Seal Industry Being Ruined

Washington: 111 effects of pelagic sealin in Uering sea aru obvious. Xu feu er than tJOschoonersbegan hunting on August 1. and captured nearly 40.ÜOU pelts. She sea pups are dependent on their mother's milk for the flrst four or five months of existence, and without it the little creatures must starve. Resident treasury officials and agents of the North American Commercial Co. made a careful count of the dead pups found at the close of the Beaeon wnen sealing schooners had left the sea, and found 27,000 dead ones. This figure did not include those in the lust stages of starvation. The same conditions prevailed last year. The actual pecuniary loss to the United States and the commercial world by this needless waste of animal Ufe will reach hnndreda of thousands of dollars.