WHAT GAME PROTECTION HAS COST ONE MAN. 



G. O. Shields. 



Judge Holt, of the United States Dis- 

 trict Court, has appointed Walter C. 

 Low of 346 Broadway, receiver in bank- 

 ruptcy, for the assets of G. O. Shields, 

 publisher of "Recreation," at 23 West 

 Twenty -fourth street. — Ncu. York Times, 

 January 5th, 1905. * 



This crisis is not due to any im- 

 proper management of my business, 

 nor to any lack of attention, nor to 

 any extravagance in my private or 

 business affairs. It is purely the re- 

 sult of my work in the interest of 

 game protection. 



Ever since the League of Ameri- 

 can Sportsman was organized I have 

 been going into my own pocket to 

 meet the demands of. that organiza- 

 tion for money to carry on its work. 

 I have repeatedly appealed to the 

 sportsmen and nature lovers for 

 financial aid in this work, and have 

 received some help in that way, but 

 not 10 per cent, of the amount that 

 was necessary to meet the demands. 



Some one had to supply the defici- 

 ency or the work must stop, and so 

 ] have constantly drawn on my own 

 resources. I have believed the friends 

 of game protection would eventually 

 rally to the support of the cause, but 

 comparatively few of them have done 

 so. 



True, the League has a large mem- 

 bership, but the fee is only $1 a year, 



and 60 per cent, of that must go back 

 to the States whence the memberships 

 originate. The other 40 per cent, is 

 not sufficient to pay postage on the 

 printed matter it is necessary to send 

 out each month. ;. Then there are 

 heavy printing bills, stenographers' 

 salaries, rewards for the conviction of 

 law breakers, traveling expenses, law- 

 yers' fees, etc., all of which I have 

 been paying. 



I have records showing personal 

 payments of more than $15,000 on 

 these accounts. 



Yet in the face of all this I am 

 forced into bankruptcy and am locked 

 out of my office. And this is only a 

 part of what game protection has 

 cost me. 



As stated in December Recreation, 

 this magazine has never paid expenses 

 throughout a year. 1 have done 

 everything possible to build up the ad- 

 vertising end of the business and to 

 extend the circulation sufficiently 

 to put the property on a paying 

 basis. I have lived as economically 

 as a man could live and retain his self 

 respect, I have denied myself every 

 luxury and many of the necessities of 

 life. 



For instance : No man loves music 

 more than I do ; yet I have not heard 

 an opera in all these years. Neither 

 have I heard a high class concert ex- 

 cept when invited by some friend. 



