AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2507 



Q. Describe to the Commission what sort of business you were engaged 

 in while assisting your father in this business? A. Our business was 

 fitting out fishermen, curing fish, drying fish, and marketing them after 

 I got old enough. 



Q. You were engaged in that until you were twenty-two? A. Yes. 



Q. About what time did you go into your father's business? Early ? 

 A. I used to go to school in the day-time and work in the fish-yard night 

 and morning before and after school. As I got older I took more charge 

 of the business. 



Q. As I understand you the time you left school and went into the 

 establishment entirely you were twenty one years old and were in charge 

 of the whole department of fitting vessels, dealing with the fish, taking 

 them to market included ? A. Yes. 



Q. Well, alter that what did you do? A. After that I went to sea 

 for two years. 



Q. What do you mean when you say you went to sea ; did you go as 

 a fisherman I A. No ; I went in a merchant vessel. 



Q. Your father's vessel ? A. No ; in an American vessel. 



Q. After that? A. After that I brought up in Eastport and went 

 into business. 



Q. What sort of business at Eastport ? A. Fitting out fishermen 

 and general business, curing fish, and trading in West India produce, 

 and all kinds of business done by our general stores. 



Q. How long did that continue ? A. 15 years. 



Q. What did you do after that ? A. I went to Grand Manan again 

 and weir fished for 8 or 10 years. About that time I commenced to 

 make herring oil. I had weirs at Grand Manan, and went over and en- 

 gaged in the manufacture of herring oil and smoking herring. 



Q. How long did you remain at Grand Manan ? A. 8 or 9 years, I 

 think ; I made no calculation and should not like to state exactly. Some- 

 where about that time. 



Q. Well, after you went to Grand Manan did you return to East- 

 port? A. Yes. 



Q. You have been ever since at Eastport ? A. Yes. 



Q. What business have you been in since ? A. Express and general 

 commission business. I have been buying hake-sounds for parties in 

 Boston. 



Q. As I understood, when you went back to Grand Mauau you were 

 doing a weir business ? A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What have you done with them? A. I have them still. 



Q. Do you work them yourself? A. No; I rent them. 



Q. You have been renting them ever since? A. I have been renting 

 them the last six years. Sometimes I rent them for an annual payment 

 for the privilege, and some of the weirs 1 rent on a fifth, building the weirs 

 myself. In other cases I make a trade with them to build the weirs for 

 so much, and give me so much net proceeds. I make the best trade I 

 can. 



Q. How many weirs are you interested in ? A. Three large weirs. 

 One we didn't build this year. Only two were built this year, on ac- 

 count of the smoked herring being very low. 



Q. Are you still employed in smoking herring and curing them ? 

 A. Yes; in the way I have stated. 



Q. I want you to explain to the Commission the character of the busi- 

 ness done at the weirs. What force have you employed there ? A. 

 Well, the weirs are built in the eddies, places where the herring fre- 

 quent. They are caught in the weirs. The weirs are built so that the 



