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EXPOSITION NUMBER— 40 PAGES. 
AN INIQUITOUS MEASURE. 
The Donaldson^ game bill as sent to Gov. Morton in- 
corporates the provisions of the Wilts bill in this new 
Section 249: 
Section 249. No person or persons shall be deemed to have violated 
any law or ordinance by reason ot his or their selling, exposing for 
sale, transporting or possessing, or attempting so to do, the body or a 
part of the body of any wild animal or bird in the close season for 
such animal or bird, provided it be proved by him or them, by produc- 
tion of proper invoices and freight or express receipts, that such wild 
animal or bird was shipped from a point at least three hundred miles 
distant from the State of New York. For the purpose of the proper 
enforcement of this section the package containing this wild animal or 
bird shall be marked plainly "game," and the place of shipment and 
destination shall also be plainly marked. All transportation companies 
which shall transport the same shall keep books plainly showing the 
receipt and delivery of such packages of game, and dealers in the 
same shall keep books of account showing the number of birds or 
animals received, sold or delivered by them, and shall, at all times, 
permit any authorized agent of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game 
and Forest to examine their books of record for purpose of establish- 
ing the right of such possession or transportation in close season. 
Such a provision, if it should become a law, would 
go far to undo the work of game protection in the 
State. It would be a backward step. It would be such 
a blow to the interests of protection as we have not had 
in a quarter-century. It would mean for New York 
State a retrogression all the more marked and disgrace- 
ful because in direct and glaring contrast with the new 
laws of almost every State and Territory where game 
protective legislation has been enacted this year. Every- 
where the lines are being drawn more and more strictly 
against the market consumption, for in that sordid, un- 
sparing, greedy, all-consuming agency is seen the most 
destructive factor of the times. 
That the sale of game must be prohibited in the close 
season, if the laws are to amount to anything, has been 
demonstrated by experience so abundantly, so forcibly 
and so beyond questioning that the principle of no sale 
of game in close season is embodied in the game laws of 
every State in the Union, with the exception of Massa- 
chusetts. And because it is wanting in the Massachusetts 
statutes, the city of Boston has long been the "dumping 
ground" for game illicitly killed in Massachusetts and for 
the surplus of game killed in other States. 
With a market the year around game will be killed the 
year around. This is not theory; it is fact established by 
costly experience. To open the markets, as is contem- 
plated in this measure, is to put a premium upon chicken 
grouse, upon immature woodcock, upon our deer in close 
time. Where there is a market, there is a constant, 
steady, never-ceasing operation of the agencies of game 
destruction for the supply of that market. With such a 
system as is contemplated by the Wilks-Donaldson 
measure, the State Game Protectors would be power- 
less to stop unlawful market-hunting; it never has been 
done; it cannot be done now. 
There is no reputable advocacy of this Wilks-Donaldson 
scheme to open the game market. There is not a single 
game protective club, not a citizen who honestly wishes 
protection for our diminishing game, but is indignant at 
this proposition. 
In the name of game ^protection, in the name of the 
true interests of the citizens of New York, we protest 
against the Executive's approval of the Donaldson bill. 
There is nothing of merit in that measure to counterbal- 
ance the evil of this Section 249. The men who are ask- 
ing for this law, and the interests demanding it, are the 
marketmen and the commission interests. They ask for 
the law in order that they may dispose of more game. 
That is all they want, but that in itself is the sufficient 
answer to the demand. The New York game supply can- 
not stand the increased drain upon it provided by an 
open market. The game of our sister States cannot stand 
the drain. In very many States the exportation of game 
to the markets is forbidden. By opening her own mar- 
kets the year around New York would be putting a pre- 
mium upon the unlawful shipment of game from other 
States. In the name of the citizens of other States, as 
well as of our own, we urge Gov. Morton to veto the 
Donaldson bill. 
THE FESTIVAL OF DIANA. 
New Yokk is the heart of America. The lovely little 
Madison Square, a tiny green bit of priceless earth show- 
ing alike the pulse of nature and the pulse of the most 
highly differentiated civilization, may well be called the 
heart of New York. A jewel upon the heart of this cor 
cordium, this heart of hearts, is the vast but exquisite 
building known as the Madison Square Garden, the very 
spot of all in the country best known and most suitable 
as an auditorium and spectaculum for vast entertain- 
ments. Above the plain but spacious bounds of this great 
amphitheater, like tender chains suspending it from the 
sky, rise floating bands of exquisitely handled stone, so 
light, so airy, so beautiful and fragile, that they seem not 
columns, but ribbons — not resting, but depending. And on 
above, pinning daintily together all these airy fiauntings, 
the central gem of the jewel on this heart of hearts, rests, 
or rather poises, the golden statue of Diana, beyond all 
question the best known and best beloved of all American 
statuary, no matter by what hand or of what material. 
How many millions have looked on that splendid, dainty, 
matchless figure of grace, bending her golden bow above 
the throbbing heart of the great city of New York, no 
one can tell. How many millions saw this same figure 
poise the same shaft above the great and now vanished 
White City at Chicago, no one can tell. But there, as 
here, even among crowds of the most ambitious sculp- 
tures, Diana of the golden bow was the most beloved. It 
is not recorded that ever a word of criticism was heard 
let fall regarding this one figure. Beyond reproach was 
this one thing. Great was Diana of the Ephesians. 
