New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-30
AIGRETLESS EASTER.
Renesced Var against Heron
.SLaughter-Mrs. ROOseUeLfs Help.

Easter Sunday will for the last time be marked
~ the barbaric display CT plumes torn from the
bleeding backs os al. almost exterminaed breed OF
birds according to the leaders of a national move
nent which started IN this city yesterday
Backed By the General Federation ana state Fed
eratioas Of club women throughout the cSuhTy' as
well as by every humane and sport5man's orgGni-
cation the National Association Of Audubon So
ceties is laying extensive plans for campaign
which VIII finally PUT an end to the sale q the
aigret and the massacre Of the snowy heron TO
whom nature has given it as decoration IN matinS
tine.
In Louisiana the Audubon workers have just
n hard legal battle and secured il higher court
verdict appeal, which ii IS believed has cstab-
I.shed good legal precedent upon which all milf
ners may be severely punished for the sale or pos
session Of these trophies Of the wholesale butchery
CT the heron in the Florida wids. Judge Chretien.
OF the First City Criminal Court Of New Orleans.
has sustained the verdict Ct lower court and sen
fenced millinory store proprietor CT that city 10
. fine Of so 4 term CT thirty days in prison. The
opinion rpholds the force of tho model" law which
the Audubon societies have succeeded IL having
passed in all but eight states in the union and
within the next few months every milliner who
deals in aigTets will be prosecuted along the
lines.
More effective even than tl;s campaign for vigor-
Gus enforcement OF law against commercial bird
butchers. the Audubon officials believe, will be
the stand which he just teen taken by the women
e this country through the various declarations Of
clubs ccG other womon's organizations. The fol-
lowing pledge IS to-day being circulated 10 women
by The General Federadn. two leading members Of
which-lGiss Alice J. Fletcher and Mrs. Sara S.
Plat De2ker-aave issued a strong appeal against
the wearing of aigres in the official b0lletin OF the
organization:
Whereas. the number OF our beautiful snowy
Lheir becoming extinct: anc whereas, the demand
f for aigrGts for millinery purposes is responsible
!oF te slaughter OF these featheTed innocents.
the consequent death Of the nestlinCs:
Therefore. Resolved that we. the undersigned
pledge ourselves 10 refrain from wearing any such
any Wild bird and that We sill all possible In
huence 70 restrain from doing SO.
In the face Of the general invitation Of this
movement. the miliners Of this city are to-day not
only offering 10 equip Easter bonnets with any
notes 10 appear saving that the 'wisp of aigrette
Is stl considered appropriate gGzniture fer bon
nets 10 those women who question the propriety
their headdress they protest that the aigrettee are
artificial, though II has been repeatedly proven an
liapossei!ity 10 counterfeit the pluTnes Of TIE
snowy heron
Reports from the everglades OF Florida where the
heron coneregate for the mating and breeding sea-
son. are daily reaching the HEADQUARTERS Of the
national association Of Audubon Societies az No
IL Broadway. in this city They show that tho do
Is going on even more extensively than ever. The
INITIATED carcasses Of the females strew the
Often The wholesale butchery Of a whole COLONY ~
these birds. VINO groW tame and lonesticated at
tre a-gre'te pumes.
President Roosevelt has already personally as
Slted william butcher. president OF the assocfa-
l'fi. tl;lt Ars. Roosevelt is even more DESTROYS
tfan he - support the movement while Queen
I &c WIDE popular support that has alveadv nean
onered to the audubon societies liz the opening OF
ms cil-liaien Is considered assurance OF its
CAtliIlate success.