44 Tlilrlif-sl.rlli Ainninl Mrrliin/ 



])le;isc. Avlicii tliis is accomiil islicd. I lliink nil this sluiuld be 

 ])atcnU'(l. iiml llic patent ri,iiiil sold, and tliat T should l)e given 

 a share in the ])n)(its."' ((Jivat laughter.) 



This Peiinsylvanian iiiakcs my s])e(H'h for nie. ( Laughtci' 

 and ajijilanse.) 



Toastmastcr : — 'J'lie letter is almost enual to one which I i-e- 

 ccivcd sonic time ago when the nt'ws got abroad that oui- trout 

 had soi'c throat and the departnu-nt got a letter, "'I'ry camphor." 

 And that reminds me that when the chamber of commerce made 

 up its list of members of the reception committee, they did not 

 forget to put thereon several people who are intimately con- 

 nected with fish work, and one of them was the Chairman, Mr. 

 Hinrichs. 'Now, I think that those of us who live upon the 

 borders of the great lakes, and perhaps all of us, would like to 

 know very much how Mr. Hinrichs, or his captains, manage to 

 keep themselves free from the Canadian revenue cutter. 



Mr. Hinrichs : Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen : 

 This is another surprise. I understood that in the speech mak- 

 ing to-night no member was to be called upon. 



I can say that we have not had trouble with the Canadian 

 authorities. We have had the pleasure of hearing from the On- 

 tario Game and Protective Association, and the head of that as- 

 sociation, after he realized the amount of propagating that the 

 state of Pennsylvania had done, said, that he did not blame the 

 Yankees for crossing the line occasionally to get some of the 

 fishes which had been planted by them. But in mapping out 

 the program, there is one feature that we overlooked, a feature' 

 that would have made Erie prominent in the eyes of the world, 

 namely, we should have carried out the idea of getting Captain 

 Dunn of the Canadian boat A^igilant posted as to the proposed 

 trip of Commissioner Meehan on the lake to-day. I want to tell 

 you confidentially that the boat did not return until two o'clock. 

 Xow, there is no boat that can go (uit in the direction which 

 that boat did and stay until two o'clock without crossing the 

 Canadian line. If Captain Dunn had been infonned of the 

 proposed attempt to cross the line to-day. we would not have 

 had the pleasure of Mr. Meehan's com])any this eveiiing; he 

 would be in the custodv of the Canadian authorities. 



