NOTES & NEWS 





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Old Mother Hubbard had so many 

 children she didn't know what to do — 

 so the jingle tells us. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Taubles had so many water hyacinths — 

 but they know 1 what to do ! Captions f or 

 illustrations are sometimes inspired, but 

 for the above our "gray matter'' has 

 failed to respond, so we let it go with- 

 out, knowing that the many aquarists 

 who have not met these well-known fan- 

 ciers will be glad to greet them through 

 the medium of the camera, regardless of 

 what we may say about the photograph. 

 The pond shown is interesting in several 

 particulars. It is large, but not to a point 

 of inconvenience ; further, it is shallow, 

 making inspection of its contents easy. 

 Those who are considering the construc- 

 tion of a concrete pool will do well to 

 give thought to these details. 



The regular meeting of the Philadel- 

 phia Goldfish Fanciers' Society was held 

 in Saull's Hall, 802-4 West Girard ave- 

 nue, Wednesday evening, October 18th. 

 Broadtail Telescopes, scaled and trans- 

 parently scaled, competed for two silver 

 cups and ribbons. Messrs. R. L. Hard- 

 ing, James Kerr and William H. Norton, 

 acting as judges, made awards as fol- 

 lows : 



Scaled Class — Cup to Mr. William 

 Hartman ; blue ribbon, Charles Hinkle ; 

 red ribbon, William J. Christy ; yellow 

 ribbon, Howard E. Demuth. 



Transparently Scaled Class — Cup to 

 Fred Schaefer; blue ribbon, Joseph E. 

 Bailsman ; red ribbon. Fred Schaefer ; 

 yellow ribbon, Joseph E. Bailsman. 



The following fanciers were proposed 

 and elected to membership ; Dr. Louis 

 W. Rehbein. Messrs. Tohn Hefrener, 



