144 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AXD FORESTS. 



Should the Canadian government take this action, the natural result will be that 

 many fishermen and summer visitors to that resort will go across the national line and 

 stop at Canadian hotels and be obliged to employ foreign oarsmen. This would mean 

 that the hotel business at that great resort would be seriously injured and our oarsmen 

 driven to Canada to reside. Our people, not from this State only, but from man\- 

 other States, that are now spending their money in our midst would spend it in a 

 foreign country. They would be driven from home. Uniform fish laws for this 

 locality have already been enacted by Canada and the State of New York, in pursu- 

 ance of the mutual understanding that a park would be provided for public use. 



In view of all the circumstances, it is our opinion that places for public use should 

 be provided by the State. This can only be done by an appropriation being made to 

 purchase islands and places along the shores. 



The State should appropriate a sum sufficient to acquire several islands or points 

 that will provide places for the free use of the people who visit this great health 

 resort. It seems to us that the sooner this provision for park purposes is made the 

 cheaper it will be, or rather that the same amount of money will buy more now than 

 it will e\en in the near future, for the reason that all the desirable places are being 

 purchased and built upon, and in a little while but few, if any, places will be in the 

 market at a price that can be called reasonable. Whatever anniunt the Legislature in 

 its judgment sees fit to appropriate for this purpose will be careiully and economic- 

 ally invested. Except as herein mentioned, any further legislation does not seem to 

 be needed for the control of said Reservation for the present. 



THE DRINKING POOL 



