58 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



THE MILLER BERTH AND LIFE-SAVING MATTRESS COMPANY, 



Boston, Massachusetts. Capt. Benj. F. Flinn, Agent : 

 Life-Saving Mattress. (9.) (Patented December, 1880.) 



"A life-preserving arrangement, which consists of an ordinary mat- 

 tress, surrounded upon all its sides with a flexible rubber tube, 

 divided into ^compartments, filled with compressed air and cork. 

 Although the weight of tbe mattress is only fifteen to twenty 

 pounds, it has a buoyancy upon the water capable of sustaining 

 six or seven hundred pounds, and in case of ship wreck or disaster 

 the passenger can, instead of being obliged 1o hunt around for a 

 life-preserver, take up his bed and walk, with the confidence that 

 he has a better means of saving his life than from any device 

 hitherto invented for enabling shipwrecked persons to reach the 

 land in safety. In case of the shipwreck of a large vessel, a num- 

 ber of these mattresses can be combined into rafts of any desirable 

 size, by using the -"lashings" with which they are provided, so as 

 to make them capable of landing one Imndred or more passengers 

 at a time through breakers and over the roughest seas in the most 

 tempestuous weather." — Captain Flinn. 



WILLIAM MILLS & SON, 7 Warren street, New York City : 



Salmon rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 1G feet, 32 ounces. (14.) 

 Salmon rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 15 J feet, 2(5 ounces. (14.) 

 Bass bait rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, lOf feet, 15f ounces. (16.) 

 Bass bait rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 8| feet, 9f ounces. (10.) 

 Trout fly rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 1LJ feet, 8f ounces. (15.) 

 Trout fly rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 10\} feet, 8£ ounces. (15.) 

 Catskill rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 10 feet, 4£ ounces. (14-16.) 

 Trunk fly rod : Leonard's Split Bamboo, 11 feet, 10| ounces. (14-16.) 

 Combination rod: Leonard's Split Bamboo. (14-16.) 

 Salmon reels : Leonard's patent. (14.) 

 Trout reels : Leonard's patent. (15.) 

 Salmon reels. (William Mills & Son's new patent.) (14.) 

 Trout reels. (William Mills & Son's new patent.) (15.) 

 Multiplying reels : (B. II.) adjustable click, three sizes, 2, 3, and 4, 



in rubber and German silver. (14-16.) 

 Braided linen lines. (B, C, D, E, F, G.) 



Salmon lines : standard tapered silk (B and C), 120 yards each. (14.) 

 Fly lines : standard level silk (E, F, and G), 100 yards each. ( 14-16.) 

 Braid-silk lines : standard (O, D, E, F, G, and H), 50 yards each. 



(14-16.) 

 Fly lines : standard tapered silk (F), each 30 and 50 yards. (14-16.) 

 Fly lines : standard tapered (E), each 25 and 40 yards. (14-U>.) 

 Leaders : single, double, and twisted, Nos. 1 to 8 ; lengths, 3 feet, 



6 feet, and 9 feet. (14-16.) 

 Flexible Minnows: Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. (14-16.) 

 Caledonian Minnows : Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. (14-16,) 

 Phantom Minnows : Nos. 5, 6, 7, 8. (14-16.) 



