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eels, bass, mackarel, gnsperot" (probably gaspereau), 
"herrings, poisson d'or, or gold fish, chad" (probably 
shad), cod, haddock, pike, turbot, halibut, plaice, lam- 
prey, sprat, perch, ray or thornback, a particular species 
of tench, cougar or couger, smelt, roach. The lakes 
abound with sturgeon, armed fish, divers sorts of trouts 
and eels, whitefish, a species of herring, mullet, carp, gul- 
fish, gudgeons and an infinite number of other sorts, whose 
names are not known to any Europeans." 
There is little doubt but that the truites saumonees 
mentioned by the Frenchman to^ Knox is not the fish so 
named by modern anglers as a supposed special variety of 
sea trout, but the so-called salmon trout of American and 
Canadian lakes, the Christivomer namaycush, or great lake 
trout. Knox quotes the. Jesuit Father Hennepin as say- 
ing that he had seen salmon trout taken out of the Cana- 
dian lakes, "sixty pounds weight, five feet and a half in 
length, and about one foot diameter, red and firm as a 
salmon," etc. Father Hennepin's writings are marked by 
many notorious inaccuracies, not the least noteworthy of 
which is the statement that a sixty-pound lake trout meas- 
ured five and a half feet long. 
I have been trying to make out what fish in the St. 
Lawrence Knox and his French informant could have 
mistaken for the tropical gold fish. Sometimes specimens 
of the pike-perch, dore or pickerel — Stizostedium vitreum 
— taken in the waters of the St. Lawrence, are wonder- 
fully golden or dore in hue, and it is possible that they 
may have suggested the name "golden" to the early Eng- 
lish residents in Canada, as they did the French equiva- 
lent to the early immigrants from the continent of Europe. 
E. T. D. Chambers. 
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Mr. Cleveland's Little Bass. 
Boston, Jan. 25. — The office of the Massachusetts Fish 
and Game Commission has added to its interesting col- 
lection a black bass the whole of yYz inches in length. 
Ex-President Cleveland, with his friend, Dr. Bryant, of 
New York, and a farmer, were fishing from a boat on 
a lake in Monteray, one hot day last summer. The 
fishing was certainly poor, but after many hours Mr. 
Cleveland or Dr. Bryant caught the little bass now in 
the possession of the commission. The little trophy 
hardly came up to the requirements of the law, and some 
native, on the watch, told two of the deputies that if 
they desired to secure evidence of bass being taken under 
the legal length, they should follow a boat containing 
"a very fat man in a straw hat" and two others. The 
deputies overhauled the boat and asked the corpulent 
"old farmer," as they supposed, to show them the fish 
he had taken. Mr. Cleveland readily complied, though 
not very proud of his catch. The deputies, when they 
saw the little specimen, told the fishermen tbat they had 
broken the law, and asked who had taken the fish. Both 
the ex-President and Dr. Bryant claimed that they had 
caught the specimen; the worthy Doctor anxious to 
shield his friend, and mistrusting that the men werc- 
wardens. Mr. Cleveland insisted that the boat and the 
tackle were his, and that he alone was responsible. He 
told the wardens to do their duty, and that he was ready- 
to pay } whatever fines the law required. The shock was 
something to the deputies when they inquired the name 
of the "fat man" they were troubling, and when told that 
it was Grover Cleveland, of Princeton, N. J., they de- 
sired to "back out," but Mr. Cleveland is said to have in- 
sisted upon appearing in court next day and paying the 
requisite fine and cost. Hence came the little bass, 
mounted and in the archives of the commission. 
Special. 
Michigan Bass and Spears. 
Port Huron, Mich., Jan. 25. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: I inclose you clipping from the local newspaper, 
showing that at least one of our deputy game wardens 
is awake and looking after the interests of the game and 
fish in his section of the country: 
"Joseph Lapanse, of Algonac, was brought to Port 
Huron on Thursday and will spend ten days in the 
county jail. Mr. Lapanse was arrested by Deputy Game 
Warden Fred H. Fisher, for spearing bass in St. Clair 
River. He considers the punishment severe for the 
offense committed." 
Large numbers of bass are speared every winter at the 
St. Clair Flats, the ice on Anchor Bay being covered with 
small huts, for the protection of the fishermen during the 
ice season. The netting in Black River and Mill Creek- 
is practically at an end, owing to the scarcity of fish, the 
majority of those planted a few years ago having been 
murdered by the seiners. 
