

 unfortunately for them their financial gun 

 has not the range and penetration pos- 

 sessed by those of the aforesaid wealthy 

 men. If it be right for one club to make 

 such a purchase, then it is right for any 

 and all clubs to do the same. 



The justice of the principle once ad- 

 mitted, its universal application must be 

 allowed. All desirable game and fish re- 

 gions are closed to me and many thous- 

 ands of others who enjoy life with rod and 

 gun. What are we to do? 



What man among us financial unfortun- 

 ates has the submissiveness of spirit to 

 stand by without a murmur and comfort 

 himself with the reflection that although 

 his days of hunting and fishing are over 

 he is law abiding and that a few wealthy 

 men from the cities, perhaps accompanied 

 by some select swells from "Hingland," 

 are on the game preserves with long range 

 guns and costly fishing tackle, protecting 

 the game. The law is wrong that permits 

 such actions, no matter though it be found 

 in our own revered constitution. The man 

 is in error who, after impartially consider- 

 ing this question of monopoly in all its ef- 

 fects, undertakes to excuse such actions. 



The men who take advantage of such 

 laws are 100 fold more of game hogs than 

 I am when I shoot enough birds today to 

 last me and my family 2 days. 



W. L. Darnall, Dwight, Neb. ^ 



