FISHING JAUNTS AND ANGLING ASSOCIATES. 



memory, whom I first met in St. John, in 1864, did the gustatory honors. Gifford 

 Sanford, Alfred Craven and Neill Haversham, of Savannah, Ga., came there. I 

 knew them all. The later anglers, when rod privileges of moderate charge began to 

 be required by the government the leading aspirants of the day, of whom John W. 

 Nicholson, Sheriff Harding, Ed. Spurr, Harry Yenning, were the chief, Jas. Laner- 

 gun, the actor, Fred Curtis, of Boston, George Jas. Chubb, of St. John, preferred 

 the Miramichi on the Nipissiguit, as being easier of access. Molscn, of Montreal, 

 Allan Gilmour and John Manuel, of Ottawa, Ivers W. Adams, of Boston, and half 

 a dozen residents of Quebec used to go to the Mosie or the 

 Godbout, and an increasing guild began to select the tribu- 

 taries all along the St. Lawrence ; Andrew Clerk, of New 

 York, and his brother, the doctor, chose the Grund of the 

 Gaspe peninsula. Walter Moody, Wyllys Russell, the hotel 

 man, Farquhar Smith, Geo. M. Fairchild, all of Quebec, vis- 

 ited the Jacques Cartier near by, a river which has since 

 passed into dessuetude, but is likely to be rehabilitated under 

 judicious handling. I have a list of scores of noted salmon 

 anglers, but how can I name them all in a limited article? 

 I knew the most of them; quite a number live yet. 



These inimitable wielders of the two-handed wand were 

 a rare lot, and all live in the memory of survivors. To the 

 younger fishermen they have passed into oblivion. My 

 "Salmon Fisher," published in 1890, will describe the rushing rivers and placid 

 pools as Nature made them. And there are other books of excellence rare. 



As a friend of fifty-odd years' acquaintance, I am convinced that the Hon. 

 Robert B. Roosevelt, who so recently died, has not yet had full credit for the 



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