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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jtuis 2, 1881 



HOW THE ICHTHYOPHAGOUS DINED. 



THE dinner of this famous club came off on the evening 

 of the 27th of May, as advertised, and was a great suc- 

 cess. A 1 5 p. m. the steamer left the foot of Fulton street 

 and proceeded up the East River to Thirty-third street, where 

 more guests were waiting to be taken on board, and then 

 steamed away through Hell Gate and up to the hotel of Mr. 

 John H. Starin, at Glen Island, which is above Throg's Neck, 

 where the East River becomes Long Island Sound. The hotel 

 is seventeen miles from the starting point and is beautifully 

 situated for a summer resort. 



About one hundred persons sat down to the table, which 

 formed three sides of a square. Many more would have been 

 present but for the false impression that the Club is a private 

 affair, when in reality it consists of only the President and 

 three others, who are a committee of arrangements. Invita- 

 tions are sent out and the "members " are those who choose 

 to attend. The nominal sum charged for tickets hardly cov- 

 ers the wines, all deficiencies being otherwise provided for. 

 The country had been scoured for weeks for things aquatic 

 which are not eaten, through absurd prejudice against, their 

 appearance. Now, the Ictbyophagous holds, if it holds any- 

 thing, that much good food is lost to man through this ridic- 

 ulous prejudice, which says that certain things '■ were made 

 to eat " and certain other things "were never meant to be 

 snten." " How do you know ?" asks the Club; "did you 

 ever eat; them ?" "No," says popular prejudice, "but I 

 don't believe they were made to be eaten." "Why not?" 

 again queries the Club. "Because they don't look fit to eat 

 and nobody eats them," answers prejudice. This Is all that 

 prejudice has to say, his grandfather never had them on his 

 table and he is satisfied to feed things to his pigs or let them 



tract of meat, but not yet put upon the market. It contains 

 the pure ifiuscie juice, and later in the evening was referred 

 to by Or. Hammond as having more life-giving and stimulat- 

 ing qualities in i'| than champagne. The razor clams (Solm 

 eniitj made a fair bisque, and the wonder is that they are 

 'i in this country. They are said to be best when 

 broiled (Jones' Animal Creation). The greysnapper (Zut- 

 '; isa fine fish from I ho Gulf Stream much esteem- 

 ed in Burmuda, but rare here. The deviled horseshoe crabs, 

 (Limuhts p'jlj/pjiemva) were lacking in delicacy, their pro- 

 nounced character might sjiit some palates better than ours. 

 The. drum, like the diet oE beef, was good, but not uncom- 

 mon ; one of the members V0tgd it " too respectable." The 

 raie | ArigUee Kay or Skate) with black butter was notgood. 

 We have eaten skate and called it delicious, this whether the 

 fish or the cooking, seemed coarse and strong. Why the 

 aheepshead, the best of salt-water fishes, was served, unless 

 as a concession to the weakness of some of the brethren who 

 had a little prejudice loft, we don't know, The shark was 

 very fair, not as coarse nor as strong as might be expected, 

 and the tarry trousers of the African sailor had not flavored 

 it with pitch as was Feared. It was noticed that the nier- 

 steiner was freely used with this dish. The squid needed 

 more of it to our thinking. Menhaden a la Goode was good, 

 but bony. Striped bass, another concession to the weak 

 stomachs. 



The. hellbenders were most excellent, the only fault being 

 the small pieces consequent upon a limited supply. Bea- 

 robins Cor sculping) were also good. Lophins is the genuine 



islerki 



name of tin 

 monk-fish and great sea 

 which entered its po?uk 

 seemed like one of thos 



OWtl as goosefisli, fishing frog, angler, 

 toad, it had a flavor of all the fishes 

 rous jaws never more to return, it 

 i things which one could eat but uot 



THE ICHTHYOPHAGIST'S DREAM. 



be wasted for this slight reason, if it is a reason. The motto 

 of the Club is: " He who eats a Itog, or any portion of one, 

 has no right to despise the flesh of any creature that the Cre- 

 ator bas made." 



No shark was to be obtained, but, by one of those fortu- 

 nate chances, a fisherman from Cape Cod came into Fulton 

 Market, with a "man-eater," which he brought in as a curi- 

 osity. Blackford bought it and, notwithstanding its stomach 

 contained the left leg of a colored boy, with a boot and a 

 piece of his tarry trousers, the Club considered it a prize and 

 was happy. The hellbenders were obtained through the 

 kindness of Dr. Beachley, of Meyersdale, Penn., who per- 

 sonally interviewed the fishermen and secured them. Their 

 absence would have disappointed Prof. Cope, who came from 

 Philadelphia on purpose to eat the menopoma which he lias 

 so often dissected and found to contain wholesome-looking 

 muscle, but which it never occurred to him to eat until he 

 saw that the Ichthyophagi proposed to serve it. 



