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By Mr. Davie: 



Q. How does the Catskill region compare with the Adirondack 

 region ? 



A. We have not the great lakes or anything of that kind; I would 

 rather live in the Catskills because there are no black flies to amount 

 to anything; I think the fishing in the Catskills is fully as good, and 

 better if anything, for small trout. 



By Mr. Connelly : 



Q. Have the commission always acted in harmony in regard to 

 matters pertaining to the forest lands belonging to the State; in other 

 words, have you been in accord with the policy of the commission ? 



A. Well, as I stated when asked whether there was harmony, I 

 would say that for th'e past year there has been; before that there 

 was a little feeling between myself and the others; I didn't consider 

 it very much harmony. 



Q. What was the occasion or cause of non-harmony ? 



A. I don't think that they liked me very much. 



Q. Of course they had some reason for disliking you, for you are a 

 very amiable man- — the very "milk of human kindness " I should 

 think; now what was the reason for their strange antipathy? 



' A. I suppose, although being very nice, etc., I was a little cantank- 

 erous at times; I will tell you — I didn't like it very much when 

 there was a meeting held and the patronage was divided between the 



others and I didn't have any. 



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By Chairman Ryan: 



Q. Was the meeting at which that was done held up in the office of 



the civil service commission ? 



A. No, sir; in the lunatic place. 



By Mr. Connelly: 



Q. Were you dissatisfied, of course you had great reason for not 

 being satisfied; were you dissatisfied with the appointment made by 

 the other commissioners, did they meet with your approbation ? 



A. I voted no to all them, but after they were appointed I told Mr. 

 Gannon — I am very much pleased with him and Hike him very much, 

 and Mr. Train was a very charming and pleasant gentleman, although 

 he was too sick to do his duty, and he is now dead you know — and I 

 simply voted no because I didn't like it; I thought I ought to have 

 at least something to say about it, but after the appointments were 

 made I liked them very much; I told both of them frarrkly that I had 

 voted no, but that I Bhould act toward them and with them just exactly 



