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ing his time to it as a labor of love. On the left is the 

 locker room for rods, reels, lines, and the paraphernalia 

 of the sea-angler. The upper part of the building is 

 devoted to sleeping-rooms. The front of the second 

 story is a sun piazza, from which the angler may look 

 out on the tuna fishing-grounds. Passing through the 

 hall to the front, the visitor enters the large living- 

 room, with heavy oaken beams, all in browns and 

 russets. The room has comfortable furniture, a library 

 of the principal angling books of the day, and various 

 old ones. An interesting feature of the library is the 

 number of autograph copies of works on angling by 

 members of the club. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, F. G. 

 Aflalo, Gifford Pinchot, Caspar Whitney, Charles 

 Hallock, David Starr Jordan, Theodore Van Dyke, 

 Grover Cleveland, Charles F. Holder, and others have 

 contributed their works. On the table are the big 

 silver cups of the various branch clubs, as the Three- 

 Six and the Light Tackle, filled with the semi- 

 tropical flowers of the island. On the table are 

 angling and other magazines and publications of the 

 day. Here are charts and maps of the coast; for 

 many of the members are yachtsmen, their yachts 

 lying in the bay. With the opening of the Panama 

 Canal these will be augmented, many of the yachts 

 of New York spending their winters in Southern 

 California waters. 



What will impress the visitor in this comfortable 

 but modest room is the mounted fishes, telling the 

 story of the Tuna Club's work in revolutionizing sport 

 and elevating the standards. Here is the record tuna 

 — two hundred and fifty-one pounds, of Col. C. P. 

 Morehouse of Pasadena; the splendid twelve-foot, 



