Philadelphia Goldfish Fanciers 



The regular meeting of the Philadel- 

 phia Goldfish Fanciers' Society was held 

 on Wednesday evening, April 18, in 

 Saull's Hall, 802 Girard avenue. Annual 

 competition for broadtail Japs. Messrs. 

 William L. Paullin, Thomas Ayling and 

 Dr. J. J. Fralinger, judges, made follow- 

 ing awards : 



Transparent-scaled Japs. — Charles 

 J. Hannig Silver Cup to Dr. F. C. Leff- 

 man ; blue ribbon, Frank Merges ; red 

 ribbon, George E. Wilt ; yellow ribbon, 

 Charles Hinkle. 



Opaque-scaled Japs. — Red ribbon, 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Ahlers; yellow ribbon, 

 Thomas J. Schubert. 



Officers for the ensuing year were 

 elected as follows : President, Harry P. 

 Peters; Vice-President, Charles J. Han- 

 nig ; Secretary, Fred. Richardson ; Treas- 

 urer, Thomas Ayling; Board of Gov- 

 ernors, George B. Smith, George W. 

 Price, George E. Wilt, Francis X. Garcia 

 and Dr. F. C. Leffman. 



Messrs. William A. Barber, E. R. 

 Crane and Charles F. Mazdon were 

 elected to membership. 



The next meeting will be held on 

 Wednesday evening, May 16th. Com- 

 petition for Shubunkins and Comets. 

 Six ribbons will be awarded. 



Fred Richardson, 



Secretary. 



" 'Where ignorance is bliss,' " said 

 James Young, the motion picture direc- 

 tor, repeating the words after a fellow- 

 member of the Lambs Club, "exactly ! 

 Precisely like the Detroit girl who visited 

 the country on May Day. 



"She came to a pond whose shallows 

 were full of tadpoles — thousands and 

 thousands of little black fellows flopping 

 about in an inch of mud and water. 



" 'Oh, she said, 'look at the tadpoles ! 

 And to think that some day every one of 

 the horrid wiggling things will be a beau- 

 tiful butterfly!' " 



The most wonderful things in nature 

 are the smallest. A flea leaps 200 times 

 its own length. A six-foot man would 

 have to jump 1200 feet to parallel the 

 event. One species of fly takes 440 steps 

 in traveling three inches and does it in 

 half a second — corresponding to a man 

 running 20 miles a minute. 



Statement of the Ownership, Management, 

 Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of 

 Congress of August 24, 1912, of Aquatic 

 Life, published monthly at Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania, for April 1st, 1917. 



State of Pennsylvania ) 

 County of Philadelphia j ss : 



Before me, a notary public in and for the 

 State and County aforesaid, personally ap- 

 peared W. A. Poyser, who, having been duly 

 sworn according to law, deposes and says that 

 he is the editor of Aquatic Life, and that the 

 following- is, to the best of his knowledge 

 and belief, a true statement of the ownership, 

 management (and if a daily paper, the circu- 

 lation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 

 the date shown in the above caption, required 

 by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in 

 Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, 

 to wit : 



That the names and addresses of the pub- 

 lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 

 managers are : 



Publisher — Joseph E. Bailsman, 542 East 

 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Editor— W. A. Poyser, 207 South 37th 

 Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Managing Editor — None. 

 Business Managers — None. 



That the owners are: (Give names and ad- 

 dresses of individual owners, or, if a cor- 

 poration, give its name and the names and 

 addresses of stockholders owning or holding 

 1 per cent, or more of the total amount of 

 stock.) 



Oztmers — Joseph E. Bailsman, 542 East 

 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa.; W. A. 

 Povser, 207 South 37th Street, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



That the known bondholders, mortgagees, 

 and other security holders owning or holding 

 1 per cent, or more of the total amount of 

 bonds, mortgages, or other securities are : 

 None. 



W. A. POYSER, Editor. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd 

 day of March, 1917. 

 (Seal) A. D. Dewees. 



(My commission expires February 19, 1921.) 



