THE MENHADEN FISHERY. 403 
weather good, bat before morning it rained and blew hard from the east. Saturday, 12th: We came up to Greenport 
in the wind and rain; in p. m. it cleared off and I went home. Monday, 14th: We went down in Gardiner’s Bay and 
then up into Noyack Bay, where we found plenty of fish; we caught 187,200, and arrived at the Miamogue Works at 4 
o’clock p.m.; pleasant. Tuesday, 15th 4 We went up bay again, and caught in Noyack Bay and Little Peconic Bay 232,000 
fish, which was all we could put on, and reached the Miamogue Works at 6 o’clock p.m.; fine day. Wednesday, 16th: 
We went up in Little Peconic Bay; caught 87,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; pleasant day, but we 
had a hard thunder shower just at night, and it rained nearly all night. Thursday, 17th: Went up bay, but the wind 
was NW. and the fish would not show; one of the men was taken sick, and we took him to Greenport and looked up 
a man to take his place, and as the day was so far spent we concluded not to goout again. Friday, 18th: We went up 
bay and then down bay, and caught but 20,000 fish, which we took in to the Miamogue Works; weather pleasant. 
Saturday, 19th: Went out in Gardiner’s Bay, but caught no fish; so went to Greenport and I went home; fine day. 
Monday, 21st: We went up sound as far as Luce’s Landing; caught 52,000 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; 
weather continues fine. Tuesday, 22d: Went in the sound and went west as far as Cold Spring, where we stopped ; 
pleasant; wind SW. Wednesday, 23d: Went out in the sound and east; we found some fish off Mattituck, and caught 
59,600, which we took to the Miamogue Works; weather fine. Thursday, 24th: We went up sound as far as Faulkland 
Island; caught 126,400 fish, and arrived at the Miamogue Works at 9 o’clock p.m.; weather fine. Friday, 25th: Went 
up sound as far as New Haven; the wind breezed up from the east, so we went in and came to anchor bebind the light 
in the mouth of New Haven Harbor. Saturday, 26th: Wind east and stormy; we came out and came to Greenport. 
Monday, 28th: Went up sound, and off Faulkland Island caught 129,600 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; 
very fine day. Tuesday, 29ih: We went up sound; caught off Faulkland Island 9,600 fish; they did not appear to be 
very plenty to-day; we took them to the oil works; very warm. Wednesday, 30th: Went up sound; caught just east 
of Horton’s Point 37,600 fish; arrived in to the Miamogue Works at 6 o’clock p.m.; awarm day. Thursday, 31st: Went 
up sound; caught 57,600 fish just west of Horton’s Point, and took them to the Miamogue Works; pleasant day. 
August 1st, Friday: It was foggy in the morning and we had to grope our way along through the gut and up 
sound, running slow so as not to run any vessels down; one of the steamers ran into a schooner just after going 
through the gut, but did not do much damage; the fog soon lit up and we caught 52,000 fish near Faulkland Island, 
which we took to the Miamogue Works; pleasant after the fog lifted. Saturday, 2d: Did not fish; a very, very warm 
day. Monday, 4th: We went up sound as far as New Haven; caught 102,400 fish, which we took down to the Mia- 
mogue Works; weather very fine. Tuesday, 5th: Went up sound as far as Charles Island; caught 60,000 fish, which 
we took to the works; fine. Wednesday, 6th: We went up to Greenport to fix the boiler. Thursday, 74h: Went out in 
the morning and the boiler commenced to leak, so we went to New London and had a soft patch put on. Friday, 
8th: We came out in the morning and started west in the sound, but the wind was east and commenced to storm, so 
we came to Greenport. Saturday, 9th: Went out in the bay in a. w.; saw no fish, so went into the fish works and 
coaled up, and to Greenport; thus ends the week. Monday, 11th: Went up sound as far as Stratford Point; caught 
a few fish just at night and went into Black Rock and anchored; fine day. Tuesday, 12th: Fished off Stratford until 
* noon, then started for the Miamogue Works; arrived just before sundown; had 129,600 fish; weather continues fine. 
Wednesday, 13th: We went up sound; the wind blew quite fresh SW.; we went in behind Norwalk Islands and came 
to anchor. Thursday, 14th: Went out in the sound; caught a few fish off South Port, and at night, as we did not 
have enough to come down with, we went into Bridgeport; fine. Friday, 15th: Went out in the sound and went 
east and saw some fish, and we set around them—four different bunches—on our way down, and caught not a single 
one; they went under the seine; divers we call them; we took to the works what we caught the day before, 16, 800 
fish; weather fine. Saturday, 16th : An east storm; we lay in Greenport. Monday, 18th: Went out in Gardiner’s Bay 
and raat one set, but caught none; it stormed hard nearly all day, and at night I went up to Greenport, and before 
we alrived at the wharf it was blowing a gale from the NE.; we made fast to the wharf, using all the lines we 
had, and oh! how it did blow; during the night there were about twenty fishing yachts and sloops dragged and went 
ashore, and two or three steamers had a pretty hard time; one little smack anchored off Bostwick, Gardiner’s Island, 
foundered, and two men that were in her were drowned; the wind, some time in the night, shifted to NNW.; that 
was when it blew the hardest, Tuesday, 19h: Wind blew quite hard NW.; we did not go out; some of the steamers 
went down bay and towed up disabled yachts and sloops—some with bowsprit gone, some with boom or mast broken, 
&c. Wednesday, 20th: We went below Gardiner’s Island; caught 169,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue 
Works; fine. Thursday, 21st: We caught just east of Gardinera Point 59,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue 
Works; fine. Friday, 22d: We hauled out the William Floyd on the railways, to paint and fix the condenser, and we 
took the seine in the lot to put some new corks on the bunt; wind blew strong SW. Saturday, 23d: We saw the 
acull race in a.m.; I went homeinp.m. Monday, 25th: We went down below Gardiner’s Island and as far as Fort 
Pond; caught 41,600 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; wind east. Tuesday, 26th: The wind was east and 
it was storming; we lay in Greenport. Wednesday, 27th: The wind continued to blow east; did not fish. Thursday, 
28th: We went up in Peconic Bay in a. m., but saw no fish, so we came back to Greenport. Friday, 29th: We went 
down in Gardiner’s Bay; made four sets; caught 27,200 fish, which we took to the Miamogue Works; pleasant day. 
Saturday, 30th: We did not fish; I went home. 
September 1st, Monday: We went up sound as far as Mattituck, where we succeeded in catching 141,200 fish, and 
arrived at the Miamogue Works at 8 o’clock p. m.; weather pleasant. Tuesday, 24: Went up sound, and off Stratford 
we caught three small sets, and then went in to Bridgeport for the night; pleasant day. Wednesday, 3d: We went 
out in the sound in the morning and caught a good haul of fish off South Port; then the wind breezed up from the 
east and we started down sound; we arrived at the Miamogue Works at 4 o’clock p. m.; had 113,600 fish. Thurs- 
day, 4th; It was foggy in the morning, and we did not start out until 10 o’clock a. m.; then we went up in Little 
