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Michigan, continues the good work of protection with 
accustomed vigor. During the month of April his de- 
partment brought 105 cases and secured the unusual 
number of ninety-three convictions, probably the largest 
number of cases and the greatest percentage of convic- 
tions ever had by a game warden in one month in any 
State in the Union. During that month illegal nets to 
the value of $40,000 were seized, and twenty commercial 
fishermen were convicted. It would appear that Mr. 
Osborn was having a busy day, yet he finds time mean- 
while to run a daily newspaper and conduct an active 
canvass as a candidate for Congress. It is the busiest 
men who always have time to do something. 
Mr. W. D. Boyce, a prominent yachtsman and sports- 
man of Chicago, is lying at home this week in a darkened 
room, threatened with loss of his eyesight, in conse- 
quence of an attack of some obscure but dangerous dis- 
ease of the eye, which once or twice before has come 
upon him. His friends hope fdr his safe and speedy 
recovery. E. Hough. 
J 206 Boyoic Building, Chicago. 
THE AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY. 
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the American Fish- 
eries Society was held in the Aquarium at Battery Park, 
New York city, on Wednesday last and continued on a 
steamboat to Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, on Thurs- 
day. The following members were present: J. E. 
Gunckel, Toledo, O. ; F. J. AmBden and C. H. Babcock, 
Rochester, N. Y; B. L. Dournedoure and Dr. B. W. 
James, Philadelphia; T. E. Crossman, H. B. Mansfield, 
U.SN., and Fred Mather, Brooklyn; G. E. Jennings, E. 
P. Doyle and T. H. Bean, New York city; J. A. Dole and 
Louts Struber, York, Pa, ; E. Thompson, Northport, N. Y. ; 
F. B. Dickerson and Herschel Whitaker, Detroit, Mich. ; 
A. N. Cheney, Glens Falls, N. Y. ; B. H. Davis, Palmyra, 
N. Y; J. W. Titcomb, St. Johnsbury, Vt.; L. D. Hunting- 
ton, New Rochelle, N. Y, ; James Annin, Caledonia, N. Y; 
D. G. Hackney. Fort Plain, N. Y; H. P. Frothingham, 
Mt. Arlington, N. J. 
The meeting was called to order at 11 A. M,, and after 
a brief address by the president the following new mem- 
bers were elected: Hendrick S. Holden, Syracuse, N. Y,; 
C. H. Walters, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y; H. F. Emrick 
and Wm. Murdock, San Francisco; F. B. Dickerson, De- 
troit, Mich., and Bryant Walker, New York city. The 
treasurer reported that after all expenses of Jast meeting 
there was a balance of $141.32 in the treasury. The com- 
mittees for auditing accounts and nomination of officers 
were appointed and the reading of papers and their dis- 
cussion was begun. 
Mr. J. E. Gunckel read a paper on the life and services 
of the late Emory D. Potter, recounting his experiences 
in the then far West when he settled at Toledo, O., in 
1834, and five years later was elected Judge of the Court 
of Common Pleas for a district covering a large portion 
of the State, and often had to make long journeys on 
horseback and swim streams in order to attend sessions 
in backwoods places. He was a member of Congress in 
1843 and induced that body to reduce the postage on 
letters from 10 to 3 cents and to coin the 3-cent piece. 
About that time he became interested in the culture of 
trout through the experiments of Dr. Garlick and Prof. 
Ackley, and Mr. Gunckel said that he worked with them, 
a statement not borne out by J udge Potter himself. In 
later years he was an active member of the Ohio Fish 
Commission, and went afield with rod and gun when 
past 90 years of age. At the conclusion of the paper a 
committee was appointed to draft resolutions of respect 
for Judge Potter, and it was voted to insert a picture of 
him in the next report. 
