May s, 1900,] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
863 
Messrs. Kit Clarke and son, R. N. Arkenburgh, W. H. 
.WQod, Hoke Smith, E. D. Carpenter, Wm. P. Ketcham, 
Chas. F. Rowe, E. P. Davis, Nat. Rogers, W. Granville 
Smith, J. Arthur Jackson, M. D., Clarence A. Benedict, 
Dr. W. E. Halsey, J. C. Franklin, P. A. Whitney, E. J. 
Wingert, C. N. Wingert, W. C. Strohmeyer, J. C. Faulk- 
ner, J. F. McClure, N. F. Hoggson, James Brite, Reu- 
ben Arkush and Joseph Bijut. From Philadelphia- 
Messrs. George Shaw, A. W. Shields, Edw. Durban, Jos. 
K. Inslee, Geo. P. Goldsmith and J. Harry Hall. 
Massachusetts Trout Hatcheries. 
State Fish Commissioner Delano, of Boston, left 
town to-day, after spending the week at the State trout 
hatchery at Hadley. His visit was to prepare for a new 
departure in trout culture for Massachusetts. Heretofore 
this State, with others, has attempted to restock its 
streams with trout by artificially raising trout till they 
are about an inch long, and then putting them into the 
brooks. Henceforth the State is to keep the trout till they 
are a year old, and then put them into the brooks. 
This means much greater expense to feed and care for 
the trout. 
The advantage to be gained by putting out yearling 
trout is hoped to be the escape of the enemies of the 
trout in its first year. When very young they get into 
shallow and still water, where frogs, snakes, rats, birds 
and other fish eat them. It is thought not one three- 
months-old trout in twenty lives in a brook to become a 
year old, because of its enemies other than man. 
Mr. Delano has built five pens below the pond at the 
State hatchery, each about 20 by 5 feet long and supplied 
with water and gates to regulate the flow of water. Each 
pen is to hold about 2 feet of water, and here the State 
is to begin the experiment of growing trout to the age of 
yearlings for stocking purposes. 
The State has rented for a year the George Morton 
place, next below the hatchery, on the same side of the 
bay road, and here the guardian of the fish hatchery will 
live. A man will come from Boston next week to occupy 
this place, whose sole duties will be to feed and care for 
the trout and protect them from being stolen. 
It has been known to a few men in this city since last 
fall that the State suspected that trout were being stolen 
from the pond, but all parties have kept quiet, in the 
hopes of catching some one fishing there nights. But it 
has taken just two years for the State to discover that 
4,000 pond trout could not safely be left to themselves in 
a pond a fifth of a mile from a house. 
The 4,000 trout had last fall dwindled to about 1,000, 
and now they think still more have gone. 
It is suspected that some of the large trout in the 
State pond have been brought to this city and sold this 
spring. The trout are kept in a pond about 200 feet long 
by 150 wide, and they will bite at anything. Throw in a 
handful of grass and a couple of bushels of trout weighing 
from to 3 pounds will come tumbling ud for it. This 
has been too great a temotation for some Hadley people, 
and they have undoubtedly gone there nights and fished 
out hundreds of pounds. There are a thousand trout 
left, and a good many of them will weigh 2 pounds. 
The hatchery has 220.000 three-months-old trout which 
will be put in the brooks next week, or ten days earlier 
than last year, when it was thought the weather was too 
warm for the safe transportation of the fry. 
The pond where the old trout are and the nens where 
the yearlings are to be grown will hereafter be watched 
nightly. A small house has been built close to the edge of 
the pond, where the watchman can sit and \\t\v the whole 
site, and a charge of shot from the little hon^e would 
reach a man at any snnt on the premises. — Hampshire 
Gazette. Northampton, Mass., April 21. 
Western Waters. 
Chicago, April 20. — Editor Forest and Stream: The* 
brook trout season for 1900 has opened up in Wiscon- 
sin, April IS being opening day in that State. Not many 
trout were taken, however, with the fly, as it is too early 
for good flj'^-casting. 
