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danger. There proved to be no stove in either car, and although 
it was almost July, it was snowing when we reached Bryan, in 
Wyoming Territory. The temperature of the shad-cans went 
down with frightful rapidity after nightfall, and the only way in 
which we could save our fishes was by heating some irons in the 
furnace of the engine, very much to the engineer’s disgust, and 
with them warming some water inatub. We placed the shad- 
cans in the warm water, and thus kept up the temperature at a 
safe point. In taking out the first aquarium-car, in 1873, I let 
my stock of ice run down to almost nothing on the evening that 
we were to cross the Detroit river. On reaching the river the 
conductor found that the train was so long that he must either 
leave our car or one of the sleepers. He ought to have left one 
of the sleepers, as the passengers could have kept alive well 
enough until morning ; but the conductor thought differently, 
and concluded to leave us instead of the Pullman-car. It wasa 
hot night. We had a whole car as full of fishes as it could safely 
be, and only three utterly wornout and exhausted men to take 
care of them. Our ice was soon gone, and before midnight the 
situation became decidedly alarming. It was madeall the worse 
by everybody assuring us that there was no chance to get any 
ice before morning. But this would not do. It was very ob- 
vious that if we did not get ice before morning we should not 
need it at all for some of the fishes. After great exertions, and 
after waking up, if I remember rightly, seventeen railroad men 
in succession, I at last got an engine and a flat-bottomed car, and 
“succeeded in getting some ice from the Windsor ice-house, a 
mile and a half distant from where we were finally deposited. 
The fish were saved, but it was a close call, and illustrates what 
danger there is when travelling with live fishesin not providing 
for every possible emergency. 
(z.) Using a wrong transporting medium. It is true that 
water in some form is the only medium in which fish can be car- 
ried, but there is a variety of kinds of water to choose from, 
viz: fresh water, salt water, brackish water, muddy water, snow 
_ water (or snow-slush), pure water, and alkaline water and it is 
very important in carrying live fishes to choose the right kind. 
