Evening star., 1909-02-19
PLEA FOR WILD GAME
DR.. Hornaday Asks Protection
for Native Animals.
WHITE HOUSE LUNCHEON
President Entertains Members of
Conservation Congress.
WORLD CONFERENCE PLANNED
MI. Roosevelt Expected to Make
Public Announcement This After
noon-Final Session Tomorrow.

The members of the International Con-
servation Congress met in the diplomatic
room of the State Department this morn
ing at 1880 and held an executive session
which lasted until l o'clock, when the par
| ty adjourned to the White House for
| luncheon with the President. The nine
commissioners were present at the meet
| ing and heard a statement from w. T.
| Hornaday of the Bronx Zoo on the con-
servation of game.
| Those who attended the luncheon at the
White House were the President the Brit
| ish amba ssador, Mr.. Romulo Escobar. Mr..
Sydney Fisher. Mr.. Miguel A. de Quevedo,
Mr. Clifford Sifton. DR.. Henry S. Be-
land, MP: Mr.. Robert Young Mr.. Car
los Sellerier, the Secretary of State, Sem
ator Cullom, Senator Lodge, Senator
| Knox, the Secretary of the Interior, Mr..
| Clifford Plnchot. Mai w. a. Wadsworth
and Mr.. Kermit Roosevelt.
| Much interest was expressed in the
plans that the President has on hand for
| this afternoon. 1t has been known for
some time that he was in favor of a world
conference on conservation, and 1t was
| thought that some plan of this sort would
| be formulated at the luncheon and after
| ward given out In public.
There will be a dinner given to the
commissioners at the home of Secretary
Bacon this evening, and there will be a
final business session at the State De-
partment tomorrow morning.
Two Secretaries Elected.
Upon the opening of todays session
Two secretaries of conference were elect
ed. The Canadian commissioners selected
Robert e. Young secretary of their
commission The commissioners from the
United States chose Thomas r. Shipp,
secretary of the national conservation
commission, with Clifford Pinchot as per-
manent chairman. This makes the or
saniZat ton of the conference complete.
The only address the commissioners
heard today was one by DIR. w. T. Horna.
day, director of the New York Geological
Park, who spoke on the destruction OF
wild game in North America.
Unless some effective-even drastic
mea sures are taken,' declared DR.. Horna-
day, "only a few years hence will see the
last of the large wild game of North
America.
.The deadly lons-ranGe, quick-firing
MAGAZINE automatic rifle and now the
noiseless gun will soon wipe out the last
of the magnificent specimens of wild life
of which North America should be
proud.
Increase of Hunters.
DIR. Hornaday said that last year 10000
shotguns alone were manufactured in the
United States. Game does not breed as
rapidly as it is killed, he said, and he de-
clared that we were not taking account
of the constantly increasing number of
hunters and 1.-The resistless onward march
of development that is making it easy
for the hunter to reach with comparative
ease the spots where the wild game Is
found.
Dr. Hornaday urged upon the commits
sioners from the three countries the i'm
portance of considering the conservation
Of wild game along with the consideration
of other natural resources Of these cOun
tries,