The company sat down at 7 r.M. At each plate was a 

 card with a nightmare in shape of a sleeping individual, 

 who, having dined on the hellbender, was visited by thern 

 in his sleep. The reverse contained the following :— 



MENU. 



-Little neck clams. Santerne. 



Folages. 



Oonsomruo of Mossbuuker. Bisque of Bazor Clams. 



Amontillado. 



Soft tV (navre. 



Doudinu of greysuapper a la Blackford. 



Horse-shoe orabs a la diable." ' Sardines. Anchovies. 



Jteleves. 



Drum a la Cope. Filet de boeuf a la Richelieu 



Pommes duchesse. St. Emilion. 



Entrees. 



Baie an beurre noir. Sheepshead a la Normandie. 



Saute of shark— Chinese style. Squid a la Starin. 



Pain de menhaden a la Goode. 



Aeperges. Niersteiner. 



Sorbet des Princes. 



Rod. 



Striped baau a la Mather. Pomery. 



Gibier. 



Hell benders. Sea robins. Angle worms. 



Pieces Froides. 



Lophius a la Baird. Sturgeon a la Ichthyophage. 



Salade. 



Seaweed. 



Dessert. 



Glaces nautiques. Petits fours. Fruits. 



Froniages. Cafe. Liqueurs. 



The first new thing was the consomme of mossbunker 



menhaden). This was made from " Goodale's Extract of 



Fish," an article made on the same principal as Liebig's ex- 



" hanker after." The angle worms and see-weed salad did 

 not appear because, being easy to obtain, they were left to 

 the last and not attended to in time. The "angleworms" 

 were not to be the earth worm, Luml>ricHs (Uriextris, ) but 

 the sand worm found on the sea roast at low tide, called lob- 

 worm, or bug- worm, (A renici/kr piscaturium. ) They arc said 

 to be good when first placed in warm water to make them 

 eject the saud aud then dropped into hot fat like dough-nuts. 

 The President, Mr, John Foord, arose with the coming of 

 the sorbet'aud congratulated the club on the improvement in 

 the •ttaiLu from last year, and said that in time it might be 

 possible to get up a dinner of articles which no human be- 

 ing had tasted of. He then stated that the club contained a 

 poet, and called on him to recite his verses, aud Mr. Fred 

 Mather read his alleged poetry, "When the Ichthyophagous 

 Dines," from FoKUST AMD Stream of May 12th. Mr. George 

 Werreurath, the accomplished tenor of Plymouth Church, 

 sang in Kalian, German and English, to a piano accompani- 

 ment by Mr. Benedict. Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt was then 

 called upon and maintained his character of one of the best 

 of after-dinner speakers. Kc referred to the fact that these 

 dinners were having a Q effect upon the members; Mr. Phil- 

 lips had increased in weight to S 50 pounds, while the speaker 

 equalled to 212 pounds, Mr. Blackford weighed 200, and the 

 President of the club had increased his waist measure. Pro- 

 fessor Oope being called on gave then a little scientific nomen- 

 clature which nearly broke his inferior maxillary. Captain 

 J. H. Mortimer told some good stories, the military band 

 from David's Island serenaded the club, and at II :30 they 

 rose and went to the boat. On the way home songs were 

 sung aud nothing marred the harmony of one of the most 

 famous dinners on record which language cannot describe 

 and only those who were there can thoroughly appreciate. 



— Mr. William E. Dorwiu, who has been known for a long 

 time as the capable aud efficient superintendent of the 

 Brighton Beach Railroad, has retired from that office to take 

 charge of the extension of the Delaware, Lackawanna and 

 Western Railroad. Being a railroad man, Mr. Dorwin is, 

 perforce, an expert angler. He recently made a vacation 

 : Vermont hills, whence he returned laden with the 

 finny trophies of his del tu ess. 



Seventy-five Years Ago.— In the Evening Post for June 

 20, 1800, the New York Sporting Club announces the expul- 

 sion of two members for shooting woodcock out of season. 



§he ggovtumm §oumt. 



EL COXQVISTADOR. 



