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RECREATION. 



J. F. Sherman, 64 Leonard St., N. Y. . 10 



Ernest W. Heath, Chicago, 111 10 



D. N. Force, 224 Church St., N. Y. . . 10 



Seelye Benedict, 35 Nassau St., N. Y. 10 



D. C. Philbrick, 74 Broadway, N. Y. . 10 

 Arthur Amory, 48 Franklin St., Bos- 

 ton, Mass 10 



S. A. Maxwell, 121 Crosby St., N. Y. . 10 

 H. C. Van Post, 32 West 57th St., 



N. Y 10 



H. M. Garlick, Youngstown, Ohio 10 



M. B. Metcalf, 50 Worth St., N. Y. .. 10 



Augustus Belmont, N. Y 10 



W. R. Peters, 47 Cedar St., N. Y 10 



Jas. B. Dill, 27 Pine St., N. Y 10 



Chas. A. Dean, Dean Bldg., Boston, 



Mass 10 



B. Fischer, 1123 Broadway, N. Y.... 5 

 Chas. E. Diefenthaler, 397 Greenwich 



St., N. Y 5 



S. C. Pirie, 115 Worth St., N. Y 5 



F. Coit Johnson, no Worth St., N. Y. 5 



E. S. Benjamin, 49 Lafayette PL, N. Y. 5 



Pierre Mali, 8 5th Ave., N. Y 5 



Edw. Bement, 74 Broadway, N. Y. . . . 5 



J. C. G. Hupfel, 229 East 38th St, N.Y. 5 

 J. H. Hammond, 32 Riverside Drive, 



N. Y 5 



George F. Volkman, 2307 Broadway, 



San Francisco, Cal 5 



This is an important recognition on the 

 part of these capitalists, of the valuable 

 service being rendered the country by this 

 League. A year hence, we shall ask these 

 same gentlemen to contribute again, and if 

 we can show them that we have made rea- 

 sonable progress in our work during the 

 current year, we may safely expect that 

 most of them will duplicate their checks. 

 Others will no doubt send "us larger ones. 

 Furthermore, we may safely count on other 

 philanthropic men coming to our aid, as 

 we progress in years and in usefulness. 

 The money already received is being care- 

 fully and effectively expended in our edu- 

 cational work. 



The growth of the League during the 

 past year has been entirely satisfactory. At 

 the time of the last annual meeting, we had 

 a membership of 7,784. Today we have 

 9,210. A year ago we had 42 State Divi- 

 sions. We have organized 3 since then, 

 one of which is in Alaska, the most im- 

 portant in the Union so far as game is 

 concerned. There are now but 5 States in 

 which we have not yet organized divisions. 

 These are Delaware, Indian Territory, 

 Mississippi, North Carolina and Louisiana. 



We are working hard on the sportsmen 

 in these States to get them in line, and I 

 hope to have the pleasure of reporting at 

 the next annual meeting that we have com- 

 pleted organizations in all of them. 



We have organized, during the past year, 

 14 local chapters, and therefore have 54 of 



these at work in different parts of the 

 country. 



A year ago we had 156 local wardens at 

 work. Today we have 176, a gam of 13 per 

 cent. 



The League may reasonably and mod- 

 estly claim the honor of having secured 

 the passage of the Alaskan game bill in the 

 56th Congress. Your President drafted 

 this bill, substantially as passed, and while 

 we fully recognize the stalwart service 

 rendered by our venerable friend, the Hon- 

 orable John F. Lacey, in introducing and 

 pushing this bill, and of many other Con- 

 gressmen and Senators in working and 

 voting for it, yet I must congratulate the 

 members of the League on having made 

 such a strong and such a general demand 

 on their members for the passage of this 

 measure, that a great majority of them 

 promptly voted for it when it came up. 



The skin hunters and their allies, the 

 taxidermists, were rapidly cleaning out the 

 big game of Alaska, and that State would 

 have been as barren of wild life in a few 

 years as the Southwestern desert is today, 

 had not the L. A. S. called a halt on them. 



The general office of the League is still 

 carrying on its great missionary work 

 through the mails. Thousands of com- 

 plaints come to this office every year, of 

 violations of the game laws in various 

 States and in the Canadian Provinces. All 

 these reports are acted on in one way or 

 another, and in many cases with the de- 

 sired effect. If they come from States 

 where we have good live Division officers, 

 the reports are referred to them. If from 

 other States, then we deal with the cases 

 direct, as seems best. We have received 

 during the past year many supplementary 

 reports on cases that had been thus brought 

 to our attention and 'have been informed 

 that the accused had been punished and 

 had reformed. 



League members have prosecuted 217 per- 

 sons for infractions of fish or game laws, 

 and have secured 205 convictions. We 

 have paid rewards of $10 in each of 2^ 

 of these cases. 



These disbursements have been distrib- 

 uted throughout the various States, and it is 

 easy to understand how a man receiving 

 such a reward will tell his friends, and even 

 his enemies, of the effective work being 

 done by the League to save the game. 



Under the direction and supervision of 

 the Chief Warden of the Oklahoma Divi- 

 sion, 2 important seizures of quails were 

 made in that territory last winter. One of 

 these consisted of«29 barrels of birds valued 

 at $2,000, and the other of 7 barrels valued 

 at $525. These birds were confiscated and 

 given to the poor, and the shippers were 

 well-nigh bankrupt. 



E. F. Smith, Chief Warden of the West 