Mr. Fred Mather read a paper on "Natural Food for 
Trout Fry," in which he detailed his experiments in try- 
ing to breed entomostraca for this purpose after the 
scheme of a fishculturist in Europe who has a secret plan 
which he has wished to sell and which attracted atten- 
tion in this country some years ago. Mr. Mather thinks 
the scheme impracticable and a long discussion followed. 
Mr. Whitaker pronounced the experiments to be of great 
importance and moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Mather. 
The plan was one, Mr. Whitaker thought, that the Gov- 
ernment should experiment with, and that it should also 
try to show if trout may be reared for market with profit. 
The old question of liver-fed trout for the table was 
argued at length, some contending that they are unfit for 
the table, and others that this is mere prejudice. The 
question of feeding meal to trout was brought up and the 
weight of evidence was that it was good for them, 
although the trials by Mr. Page failed with all species ex- 
cept the rainbow. Mr. Whitaker said that a man in 
Indiana had reared whitefish on mush. 
In the afternoon session the following officers were 
elected for the coming year: President, Herschel Whit- 
aker; Vice-President, B. W. James; Recording Secretary, 
A. N. Cheney; Corresponding Secretary, H. B. Mansfield; 
Treasurer, L. D Huntington; Executive Committee: H. 
C. Ford, W. L. May, J. W. Titcomb, T. H. Bean, F. B. 
Dickerson and J. E. Gunckel. It was voted that the next 
meeting be held at Detroit on June 17 and 18, 1897. 
Dr. T. H. Bean then read a paper which he had trans- 
lated from the French, entitled, "Pond Culture of Cali- 
fornia Salmon in France," written by Dr. Jousset de 
Bellesme, Peche et Pisciculteur, Brussels. This gave'an 
account of how salmon had not only been reared" in 
fresh-water ponds, but had spawned at three years old, 
and was a curiously interesting paper.- 
Mr. Whitaker spoke of carp and of the eulogy on 
them in the paper just read, and said that he thought 
them the most desirable of all foreign fish introduced 
here; the farmer made what he called a pond which the 
first freshet washed away and swept the carp into the 
Great Lakes, and now that the fishermen have robbed the 
lakes the carp are supplying their place, and hundreds of 
tons of them are sold and they are food for poor people; 
thus the carp are solving the problem of cheap food. 
Mr. A. N. Cheney read a paper giving statistics of the 
work of the New York Fish, Game and Forest Commis- 
sion. Dr. JameB followed with a paper on "Interstate 
Protection of Food Fish," and this was discussed at length. 
Mr. Whitaker declared that fish in the Great Lakes were 
being exterminated and that he knew of thousands of 
whitefish being sold which did not weigh a lib. eaGh, the 
size of the mesh being the only law. Mr. Amsden doubted 
if the United States had the power to interfere with the 
control of State waters. 
Mr. L. D. Huntington read a paper on the "Destruction 
of Food Fish in Salt Water," and scored the pound nets 
and menhaden factories which turn good edible fish into 
oil and guano. Mr. Fred Mather announced that he had 
been experimenting with the breeding of scallops, but the 
lateness of the hour prevented going into the subject, 
which he had fully written up for the August number of 
the Popular Science Monthly, but as time was short he 
merely gave this reference to it. 
Resolutions were adopted providing for a committee to 
be appointed by the president, to consist of one member 
from each of the Seaboard States, and another committee, 
made up of members from the States bordering on the 
Great Lakes, to whom should be referred with power the 
subject of Mr. Huntington's address. A third resolution 
was worded as follows: 
Resolved, That it is the sense of this Society that each 
State should provide in its constitution for a fish and game 
commission, and should also provide that no law should 
be passed prohibiting, permitting or regulating the catch- 
ing or possession of fish or game without the approval of 
such game and fish commission. 
A proposed visit to the Cold Spring Harbor hatching 
station on Thursday was prevented by the stormy 
weather. 
BOSTON ANGLERS. 
