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RECREATION 



built for the comfort of the members who 

 own yachts. A similar house may be erected 

 on Hudson Bay. A commodious clubhouse 

 is being built at the watershed of Hudson 

 Bay and Georgian Bay, near the C. P. R., 

 and cabins are to be erected throughout the 

 entire length of this route. 



To form some idea of how many Ameri- 

 cans go to Canada for recreation, we are in- 

 formed that not less than 60,000 tickets were 

 sold last year to parties who wished to visit 

 the Muskoka region alone. 



This club was organized by the officers of 

 the Canadian Camp, which is at present the 

 largest sportsmen's social organization. The 

 dinners of the Camp, which consist almost 

 wholly of big game, killed by its members, 

 have become famous. 



The Canadian Camp Club is limited to 500. 



MUST PULL TOGETHER. 



Since Recreation claims to be a magazine 

 of the people, for the people and by the peo- 

 ple, that will make me your editor, and while 

 your editor has been busy with your plans 

 for the purchase and preservation of the buf- 

 falo, he has heard from private sources that 

 the ranchmen and settlers of Cora, Fremont 

 County, Wyoming, have been living exclu- 

 sively on antelope meat during the closed 

 season, and that the game wardens of Wyo- 

 ming do not molest settlers for killing an- 

 telopes in or out of season, but use all their 

 energies to "pinch," as the letter expresses 

 it, the outsider who comes there to hunt. 



We do not know what the population of 

 this county is, but we do know that a few 

 husky cow-punchers can consume a great 

 amount of meat in a season, and we also 

 know that, when a law is passed it is in- 

 tended to be a law for the whole people, re- 

 gardless of their social or political position, 

 and that it is not intended that the game war- 

 den or any other official shall be an autocrat 

 who may, at will, administer the law for one 

 set of people and omit to apply it to another 

 set. We would like to hear from the game 

 warden of Fremont County in regard to this 

 matter. The antelope cannot long exist 

 under such conditions, and we would like to 

 call the attention of the Governor of Wyom- 

 ing to the reported state of affairs in this 

 county and hear what the game wardens have 

 to say for themselves. This is a serious mat- 

 ter, not only for Wyoming, but for the United 

 States of America, and we wish all the 

 people who are interested in the preservation 

 of these beautiful and unique animals to con- 

 sider it their personal duty to write and in- 

 vestigate the affairs in Wyoming. The range 

 of the antelope is now practically limited to a 

 little strip of country of which Wyoming is 

 the biggest part. 



Killing these animals in the closed season 



not only means the loss of the animals killed, 

 but also leaves the young unprotected to die 

 from starvation or become the prey to coy- 

 otes, eagles, vultures and hawks. Under the 

 circumstances, no woman with the instinct 

 of a mother should allow her husband, sweet- 

 heart, or brother, or any man over whom she 

 has influence, to kill antelope or any other 

 animal /during the closed season. 



We also want to call the attention of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 

 to this state of affairs, and while we know 

 that they are principally interested in the 

 birds, at the same time we are helping them 

 in their good work and we ask Mr. William 

 Dutcher, the president of the National Asso- 

 ciation, to use his influence, through the me- 

 dium of his societies, to help us in our work. 

 We must stand shoulder to shoulder to pro- 

 tect these creatures, not from the vicious but 

 from the thoughtless. 



Speaking of the Audubon societies, we will 

 quote here what Mr. Dutcher has to say 

 about the buffalo in his address to his con- 

 stituents : 



A DUTY. 



"Scarcely more than a generation ago the buffalo 

 ranged the western plains in countless herds, their 

 numbers so great that no written estimate can be 

 considered an exaggeration. Those who were 

 fortunate enough to see one of these great hosts 

 surging over the prairies little thought that in a 

 few short years the buffalo would simply be a part 

 of history. This noble beast was exterminated 

 by man with a butchery so ignoble that it is sicken- 

 ing to dwell upon. The few dollars received for 

 the hide was the incentive for this national dis- 

 grace. Almost at the same hour that the buffalo were 

 vanishing, another of the wonders of this continent 

 was also being ruthlessly and recklessly destroyed. 

 Early writers tell of flocks of wild pigeons so large that 

 the account of their numbers verges on the fabulous. 

 Where are these countless winged hosts to-day? 

 All gone. Why? Simply that a limited number 

 of men without thought for the future might gather 

 a few dollars by sacrificing millions upon millions 

 of harmless and beautiful forms. 



"These two great assets of the people, of use and 

 beauty, were improvidently wasted, because no 

 public-spirited persons or association had the fore- 

 sight or interest to protect them from the small 

 band of selfish men who were the destroyers. The 

 passing of the buffalo and wild pigeon is a forceful 

 commentary on the indifference of the people of 

 those days. Are the people of this generation 

 showing any greater degree of interest in the wild 

 life of the present day?" 



In this connection it gives me pleasure to 

 say that I have received a very charming let- 

 ter from Daniel K. Hall, who is seconding 

 our movement for the preservation of the^ 

 buffalo in a very effective manner. He has 

 already succeeded in having the following 

 resolutions passed by the Glen Cove Club, 

 the Hempstead Flarbor Yacht Club, Sea Cliff 

 Yacht Club, Nassau Country Club, of Long 

 Island, and states that others will follow be- 

 fore Congress meets : 



"Whereas, The American bison, once so 

 numerous upon the Western plain, is threat- 

 ened with extinction by reason of the wanton 

 destruction of thousands of these noble ani- 



