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the park which are suitable for offices 

 and for quarters of the delegates and 

 their secretarial staffs, the capitol build- 

 ing- itself must be built. 



Thus every external attribute con- 

 ducive to comfort and pleasure will be 

 provided for the statesmen whom it is 

 proposed to commission with the respon- 

 sibility for international justice, liberty, 

 and world peace. 



The aspect of Lake Geneva from this 

 site will prove a constant source of de- 

 light to the visitor, its brilliant blue waters 

 in calm weather reflecting at dawn and 

 eventide the indescribable alpenglow of 

 the mountains to the south, while the 

 lateen sails of barge and pleasure craft 



present a perpetually changing picture, as 

 if staged anew each moment for every 

 spectator. 



While here and there among the lit- 

 erary estimates and appreciations of its 

 beauties one finds a somewhat critical 

 note, as that of William Dean Howells, 

 who only saw in the city "an admirable 

 illustration printed in colors for a holiday 

 number to imitate a water-color sketch," 

 an overwhelming majority of those who 

 have enjoyed Geneva's hospitality will 

 lean rather to Ruskin's estimate, that it is 

 "a bird's nest of a place ; the most lovely 

 spot and the most notable, without any 

 possible dispute, of the European uni- 

 verse." 



DEVIL-FISHING IN THE GULF STREAM 



By John Oliver La Gorce 



Author of "Pennsylvania, the Industrial Titan of America," "Warfare on Our Eastern Coast' 



WHAT the rolling prairie of the 

 Far West was to the buffalo in 

 the olden days, when it roamed 

 in countless thousands to and fro in 

 search of new pastures and salt, the ever- 

 rolling Gulf Stream — that mighty, warm 

 river which parallels the east coast of 

 Florida — is to the fish legions of our semi- 

 tropical seas. 



How many fishermen realize that there 

 are found in the Atlantic Ocean offshore 

 between Miami and Key West nearly 600 

 varieties of fish — an amazing total which 

 constitutes one-fifth of the entire fauna 

 of the American Continent north of Pan- 

 ama ! 



To even sketch the possibilities of sport 

 fishing along the far-flung coral reef off 

 Miami, the southernmost city of the 

 Florida mainland and the fourth in size 

 within the borders of the State, one must 

 discount the old question : ''Are all fisher- 

 men intentionally disingenuous, or do only 

 liars fish?" for the facts concerning the 

 variety, gameness, weight, and diversi- 

 fied color of the citizens of the deep, 

 abounding in these waters, require a high 

 rating as to the personal veracity and the 

 courage to prove that ancient proverb 

 about truth being stranger than fiction ! 



The fresh-water fisherman who, armed 

 with light tackle, matches his wits against 

 the quickness of the black bass, the bril- 

 liant generalship of the brook trout, or 

 the fierce charge of the muskellunge, in 

 his inland streams and lakes, may not con- 

 sider it superior sport to "wet his line" 

 in salt water along the North Atlantic 

 coast, for not many of the fish in cold 

 seas are considered foemen worthy of his 

 steel. 



DISCOVERING A NEW WORED OF SPORT 



Yet a different story can be told of their 

 warm sea brethren, and he needs only to 

 hunt out, for example, the fearless tar- 

 pon, the dashing sailfish, or the powerful 

 and valiant bonefish, not to mention a 

 score of other finished fighters of the Gulf 

 Stream, to realize that he is called upon 

 to extend his every faculty and skill to 

 bring such game alongside as trophies of 

 his prowess. 



It would be interesting to have a mo- 

 tion-picture record of the thoughts which 

 flash through the mind of even an ex- 

 perienced inland fisherman the first time 

 he feels the tiger-like swoop of a five- foot 

 barracuda, the yank of a hundred-pound 

 amber jack, or the sullen surge of a big 