Boston, May 32.— Mr. N. Manson Jones is off for Camp 
Leatherstocking, Richardson Lake. He is accompanied 
by his friend R, H. Gilmore, of Cambridge. This is the 
first trip of the young men to the Rangeleys, though Mr. 
Jones has lived many trips in imagination from listening 
to his uncle, N. Manson, owner of Camp Leatherstocking. 
They will try fishing and camping for a couple of weeks, 
the sport being new to both. 
Mr. E, H. Wakefield, Jr., and Mr. John E. Devlin are 
back from Dan Hole Pond, Ossipee, N. H. They got no 
salmon, nor has any one else taken any number this sea- 
son up to this writing. Fishermen are at a loss to account 
for their ncn-appearanee this year. Mr. Devlin got a 
handsome si] ver trout, weighing 41bs. , however. Mr. John 
Campbell has a cottage at Newfound Lake, N. H. He is 
just back from a fishing trip there with a friend. They 
brought back a large trout weighing 144-lbs., which was 
shown in a window on State street for a day or two. Mr. 
D. H. Blanchard starts on a fishing trip to Lake Winni- 
piseogee on the 26th with his daughter. He is the guest 
of Mr. E, Rolin Jones and his family, at Camp Millstone. 
Mr. Jones has a private steamer also. 
There are numerous reports of good fishing at Moose- 
head, with a number of big lakers taken by Boston par- 
ties. Mr. L. H. Johnson sends in a report of a 141b. laker 
taken there on Wednesday. He also remarked that a 
good many brook trout or square tails are being taken, 
but the fly-fishing at that lake cannot be said to have be- 
gun at this writing. Several parties will be off about the 
28th and June 1 for this sport. These parties are glad 
when the trailers, as they are pleased to call them, are 
through. The claim set up by the fly fishermen is that 
trolling destroys a good deal of real sport that might bet- 
ter be had with the fly rod. 
It takes courage to tell the whole truth about a fishing 
trip, especially if one is badly defeated; but sometimes the 
truth will out, though the successes are told of with em- 
bellishment, while the defeats are never mentioned. Mr. 
Irving Powers and Eugene McDonald, of the Chamber of 
Commerce, have lately returned from a fishing trip to 
Lake Winnipiseogee. At about 3 o'clock in the morn- 
ing they were up and off for the lake, and were trolling 
by daylight. They fished all day long with not a bite. 
Another and a larger party has just returned from a 
rather unsuccessful fishing trip to New Hampshire. This 
party went into camp at Great East Pond, but had no par- 
ticular success in fishing. Mr. Harry Powers, with his 
wife, was in the party, and about a dozen other gentlemen 
and ladies. Tired of pond fishing, Mr. Powers with some 
of the others made a trip up over the Mountain Division of 
the Maine Central Railway, but found the brook fishing ex- 
ceedingly poor. Mr. Powers had visited a distant pond in 
that part of the country several years ago called Bean Pond. 
The fishing was excellent and the trout particularly fine. 
Anxiously he made a trip to the same pond the other day. 
Very few trout were taken. It seems that some one has 
been fishing in the winter there, and not only have the 
trout been badly fished out, but pails of live bait have 
been thrown into the pond till it is full of shiners. 