The Michigan season opens May i, and even that is too 
earljr for good fly-fishing, which is the only real way to 
catch brook trout. When the Season embraces only three 
montlis, from May 15 till Aug. 15, and all trout must be 
taken on a fly-hook, all trout less than 7 inches in length 
to be returned to the stream, then will the era of pros- 
perity as regards brook trout be a fact 
Prairie River, Wisconsin, is an ideal early season fi\- 
casting trout stream. Thirty-five miles of splendid open 
stream, easy to wade, wide enough for two anglers to 
cast, side by side, and plenty of trout, ranging from 6 
inches to 3 pounds each. 
I generally fish this stream near Dudley, Wis., where 
good accommodations can be secured, and the fishing is 
good, especially in May and June. There are two grand 
trout streams in Colorado which, will afford a fly-fisher- 
man all the sport he craves. • 
The Conejos River, near Aritonito, Colo., is alive with 
large trout, but the angler must go prepared to camp. 
Go to Antonito, a small town on the Denver & Rio 
Grande R. R., and go up stream about eighteen miles 
from town — say in June — and if you know how to cast a 
fly you can capture trout ranging from 10 inches to 
4 pounds. 
I like to fish a certain reach of the Rio Grande River, 
Colo., near Wagon Wheel Gap, in June. Seven miles 
down stream, from the Gap, is John Haney's ranch, 
through which the Rio Grande River flows, and Mr. 
Haney has four rriiles of protected fishing," for which he 
charges a small fee of 25 cents per day, allowing the angler 
to use his cottage for same price per day, the occupant to 
feed himself. The Denver & Rio Grande R. R. officials 
are very obliging, and will stop their trains at any point 
along the river to allow anglers to get oiif or on the cars. 
The trout run very large along John Haney's nart of 
the river, and Mr. Edward B. Linnon, of Santa Fe. and 
myself have taken 4d pounds of large trout from one 
bend of tlie stream, in a f«nv hours' fishing. The cow 
duns! harkle. grav hackle, brown hackle and coachman 
are best flies for these Colorado streams. 
I hooked a large trnnt — from 6 to 8 oound« — in a 
certfin pool fn the Rio Grande .River last September and 
lost him. The following Saturday I hopkeli him again an'd 
he got away with my leader. Then John Haney hooked 
him, with the same result. Mr. Ernest Osgood, of Pueblo, 
Colo., got a strike from one of these big trout, and he 
said it really scared him, it made such a splash. 
Mr. A. D. Wentz. traffic manager of the Rock Island 
Road, and myself, intend to have a try for this big 
trout next June, and I'm going prepared to give him 300 
feet of line, if necessary, I put my fly rapidly down upon 
the surface of the water from ten to twenty times in quick 
succession, then place it gently on the water, above the 
previously agitated water, and allow it to float over the 
pool, and it seems to make the big trout mad, for I get 
many strikes by fishing in this manner, after orthodox 
angler has done his thistledown act and gone on down 
stream. Edward G. Taylor. 
Fbcttffcs. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 13.— Chatham, Ont.— Twelfth annual field trials of the In- 
ternational Field Trials Club. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Nov. IS.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trials Club s twenty- 
second annual field trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield Hill, 
Conn, . 
Continental Field Trials Club. 
Greenfield Hill, Conn., April 25. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: At the annual meeting of the Continental Field 
Trials Club, held in Madison Square Garden, Feb. 22, the 
following officers were elected : Mr. Hobart Ames, Presi- 
dent; Ed. Dexter and Edm. H. Osthaus, Vice-Presidents, 
and Theo Sturges, Secretary-Treasurer. 
It was decided to hold the sixth annual trials at New- 
ton. N. C, beginning with the Members' Stake, Nov. 30; 
the Derby to begin Dec. 3. to be followed by the All-Age 
Stake, after wh'ch the Continental Free-for-All Subscrip- 
tion Stake will be run. 
This is a new stake, taking the place of the old sub- 
scription, and promises to be a great success. 
Theo Sturges, Sec'y-Treas. 
A Sixteenth Century Dog Story Retold. 
