April 5, 1902.J 
corn were simply combed out, the leaves adhering to the 
stalks, and the stalks themselves were one mass of shreds. 
The fine wind-driven sand had acted like the teeth of a 
comb. Leaves left on the branches of trees were torn 
into fine threads by the pulverized flints. 
One large tree close to one of the houses, or where one 
of the houses stood, had received the full effect of the 
rotary motion of the cloud. The tree had been entirely 
•denuded of its bark. Only the larger limbs remained, the 
smaller ones having been twisted off short. The roots 
were intact, but the body of the tree had been twisted 
like a rope. It was full of seams and fissures, a mute 
witness to the terrific force of the cyclone. Well up the 
trunk of the tree 'and adhering thereto, were three dead 
chickens. One had its head in a closed seam of the tree, 
another was so held by the wing and a third by the leg. 
While the tree was in its throes the fowls had been 
blown against it, were instantly killed by the impact and 
imprisoned by the righting of the tree and partial closing 
of the fissures. 
I have a photograph of this part of the story clearly 
showing the fowls in the grasp of the tree. 
As far as the farmhouses were concerned, a charge ot 
dynamite with upward explosive tendencies could not 
have scattered the dwellings and the contents thereof, 
animate and inanimate, more diversely. Not a person 
escaped. Several bodies were found in the lake, and some 
in the adjoining swamps. It was supper time when the 
great funnel-shaped cloud came bounding along with the 
speed of an express train, striking and rebounding from 
the earth like a great black balloon. Fate placed these 
farmhouses and their occupants in its destructive path, and 
in the twinkling of an eye they were hurled to their de- 
struction and death. 
The denuding of the trees of their bark seemed to 
puzzle manv. Some said the bark was sucked off, because 
of the vacuum created in the path of the cyclone ; others 
that the wind simply blew it off, but after seeing the way 
the corn was whipped and combed by the sand-filled air, I 
certainly agreed that the sand had acted as a gigantic 
rasp and had torn the bark free from the trees. 
During the summer, after a heated day; let a wind 
spring up, such a wind as would naturally precede a rain 
and windstorm, and let a bank of, clouds turn from black 
to brazen hue, and then do the people come out upon the 
street with bared heads and watch with anxious faces 
the forming clouds. No cloud of the blackest hue fore- 
bodes such dire results as a bank of rolling brass-hued 
clouds. All such clouds do not mean a cyclone, but all 
cyclones seem to be accompanied by such cloud effects, 
and the affinity of one for the other is what disturbs the 
serenity of the people. 
And I never go trout fishing but what I think of that 
night when I watched by the bed of my sick friend and 
at the same time witnessed the warring of the elements 
throughout the long and trying night. 
Charles Cristadoro. 
A Few Days with the Pickerel 
Boston, March 18.— Editor Forest and Stream: I had 
waited all winter for a call to go a-fishing that never 
came. A letter from my friend Huse, of Lacania, in- 
formed me that he had been down to his cottage at Spring 
Haven, Lake Winnepesaukee, several times, but the fish- 
ing was anything but good. But last week there came a 
summons in another direction. On Tuesday, nth mst., I 
had just sat down to dinner when a neighbor called and 
said there was a call for me on their telephone. I soon 
had the connection, and found it was Mr. Ivers W. 
Adams, the President of the American Net and Twine 
Co. He informed me that he and his brother, Mr. Wal- 
ter R. Adams, of Newton, were going the next 'day to 
the latter's cottage on an island in Naukeag Lake, in the 
town of Ashburnham, and would I be their guest. I 
accepted at once, of course, as I had been there on several 
occasions years ago, and knew what a cozy and comfort- 
able place it was. We took the 3 o'clock train the next 
day, and shortly after 5 o'clock reached the pretty village 
of Ashburnham, and a ride of a couple of miles by team 
"brought us to the lake. Mr. Walter Adams went up in 
the morning, and with the assistance of a Mr. Heald, a 
farmer living near by, had already opened up a goodly 
number of holes through twenty inches of ice. The 
cottage was well aired, warm and comfortable. An 
appetizing supper was soon on the table, prepared by Mr. 
