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The American Needle and Fish Hook Company, New Haven, Conn., 

 furnished a large series of hooks manufactured on automatic machinery. 



The T. J. Buell Company, Whitehall, N. Y., lent spoons, minnow 

 gangs, leaders, and lures for fishing. 



Charles Kerrison, jr., Charleston, S. C, sent a case of hooks with 

 barbs shaped like the point of an arrow. 



Edward Pitcher, Brooklyn, X. Y., furnished a large series of hooks, 

 squids, swivels, sinkers, and other angling appliances. 



Mr. G. M. Skinner, of Clayton, N. Y., furnished a series of his fluted 

 spoon baits. 



Messrs. Welch & Graves, Natural Bridge, N. Y., forwarded a speci- 

 men of trolling apparatus consisting of a glass tube in which a- live 

 minnow can be used as a lure without injury. 



J. & S. Allen, Walpole, Mass., lent a series of silk and linen fishing- 

 lines. 



G. 11. Mansfield & Co., Canton, Mass., provided a series of enameled 

 waterproof braided fishing lines. 



A very large collection of rods, made at their several factories, were 

 furnished by the Montague Bod Company, of Montague City, Mass. 

 This series included split bamboo, lancewood, and various other styles. 



Messrs. Abbey & Imbrie, New York City, lent for exhibition many 

 of the finest types of rods used by anglers, including the celebrated 

 Queen's Jubilee gold-mounted and jeweled fly rod, which was valued 

 at $2,000, and was accompanied by an engraved gold reel. This hand 

 some collection also contained lines of high grade and a variety of high 

 class reels for salmon, tarpon, bass, and trout fishing; also fly books 

 and boxes and a steel tarpon gaff. 



The Andrew B. Uendryx Company, of New Haven, Conn., lent 211 

 reels, representing all grades of their workmanship, and mounted and 

 labeled them in handsome cases at their own expense. This exhibit 

 was so arranged as to show all parts of the reel from the outside, as 

 well as the separate pieces used in reel construction. 



Mr. Charles F. Orvis, of Manchester, Vt., provided the exhibit witli 

 four of his patent perforated reels, designed for drying the rod without 

 removing it from the reel. The collection of flies manufactured by Mr. 

 Orvis and arranged with angling scenes by Mrs. Mary Orvis Marbury, 

 contained 428 flies for trout, salmon, black bass, etc., and 157 photo- 

 graphs representing angling in nearly all parts of the United States 

 and Canada. 



D. W. C. FaiTingtou,°Lowell, Mass., exhibited a beautiful series of 

 flies and bugs made by himself for his own use, together with a mounted 

 half skin of a brook trout around which the flies were arranged. 



T. W. Rudolph, Chicago, 111., furnished his ventilated tackle box, his 

 minnow trap, floating minnow bucket, and floating live net, and these 

 were afterwards presented to the Commission for its permanent exhibit 

 in Washington. 



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