" Half-way clown, while picking o 

 Isrnotus kicked something which i 

 was lie picked up a jagg-ecf, rusrv \;r 

 Settling else could we find i tioiior'; 

 tragedy these were, the sole mei 

 was it redntanor'wntte, hunter, i 

 had perished miserably tn this g] 

 manner of his taking off -By wastlri 

 wild beast or by his brother mac ? 

 all, and not, perhaps, a woman s?— 



) old windfall 

 io see wKatit 

 ri human skull 



While groves am 

 In tranuull Pea 



Near bv Ml romp 

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 These luolderirig hones thai here ha: 



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MOTES OF AN ANGLER IN THE MOUTH. 



BY FAIln.il I LI), 



:.— tins 



A 8 Canada is P. I 

 A. inlhecomino 

 series of short skctc 

 features of that port 

 Qui bee on the norll 

 Lake St. John and t 

 lake, together with i 

 rag upon the outskirts 



anglers' and sportsmen's para Use 

 shall endeavor, i '..'.!'. : ■ 



6 l bi some ol 1 1 1 Stn tketi 



the Dominion tad 

 e of the St. Lawrence River and 

 ,'uenay River, l,he discharge of tins 

 Tight account til ....■,. rpk i n 

 f that mighty wilderness, und w hat 



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facts in the natural history irod fishing u( tho couutty Hift\ 

 appear to me to be now or of iulerebl li the general 

 reader. 



I shall avoid the continuous narrative, and thereby some 

 of the dull, trite and stupid incideii'- ol tie daily journal, as 

 I am quite convinced that the hour at which the writer may 

 have arisen, or the detailed account of what he rnaj 

 had for breakfast, have very little itr crest to an . ibill 

 himself. 



HOME FACTS ABOUT THE ni|NTl:V. 



Canada is destined before many years , - e toen 



joy a supremacy as. a resort for those enthusiai ■ 



turous anglers and sportsmen who, no loo . BontOBl wil 

 the tame sports of the East, and the Westhav Rfi passed 

 into the hands of the husbandman, must seek for game 

 worthy of their prowess in the primeval wilds ol Canada. 

 Such they will remain for generations to oomc ; for the 

 arctic winter and immense snowfall, together wish th 

 productiveness of the soil, unfit it be setlleinenl. So in- 

 hospitable is the climate that the cultivated lauds on the 

 north shore of the St. Lawrence are but a mere fringe. 

 Quebec, the venerable and antiquated, still stands within The 

 shadows of the forests. From the summit of the storm- 

 beaten cape which surmounts the town, the eye reives over 

 a well cultivated valley, dotted with smiling homesteads, 

 and rests upon a range of mountains, whose bine summits 

 blend into the azure of the sky. These mountains — the 

 Laurentides— extend to the Labrador coast, and are the 

 barriers which agricultural development will never sur- 

 mount. To the hardy and intrepid sportsman they are but 

 the sentinels that guard his domain from the ruthless and 

 rapid destruction that is overtaking some of our fairer but 

 too accessible regions. 



This boundless wilderness is intersected with a network of 

 lakes and rapid shallow rivers, all of which absolutely teem 

 with trout, aud many of the latter with salmon. The vast 

 forests are the rauging grounds of the lordly moose and fleet- 

 footed caribou— the reindeer of the western hemisphere — 

 while, the mink, otter, beaver, lynx, fisher and bear are also 

 found in abundance. The widely scattered am 

 posts of the Hudson Bay company are still to be seen beside 

 the lonely lakes of the interior. The nearest post to Quebec 

 is at Lake St. John, one hundred and twenty-five miles dis- 

 tant. Since the completion of a government road to this 

 lake, which is the head of the Saguenay River, a section of 

 the country lias been opened to the angler that is prolific in 

 fine fishing, but strict candor necessitates the assertion that 

 the latter must be musquito and fly-proof, as both insects 

 appear to flourish amidst the dank, dark forests of theNorth. 

 The thin-skinned man's life would be rendered utterly 

 miserable from the attacks of these little pests. 



Winter is the season of the year most affected by the 

 Canadian sportsmen for their trips into the interior to hunt 

 the caribou and moose, and for fishing. Inured to the cold 

 from infancy, they defy its utmost severity, and find them- 

 selves as happy sitting before their little camp-fire In a hole 

 in the snow, while the storm shrieks wildly through the 

 shadowy piues above them and the thermometer marks 30 

 deg. below zero, as in their comfortable homes. Upon their 

 broad snow-shoes they traverse the wilderness to its remot- 

 est parts. 



THE INHABITANTS. 



Upon the outskirts of this wilderness dwell a singular 

 people, a race long settled upon the land they till, but whOj 