Mr. John G. Wright, with a couple of friends, has 
started for Weld Pond, in Maine, for another try at the 
landlocked salmon. Mr. C. Z. Basset, of Appleton & Bas- 
set, and his fishing friend, Mr. G. N. Smalley, left Bos- 
ton for Richardson Lake Thursday. They will go first to 
the Middle Dam, and will also try the early fly-fishing at 
B. Pond. These gentlemen have fished the Rangeleys to- 
gether for a good many seasons, and their success has 
generally been remarkably good. The largest fishing 
party of the season left Boston for Moosehead Friday 
evening. It is termed the Produce Party, for the reason 
that it includes so many men prominent in the produce 
and provision trades. The list includes L. E. Pierce, who 
is the principal factor of the company; Geo. A. Fales, 
James H. Davis, M. J. Conant, S. R. Ellis, F. H. Bowles, 
S. R. Beardsley. New York; W. F. Perkins, Boston; 
Thos. M. Deal, St. Albans, Vt., and C. W. Cheeney, of 
Boston. The party might seem too large, but it has a 
steamer engaged that is capable of carrying twice as 
many, and since all the fishing is done from canoes and 
boats taken out by the steamer, with guides and lunches, 
there is no crowding. Many of the gentlemen have 
annually fished Moosehead for several years. A party of 
prominent Boston merchants and professional men that 
has always heretofore visited Moosehead on a spring fish- 
ing trip will this year try the Rangeleys, starting about 
the 30th. The Camp Stewart Party, for Richardson 
Lake, is off, starting Thursday evening. This year the 
company includes Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Stearns, Mr. 
Geo. T. Freeman, Mr. H. S. Kempton and Mr. and Mrs. 
W. K. Moody. All of the above-named have fished that 
part of the Rangeleys for many seasons. It is about the 
twentieth annual trip of Mr. Moody, with two-thirds as 
many trip3 for Mrs. Moody, fully twenty trips for Mr. 
Freeman and at least a dozen to the credit of Mr. Kemp- 
ton. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns have also fished the same 
grounds a number of seasons. "Fish enough for the 
table" is the rule. But others fish there for count and to 
take back to city admiring friends. The mouth of Mill 
Brook was fished by a couple of men old enough to know 
better last year for several days and everything wen 
into the creel. Such conduct is discouraging to thos 
who for years have practiced returning every trout to the 
water of less than half a pound. 
The Boston & Maine Railroad is checking sportsmen's 
trout as baggage, the same as ever. The impression that 
this road was not doing so comes from the fact that the 
Union Station at Portland is partly controlled by the 
Maine Central as to baggage arrangements. On the con- 
trary, the Boston & Maine has issued special instructions 
to baggage masters to check sportsmen's effects up to 
1501bs., though plainly not wearing apparel or baggage in 
the real sense of the term. I am authorized to state, 
direct from the management, that it has no intention of 
issuing orders for discrimination against fish and game as 
baggage. Special. 
Boston, May 24.— Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Caswell, of Boston, 
have just returned from a week's fishing trip at Moose- 
head Lake. It was Mrs. Caswell's initial experience with 
rod and reel, and yet in this short period of seven days 
she has accomplished more than many veteran anglers 
succeed in doing. To land in eleven minutes a 71b. 6oz. 
lake trout on a 4ioz. neverbreak rod shows distinct ability 
as an angler, and it is an accomplishment that this lady 
may well be proud of. Mr. Caswell is an adept at fishing, 
and of course did well on this trip. A 4ilb. brook trout 
on the fly was one of his catches, and altogether they 
landed 1401ba. of trout (nearly all lakers) during their 
short outing. They were also treated to an unusual sight 
in seeing a bull and cow moose swimming close to the 
shore. Mr. Caswell says he approached them near 
enough to cast a fly on their backs had he wished to. 
L. D. Chapman and Horace S. Dame, of Dame, Stod- 
dard & Kendall's, and W. A. McLeod, of Boston, left on 
Wednesday evening for a ten days' trip over the Megantic 
preserve. « They will go in at the club house, thence down 
over the preserve to the different camps, coming out at 
Rangeley. While fishing is the main object of the trip, a 
general inspection of the camps, etc., preparatory to the 
opening of the season will be made by Mr. Chapman in 
his official capacity as secretary and treasurer of the 
club. 
P. B. Mansfield and J. M. Hoyt, of Lynn, and William 
Beggs, of Woburn, have just returned from a very suc- 
cessful trip to Grand Lake and stream. They have visited 
these waters each spring for five years, and with the ex- 
ception of the first year's trip pronounce the one just com- 
pleted the best they have made as to results. The fishing 
was exceptionally good. Mr. Mansfield, who delights in 
lake trout fishing, landed one of ll^lbs. and another of 
lO^lbs. A number of salmon and brook trout were also 
taken by the party. They report that fly fishing was just 
beginning as they left. 
