THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



GENERAL OFFICERS 



President, G. O. Shields, 23 W. 24th St., 

 New York. 



1st Vice-President, E. T. Seton, 80 West 

 40th St., New York. 



2d Vice-President, W. T. Hornaday, 2969 

 Decatur Ave., Bedford Park, N. Y. 



3d Vice-President, Dr. T. S. Palmer, 

 Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



4th Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 80 

 West 40th St., New York. 



5th Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Rich- 

 ards, General Land Office, Washington, 

 D. C 



Secretary, A. F. Rice, 155 Pennington 

 Ave., Passaic, N. J. 



Treasurer, Austin Corbin, of the Corbin 

 Banking Co., 192 Broadway, New York. 



LIFE MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE. 

 Anderson, A. A., 80 W. 40th St., New York City. 

 Beard, D. C, 204 Amity St., Flushing, L. I. 

 Blackstone, Lorenzo, Norwich, Conn. 

 Buzzacott, Francis F., Chicago, 111. 

 Brown, J. Stanford, 48Q Fifth Ave., New York 



City 

 Butler, C. E., Jerome, Ariz. 

 Carey, Hon. H. W., Eastlake, Mich. 

 Carnegie, Andrew, 2d, Fernandina, Fla. 

 Carnegie, George, Fernandina, Fla. 

 Carnegie, Morris,- Fernandina, Fla. 

 Corbin, Austin, 192 Broadway, New York City. 

 N. T. De Pauw, New Albany, Ind. 

 Dickinson, E. H., Moosehead Lake, Me. 

 Edgell, G. S., 192 Broadway, New York City. 

 Ellis, W. D., 136 W. 72d St., New York City. 

 Fearing, D. B., Newport, R. I. 

 Ferry, C. H., 1720 Old Colony Bldg., Chicago, 111. 

 Ferry, Mansfield, 183 Lincoln Park Boulevard, 



Chicago, 111. 

 Fraser, A. V., 478 Greenwich St., New York City. 

 Gilbert, Clinton, 2 Wall St., New York City. 

 Hudson, E. J., 33 E. 35th St., Bayonne, N. J. 

 McClure, A. J., 158 State St., Albany, N. Y. 

 Mershon, W. B., Saginaw, Mich. 

 Miller, F. G., 108 Clinton St., Defiance, O. 

 Morton, Hon. Levi P., 681 Fifth Ave., New York 



City. 

 Nesbitt, A. G., Maple St., Kingston, Pa. 

 O'Conor, Col. J. C., 24 E. 33d St., New York 



City. 

 Oliver, Rev. F. E., Winfield, Kans. 

 Pierson, Gen. J. F., 20 W. 52d St., New York 



City. 

 Prescott, A. L. , 90 W. Broadway, New York "ity 

 Rice, A. F., 155 Pennington Ave., Passaic, N. J. 

 Rininger, Dr. E. M., 142 E. 27th St., New York 



City. 

 Seton, E. T., 80 W. 40th St., New York City. 

 Seymour, J. H., 35 Wall St., New York City. 

 Smith, E. B., Bourse Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Smith, W. H., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 

 Thompson, J. Walter, Times Bldg., New York 



City. 

 Towne, E. S., Care of National Blank Book Co., 



Holyoke, Mass. 

 Underwood, W. L.. 52 Fuiton St., Boston, Mass. 

 Valentine, Dr. W. A., 5 W. 35th St., New York 



City. 

 H. Williams, Box 156, Butte, Mont. 



per cent, to 10 per cent, on all goods bought 

 of them. In ordering please give L. A S. 

 number : 



Syracuse Arms Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Guns. 

 Davenport Fire Arms Co., Norwich, Conn. Shot 



guns, rifles. 

 Gundlach Optical Co., Rochester, N. Y. Photographic 



goods. 

 Blair Camera Co., Rochester, N.Y. Photographic goods 

 James Acheson, Talbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario, 



Sporting goods. 



DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 



The following firms have agreed to give 

 members of the L. A. S. a discount of 2 



WISCONSIN DIVISION. 



Wisconsin has a good game law and it is 

 well enforced. We let the hunters pay for 

 the protection of game, fish and forests, 

 and they are willing to do so. This protec- 

 tion not only costs the taxpayers nothing 

 in our State, but they receive a large sum 

 every year through the game wardens, be- 

 cause all the money for the fines goes into 

 the county treasuries. The money for tres- 

 passing on public lands, which law is also 

 enforced by our State wardens, goes into 

 the school fund. Another good feature of 

 our law is that all deputies are State, in- 

 stead of county wardens. They all have 

 authority over the whole State. This en- 

 ables them to work to better advantage, for 

 where they are not known they can often 

 capture violators of the law who might 

 evade them if the wardens were known. 



In Wisconsin a hunter must take out a li- 

 cense for all protected game, including rab- 

 bits and squirrels. The license fee is $1 

 for a resident for all game, $10 for a non- 

 resident for small game, and $25 for all 

 game, including deer. 



A hunter can take 2 deer home during 

 the season, or 25 chickens or 50 waterfowl 

 in one day; but no game can be sold except 

 rabbits and squirrels, or shipped without 

 being accompanied by the hunter. On that 

 account and the strict enforcement of the 

 law, the deer have increased rapidly with- 

 in the last 2 or 3 years. 



To show what game protection can do : 

 In localities where we had no quails 3 or 4 

 years ago, they are plentiful now,. We 

 passed a law last winter to protect them 

 for 2 years more. We also passed a law 

 to create a State forest commission and a 

 practical forester was appointed as superin- 

 tendent with a salary of $2,500. 



We had a hard fight again last year 

 against spring shooting. Dr. Gropper, an 

 active League member, and I appeared be- 

 fore the committee for game and fish laws 

 and did all we could to kill that bill ; but 

 the committee was divided on spring shoot- 

 ing, so they made an agreement and com- 

 bined the spring shooting bill with the 

 bill to prohibit the sale of game, which we 

 proposed. Our governor is a great game 

 •protector, but if he had vetoed the bill for 

 spring shooting he would also have killed 



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