Jan. ii, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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1 “I had engaged a meeting room at the Yates 
Hotel quite large enough, as I believe, for all the 
delegates, but when I reached Syracuse I found 
f hat Dr. Honsinger as chairman of the committee 
pf arrangements, had told the people at the Yates 
| Hotel that the meeting would not be held there, 
jut at the Carnegie Library. Dr. Honsinger was 
Chairman of the committee of arrangements for 
! he banquet only, and had no authority to change 
he place of meeting for the League. The room 
it the Yates Hotel would accommodate, I be- 
ieve, 150 people, and as there were only about 
■ :ighteen or twenty clubs and each club was en- 
I itled to four representatives, the Yates Hotel 
| -oom would have held them all. 
II “There was great confusion among the sports- 
nen coming to Syracuse from out of town be- 
:ause they did not know where the meeting was 
0 be held. 
“Finally it was held in the large room in City 
Hall. At the opening of the meeting, when I 
galled the roll of clubs, eighteen clubs answered 
o their names. Matters went on smoothly 
;nough until shortly before the time for the elec- 
ion of officers, when Dr. Honsinger presented 
ne with a bundle of applications of clubs for 
nembership. I looked at them, saw that the fee 
yas attached to each, and passed them over to 
he vice-president, Mr. Bowman, who was sitting 
>y me, and he took down the list and credited 
he money. This is the list of clubs who have 
laid their dues according to Mr. A. C. Corn- 
vall, the treasurer, of Alexandria Bay: 
“Albany County Fish and Game Club, H. R. Col¬ 
ins, Secretary, Albany. Anglers’ Association of 
Niagara Falls, W. J. Murphy, Secretary, Niagara 
•alls. Anglers’ Association of Onondaga, J. E. 
^ierhardt, Secretary, Syracuse. Anglers’ Asso- 
iation of the St. Lawrence River, W. H. Thomp- 
on, Secretary, Alexandria Bay. Binghamton 
lod and Gun Club, Vernon L. Perry, Bingham- 
on. Bird and Anglers’ Association of Madison 
.ounty, F. B. Petrie, Secretary, Oneida. Black 
tiver Association for Protection of Fish and 
iame, W. E. Walcott, Secretary, Utica. Brutus 
iod and Gun Club, E. M. Bradley, Secretary, 
Veedsport. Cazenovia Rod and Gun Club, H. J. 
iull, Secretary, Cazenovia. Cayuga County Fish 
nd Game Club, Chas. G. Adams, Secretary, 
Auburn. Chemung County Fish and Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, F. C. Tomlinson, Secretary, 
ilmira. Columbia Rifle Club, J. S. Mullan, Sec- 
etary, Rochester. Cortland County Sportsmen’s 
lub, Edson Robbins, Secretary, Cortland. Erie 
lounty Society, Birds, Fish and Game, D. A. Sey- 
lour, Secretary, Buffalo. Fabius Rod and Gun 
lub. Geo. C. Cramer, Secretary, Fabius. Hunter 
-un Club, J. C. Hunter, Secretary, Fulton. Leather- 
‘ocking Club, M. W. Carlton, Oswego. Mc- 
irawville Fish and Game Club, Floyd G. Phil- 
ps, Secretary, McGraw. Marcellus Forest, Fish 
nd Game Club, E. E. Moir, Secretary, Marcellus. 
Orleans County Rod and Gun Club, F. W. Malli- 
~>n, Secretary, Medina. Mexico Gun and Ang¬ 
us’ Club. G. M. Bennett. Secretary, Mexico. 
• ewark Fishing Club, C. P. Strong, Secretary, 
Newark. New York Association for Protection 
f Forest, Fish and Game, R. B. Lawrence, Sec¬ 
tary, New York. Niagara County Anglers’ 
lub, A. E. Lee, Secretary. Lockoort. Northern 
ayu.ga Rod and Gun Club. A. J. Cook, Secre- 
ry, Cato. Owasco Lake Anglers’ Association, 
N. Ross, Secretary, Auburn. Owego Rod and 
un Club, P. J. Farnham, Secretary, Owego. 