Alfred Clark, who had come up from the village to do 
the kitchen act during our stay, and very well he did it, 
too. During the evening Mr. Ivers Adams entertained 
us with his salmon fishing experiences on the Moisie 
River in Canada, where he owns extensive and valuable 
rights. He also owns rights on other streams up in that 
country. The next morning was decidedly springlike, 
the glass indicating 60 degrees, and at sunrise the robins 
and bluebirds were singing merrily in the trees and 
shrubs that surround the cottage. Before breakfast Mr. 
Walter Adams had set in a number of lines in the holes 
nearest the house, and we had just seated ourselves at 
the breakfast table, when looking through a window he 
saw a flag up. Calling my attention to it, I was soon 
on the spot, and in another minute the first pickerel was 
floundering on the ice. I then returned to the smoking 
hot breakfast, and that over we all put in a busy day. 
Other lines were put in some distance away, and we 
alternated at the different places throughout the day, with 
a good lunch any time one wanted it. We gathered at 
the cottage at 5 o'clock, and found the result of the day's 
work to be sixty-two pickerel and three perch. It was a 
great catch, and there were some beauties, three-pounders, 
in the lot. Dinner was served at 5:30, and it is needless 
to say that it was not the least important item of the 
day's programme. There was a change in the weather 
during the night, and in the morning we found the holes 
skinned with ice. The birds were there just the same, 
and they filled the clear air with their melody. The 
surface water of the day before had entirely disappeared, 
leaving the surface just rough enough _to make it com- 
paratively easy in getting around. The day proved a 
delightful one. By 10 o'clock the sun had so done its 
work that the holes kept open, and when we stopped for 
the day we found the catch to be thirty pickerel and two 
perch. Saturday was as. like the previous day as could 
well be, and we had the holes clear and ready for busi- 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
ness in an hour after breakfast. We were to break camp 
that afternoon, so the lines were all up by noon. Then 
the fish were laid out on the piazza, and they certainly 
were the finest lot of pickerel I ever saw. The catch 
Saturday was twenty-nine pickerel, two perch and two 
eels, making the. total 121 pickerel, seven perch and two 
eels. Then packages were made up for friends, dinner 
was disposed of, Heald, the man of all work, made sev- 
eral trips to the shore with the fish and other luggage 
At 2:30 we took the team for a four-mile drive to th« 
railway, and boarded the train which, landed us in Bos 
ton at 5:45. Fish formed no part of the bill of fare 
during our stay at the lake, the table being well supplied 
with good things from Quincy market. For many years 
I have known Mr. Ivers Adams as a thorough sportsman 
and a gentleman — one who delights in entertaining his 
friends to the best there is — and on this occasion I for~d 
Mr. Walter Adams another of the same kind, and I am 
indebted to them for the most enjoyable winter fishing 
trip I ever had. Wm. B. Smart. 
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CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
Chicago, III., March 27. — The last of the pleasant 
winter meetings of the Chicago Fly Casting Club was 
held Wednesday evening of this week at the Leland 
Hotel, a very good attendance turning out as usual. The 
following members were present: 
H. H. Ainsworth, C. Antoine, I. H. Bellows, W. T, 
Church, H. G. Hascall, N. C. Heston, G. A. Hinterleit- 
ner, E. Hough, E. R. Lettermaw. A. Marshall. G. A. 
Murrell, F. B. Orr, F. N. Peet. H. W. Perce, F. E. Rutrg, 
A. C. Smith, F. S. Smith. G. W. Strell, J. A. Wood, W 
Walforth. J. B. Wallace, John Holman. The guests 
were: Phelos Hopkins, L. C. Lull, P. Woodruff. E. 
McAdams. C. J. R. Kerr. G. A. Davis, E. D. Mason. 
President H. C. Hascal was in the chair, and Secretary 
E. R. Letterman was busy near at hand. Minutes of the 
previous meeting were dispensed with. A special com- 
mittee. Chairman F. N. Peet, reported in regard to the 
Olympian game arrangements for 1904 that they needed 
more time, as the programme of sports for that great 
festival was as yet in too immature a form for definite 
motion to be taken. 
In the question of handicaps Secretary Letterman read 
the report of the handicap committee, announcing the 
handicap in the different styles of casting which had been 
assigned "to each member of the club. 
Some discussion arose over the handicaps, but the 
committee was discharged and the report accepted, as 
of course should be the case always with a handicap com- 
mittee, kicks being natural and likewise meaning naught, 
on the basis that someone must finally decide. 