I spent two days on the above-named streams last fall, 
with the result of one small bass, where, three years ago, 
twenty fine bass, averaging from a pound to three pounds 
and a half, would be the reward of the "patient angler." 
Large numbers of wall-eyed pike are being caught 
through the ice on Sarnia Bay and along the docks 
H, D. K.- 
Fred Mather's Angling Friends. 
From the New York Times' Saturday Review. 
Among the many categories into which men are divided for the 
nonce in this kaleidoscopic world, none is pleasanter than that of 
comrades in sport. Campaigners who remain together must neces- 
sarily be chums, and the recounting of their adventures is tre- 
mendously interesting to themselves because every story relates a 
case of pars quorum fuit. With the easy garrulity which comes of 
the choicest of such experiences, both of campaigning and com- 
radeship Mr. Mather returns again to the reminiscences of angling 
and anglers, which he began in "Men I Have Fished With." This 
he does with the same hearty and genial and copious pen, and the 
present book will be as welcome to the vast mutual admiration 
society of fishermen, as was the last. It has a wider interest too, 
for Mathers twenty friends" include men whose importance and 
f e P ut ation a good deal wider than even the cast of their skill- 
fully flung flies, and the future biographer and local historian may 
thankfully search these pages for facts, and color upon the lives of 
such men a s President Arthur, Grand Duke Alexis, Congress- 
man Cummings, Ned Bunthne, Charles Hallock, and Thad Norris 
fiowever, the book is not to be read that way, but on a porch in 
a summer afternoon, or m the easy chair before your fire with 
your pipe well going and your mind ready to drift away on the 
waters of Currituck or Great South Bay, or to trace the rushing 
torrents of Canada and Michigan and the Adirondacks, till your 
creel will hold no more, and your appetite is worth all it has cost 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 4-6.— Providence, R. I.— Rhode Island Kennel Club's annual 
show. George D. Miller, Sec'y. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Jan. 20.— Grand Junction, Tenn.— United States Field Trial 
Club's thirteenth annual trials. W. B. Stafford, Sec'y. 
Feb. 10.— Grand Junction, Tenn.— Continental Field Trial Club's 
trials. Theo. Sturges, Sec'y. 
Field Trial Club Election, 
At the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Field 
Trials Club, held at Santa Maria on Thursday night, 
the following officers were elected to serve for the 
ensuing year: President, Joseph E. Terry, of Sacra- 
mento; First Vice-President, W. W. Van Arsdale, of 
San Francisco; Second Vice-President, Henry W. 
Keller, of Santa Monica: Secretary-Treasurer, Albert 
Betz, of San Francisco. Executive Committee: J. H. 
Schumacher, C. N. Post, W. S. Tevis, C. E. Worden, 
T. J. A. Tiedemann. It was decided to hold the next 
annual trials during the week beginning the second 
Monday in January, 1903, on grounds to be selected by 
the Executive Committee later on. During the meeting 
the subject of permanent grounds came up for much dis- 
cussion, and the Exeutive Committee was especially ad- 
vised to try and procure such a preserve before the next 
triak. F. J. Stone, G. H. Anderson and R. L. Jones 
were elected members of the club. A special vote' of 
thanks was tendered to Judge John A. Balmer for his 
conscientious efforts and fair decisions in the trials just 
ended. No members' stake took place on Thursday, as 
the owners did not care to tax their dogs with a two 
hours' heat, which would have been necessary in that 
event. Instead, almost all of the sportsmen went hunting 
and fine bags of quail were the order of the day, as the 
country there is teeming with those game birds. — Breeder 
and Sportsman. 
Philadelphia Dog Show Association. 
At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Dog Show 
Association the following officers were unanimously re- 
elected: Clement B. Newbold, President: Edward Moore 
Robinson, Alexander Van Rensselaer and Louis A. Bid- 
die, Vice-Presidents; Marcel A. Viti, Secretary; S. Boyd 
Carrigan, Treasurer, and Francis Edward Bond, C. Le- 
land Harrison, Sidney W. Keith, D. Murray Boh len, 
Mitchell Harrison, C. Hartman Kuhn, Jay B. Lippincott, 
George R. Packard, Reginald K. Shober, J. Sergeant 
Price, Jr., Robert Toland and Henry Jarret, Bench 
Show Committee. 
