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...Avenue and Brooks in their Ritziest moments, and if there is a little gents-room language somewhere on the page it will escape the eye of all but the most inquiring. Blackburn's Raymond ad and the Oh-so-French perfumery exhibit (pardon fumes of exquisite women) of Mr. Breck are after this manner...
Commander Edward Breck, Former American Vice-Consul to Germany, and now President of the Anti-Steel-Trap League, made this statement, emphasizing that he was "not a sob-sister but a regular sportsman. Being a gentleman and a huntsman, to say nothing of being an officer, I feel that using a steel trap is atrocious...
...bill to penalize the use of certain traps and other devices for the capture of fur-bearing animals, camp up for a hearing at the State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON reporter that after studying the subject carefully for three years, and collecting data from every source, he could now announce that approximately 100,000,000 dumb animals were being slaughtered in agony every year...
Commander Breck again emphasized that he was not a sentimentalist, and that he had shot more moose than any other man. "When I was not at sea, I lived in the woods. I used to use traps myself, and only slowly did I realize what a cruel thing I was doing. I made a discovery. It is was not that a device which catches a beast by the leg and holds it for hours and often days was cruel and wrong; that has been known for centuries. My discovery was that the bulk of this atrocity was so enormous...
Vigoroux, however, is not the only muckraker, and some French critics have lent color to his charges. The Metropolitan authorities are still standing pat. Edward Robinson, director, is abroad, presumably to make a first-hand investigation. Mr. Breck and other Museum employees refuse to talk. And Robert W. DeForrest, President of the trustees, while not claiming infallibility for the Museum's treasures, has confidence in the judgment of the purchasing committee, composed of experts and collectors who scrutinize every object the Museum buys...