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, 489 Fifth Ave., New York 



City. 

 Butler, C. E., Jerome, Ari-z. 

 Carey, Flon. 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. 

 Hornaday, W. T., 2969 Decatur Ave., Bedford 



Park, N. Y. 

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

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

 McDermott, J. H., Morgantown, W. Va. 

 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 City 

 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 Fulton St., Boston, Mass. 

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



City. 

 H. Williams, Box 156, Butte, Mont. 



DISCOUNTS TO LEAGUE MEMBERS. 



The following firms have agreed to give 

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

 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. 



REPORT OF THE VIRGINIA DIVISION. 



I am honored by a commission from His 

 Excellency, the Governor of Virginia, as 

 representative trom the mother of States, 

 in this convention. The protection of game, 

 and of song and insectivorous birds has, 

 I am pleased to say, become a subject of 

 public agitation in our State, as well as 

 elsewhere. This matter has received scarce- 

 ly any attention in years past, and the result 

 is the almost total annihilation of game in 

 many sections of our State. Where game 

 birds and game animals have not become ex- 

 tinct, they are so reduced in numbers that 

 in some localities even a sign is seldom 

 found. 



Can you imagine the contrast of present 

 conditions with those which existed in 

 1607, when Capt. Christopher Newport, with 

 his little band, landed on what subsequently 

 became the shores of Virginia? The land 

 was theretofore unknown to the white man, 

 but with the coming of the Caucasian, began 

 the hurried retreat of all tribes to him un- 

 congenial, while he began appropriating to 

 the gratification of his fancy the beasts of 

 the forests and the birds of the air. 



After nearly 300 years of wanton destruc- 

 tion, we are assembled in this convention, 

 in a spot which was then a howling wil- 

 derness, but where to-day stand piles of 

 brick and stone, in the Capitol City of this 

 great commonwealth of Ohio, marking the 

 progress of civilization, and where the song 

 of the bird rarely greets an anxious ear. 



We are here to devise means by which 

 to protect the few remaining innocent and 

 useful birds and animals against their daily 

 increasing foe. In previous decades there 

 did not exist such necessity for game pro- 

 tection as the past 2 or 3 years have pro- 

 duced. The army of greedy hunters, 

 equipped with improved guns and ammuni- 

 tion, has committed unceasing slaughter ; 

 but, to my mind, the greatest enemy of the 

 game is the cold storage plant, an invention 

 of comparatively recent date". 



The laws of the several States should, as 

 far as possible, be uniform as to the stor- 



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