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destination he will ship in the same way to applicants living 

 on lines diverging from this central point. A case in point 

 was that of a messenger sent from Orangeburg to Fayette- 

 ville, North Carolina. He carried fish for 17 applicants. 

 At Florence, South Carolina, a shipment was made to three 

 applicants living on a connecting line between Florence and 

 Wilmington, North Carolina. Arriving at Fayetteville 

 shipments were made to eight applicants on various lines 

 diverging from that point. The messenger returned to 

 Orangeburg at 11 :00 P. M. the same day, whereas, if he had 

 gone to all points and made personal deliveries it wouldhave 

 required at least two days time and would have more than 

 doubled the cost beside the inconvenience and hardship of 

 holding most of the fish over night. It is important that 

 the fish be turned over to the baggageman, or expressman, 

 in first-class condition with proper instructions as to their 

 care enroute. Baggagemen generally have taken a decided 

 interest in rendering assistance in this work and very little 

 complaint has been heard from applicants in regard to the 

 condition of the fish received. 



Discussion. 



Mr. Buller: Pennsylvania, as you gentlemen probably know, has 

 more pollution in its streams than any State in the Union, owing to its 

 vast mining interests and its large number of industrial plants. The 

 area of Pennsylvania is about 48,000 square miles. Up to the year 1923 

 these matters were vested in the Department of Fisheries so far as in- 

 dustrial and mining wastes were concerned, and under the Department 

 of Health were placed matters pertaining to sewage. This matter of 

 pollution has been a nightmare to the Commissioner of Fisheries. Year 

 after year articles have been published on the front pages of prominent 

 newspapers of the state; in ninety-five cases out of one hundred unjust 

 criticism was offered by people who never went to the trouble of studying 

 the situation and getting the facts. We have been working conscien- 

 tiously every year with a view to remedying this condition as far as 

 possible, in many instances with a great deal of success. But no matter 

 how successful we were in effecting improvements in certain streams, 

 the newspapers of the state made no references to these circumstances, 

 there were never any words of praise on their part in connection with 

 what had been accomplished. This, in my judgment, is the most serious 

 question confronting the people of the United States to-day, and it is 

 one that we are to find very cifficult of solution. It involves not only 



