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, U. 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, 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. 

 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, Col., 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. 

 U. 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. Snot 



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. 

 Redifor Rod and Reel Co., Warren, Ohio. 



ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN L. L. GOODRICH, 



OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, AT THE 



ANNUAL MEETING OF THE L. A. S. 



Texas is a large State, and is known to 

 be wild and woolly. It is not so wild as it 

 used to be, but it has not yet discarded the 

 wool. 



As to the work of the League of Amer- 

 ican Sportsmen in Texas, it is not what it 

 should have been, though our people are 

 gradually becoming more and more inter- 

 ested, for I hear them cussing Shields on 

 the street corners. 



We had a game law previous to the last 

 meeting of the Legislature that amounted 

 to little, and that was not enforced. We 

 have now a law that is about as good as 

 any law in any State. I do not know how 

 we got it. We stamped around and raised 

 a good deal of dust and some smoke, and 

 the law makers evidently thought there was 

 fire somewhere. We wrote letters to the 

 members of the Legislature and told them 

 that something must be done. We got 

 them interested and they passed our bill, 

 which made the wild birds and animals 

 the property ' of the State, and made it 

 unlawful to kill non-game birds. It is now 

 unlawful to sell or have in possession game 

 birds in close season. The term game birds 

 covers nearly everything but English spar- 

 rows and weasels. We are now allowed to 

 shoot weasels instead of birds. We are not 

 allowed to destroy nests or eggs of birds. 

 The penalty for a violation of the game 

 laws in Texas runs from $10 to $100. The 

 old law allowed the shooting of deer to 

 begin the first of September, when it is so 

 warm in this country that unless a man 

 should run all the wav home the venison 

 would spoil. Now we have an open season 

 of 2 months, November and December. Each 

 person is allowed to kill 8 bucks, and is 

 not allowed to kill does or spotted fawns. 

 The sale of deer skins is prohibited. We 

 do not allow any netting or trapping. We 

 do not allow the use of any weapon but a 

 shoulder gun. We forbid the use of swivel 

 guns, or headlights in hunting deer, and 

 of dynamite in fishing. It is unlawful to 

 kill mountain sheep or pheasants or ante- 



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