The Fourth Annual International Show will be held 
upon November 26, 27, 28 and 29. 
Bear and For Bear. 
Barre, Vt., Jan. 20.— Kindly favor me space to pro- 
pound the following inquiry: Will someone who has had 
experience in hunting the black bear with dogs give the 
method of pursuit? What breeds of dogs are best? Is 
one dog sufficient for successful hunting? State if hunt- 
ing is best on bare ground or snow. When the bear is 
started does it run long before making a stand or tree- 
ing? Any other information thereon will be appreciated. 
• B. A. E. 
ffzehting. 
Designing Competition. * 
In view of the continued and increasing interest in 
yachting, a designing competition will be opened in the 
columns of Forest and Stream. In America the yacht- 
ing season is comparatively a short one, and such a com- 
petition as has been determined upon will serve to stimu- 
late the interest in the subject during the winter months. 
The competition is open to both amateur and professional 
designers.- Three prizes will be given for the best de- 
signs of a yacht conforming to the following conditions : 
I. A pole mast sloop. 
II. 25ft. load waterline 
III. Not over 4ft. draft (with centerboard hoisted). 
IV. At least 50 per cent, of ballast outside on keel. 
V. 5ft. headroom under cabin carlins. 
All abnormal features must be studiously avoided in 
the design; and the construction, sail and cabin plans 
should be of the simplest character. It was our idea in 
laying out the conditions of the competition to make them 
simple as possible, so as not to hamper in any way 
the designer, and yet convey to all that we wished to 
produce a safe, comfortable cruiser on which two or 
three amateurs could live with comfort for a period of 
two or three months and cruise along our eastern sea- 
board from New York to Halifax with safety. A center- 
board boat of moderate draft was decided upon, as so 
many more harbors would be accessible to a boat of that 
type. 
drawings required. 
I. Sheer plan, scale iin. = ift.— showing center of 
buoyancy and lateral resistance. 
II. Half breadth, scale iin. = ift. 
III. Body plan, scale iin == ift. 
IV. Cabin plan, scale iin. = ift. 
V. Sail plan, J^in. = ift., showing center of effort. 
The sails should consist of a jib, mainsail, spin- 
naker and balloon jib. No topsail will be carried. 
A table of offsets and an outline specification must 
accompany each design. The drawings should be care- 
fully drawn and lettered. All drawings should be made 
on white paper or tracing cloth in black ink (no colored 
inks or pigments should be used). The designs must 
bear a nom-de-plume only and no indication must be 
given of the author. In a sealed envelope, however, the 
designer should inclose his own name and address] to- 
gether with his fiom-de-plume. All designs must be re- 
ceived at the office of the Forest and Stream Publishing 
Company, 346 Broadway, New York City, not later than 
Feb. 28, 1902. All drawings will be returned, but postage 
should accompany each. 
The Forest and Stream reserves the right to publish 
any or all the designs. 
The prizes offered are as follows: 1st prize, $25.00; 
2d prize, $15.00 ; 3d prize, $10.00. Mr. Theodore C. Zerega 
offers an additional prize of $10.00 for the best cabin plan. 
Honorable mention will also be made of meritorious 
designs. 
Mr. Clinton H. Crane, of the firm of Messrs. Tams, 
Lemoine & Crane, has kindly consented to judge the 
designs and make the awards. Mr. Crane's professional 
standing is so high that he needs' no introduction, and 
every confidence will be put in his ability and fairness. 
Our English Letter. 
The announcement that Prince Henry, of Prussia, is 
to become the guest of the President on the occasion 
of the launch of H. I. M. the German Emperor's new 
schooner, has excited some interest over here. Prince 
Henry is very well known among English yachtsmen, 
and is very popular. The Hohenzollern will excite a little 
surprise when she is first seen in New York. She is a 
niagnificent ship, but very far removed from the ordinary 
idea of a royal yacht. 
