New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-15
CRUELTY OF FASHION.
THE DESTRUCTION OF 1RIE BIRD KINGDOM
DUE TO A FEMININE CUSTOM


To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In your issue OF to-day was very glad 10
the letter by Louisa Jay Bruen on Spare the
Birds" and hope the extracts from the Rev. q. T.
Chords address may. through your wide circuia-
ton. reach the eyes and hearts OF many women
I incose with this another able article. from
which hope you will feel disposed to make such
extracts as may help to bring this subject stih
further before your readers your field for useful
In this way being almost mitless Very
truly. A. f. SANDS.
No Il Willow Place Yonkers. y y. March l. 1897
Caroline b. Hoffman In The Berkshire Courier.
From the sociey FOR the Prevention of Cruelty
70 Animals in Karlsruhe. Germany. comes the FOL
lowing note Of warning. which al should certainly
take 10 heart: The destruction Of the bird king
dom, through the hateful custom Of making ugly
the hats or women with the dead bodies oil pltas
has reached such degree that the societies whose
most important mission Is the protection OF en-, me
birds. must take up the fight against this TOOL
ism fashion more actively than ever
Everywhere where bright feathered birds are
found the CONSEQUENCES Of this destruction are
seen. one can picture what the end will be when
II IS realized that me fashion has aresoy
alone between 100000 and 100000 birds are i'm
reaches l-0.C6o0. Hence. this fashionable craze
has already demanded between 9nWO.0t0 and @r.-
UDN0 brus.
WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION.
That this wholesale destruction must have
aSricufure could have been foretod. Already in
the southern lands OF Europe are the forests perisi
ing lu q frign.ful manner. ana not less are me
orchards in danger. for against the increase OF IN
furious insects there is no remedy when the Mite
birds are missing. And no land in the wide world
H. safe against this horrtd destruction.
From the East Indies alone dealer In London re-
ceivcd 10000 hummng birds 60" birds OF para
disc and &C. 600 miscellaneous birds. In an auction
room also in London. within four months. over
$4,000 East ard West Indian and Brazilian Dlrd
skins besides thousands Of pheasaIts and birds OF
paradise. were put up for sale
Ia Florida the heron species is anninilated. The
airette is from the white heron. and rs II Is from
the wedding garment it must he taken at the brood
lu-time so that the coming generation falls sac
riiice also When the young are Matched n II easy
10 catch their parents, - they Will not Lorsahc
their nestincs Every aigrctte feather, small as II
is though looking less guilty. than an entire Dird,
signifies the brutal death Of several birds; II sgni-
ics nestful OF crying young calling Tor tood that
never comes. TIL death by starvation has stilied
their cries. .
In Morocco ten years ago one could meet thou
native boy would recognize one II shown him.
All arc gone.
In the district OF the Rhone de.ta. In France.
machines are placed along the shore. made OF wire
and connected with electric batteries When the
swallows come from Africa. weary with their flight
over the -ea rest on me wires they faI 70 the
ground. The corpses sent in large baskets To
Paris 10 the miiners.
THE DEMAND GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY.
For several years and this Is proof OF the de-
gree reached in The destruction o. the southern