The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-03-27
ANNUAL ME- ETING
OF COUNTY FISH
AND GAME CLUB
Invitation to Pubic Attracts
Good Audience
TWO INTERESTING ADDRESSES
Commissioner John W. Titcomb and
J. 3. Burnham Talk of Game
Protection

The Bennington County Forest,
Fish and Game association, through
the efforts Of its officers, secured a
good-sized crowd for the annual meet
ing, which was held in Apollo hall
Thursday evening. The meeting was
advertised to be open to the public
and the hall was well-flled when
President Warwick S. Carpen er call
ed the meeting to order at o'clock.
A special effort had been made to Sc
cure the presence of aides and there
were few in attendance.
The report of the treasurer showed
that the association had a small bal
ance and had no debts.
At the suggestion of the president
it was agreed to postpone the major
portion of the business of the annual
meeting to session to be cal ed lat
er. On the motion of E. ]. Hall, a
nominating committee, consisting of
Ward L. Lyons, Collins NJ Graves, C.
II. Resseguie, Edward s. Higgins and
Trenor P. Gregg was named from the
floor and reported the following list
of officers who were reelected: Pres
ident. Warwick S. Carpenter; vice
president Harry T. Southall; secre-
tary, II. P. Woodman; treasurer, G.
P. Endress; executive committee, E.
J. Hall, Edward Shanahan and Nor
man E. Greenslet.
The association had as its guests
at the meeting John B. Burnham,
president of the American Game Pro-
tective and Propagation association,
John w. Titcomb, Vermont fish and
game commissioner, Division Chief
Game Protector c. A. Johnson and
Deputies Butler and Mooney of New
York state and Warden Nichols and
Deputy Ruberg of Massachusetts.
Division Chief Johnson gave some
interesting statistics relative to The
scope of The work OF game protection
in New York state while the nominal
ing committee was making its selec-
ticns.
Commissioner Titcomb spoke at
length upon the value. of the fish,
game and furs from a purely CONNER
cial basis in the state of Vermont
From his remarks it was plainly evil
dent that the commissioner has put
time and thought into this phaze of
the subject one that has not been Civ
en- serious consideration in Vermont
The commissioner conservatiyely es
Inmates that the fish the game birds
and the fur-bearing animals annually
caught in Vermont are Tue direct
source Of an income of half a million
dollars. There is also an indirect in
come of which it is impossible to
make any estimate.
Mr.. Burnham's remarks were illus
trated with steneopticon-viwe and his
collection is considered to be one of
the best in the country for his parti-
Sular purpose. The series contained
pictures made from photographs of
many of the game birds and animals
of the country. Many of the views
were used to illustrate arguments for
the protection of the vanishing wild
life in America.
A portion of Mr.. Burnham's views
were from photographs made upon
the game farm with which he is ofiici
ally connected and they illustrated
more forcibh than words he possibi
Titles in this line Of work. The sneak
er said that we could not raise game
to shoot in this country, the process
would be too expensive. but the
game farm had demonstrated that we
can raise birds with which to stock
sections Of country that have been so
severely hunted that the game has en-
tirely disappeared.