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. 



Beard, D. C, 204 Amity St., Flushing, LI. 

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

 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. 

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

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

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

 Ellis, W. D., 136 W. 72A. 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. S2d 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., N™ York: 



City. 

 H- WUUams, 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. Photo- 

 graphic 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. 



GAME PROTECTION IN MINNESOTA. 



Speech of Hon. H. A. Morgan, at the Annual 



Meeting of the L. A. S. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen : I wrote 

 Mr. Shields a month ago that it would be 

 impossible for me to be here, but fortu- 

 nately I finished my work in court in time 

 to get here. I expected court to last 2 

 or 3 days longer, but the term ended Mon- 

 day evening and I came away in such a 

 hurry that I do not know yet whether I 

 won or lost. my last case. The jury was 

 out when I left, but I could not afford to 

 miss this meeting on account of a little 

 thing like that. 



Rome was not built in a day, and we 

 can only see the result of our work for the 

 protection of game by looking a long way 

 back and comparing what we see in retro- 

 spect with what we see at hand. 



"Something over 15 years ago I took 

 hold of the work in my county, simply from 

 a sense of what was right. My early train- 

 ing had been such as to equip me for the 

 work at hand. My mother had taught me 

 what birds it was wrong to kill ; what 

 animals and birds were useful, and what 

 animals and birds could be destroyed with 

 profit to the community. In my county, 

 as in all communities, there was no more 

 sentiment at that time in favor of game 

 protection than there was in favor of forest 

 protection 40 years ago. In both cases the 

 supply was considered inexhaustible. Peo- 

 ple did not realize that the supply of game 

 could be exhausted, and were as uncon- 

 cerned about it as they were about the tim- 

 ber supply of the Northwest. 



We had in our community men who 

 took pride in violating the game laws. 

 I did not single out some poor farmer or 

 farmer's boy who hunted on his own land, 

 nor some man too poor to buy meat or 

 fish for his family. 1 directed my first 

 efforts to the punishment of men who did 

 not have any too good a standing in the 

 community and of whom it was desirable. 

 to make an example, 



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