EDITOR'S CORNER. 



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managers of the Fair, suggesting that it 

 would be well for them to buy some adver- 

 tising space. But the aforesaid managers 

 could not see it. And so the great masses 

 of the American people did not go to St. 

 Louis. So it was with the Chicago Fair. 

 So it was with the Omaha Fair. So it was 

 with the Buffalo Fair. And so it will be 

 with other Fairs in future, unless the manu- 

 agers of future Fairs, who set to work to 

 fill their own pockets, see fit to buy space 

 in the newspapers and magazines, the legiti- 

 mate channels for making the people ac- 

 quainted with public matters. 



A NATIONAL REFUGE FOR BIRDS. 

 President Roosevelt has performed an- 

 other signal service for the cause of game 

 preservation by creating a preserve and 

 breeding ground for wild fowl. Here is a 

 copy of the order which will always stand 

 as a landmark in the history of the great 

 movement for the preservation of wild- fowl. 



EXECUTIVE ORDER. 



It is hereby ordered that Breton Island, 

 as shown by the General Land Office map 

 of the State of Louisiana of date 1896, in 

 Township 18 South, Range 20 East, St. 

 Helena Meridian, when same shall be sur- 

 veyed ; and Old Harbor and Freemason 

 islands, in Townships 14 and 15 South, 

 Ranges 21 and 22 East, same meridian, 

 when surveyed, be, and they are hereby re- 

 served and set apart for the use of the 

 Department of Agriculture, as a preserve 

 and breeding ground for native birds. 

 This reservation to be known as "Breton 

 Island Reservation." 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



White House, October 4, 1904. 



The credit of having suggested the cre- 

 ation of this new park is due entirely to 

 Mr. Frank M. Miller, of New Orleans, La., 

 who is a member of the L. A. S. and 

 President of the Louisiana Audubon So- 

 ciety. Mr. Miller's letter is printed in the 

 Natural History Department of this issue 

 of Recreation, and his valuable service in 

 this matter will be fully appreciated by 

 every true sportsman and every nature 

 lover in the United States and Canada. 



CLUB MEMBERS MUST PAY. 

 One Henry J. Cummings, of St. Louis, 

 Mo., joined the Grand Pass shooting club, 

 which has a game preserve of 1,200 acres in 

 Greene county, Illinois. In October, 1903, 

 Mr. Cummings engaged in shooting ducks 

 on the club's grounds without having first 

 taken out a non-resident license. He 

 claimed that as a member of the club the 

 Illinois law requiring non-resident hunters 

 to take out licenses did not apply to him 

 A game warden arrested Mr, Cummings and 



a local justice fined him $25. Cummings 

 carried the case to the Supreme Court of 

 Illinois, where it was finally adjudicated in 

 October last. 



The court held that the fact of Cum- 

 mings holding a membership in the Grand 

 Pass shooting club did not exempt him 

 from the general law as to non-resident 

 licenses, and sustained the action of the 

 justice in assessing a fine against Cum- 

 mings. 



The opinion is a lengthy one, evidently 

 prepared with great care, and numerous de- 

 cisions bearing on the status of the present 

 case are cited. 



This is a splendid victory for the Illinois 

 State Game Commission, and its effect will 

 be far reaching. There are other cases 

 pending in various States of the Union, 

 where appeals have been made on exactly 

 similar grounds, and this decision of the 

 Illinois Supreme Court will prove of great 

 value to the friends of game protection in 

 enforcing their non-resident license laws. 



GROVER IS NOT GUILTY. 



A dispatch from Princeton, N. J., to the 

 Associated Press states that ex-President 

 Cleveland recently went out for a day's 

 shooting, accompanied by 2 friends, and 

 that they killed 16 quails and 7 rabbits. 

 The Associated Press reporter at that place 

 must have experienced a change of heart, 

 or else he must be a new man in the busi- 

 ness ; for this is the first report I have ever 

 seen oi Mr. Cleveland's shooting that did 

 not credit him with having killed at least 

 100 birds in a day. 



I have written him several times asking 

 for confirmation or denial of newspaper 

 stories of his killing, and he has in each 

 case replied to the effect that they were 

 gross exaggerations! In one of these let- 

 ters Mr. Cleveland added that he knew 

 when to quit and that he heartily approved 

 Recreation's course in condemning men 

 who do not keep within reasonable limits, 



THE LONG NAME NUISANCE. 



I received a manuscript the other 

 day from a woman who has 4 names and 

 who spells them all out in full. In re- 

 turning her story I volunteered this bit of 

 advice, which many other writers would do 

 well to consider : 



I beg to suggest, in your own interest, 

 that it would be well to cut out some 01 

 your names before sending this material 

 to other editors. Nearly all such men are 

 tired of long drawn out names, and are 

 discouraging their use. I have heard of 

 several good MSS. being returned because 

 the editors objected to printing the names 

 in full, and yet they did not care to dis- 

 cuss the question with the writers, That 



