Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1916-02-19
BIG WILD LIFE
SHOW AT SAGINAW

What is being exploited as the great
est educational display Of animals and
birds ever shown in America, west of
New York, is now being placed on the
floors of the big auditorium building,
Saginaw, for the wild life show which
will be presented to the people of the
State of Michigan, Feb. 2S-24-25-26.
Besides the live and mounted animal
life, which is set under the auspices of
the Saginaw County Wild Life Con.
servation Association, assisted by the
Michigan Fish Commission and the
State Game, Fish and Forest Fire de-
partment of the Public Domain Com
mission, coterie of the worlds most
famous lecturers will present in mo-
ton pictures the animal life of four
continents.
For the banquet hall, "more game"
meetings, to be held in the afternoons,
Feb. 24-25, State Game Commissioner
William r. Oates has secured ac-
ceptances from many of the best game
propagating authorities in America.
E. A. McIlheney, who was instru-
mental in having Mrs. Russell Sage
provide money for establishing the
Marsh Island refuge, Louisiana; Com
missioner John Phillips and Secretary
Kalbfus, Pa; Harry Rogers foremost
game breeding authority; MIR. Vernon
Bailey, Chief Field Naturalist Of the
Biological Survey, Washington, D. c.,
and many of the game commissioners
of other states will appear in the dis
cussion. This review of game propa-
eating possibilities will assume the
importance of national question.
Interesting in the floor exhibits will
be that of the Michigan Fish Commits
sion. The Commission is arranging to
bring the whole paraphernalia of a
hatchery to the show, so that the pro-
cess of Matching may be presented to
the public. Development of many
species of fish from fry to maturity will
be shown. Aquaria tanks will display
the fish alive in their various stages Of
growth.
All the Indigenous animal life of
Michigan will be displayed, alive or
mounted, and feature of the after
noon programs to be given in the big
assembly hall which seats $500 per-
sons will be scenic productin of
American Game Birds, painted by the
worlds greatest bird artist Louis
Aggasis Fuertes. This feature will be
presented by James McGillivray, Edu-
cational Bureau, of the Game, Fish and
Forest Fire department.
Under the direction of Augustus C.
Carton, Secretary Public Domain Com
mission, forestry exhibit will be set
by Marcus Schaaf, State Forester, in
which growth will be illustrated from
the seed and Seeding to the mer-
chantable tree.
specimens of deer, elk and other
animals and the bird life of the Michi-
gan game refugees will be brought to
the floors of the show.
Never, perhaps, in the history of
America has so many of the foremost
speakers on subjects of Natural his
tory been placed on one program, as
on that which covers the evenings of
Feb 23-24-25.
Norman McClintock, with his new
and remarkable moving pictures of the
bird life of the Gulf coast; Carl Akeley,
National museum of Natural history,
with elephant hunting and other Afri-
can subjects; Prof. Wilfred H. Osgood
of the Field museum, with moving
pictures of the fur seal rookeries and
other speakers of international note
are scheduled by w. B. Mershon, Presi-
dent Michigan Wild Life Conservation
Association.
Special trains are being chartered by
sportsmen and it is expected that up
wards of $4,000 persons will see the
show. Admission is free day and night.