What the Emperor intends to do with the new 
schooner is not certain. One who may be thought likely 
to know, told me, in answer to the question a few days 
since, that "if she turned out fast he would race her, and 
if not she would be a cruiser." That, perhaps, is a safe 
prediction. The Emperor is very pleased to race a win- 
ning yacht, even if it be in handicap matches, and he sets 
special value on Royal Yacht Squadron King's Cups, 
which are open only to members of the club, and are 
always Sailed under a handicap, a very mixed lot always 
entering. All the same, His Majesty is deeply interested 
in making the sport popular in Germany. He is, indeed, 
far more in sympathy with his navy than with the army, 
though compelled by his position to care for the army 
before all things. 
On the 13th inst. took place the death of Mr. William 
Fife, Sr., after an illness of three days, and at the great 
age of 84. His father originiated the celebrated Fairlie 
firm of yacht builders, but it was the late Mr. Fife that 
gave it a world-renowned fame. A genius for yacht de- 
signing runs in the family, but it can hardly ever be more 
pronounced than in the case of the old man. He was in 
his day a master of the craft, and to the last he was as 
good a judge of a model as lives. His greatest work was 
done in the days when a model served for the design, 
and yet he was able, until he gave all designing over to 
his son, to .successfully compete with those trained in 
scientific methods. It is no secret that he held the type 
of racing yacht in vogue during the past ten years in some 
contempt, and strongly felt that any taxation of sail is 
a mistake. The Fairlie yard, of which so much has been 
written, is one of the most striking instances of staunch 
conservatism possible to find. Until within the last six 
years or so, not a vestige of a "yard" was visible. All 
the great yachts that had made their names famous, and 
all the fine cruisers, had simply been built on the shore. 
No shed, nothing to indicate a flourishing business, was 
visible. As the grandfather started, so the son went on. 
and it was long before even the grandson could bring 
about any change. The astonishment of strangers who 
visited Fairlie used to be extreme when they found this 
state of .things. Yet the old boats built there were won- 
ders. Two years ago the writer bought an old Fife boat 
of 45 tons. She was over fifty years of age, and yet she 
held a class at Lloyds! 
Mr. J. R. Drexel has flatly contradicted the story that 
Mr. G. L. Watson is designing a 2,500-ton steam yacht 
for him. The lie originated in Glasgow, and as the peo- 
ple of that city are actually thinking of running street cars 
on Sundays, I am afraid that a national backsliding is 
setting in. 
The Saunders Patent Launch Company has opened a 
branch at Kiel, Germany. The boats built by this firm 
are remarkable. They are in two, three or four thick- 
nesses of skin, and between each skin is a thin water- 
proof material. The skins are stitched with wire, the 
stitching starting at one gunwale, under the boat and up 
on the opposite side. Nothing can possibly be stronger. 
A gentleman who bought one of the launches for the 
smooth water of the Thames, took it up this summer and 
used it m some wild weather on a Scotch Loch. He told 
me that she could go out when he dare not venture with 
a Watson-designed boat, and she got such knocking 
about that at the end of the season she was quite out of 
shape; yet she never leaked, and a month after being 
laid up she had resumed her proper shape. At Kiel the 
firm is building a launch of 40ft., which, with a powerful 
oil motor, will make twenty miles an hour. 
A firm in Dublin has started a factory for making 
hollow spars. The spars are said to be superior to those 
of other makes, being both more accurately made and of 
better stuff. The wood used is Oregon pine, and it seems 
to be vastly superior to the wide-grained spruce spars 
sent over here. In the small sizes we find that the spruce 
spars will not stand a twisting strain, and that when used 
for masts they crack or become useless — never going at 
the joint, however. The Oregon spars, will stand twice 
this strain, and they are twenty-five per cent, cheaper on 
account of the high freight charged on the American 
spars. 
King Edward has re-purchased the famous old Britan- 
nia from Sir Richard Bulkeley. This is the second time 
he has sold and rebought the vessel— once when he was 
Prince of Wales. Evidently he has a real fondness for 
the grand old ship, and indeed she is about the best all- 
round sailing yacht that Mr. G. L. Watson ever turned 
out. 
The German Emperor's match, from Dover to Heli- 
goland, is fixed for June 21. It is a handicap for British- 
owned yachts over 80 tons (Thames measurement). The 
match is always well patronized, for the Emperor treats 
his visitors at Kiel right royally, mixing freely with them 
and putmg the sceptre entirely out of sight. 
To-day comes a cable from New York stating that a 