Bethlehem, Pa., April 24, — Editor Forest and Stream: 
In a recent issue a correspondent tells a tale of_ a dog 
which was frozen on point, but according to a friend of 
mine he once owned a still more wonderful dog._ As he 
was walking through a crowded thoroughfare in New 
Orleans with his favorite Gordon setter, Don, the_ dog, 
made a beautiful stand. His master did not notice it 
until he had gone about 20 yards, when he whistled, but 
old Don was making the stanchest kind of a point and 
wouldn't budge. My friend, knowing the dog as he did, 
went back to investigate, and after some search he found 
a door plate with "A. Partridge" on it. 
Blue Ribbon. 
The Kentucky Field Trials Club. 
Louisville, Ky., April 21. — At a meeting of the Board 
of Directors of the Kentucky Field Trials Club, held on 
the i6th inst., the popular and efhcient secretary of the 
club, Mr. Herman D. Newcomb, tendered his resignation 
as secretary, which was accepted by the board with much 
regret, Mr. Newcomb's enforced absence from town was 
the cause of his resignation. In his stead Mr. Barret 
Gibson was elected, and all future communications for the 
club should be addressed to him at No. 62 Louisville 
Trust Company, Louisville, Ky. 
Barret Gibson, Sec'y-Treas. 
Edward E. Chase — Cover neur Kortright. 
Within the past week the New York Y. C. has lost two 
of its older and more prominent members — Edward E. 
Chase and Governeur Kortright. Mr. Chase, who was 
born in Rhode Island in 1840, enlisted as a young man in 
the Union Army and served through the Rebellion, spend- 
ing a 3''ear and a half in a Southern prison. After the 
war he settled in New York, and for years had been 
well knowm as a broker. He retired from business a few 
y^ars ago. At one time he owned the schooner Clytic; he 
vva? \ !ce-commodore in 1884, and he had served on many 
corriT'iuttees. 
Mr. Kortright, who built the sloop Wizard and also 
owned other yachts, was a New York man, born in 1854, 
and for many years a member of the club. He was chair- 
man of the Regatta Committee in 1887, during the Thistle- 
Volunteer match, and he was one of the fram.ers of the 
new deed of gift. He had been seriously ill for several 
years. 
Protection and Salvation. 
We copy the following obituary from the Marine 
Journal : 
After eighty-six years, a large part of which was 
spent on the wrong side of the shipping question, Capt. 
John Codman has paid his last debt, and we hope has 
gone where everything is as free as he would have had 
ships during his life time. There is no man in the United 
States who has blocked the progress of the advancement 
of the merchant marine in the foreign trade more effectu- 
ally for half a centurs'. than John Codman. There is no 
doubt that he was conscientious in his belief, being made 
so largely through having been well to do, and conse- 
quently free to advocate experiments in a business in 
which he spent his early life. We had occasion in last 
week's issue to refer to him in connection with his articles 
against the present Shipping Bill in the New York Times. 
In looking over the article we are pleased to find that 
our language was temperate. 
Let us hope that this misguided mariner in his endeavor 
to kill protection on all American industries durine his 
natural life did not prejudice his chances in the hereafter. 
.The iatp Capt Codman was a man of broad and liberal 
ideas, well educated in his youth and with his mind 
enlarged by travel in all parts of the earth; he was :i 
writer of no mean ability, and his personal qualities en- 
deared him to all who knew him. It is sad to think thai 
if the Marine Journal is right, all this goes for nothing 
and. he is doomed to eternal punishment because he did 
not believe in the doctrines of protection and subsidy. 
The a. C. A. Year Book will be out very shortly un- 
less a delay occurs through the failure of the division 
pursers to send in their lists in time. Com. MacKendrick, 
who is attending to the book himself, has sefcured over 
$750 of advertising for it. 
The annual meet of the British C. A. will be held at 
Warsash, on the Hamble River, near Southampton, Eng., 
from July 28 to Aug, 18. 
The officers of the Atlantic Division have nearlv ready 
for distribution a very full and complete circular in 
pamphlet form, giving all needed information as to the 
annual cruise and division meet from May 26 to 30, on the 
Delaware River. 