Parish Fish and Game Club, B. J. Morgan, Sec¬ 
retary, Parish. Perkinsville Rod and Gun Club, 
W. C. Folts, Secretary, Perkinsville. Phcenix 
Rod and Gun Club, William Van Scoyk, Secre¬ 
tary, Phoenix. Rapshaw Fishing Club, J. S. 
Young, Secretary, Buffalo. Rensselaer County 
Rod and Gun Club, A. G. Green, Secretary, W. 
Sand Lake. Riverside Gun Club, E. H. Stowell, 
Secretary, Oswego. Rome Fish and Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, A. W. Tremain, Secretary, 
Rome. Schenectady Fish and Game Protective 
Association, R. B. Myers, Secretary, Schenec¬ 
tady. Seth Green Line Fishermen’s Club, F. C. 
Snow, Secretary, Penn Yan. Tompkins County 
Fish and Game Club, Nathan Hampton, Secre¬ 
tary. Ithaca Tramps’ Retreat Association, W. B. 
Bowen, Secretary, Syracuse. Ulster County Fish 
and Game Protective Association, Roswell Coles, 
Secretary, Kingston. Wayne Gun Club, J. H. 
North, Secretary. Sportsmen’s Association of 
Chautauqua County, W. H. Knapp, Secretary, 
Jamestown. 
“There are forty-one of them. Many of these 
applications, however, were not in proper form. 
Some of them had been made out properly, in 
other cases the making out of the applications 
had been quite forgotten until the club members 
reached Syracuse, and I was told that they were 
made on scraps of paper, often without the seal 
of the club, sometimes without proper signature? 
of president and secretary. Each club of course 
had the right to vote and was entitled to two 
delegates and two alternates, and these delegate- 
and alternates should have been certified to by a 
committee on credentials, who after they had 
found that the delegates and alternates were the 
properly authorized representatives of the club, 
should have handed in to the secretary an ac¬ 
credited list of delegates. This was not done. 1 
received no report from any committee on cre¬ 
dentials and no list of delegates and alternates. 
The clubs could not vote on any call, their votes 
must be cast by their delegates, or in the ab¬ 
sence of delegates by their alternates. It would 
have been futile, illegal and dishonest to call the 
roll of clubs not knowing who- was present to 
represent them; the only roll that could have 
been called was that of the delegates, and this 
I did not have, and so far as I know no one had. 
WOODS CAMP. 
"I was exceedingly busy taking down the pro¬ 
ceedings of the meeting, and when the adjourn¬ 
ment took place I supposed it was merely for a 
recess to give time to get hold of the credentials 
and make out a proper list, so that a roll could 
be called and officers elected for the ensuing year. 
I was astonished when I learned that the ad¬ 
journment was without day, and I did not learn 
this until the meeting was dispersing. The effort 
to fasten the blame on me is misleading, unfair 
and unjust.” 
Reciprocity Urged. 
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 1 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: All hunters’ licenses for the year 1907 
expire to-day, and those who hunt on or'after 
Jan. 1, 1908, must provide themselves with a 
license for the new calendar year. Whether 
issued now or next December, the price of hun¬ 
ters license is just the same. Sportsmen appre¬ 
ciating this fact have begun already to duly 
equip themselves for the pursuit of the wily mem¬ 
bers of the fur and feathered tribes during the 
ensuing year. 
Robins are protected by the game law and 
cannot be killed at any time. These birds migrate 
to Southern climes and temporarily sojourn here 
during the winter and spring; they then repair 
to the North, where they build their nests in 
orchards and near the habitation of man, and 
raise their broods. Up North they are valuable 
to the farmers and destroy tons of noxious weed 
seeds and injurious insects. They are there es¬ 
teemed most highly as songsters, and are loved 
on account of their friendliness to man. The 
sensation experienced by those who dwell to the 
North, by the former slaughter of robins by the 
millions in the South, is about the same the 
people of this State would feel if our almost 
sacred mockingbirds should migrate to Cuba in 
the winter, and be killed almost to the point of 
extinction, and fed to hogs by the natives as 
robins erstwhile were in the South. 
The migratory game birds, such as duck, geese, 
snipe, plover and woodcock are protected in the 
Northern States, and the South owes to the 
citizens up there a reciprocal obligation. 
Protectionist. 