Beloved is Diana of America. , 
Diana was the goddess of the chase. - Is this the reason 
that in the heart of Americans, the greatest race of sports, 
men on the globe, where every man may bear arms and 
set free foot upon soil free forever— is this the reason 
Diana is beloved? Is this the reason that under Diana's 
bended bow there was held a gathering of the ideas of the 
chase such as in their fullness and perfection surprised as 
though it had been inspiration the founders of this Expo- 
sition? Truly it would seem so. As all America loves 
Diana, all America seemed under levy to bring her trib- 
ute. From the far mountains of the West, from the salt 
sea of the Pacific, from the cold corners of old Maine to 
the hot plains of Texas, all Americans rose and brought 
spoils of the chase and material of the hunt as tribute to 
Diana of the Americans. And Diana of the golden bow, 
exultant and gracious to her children, poised tiptoe on 
her pleasant pinnacle and turned her face to the North, to 
the South, to the East and to the West, and said, "Thank 
you, my subjects and my children." 
The Sportsmen's Exposition was American, and repre- 
sentatively so. Many may have thought it was to be 
local, but in no way could they have been more wrong. 
It was national, and a nation of sportsmen will be proud 
of it. Many may have thought it was merely a trade dis- 
play. In no way could they have erred more palpably, 
and in no way could the daily press of New York city 
have showed better an unaccountable lack of perspicacity 
in news seeking. Some may have thought the Exposition 
was only a showing of modern sporting methods. They 
were wrong. It was a showing and a glorification of the 
methods and material of the sportsmen of all times. The 
ancient hunter of other lands, the primitive red hunter of 
our own land, the hunter of the far past, the passing and of 
the present, all these had their meeting place, their tryst 
of the undying brotherhood of sport, under the how of 
the goddess of the chase, who knows no times nor nation- 
alities. 
The pages of this journal, which is devoted to the purer 
doctrines of the goddess of the chase, contain descriptions 
of the Exposition in particulars. In the general comment 
but one conclusion can be expressed. The Sportsmen's 
Exposition was a national success. Even success may 
grow, and it is an easy prediction that still greater suc- 
cess will fall next spring, when the Exposition will be 
held again, and when again the sportsmen of America 
will meet and bring their yearly tribute to heap up at the 
feet of Diana of America. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The fraternal spirit of angling sometimes does not 
work. It has not done so on the St. Lawrence River. 
Last year, without any warning or any special reason 
that has ever been disclosed, the Minister of Marine and 
Fisheries caused the adoption of a regulation imposing a 
license fee of five dollars on non-resident anglers. This 
barred out St. Lawrence River fishermen; and then for 
retaliation a boycott was put upon the Canadian boatmen 
and the alien labor laws were put in operation against 
them. The law and these results of it bred bad feeling all 
around, irritated the Americans and robbed the boatmen 
of their earnings. The Anglers' Association of the St. Law- 
rence River has been active in its efforts to secure the 
abrogation of the obnoxious regulation, and last week a 
committee went before the Minister of Fisheries and made 
a strong plea for a restoration of the old-time harmonious 
relations. They promised that if the license requirement 
should be removed from American anglers in Canadian 
waters, Canadian boatmen would once more be given 
employment in American waters. The proposal was met 
with a rebuff. The Minister of Fisheries offers as a rea- 
son for not complying with the Association's request the 
principle that his Government cannot take cognizance of 
unofficial representations in an international affiair— a 
sound position surely, and not a whit less tenable than 
that of the stickler for etiquette who refused to rescue 
from drowning a young lady to whom he had not been 
introduced. 
We print to-day the first part of the story of "The 
Museum Caribou," by the late Rev. A. H. Gesner, so long 
known to readers of these pages as "Stillaboy." The 
sketches written by Mr. Gesner have added interest be- 
cause in them is illustrated so well the abiding values of a 
woodland outing; these long-ago expeditions into Cana- 
dian wilds were not alone joys in themselves and for th e 
time being, but furnished abundant material for reminis- 
cent review, at a time when to recall them in memory 
was to renew in a way and partake again of their pleas- 
ures. The satisfaction and benefit of the camp in the 
wilderness, who can measure them? 
The organization of a Game and Fish Protective Asso- 
ciation in Minnesota affords ground for believing that the 
interests concerned will be given material advancement. 
The new society is a direct achievement of Mr. W. L. 
Tucker, whose pen has been indefatigable in the prelim- 
inary work of organization. We trust that we may 
have occasion to record for the association an active and 
useful life. 
Among Adirondack veterans is Orson S. Phelps, the. 
fisherman and trapper of Keene Valley, familiarly known 
throughout the North Woods as "Old Mountain Phelps." 
He is now in his eightieth year, and never wants for an 
indulgent hearing when advancing his claim that he 
has taken as many trout as any other man in the Adir- 
ondacks, 