We have received from Mr. Edward B. Carney, Vesper 
B, C, a description of parts of the Connecticut River, with 
special maps, which we will publish shortly. 
The new move of the Brooklyn C. C. promises to be a 
most' important one both for the club itself and for 
canoeing about New York. For some years, in fact since 
the New York C. C. left Staten Island and the once active 
Knickerbockers and lanthes ceased to visit New York 
Bay, the Brooklyn C. C. has been isolated at Bay Ridge, 
dependent on itself. By good luck it has now secured a 
favorable location on Gravesend Bay, superior in itself to 
the old one and near enough to the New York C. C. to 
revive a friendly rivalry that should be of mutual benefit. 
It will now be possible for each club to attend the races 
of the other, and as Greater New York is fully large 
enough to supoort the two clubs, the interclub racing 
should help to build up both. 
The lines which we publish this week show exactly 
what the Royal C. C. has accompli^ihed in its new 
"cruising class," a type infinitely superior to that U'jw 
existing in this country in the shape of Mab and a few 
other hiking machines. Greatly as she differs from the 
old 16 x 30 canoe, Vanessa is a fine little ship, with 
many of the charms which attach to th° canoe as dis- 
tinguished from the catboat and small sloop yacht. I:i 
spite of her added dimensions she is evidently adapted for 
much of the work done bv the old tvoe of canoes, that on 
New York Bay. the Sound and similar ouen waters in par- 
ticular. The entire absence of the sliding seat in itself a 
most awkward and lubberly contrivance at all time« when 
the canoe is not actualh' under way with her crew hiking, 
is a very strong point in favor of the added breadth. 
At the present time the racing season has been open in 
British waters for nearly two months, and some good 
races have been sailed. On this side, with a warm and 
early spring and the best of fine weather, there has thus far 
been no canoe racing, nor is there a prospect of any in 
the near future. Some time along in August the racing 
sharps will wake up, as they did last year, to the fa"t 
that the winter is over, the trophy race will be sailed in 
a few days, and they have not yet tried their boats. 
Com. M.^cKendrick has prepared a circular descriptive 
of the coming meet, copies of which to any desired number 
will be sent in bulk to any canoe club which will mail them 
to its members. 
The Central Division, as stated elsewhere, will hold a 
Division meet on Irondequoit Bay in June. As the ar- 
rangements are in the hands of Vice-Com. Wright, the 
meet is likely to be a success, and the venture should 
have the hearty support of every canoeist in New York 
State. 
The Central Division Meet. 
The following circular has been sent out by Vice-C©m. 
Wright : 
THIS WILL INTEREST YOU- PLE.\SE READ IT. 
Rochester, N. Y., May i, 1900. 
For some years past it has been the custom of each of 
the Divisions of the A. C. A., with the exception of the 
Central, to hold Division meets. Here's to 1900! We 
will try our hand. 
I have made arrangements for a meet, to be held June 
9, 10 and ij (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) at Stony 
Point Cove, on Irondequoit Bay, a beautiful sheet of 
watelr, on whose shores are located the homes of the 
Rochester and Irondequoit canoe clubs, seven miles from 
the city of Rochester. 
In order to make it easy for every one who nny 
attend from out of town, tents, cots and blankets will be 
provided by the home clubs and meals furnished for -25 
cents each meal. Live and hustling entertainment an-1 
regatta committees will guarantee that the three day--' o-m - 
ing will be a most enjoyable one. The open canoe saiH.ng 
race for the elegant Central Division, cup (a bronze one 
which cost $250) will take place at this time, so if you 
want to try' for it, of course it will be bsst to have your 
own canoe. Full moon occurs at the time of the mef f and 
our fleet of yachts and canoes will be placed at the dis- 
posal of the visitors. We are anxious to have the ladies 
attend, and they will be made comfortable at the club 
houses. 
I should like very much your attendance and assi.stance 
in makine thi= one of the mn^t successful Division meets 
ever held. Further particulars will be sent when I 
hear from you. Let me have your ideas on the subject. 
May I count on you? 
Yours very truly. ^• 
,v _ . _ . JoHw S. WwGHT, Vice-Com. 
