New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-28
GAME BIRDS EGGS BARRED.
AMERICAN BREEDERS CONDEMN THE
TARIFF PROVISIONS.

40 rncort se,zuro and confiscation by the Custom
House officials OF this pert OF two imported cts
OF game birds eggs. The frs, lot consisted OF lp
English r.ngneck pheasants eggs and 100 Hngian
nor.~;dge eggs valued at $50 which were consigned
m ex-Congressrnan John 8. WISE OF Virginia, wao
Is now a lawyer at No. Al BToad-st, IN tnis cry.
The second lot valued at SIS, consisted OF Eng
partridge eggs and was consigned 70 W. "a Deh'-
son IN care CT r. De Warden. Mr.. De Warden IS
an employe OF Theodore A. Havemeyer. vce-presi-
dent OF the American Sugar REIN ng company
The eggs were intended for Mr.. Havemeyers Amer
lean Pheasar:ry. his extensive estate Mou"-
ts,nsce Farm. at Mshwah. n. j.
Collector Kibre.h verified the statements a. W
the se.zares but sad he thought the law proh;ot-
.na the Importation CT the eggs OF game pi''
was a VERY curious one
Colonel Phelps, the head CT the Cu5-oh house
law department. explane the aw on tne suc'.."
He called attention 10 paragraph NO AL OF th'
Free List of the Wilson Tariff bill, Of August 20
1894, which IS as follows Eggs. birds. FISH ana
insects free providing, however that this snail
not be held include eggs OF game p.ruS' inc
Importation Of which Is prohibited, except sps0-
mems for scientific collections. The Jaw does mo-
specify what kinds CT BIRDS are 10 be c.assied d.
came birds and Colonel Phelps said that II was
a matter for determination in each specific case.
Under the Mckinley Tariff law OF October 6. lsso'
eggs of birds fish and insects were free and there
YVES no restriction on their importation
Colonel Phelps like Collector Kibreth, thought
that the law prohibiting the lhIpol eHt-N' "a $780,"
eggs was "a curious one" but he could net account
for It's enactment He explained that the Gigs, be-
In, nrohltltcd could not be sold in this country
but must either be destroyed or sent PACK 10 inc
mort of shipment by their consignees or o"hcf''
The two cons!gnmonts being perishabe, and having
been abandoned by the con5ignees or owners "au
been ordered to be destroyed
WHAT EX-CONGREssMAN WISE SAYS.
Mr. Wise. when called upon by the reporter said:
clio cd n m
TO be Matched for the stocking of farm or game
praserve in virginia which is owned mostly by
residents of this city and State Last year rourleeh
men incorporated a company or clup' unuer the
laws of the State of Virginia, to be known as inc
Cane Charles Venture. The incorporators were
Warner Miller Richard Butler, Cornelius ~ Bliss
p G. Shannon. r. p. Fish, ". c. D. Borden, Henry
y Mum J. S Tiiney, D. H. King, jr., John Grahanl'
of Norfolk Va. Henry c. Valentine. Henry Ihomp-
son. Henry W. Cannon and myself nave Inc
homer TO be the pre- sidcr; Mr. Thompson Is the wee
Or. sident ard my son, Henry A. WISE Is the secie
tary and treasurer.
The Cape Charles Venture owns about four nun
dred acres of land which constitutes the last farm
at the very end OF Cape Charles TINS properly .'es
between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic ocean
The Gulf Stream flows within thirty miles OF II,
thereby nsuring mild weather in winter 1t has all
the characteristics of the English pheasant breed
ing grounds and being on tongue Of land there Is
les, danger OF the pheasarts escaping than from
some other paces where efforts to breed them have
been made
UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS.
.T-nsuccessfrl experiments have been made IN
several places notably az Jcky Island or the coast
OF South Carolina where the experiment re,led De-
oluse the climate was too hot and the BIRDS We're
destroyed and almost literally devoured by insects
and vermin. TIE property Of The Cape Charles
Venture is admirably adapted for the breeding OF
pheasants and other game birds The preserve IS
a private one, and expect successfully TO STOCK
It, When I ordered the eggs from Goroad ! dd s 50
but I did not know that their importation was pro
hioited by a foolish and most inconprehenspic
not think It was inspired for the undue protection
OF the game bird industry here 1t may have been
heard that it was inspired by the robbing Of wild
ducks nests in British America. and the marketins
manufacture of dyestufs and the dressing OF mo-
eprei the law It is unjust. unpoiuc and effective
in preventing the much-des.red increase OF the
game supply IN tins country
MIR HAvEMEYER ON THE LAW.
MIR. Havemeyer. when called upon at his office.
said in answer questions by the reporter:
None of the seized eggs were imported by or In
tended for me. They were imported by Werner De
Guse who IL the superintendent of the American
Pleasantly on my farm at Midway, ~ J, about
rrd ms no5 been ' b2ce ie ony pssassnt
Mr. De Guise took a notion that he would like TO
experiment In the nreellnR or pdrfluBSS, 50
he sent for lot OF eggs his own account, not
being aware mat tley were prOhiDlteu' was nuVh
vent tG into s" he tae purely
as investment for profit. and IT has been salts
/ factori!y rsmuneratNc. MT ne uu!se;; VINO nad
+ 70 me and was made SUPERINTENDENT The Amer
lean Pleasantly was. started about Ave years ago
II occupies about forty acres or my farm al Man
wah y. j.
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III" fHhASA>io Al'r pnrh'
.,T,he birds whom breeding arc ken, In wire mems
, ~ -, - .,-., 70 49,, ,S,,. .noas,n,,
III each OF "hlCh lH'le are ioui ie"aic P"eaS'"'S
and one male pheasant The eggs lad by the pleas
ants are Matched under ordinary domestic hens
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