Not many New England anglers who live west or south 
of Boston fail to stop in that city on their way to Maine, 
to add something to their equipment for the trip. A New 
Haven party, consisting of Geo. N. Bulley, Jas. C. Kerrigan 
and C. H. Conway, followed the usual plan the other day 
and stopped over long enough to tell me that they were 
bound for a three weeks' trip into the Rangeley region. 
They expect to go up Kennebago stream and over into the 
Dead River country, and have promised to tell me of their 
luck when on their homeward journey. 
F. J. Baker, J. Guild and Maj. Greenough, of Boston, 
leave next Wednesday for their camp near Moosehead. 
They have been going to one place up there for years bu 
I have never learned its exact location. It is sufficient to 
know that they always express themselves as well satis 
fied on their return, and depart each succeeding year wit 
renewed enthusiasm. It is not a bad idea to play solitair 
with a good location in these modern days, when the ever 
increasing crowd of anglers are peering into every brook 
and pond, ready to drop a line at the least indication of 
fish life. 
That misfortunes never come singly is once more proven 
by the experiences of the Inglewood Fishing Club during 
the last two or three months. Within that time the club 
house has been destroyed by fire, the vice-president has 
died, and now to crown it all word has just been received 
that the club superintendent and game warden, George 
Teare, and one of their best guides were drowned a few 
days ago. The particulars of the sad event are given in a 
letter just received by a club member. It seems that the 
two men had gone down to the foot of the lake, intending 
to return in the evening by canoe. It is a long paddle of 
five miles to the club house, and when darkness settled 
down they made preparations for the return trip. A 
strong gale was blowing at the time and they were ad- 
vised not to venture out, but would not listen, and started 
away, little thinking of the terrible fate so soon to over- 
take them. Worried about their non-arrival at the club 
house, the guests started out in the morning, and in a 
short time found the overturned canoe, which established 
beyond doubt the story of their fate. The guide's body 
was first recovered, but it took a long time to find that of 
Mr. Teare. Both men were good swimmers, but encum- 
bered as they were with heavy clothing could do nothing 
in the rough water to save their lives. It is only two 
more names to add to the long list of those who have met 
the same fate on our inland lakes through an over- 
confidence in their ability to ride out any Btorm in the 
little cockle shells so much used on all these bodies of 
water. A large party of Inglewood members will leave 
for the preserve next week and this unfortunate event 
will cast a gloom over their pleasure. The party will 
leave on Wednesday morning, the 27th inst., on the St. 
John steamer, and those who will go are Samuel Shaw, 
Henry B. ;Pierce, A. W. Strauss, John F. Blinn, Charles 
Brigham, S. Fred. Hicks, Herbert Sparrow, Albion Brown, 
Harry B. Moore, John Evans and E. Noyes Whitcomb, all 
of Boston, and George Moore, of Chelmsford, Mass. They 
will be away two weeks, and in that time hope to fish all 
the best waters on the preserve. 
A strong party of Brockton people, in which are an 
unusual number of ladies, leave Boston on May 27 for a 
fishing trip into Maine. Among tbem are Mr. and Mrs. 
W. F. Field, Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. 
C. F. Porter and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Thomp- 
son, and Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Crawford and daughter. 
They will go first to the Kmeo House at Moosehead, then 
to the north carry and to the Katahdin region, and will be 
away three or four weeks. Last year this same party- 
visited Moosehead, and on the first day's fishing landed 
102ibs. of square-tail trout. It speaks well for the endur- 
ance and pluck of the.Brockton ladies that so many will 
undertake such a hard trip. It would be well if there 
were more of the gentler sex given to recreation in the 
woods. 
