388 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



"water in the tanks standing at 45° F. Here we took on the 40,000 eels 

 mentioned above and half a ton of ice. We also left Mr. Myron Green 

 here to go to the New York Shad-Hatching Works at Castleton, on the 

 Hudson, and get a supply of young shad. 



" On my urgent application to the New York Central Eailroad au- 

 thorities, that road took us with their passenger-train, which was due to 

 leave Albany at 2.40 a. m. on the same night. We reached Suspen- 

 sion Bridge about noon, and left for Detroit with a passenger-train 

 on the Great Western Railroad. We took on ice and water at Ham- 

 ilton, Canada, and reached the boat at Detroit ferry about 11 p. m. the 

 same day, Wednesday, June 4 ; all the fish being in good order, except 

 the lobsters, which were dying in considerable numbers. The track on 

 the ferry-boat being just filled by the train, without the aquarium-car, 

 they left us east of the river all night, and, it being very warm, I spent 

 the rest of the night till daylight looking up ice, of which I at last 

 obtained about a ton and a half. 



"Leaving Detroit that morning — Thursday, June 5 — we proceeded 

 directly to Niles, Mich., with a passenger-train, via the Michigan 

 Central Eailroad. We had now come all the way with passenger- 

 trains, and had we known this beforehand we need not have lost any 

 time in bringing on the shad; as it was, however, we expected to make 

 slow time on freight-trains from Albany to Chicago, and I hence 

 arranged to have the shad brought on by express from Albany two days 

 after we left that point. These two days we had now on our hands, and 

 it was very aggravating to be obliged to lose so much time when time 

 was so precious. There was no help for it, however; and as I thought 

 it would be better to wait part of the time on the road than to spend the 

 whole of the two days in Chicago, I had the car dropped at Niles, Mich., 

 and we remained there till 6.10 the next morning — Friday, June G — 

 when we went on to Chicago, after taking on ice and water, and catch- 

 ing some minnows to feed the large fish with. We entered Chicago 

 about 10 o'clock on Friday morning, all the. fish doing well except the 

 lobsters and eels. 



" The temperatures at which I aimed to keep the different varieties of 



fish were as follows : 



Degrees Fahrenheit. 



" Cat-fish 50 



u Fresh-water eels » . 45 to 50 



"Tautogs 45 



" Salt-water eels 45 



" Black bass 42 



" Yellow perch 42 



"Bull-heads 42 



" Glass-eyed perch 42 



"Trout 3S 



" Lobsters 24 to 36 



"Oysters , 34 to 36 



