38 Tkiriy-Sccuud Annual Meeting 



ber of the members of my jDarty are expected to return to Woods 

 Hole between the hours of half past four and five, I shall not 

 make any extended remai'ks. I congratulate you, Governor, on 

 the efficient, able representatives you have composing the mem- 

 bership of the Ehode Island State Commission. I congratulate 

 the state of Ehode Island upon the prominent position it has 

 attained in fisheries, and I have before in conjunction with the 

 members of the American Fisheries Society, accepted the hos- 

 pitality of your people, which we all appreciate, and I hope the 

 day is not far distant when one of our meetings may be held in 

 your state. (Applause). 



Mr. Root: I wish to further state that the American Fish- 

 eries Society is thoroughly a United States organization, and 

 has got to have a head also. Commissioner Bowers is above all 

 of them, but we have a president of the American Fisheries 

 Society, a man that when he gets talking about fish will talk 

 from 4 o'clock in the morning till 11 o'clock at night — he cannot 

 talk on any other subject, but I want him to stand up so that 

 you can see him — ^Mr. Frank M. Clark of the Michigan State 

 Association. (Great applause). 



Mr. Clark: I think I voice the sentiment of the American 

 Fisheries Society when your Governor of Ehode Island welcomes 

 them to this clam bake, in saying that they heartily thank you 

 for til is entertainment. The American Fisheries Society ex- 

 tends o\('r tlie whole United States, and this little state of 

 KMiodc island is entertaining us in this generous manner. I 

 have attended the American Fisheries Society meetings for 

 many years, and I have attended two entertainments given by 

 the Ehode Island people, and I assure you that I voice the sen- 

 timent of the American Fisheries Society when I say that we 

 have never in this broad United States received such entertain- 

 ment as we have received in the state of Ehode Island. (Ap- 

 plause). I wish to say, Mr. Toastmaster, that the American 

 Fisheries Society and all of its members again thank you for 

 this very generous entertainment. (x4pplause). 



Mr. Eoot : Eight here I wish to say that I think the state of 

 Ehode Island never profited more by any delegation that visited 

 its shore and partook of its cbnn bakes than it has from the peo- 



