Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-26 | Page 8 | Quail on Toast Starts a Row

QUAIL ON TOAST STARTS A ROW Albany. N.Y..Aug. 26. The fact that Stuyvesant Fish's French cook eerved Quail out of season at a dinner given In New York by Mrs. Fish on February, Feb-ruary, 12, 19u7. and the fa'lure of tiie foresL lish and game commission to prosecute Mr. Fish for alleged violation viola-tion of the game law, are being made subjects of Inquiry by Commissioners Commission-ers Clark and Austin who are conducting con-ducting an Investigation Into the affairs af-fairs of the fish and game commission. commis-sion. The Incident led to an unpleasant unpleas-ant Interview between Zelfth P. Strong, assistant I'nited SLates district dis-trict attorney of Brooklyn, who wa-s representing the department In New York at the time, nnd John K. Ward, chief counsel for the commission, Strong having Intimated that outside Influences were being exerted in the settlement of cases by the department. depart-ment. Mr. Ward, who was on the stand today, told the commissioners that he had thought the Fish episode an "Innocent "In-nocent Infraction of the law" and that, while he may have erred, he did not believe it the duty of a self-respecting department to prosecute such technical violations