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President and Treasurer of the Board of Fishery Commission. 
He is also chief Superintendent with full charge of all the state 
hatcheries. He is also chief Warden, with general charge of that 
branch of the service. 
When the department went into effect there were four hatch- 
eries in Pennsylvania belonging to the commonwealth.  ‘l'wo 
were owned by Pennsylvania and two were on leased ground. 
The two former were located at Erie and Corry. The two latter 
at Allentown and Bristol. The hatchery at Erie was for the 
propagation of lake fishes, propagated by the jar system. The 
hatchery at Corry was chiefly for the hatching of brook trout, 
although experiments had been conducted there in the culture 
of small-mouth bass and yellow perch. ‘The hatchery at Allen- 
town was for the propagation of brook trout exclusively, and the 
one at Bristol for the hatching of shad. The shad hatchery at 
Bristol had not been in operation for about four years, owing to 
an insufficient appropriation. Under an act of the legislature, 
known as the General Appropriation Act, $15,000 was given the 
new department for the establishment of two new hatcheries, 
one in Central Pennsylvania and one in Eastern Pennsylvania. 
Unfortunately no additional appropriation was made for the 
maintenance of the two new establishments. 
One of the first acts of the new department was to get rid of 
the two leased properties at Allentown and Bristol. The former 
had long been in an unsatisfactory condition, being in a delapi- 
dated state, and generally far beneath the requirements of the 
work. ‘This was done by making one of the new hatcheries a 
trout station and establishing it in Bellefonte, Centre County. 
The other was to locate the river station on the Delaware river at 
Torresdale in Philadelphia County on ten acres of land, fur- 
nished by the City of Philadelphia. 
Prominent people in the City of Philadelphia, taking a deep 
interest in the fish cultural work of the commonwealth, suc- 
ceeded in interesting councilmen and others to an enthusiastic 
point on the subject, and in addition to the land furnished, the 
city councils made an appropriation of $5,000 with which to 
assist in putting the new station in working order. <A further 
and heavier appropriation is promised by members connected 
with the municipality next winter. We thus have the unique 
