gates to this congress. Its second ses- 

 sion was held at Paris; its third, at St. 

 Petersburg, under the auspices of the 

 Russian government; the fourth session, 

 at Vienna; and its next session will as- 

 semble at Washington, in 1908. The gov- 

 ernment of the United States published 

 two large editions of the proceedings of 

 this first congress. This valuable publi- 

 cation is now out of print. 



Colonel Wright has advocated a friend- 

 ly unification of the English-speaking 

 family in this interest, and during the 

 last years of Queen Victoria's life he 

 commemorated her birthday with great 

 popular celebrations at Tampa. The last 

 one was a memorable event. Lord Salis- 

 bury sent him a British fleet, as did our 

 own government. Twenty thousand 

 Americans assembled to participate in 

 the ceremonies of this celebration. Ca- 

 bles and message greetings came to him 

 from notables of the Old World and our 

 own country. That great Irishman, the 

 late Lord Dufferin, sent him a phono- 

 graphic voice greeTmg from Ireland,- as 

 did Cardinal Vaughan, from London. 

 The Queen cabled her thanks, and Pres- 

 ident Roosevelt, then Governor of New 

 York, touched a button at the State cap- 

 itol, Albany, unveiling a picture of Queen 



ctoria, with the following message: % 

 ^"1 congratulate you, and through you 

 the citizens of Florida, on your action 

 in celebrating the eightieth birthday of 

 the Queen and Empress. All Americans 

 who hold their country dear and who 

 realize the essential brotherhood of the 

 English-speaking people, must join you in 

 sending the heartiest greetings to the 

 sovereign herself, and to the mighty na- 

 tion over which she reigns. Last year 

 gave us striking proofs of her friendship 

 at a time when her friendship meant 

 much to us, and if we are true to our- 

 selves, we shall always keep the fact in 

 mind. Let us also realize how vital it 



is to the well-being of English-speaking 

 people throughout the earth, and, there- 

 fore, to the cause of civilization and hu- 

 manity throughout the earth, that every 

 effort be made now and hereafter to 

 draw closer the bonds of friendship be- 

 tween England and America, and let all 

 men, and especially all public men, keep 

 this at heart and do whatever in them 

 lies to see that there is no relaxation in 

 the present bond of cordial good will. 

 (Signed.) 



"THEODORE ROOSEVELT, 



"Governor of New York." 



President Roosevelt's reference 

 England's friendship at a critical time 

 meant the episode at Manila, when Ger- 

 many tried to bluff Admiral Dewey. 



Col. Wright, twenty years ago, through 

 the New Orleans Times-Democrat, first 

 advocated organizing a National Naval 

 Reserve, and continued to agitate this 

 matter until it materialized. He was one 

 of the first to urge the necessity for a 

 strong national quarantine law to pro- 

 tect us from the yellow fever plague, lo- 

 cal state grafts with their often brutal 

 shot-gun terror. He also advocated hold- 

 ing nations responsible for the spread of 

 epidemic diseases, as was England for 

 the depredations of the Alabama on our 

 commerce. That Cuba had no more right 

 to send us yellow fever than a band of 

 pirates to devastate our coasts, hence na- 

 tions must keep their sea ports clean, or 

 pay damages for transmitting prevent- 

 able diseases from same. " Mr. Gladstone 

 brought this subject to the attention of 

 the British Parliament, and stated that 

 the time is coming when all civilized na- 

 ions would jointly unite in framing leg- 

 islation to secure this measure. 



Colonel Wright is not a politician 

 has never held public office, and never 

 will; his mission is to turn our people 

 from politics to industrialism. 



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INTERNATIONAL FISHERY. 



The next meeting of the International 

 Fishery Congress will be held at Wash- 

 ington, D. C., in 1908. This is an as- 

 sociation of the world's most eminent 

 scientific fish culturists which has en- 

 listed the interest and cooperation of all 

 civilized governments and has steadily 

 grown in importance as the scope of its i- 



I work has extended. This association owes 

 its origin to the energy and enterprise 

 of a well-known and estemmed citizen of 

 Nashville, Mr. T. T. Wright, who founded i 

 it in 1898, at Tampa, Fla., where its first 

 .1 session was held, the delegates represent- 



j ing European countries and China. The ' 

 United States Government published the '- 

 proceedings of that Congress In two larsre 



third session was held at St. Petersburg , 

 in 1902 and the last at Vienna in 1904. 

 The purpose of the Congress is. to study 

 and promote the fishing interests in the 

 many ways that can be made practical by 

 international co-operation. A number of 

 governments now employ vessels of their 

 navies to map out food producing water 

 farms and make investigations to in- 

 crease and improve the supply of the best 

 fish for the benetit of mankind. 