The honorable secretary was cut down to $25 a year, 
which he will a good deal more than earn. Associate 
members — that is to say. members moving, out of the 
State — were relieved of dues upon the basis that they 
would assume dues upon again taking up a residence in 
Illinois. 
The secretary announced, in response to inquiries re- 
garding the game and fish laws, that Indiana this spring 
showed no restriction on hook and line fishing after 
April 1. Michigan opens the trout season May 1, the 
bass season May 20. 
Following these little preliminaries the entertainment 
of the evening began. Mr. Strell told a story. Mr. 
Phelps Hopkins, a very good basso, sang a solo about 
the "Gallant Bandelero," which the latter is apparently 
bad medicine in his way. He was encored. The main 
speech of the evening was made by Mr. Press Wood- 
ruff, who was announced by Mr. Perce as Professor 
Woodruff, born in Arkansas, educated in Heidelberg and 
now acting as Chief of Forestry in British Columbia. 
Mr. Woodruff kept up the latter bluff for some time, 
but when he began to tell of his experiments in crossing 
the tarpon with the lake trout, and to describing the 
game qualities of the hybrid resultant thereupon, his talk 
was received with expressions of disbelief, whereafter 
he told of many things located in Arkansas and else- 
where. Mr. H W. Perce gave a couple of songs delight- 
fully, and Mr. W. T. Church read the Declaration of 
Independence of the American angler. 
It was announced that on May 15 next following, the 
fishermen of Grand Rapids would invite the members 
of the Chicago Fly Casting Club to come to Grand 
Rapids for a pleasant little fly casting tournament, the 
visitors later to be entertained in a fishing party on the 
Pere Marquette and other streams. It need hardly be 
said that the invitation of the Grand Rapids boys will 
be gladly accepted. The salt of the western angling 
earth can be found in inexhaustible supply in the city 
of Grand Rapids. 
Another fishing expedition of the Chicago FIv Casting 
Club is planned for the Lauderdale Lakes of Wisconsin 
on May 29. 
Florida Fishing. 
Mr. Frank B. Orr, a well-known fly fisherman of 
Chicago, is back from a winter's sojourn along the 
Florida Gulf Coast. Mr. Orr states that he did not gei 
into the best of the fishing country, although he had very 
good sport ,with the sheepshead and others of the sea 
fishes. He has heard of a special brand of salt water 
gymnasts which the local anglers call the "bone fish," 
and he says that next winter he is going down to make 
a special campaign for the latter gentlemen. 
No Open Fishing at Castalia. 
Prof. G. A, Wyly, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, writes: 
"I see in y^our current notes that you mention the trout 
clubs of Castalia. I would like to ask something about 
the fishing at that point. I had heard that there was a 
trout stream or two in the northern part of this State, 
but never learned just where, and I judge there must be 
at least one of these at Castalia. Is that so, and could 
I likely fish at that point? I have made several trips 
in northern Michigan after trout, but if there is any 
good trout fishing nearer, I would like to know of it." 
There is but the one trout stream at Castalia, which rises 
in a grand spring situated in a little meadow not far from 
the city of Sandusky, and directly in the village known as I 
Castalia. This stream is but a few miles long and on its 
.banks are located two clubs which control all of the fish- 
'ing. There is no open fishing whatever at Castalia, and 
so far as known there is no other trout stream in 
northern Ohio, or indeed anywhere else in Ohio. Mr. 
Wyly will find very excellent fishing in Michigan this 
coming season, unless all signs go wrong. 
Early Season Likely. 
It is almost immaterial what date is set for the opening 
of the trout season in Wisconsin and Michigan, for it 
is rarely the case that there is any fishing of consequence 
before the fhiddle of April, the ice and snow hanging on 
pretty late in those latitudes and the weather being 
usually too inclement to permit much sport. This spring, 
however, bids fair to be an early one. One says this with 
considerable hesitation, for no one knows what time win- 
ter is going to end here until after the Fourth of July. 
This week, however, reports come from Wisconsin, as 
far north as Waupaca county, that the snow has been 
gone for some days and that the meadows are becoming 
dry. A couple of weeks of this warm open weather 
ought to show some fishing by opening day, April 15. 
Flies for Southern Michigan. 
As to flies for this season's fishing, one cannot tell 
'^ha* to recommend, any more than he can tell for a year 
in advance what brand of millinery might serve for my 
lady's taste. It seems to be the case, at least in our 
western streams, that the same fly is rarely good for more 
than one season. Thus the Cahill fly had a big run in 
the southern peninsula of Michigan for the season before 
last and a part of last season, though latterly it seems to 
have been a "dead one," so to speak, on some streams. 
