The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-29
SIS Is OFFERED FOR
EACH DOOMED DEER
Utica Man Hopes to Save Shcl.
ter Island Herd. Slated
to Die.
KILLING. BEGINS MONDAY

Shelter Islands red deer have jus,
TWO more days TO browse on young green
Things and twitch their ears in the sun
light. Condemned by the Conservation
commission they must die on Monday.
There Is no way out of IL.
Conservation Commissioner George H..
r sent word to THE SITS yesterday
from Albany that no one regrets more
than he the necessity for discriminating
the 200 or more deer that have become
so vexatious to the agricuiturists and
Forticulturiss Of the island. but that
after considering the situation with the
greatest care and elaboration he 10
convinced that they must be shot.
The deer ave become as numerous
and as pestlferovs as Jack rabbits" said
Mr.. Pratt. and II has become practically.
impossible TO grow anything on the isl
and. Shelter Island is too big to per-
NIT OF driving the deer TO one spot for
capture. II Il were winter they might
he baited and trapped. but even that
would be doubtful.
THE commission felt that it would not
w fi6aN w N1dhe IdTlleTS RO tnTOukn
another season with the practical GER
tainty OF having their crops ruined.
While the position Of tine commission is
extremely difficult the public, and espe-
cially naturalists and persons interested
In preserving wild game. must know tina,
the commissioners have considered every
possible expedient have found thai
no suggestion looking toward the pres.
ervation or the remova Of the deer "a
another feeding ground is practicable. y
Utica Man Makes OMer.
II was learned that E. u. Ibbotson. a
manufacturer Of Utica. Is willing TO pay
from SO to S25 for every deer captured
He wants 20 liberate them In the Adj
rondacks. Commissioner Pratt said thai
II Mr.. Ibbotson had a practical scheme
for capturing the deer an effort would be
made to round them up, but that the
Commissioners had not been able to hit
upon a practical method.
Byron Cameron. conservation division
| chief for the Ad.rondacks. will be IN
this city to-day to arrange for the bis
deer drive on Shelter Island on Mon
day. Mr.. Cameron is an expert hunter
and a crack shot. He will have about
twenty-five game wardens from the
A~dirondacks. the Catskills and Ions
uIlu Y '"At
Monday morning. he plans to distribute
his riiemen In a long line and to send
them onward In such a way as to star
every deer from covert. II may take
two or three days to complete the jot
OF determination.
Sportsmen from all over the STATE
and especially from the neiRhborhooC
OF this city have beslesed the Conserva
tion Commissions Office in this city. a
l+l5 Broadway. for permission TO TAKE
part in the hunt. Nothing in recent
years has so appealed to the imagination
Of big game hunters. hut their appli'
cations were refused by Division Chie'
Gallagher. He Informed all inquirer,
that the law makes II impossible fol
any person save a game warden TO par
ticipate In the hunt.
The wardens will proceed under au'
thOrity of a special law. which pro
vides that wild animals hat have be
come n nuisance may be shot. Bu
there Is no open season for deer on Ions
Island. Of which Shelter Island 1.
legally a part. and any person having
the temerity 20 butt in" on the dee
drive next Monday would violate tn
game laws and be subject to a penalty o.
$500 for every deer ~killed-sl00 as &
penalty. 800 additional as n hne. with
the further provision Of a day In ia!
for every dollar OF the fine not psAd.
Island Residents Grieve.
DR.. Mckay Nichols, Jr.. whose fatheN
owns "A large estate OIL Shelter Island
expressed to chief Gallagher yesterda,
the point of view of Shelter Island resi-
dents.
We hate to see these deer killed.
said DIR. Nichols. but they are too de
structive. They can't be captured no
could they be driven into the sea he
tween Shelter Island and Sag Harbo
and started for Sag Harbor, The It'd
would be TOO strong for them. Resides