THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. 339 
SHORE AND VESSEL ACCESSORIES. 
Short-handled haddock or dory gaff. Long-handled Georges gaff. 
Mackerel gaff. Iron halibut hand gaff. 
Three-tined fork. Two-tined fork. One-tined fork or pew. 
Three-pronged ice chopper. 
Mackerel bait mill. 
Squilgee. 
Gob stick and killer. 
Hurdy-gurdy. This is attached to the dory and is used in the halibut fishery to 
haul up the halibut trawls. 
Cockle hammer, for breaking cockles for bait in rip fishing. 
Salt scoop, used in salting fish of all kinds on the Grand Banks. 
Ice scoop, used in the halibut fishery for icing halibut. 
Wooden dory scoop. 
Torch made of galvanized iron and used on the decks of fishing vessels while baiting 
up trawls and dressing fish at night. 
Sticking Tommy, or candle holder: A candlestick in general use on fishing vessels 
which can be stuck on horizontal or perpendicular surfaces below decks. 
Dummy roller: A trawl roller which is attached to the gunwale of the dory to haul 
trawls in shoal water. 
Patent roller, used on the gunwale of the dories for hauling trawls in deep water. 
Fishermen’s woolen mittens, used in handling fish on the banks in winter. 
Cotton mittens, used in gibbing mackerel and in general use where woolen mittens 
would be too warm. 
Small woolen nippers, used for hand-line or single-dory fishing on the inshore grounds. 
Large nippers, used for hand-line fishing on Georges Bank, haddock trawling, ete. 
Rubber nippers, used for shore fishing, hand lines, ete. 
Rubber bands, used for holding on mittens. 
Rubber bands, used for holding the oil clothes close around the rubber boot. 
Mackerel bait heaver, used for throwing bait or ‘‘chum”’ to toll mackerel alongside 
the vessels. 
Soapstone boot drier, used for drying rubber boots on fishing vessels. The soapstone 
is heated and placed in the boot over night. 
Files used for sharpening fish hooks. 
Rubber finger cot used to protect the finger when cut or injured. 
Tin horn used in dory in foggy weather. 
Oak mallet used in the halibut fishery for pounding ice; it is preferred to anything 
else as the ice is pounded to almost the consistency of snow and keeps the 
fish in better condition than coarse ice. 
Oak scrub broom, in general use on fishing vessels for scrubbing dories, decks, pens, 
etc., to remove blood, scales, etc., after dressing fish. 
Seine needle, used for mending seines. 
Sailors’ palm, used for mending sails. 
Curry comb, used in fish houses and markets for scaling and cleaning fish. 
Mackerel jig mold, with hook in position. 
Splicer, used in making cod trawls and small lines. 
Splicer, used in making halibut trawls. 
Mackerel bait mill. 
Mackerel plow or reamer, used for cutting two cracks, one on each side of the belly of 
the fish, to give it the appearance of being fatter than it really is. 
Halibut heading knife, used in fish-houses for cutting off the heads of halibut and 
large cod. 
Halibut fletching knife, used for cutting from the bone the flesh which is to be salted 
and smoked. 
Common bait knife, used for cutting up bait for cod, haddock, and other fishes. 
Bait chopper, used in halibut fishery for chopping bait. 
Haddock rippers, used for ripping haddock open. 
Clam knife, used for opening clams for bait. 
Mackerel splitting knife, used for splitting mackerel open. 
Skinning knife, used in fish lofts for skinning dry fish. 
Skinning hook, used in skinning lofts for removing the nape bone. 
Cod throating knife, used for throating cod and other large fish. 
Splitting knife, used for splitting round fresh cod in preparing them for salting. 
Scraping knife, used in halibut fishery to remove flesh and blood from the backbone 
after cutting. 
Oyster hardie: Types No. 1 and 2, made of iron, are in common use in oyster houses 
in Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore. Type No. 3 is known as the 
Philadelphia pattern. 