The Professor last year turned out very good, but not 
so good as a weird freak known as the Jenny Lind, a 
perfectly impossible creation of yellow and gold body, 
scarlet hackle and green wing. Fred Peet, who fishes 
the Pere Marquette a good deal, told me that this weird 
combination was the most killing thing he could find 
last season. The Montreal, he said, was no good at 
all. On the other hand, I have fished the western Au 
Sable, the Thunder Bay streams, and the Kinne Creek 
of western Michigan at different times when the Mon- 
treal was very desirable. Mr. Peet and his friends sol- 
emnly believe that it takes a new fly every year on the 
Pere Marquette. • 
For Middle Wisconsin in April, I have found the Low 
Dung very reliable. On the contrary, I never found the 
Professor much account nor the Queen of the Waters 
to do good service. 
I have often spoken of the Pine Rivef of Wisconsin, 
and perhaps have mentioned the freakishness of the trout 
of that preserved stream. Three years ago nothing would 
do there but a black fly known as the Indian Crow. 
Then they switched to Seth Green. Last year they 
wanted Silver Doctor, that perfectly incongruous and 
utterly impossible mixture of colors which stands for 
nothing in the kingdoms, animate or inanimate. What 
they will want this year no man may say. 
By the way, speaking of Mr. Peet. I should say that he 
is a member of the Chicago Fly Casting Club and an 
amateur tackle tinker of no mean excellence. I believe 
he ties the prettiest fly I have ever seen done by either 
professional or amateur. He leans altogether these days 
to the eyeless hook, No. 12 or 14 size, and to the English 
tin fly box instead of our American leather-covered fly 
books. We progress, it may be seen, even in this city 
of the winds. Our flies grow smaller, their feathers less 
exuberant, and the drawn gut leader comes on apace. 
E. Hough 
Hartford Building, Chicago, 111. 
Fish and 'Fishing, 
Politics versus Protection. 
Political mnuence has once more proved too mi :h a>t 
the cause 'of fish life and protection. The long struggle 
against the continuance of net fishing in Lake Champlam 
for pike-perch by the North American Fish and Game 
Protective Association, which was so closely and so_ sym- 
pathetically followed by the friends of protection in all 
parts of the country, is well known to the readers of 
Forest and Stream. It was fondly hoped that the pas- 
sage of the Order-in-Council by the Federal Government 
at Ottawa, prohibiting net fishing in Missisquoi Bay, 
which followed the visit to the Canadian capital of Messrs. 
J. W. Titcomb and C. H. Wilson, had put an end to this 
troublous question. So it did for a few days but for a 
few days only. While other men slept, the enemy, in the 
shape of the net fishermen, got in their deadly work. 
They threatened their parliamentary representative at 
Ottawa with dire vengeance if the prohibition was not 
promptly removed, and rumor has it that he in turn simi- 
larly threatened the Government. The Mmisterof Fish- 
eries promptly yielded, and the Order-in-Council was at 
once cancelled, so far as it applied to net fishing in 
Missisquoi Bay. As soon as the news reached Quebec, the 
same political null of the pike-perch netters. which had 
been successful at Ottawa, was exerted unon the Pro- 
vincial Department of Lands. Mines and Fisheries, and 
resulted in the reissue of the cancelled netting licenses. 
There is naturally much indignation as well as disap- 
pointment at the new turn taken by things in connection 
with this matter, but all friends of fish and game h'fe 
know the difficulty of having to contend with onnncmg 
political influence, and those who have been m^vine in the 
good cause have, in this narticular case nothing to un- 
braid themselves with. The wanton destrovers nf fish 
and game must be met and fousrht on their own eround. 
and it is for fish and game protective associations, and 
especially for the North American Association, with its 
international mission, to so enlarge its membership, and, 
consequently, its sphere of usefulness, as to command a 
larger share of that political influence which ?s more 
potent w'th some of the politicians of the present dav than 
the legitimate claims of fish and game protection. Every 
r^mber of the Association can aid in this work by 
sliding in as many new applications for membership as 
possible to the Secretary-Treasurer. 
j UJustratfd Acg'irg Lffer?ftJfe. 
I The amount of carelessness displayed in the illustrating 
