SALMON-HATCHING ESTABLISHMENT, M'CLOUD RIVER, CAL. 457 



Yoik (Middletown and Providence) must go the next morning, and the 

 Marietta, New Hope, and Baltimore crates the next noon. It was then 

 about S£ o'clock in the evening. This proposed delay was out of the 

 question, and must not be permitted, if I could possibly avoid it. As at 

 Omaha, it was night, and only employes about. Finally I found one 

 who appeared to have more authority than the others. He agreed that 

 if the night-man should say it was practicable, he would authorize him 

 to put a car of the New York Pacific Express upon the night-train at 

 2.50 a. in., though in doing so it would be stepping a good way beyond 

 his official power. 



"In this car the crates were put, and I procured two or three hundred 

 pounds of ice and arranged the crates. There was no messenger to go 

 with the car, and the strict rules of the express company require that in 

 such case a car must be locked and sealed, therefore I was unable to 

 take the temperatures the next day regularly. All the crates went 

 together, as the agent at Pittsburgh telegraphed to Harrisburg to 

 have the seal broken and the three crates for Baltimore, Marietta, and 

 New Hope taken out, and also to have 400 pounds of ice ready. He 

 also telegraphed to the agent at New York to forward the other two 

 crates quickly upon their reception. After this I telegraphed to the 

 following five consignees of salmon-eggs : James Duffy, Marietta, Penu. ; 

 Alex. Kent, Baltimore, Md. ; James B. Thompson, New Hope, Bucks 

 County, Penu.; Alfred A. Reed, jr., Providence, E. I.; and E. G. Pike, 

 Middletown, Conn. ; stating by what route and train their crates left 

 Pittsburgh that night. 



" At Harrisburg, which we reached at noon, the telegram had been 

 received, and a team took the three crates to the office, where they 

 would remain cooler than at the station waiting for their respective 

 trains. The night and forenoon had been cool, and the crates had been 

 by themselves in the closed car in an undisturbed atmosphere, with so 

 much ice that they were very cold, being about 37°, and the ice had 

 melted but little. Hence the ice ordered by the telegram was not 

 needed, and I put most of it on the crates which were to leave me. Also, 

 I gave explicit instructions about the care of these crates, and fastened 

 upon them notes to the messengers in charge till at their destinations. 

 These were the Marietta, New Hope, and Baltimore crates. The other 

 two for Middletown and Providence were again shut up in the car and 

 it was sealed until it should reach New York. 



"We arrived in New York at about 7 o'clock p. m. The car had not 

 come with us farther than Philadelphia; the train out of that city does 

 not take express. This I did not know, but it was just as well, because 

 in the cold closed car, alone, and with ice through the night, they would 

 be in a better situation than if they had come to New York and waited 

 till morning in the warmer office of the Adams Express. They came 

 up from Philadelphia early the next morning. 



"The admirable manner in which the crates of eggs kept, and the fine 



