The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-03-04
Game League Banquet a Great

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The number of diners was limited t.
the seating capacity of the room, ant
!, many members had to be refused
: tickets. The number present was 12S
The room was beautifully decorated
with moose and deer heads, flint
eagle and other mounted specimen!
supplied by Samuel Browne. tax
idermist. There also was handsome
display of flags of the allied nations.
t During the dinner, which was served
$ by William d. Marren, of the Arcade
! hotel, music was supplied by the
1 Peerless orchestra.
James Mercer Davis acted as toast.
f. master. Before introducing the speak
ers of the evening, Mr.. Davis explained
the tentative plans that had been
made by committee of the league to
!, establish farm for the propagation
} of the kind of game desired by sports.
} men of this county, principally rabbits
and quail. Notwithstanding that
nearly $1,000 was paid to the State
Commission by Burlington county for
fish and game licenses during 1918,
but little returns are received. To
prevent the determination of game
here it is proposed to propagate it
locally.
An option has been secured on a
small farm near Mount Holly that is
admirably suited for the purpose, and
it is the plan to buy this or some other
land and stock it with rabbits and
birds.
The scheme is to be financed by the
issuing of bonds or other form of GER
tificates of Indebtedness of the
denomination of $40 each, secured by
a first mortgage on the property.
Definite action on the purchase of
the farm will be taken at meeting of
the league to be held at the court house
next Saturday afternoon, March Is,
at 100.
AT the conclusion Of his preliminary
remarks Mr.. Davis introduced the
most distinguished guest present,
General Hugh L. Scott, commanding
officer of Camp Dix, who was greeted
with rounds Of applause.
The General said it was pleasure
to meet face to face SO many Burling-
ton county men whose neighbor he
has been for over year. He related
that when offered by the Secretary of
War the choice of being commanding
officer of any of the 16 large army cam
comments established in this country,
he selected Camp Dix because it is To-
Gated in his native state. He has come
back to be a Jerseyman lonce more,
and after his retirement he will occupy
his farm near Princeton.
The General said he left the state in
1871 to enter the military academy at
West Point. After graduating in 1876
he went into active army service and
spent much time in Indian cam
paigns in the far west, where he wit
messed the ruthless slaughter of the
antelope, buffalo, mountain sheep, etc.
The disappearance of the buffalo was
due to railways and commercialism.
The price paid for hides, although
small, caused thousands of the ami
mails to be killed. During 1882 and
1883 about 5000 men were shooting
buffalo for profit.
He told about having seen and hunt
ed ali kinds of game during his mill
tary service in every state in the
union. Cuba and the Philippines, and
during three trips around the world
He is in thorough accord with any
movement to propagate and protect
game, and has done much toward con-
servation in this county by protecting
game rigidlv in the large area COM
prising Camp Dix.
He believes every man should help
in this work in order that game will |
not become extinct. He recommended
planting wild rice along the head
waters Of streams as being good plan
to increase ducks and other birds.
Colonel White, chief of General
Scott's staff, said he had become
imbued with considerable sporting
enthusiasm during his residence of
nearly year under the same roof
with General Scott. Since being in
Burlington county he has become
sufficiently interested in game affairs
to purchase from native SIS bird
dog for SIS and now feels quite at home
in this ne ighborhood.
Hon. William T. Read, state treas
urer, said the formation of county
game league is an excellent movement
for several reasons, one of which is
securing the passage of game laws in
New Jersey. During the speakers
term in the state senate he found a
great diversity of opinion on gam e
questions, as was evidenced by the in
PRODUCTION of from 40 to 60 laws at each
session of the legislature, and many of
these bills were antagonistic to each
other. By organizing county associ-
atoms the sentiment OF each county
can be threshed out at local meetings
and presented in concrete form to the
legislature.
| The state treasurer said that while
talking about cunning affairs he de-
sired to call attention to the point that
the present is good time to gun also
| for bolshevists, socialists and an
archists.
Lieut.. Clifford r. Powell, of the
aviation section, U. s. army, who
recently returned from France, made
a humorous speach that brought forth
considerable applause. He told of the
effect resulting from his stopping two
German bullets and his subsequent
Experience in hospitals. He said every
lperson in the army was well pleased
when the season for cunning for
Germans closed on November 18th
last.
Hon. Harold B. Wells, state senator,
made one of his pleasing rapid fire
addresses He urged an active cam
paign for securing members in the
league and then, after uniting on the
proper fish and game legislation, to go
en- masse to the legislature and urge
the passage of proper laws. That's the
way, he said, to get results.
Hon. Emmor Roberts, assemblyman,
asked the cooperation of the league in
directing him as to the nrOnar kind Of