Jan. i6, 1904.] 
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be inadequate. The precipitate action of the defend- 
ants in this case indicates that a dissolution of the in- 
junction will remain in force until the final hearing of 
the cause. ' > 
Lake Ghamplain Pollution. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It is a great deal easier to sling mud than to remove the 
traces of it. I spent several days that I could not afiford 
to spare investigating the charges of Edward Hatch, Jr., 
and his associate as to the pollution of Lake Champlain 
by the Willsboro pulp mill, and I think I made out a case 
that any fair minded man will accept. 
Mr. Hatch has replied that my introductory is a "silly 
denial of facts which can easily be substantiated by any 
school boy living in the region in question." I am not a 
rich tnan, but as owner of lake shore property Mr. Hatch 
is doing me incalculable mischief, and as the matter has 
now resolved itself into a simple question of veracity, I 
make the following proposition, and I think Forest and 
Stream owes it to me to see that it is carried out. 
^ I will pay the traveling expenses of any impartial man 
Forest and Stream may select to come to Essex to make 
an investigation, and will donate $50 to any charity 
named by Forest and Stream if Edward Hatch, Jr., can 
prove one of his statements controverting mine. 
The only conditions I make are that such representative 
be sent at once before the lake freezes, and that Forest 
-AND Stream, having as arbiter satisfied itself of the 
falsity of Mr. Hatch's statements, shut oflf the discussion. 
, John B. Burnham. 
New York, Jan. 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: I 
have no desire to become involved in the controversy in 
regard to the alleged pollution of the waters of Lake 
Champlain, but the interview with me, published in your 
issue of Dec. 19, is such a misstatement of my views, and 
of what I really said, that it compels my attention. 
Some weeks ago a man representing himself as being 
Sent by Mr. Edward Hatch, Jr., called on me. I had some 
conversation with him, supposing that he represented Mr. 
Hatch, and was entirely unaware that I was being inter- 
viewed for publication. Mr. Hatch has since informed 
me that he has no such agent. 
For the past fifteen years I have lived during the sum- 
mer months at Essex, on Lake Champlain. My place is 
situated about a mile below the mouth of the Boquet 
River. We have always used the water from the lake, 
and have found it an excellent and healthful drinking 
water. I have never noticed any disagreeable taste or 
odor, nor have I heard any complaints in regard to it 
from my neighbors. An analysis made a few years ago 
showed the water to be pure. 
The only basis for any part of the interview as pub- 
lished, is that I stated that I proposed, in view of all this 
newspaper notoriety, and merely as a matter of precau- 
tion, to have the water again analyzed before returning to 
Essex for the coming season. 
1 have read with interest the letters to you written by 
Mr. John B. Burnham, which are published in your issue 
of January 2, and it seems to me that they cover the facts 
in the case clearly and concisely, and his views accord 
with mine in all essential particulars. 
Essex is so far distant from any source of contamina- 
tion (other than the alleged pollution of the Boquet 
River), that this subject is the source of no anxiety I0 
me. I am, however, heartily in favor of any intelligent 
and honest effort that may be set on foot to keep the 
waters of the lake pure, but it certainly does not seem to 
me that the present agitation comes under that head. 
D. Crawford Clark. 
[The foregoing disclaimer having been submitted to 
the reporter of the interview, he assures us that he repre- 
sented himself to Mr. Clark as a neyvspaper man; and 
that the interview as published in the Forest and 
Stream was substantially correct.] 
Shark Fishtng in Cuba. 
If anyone doubted the existence of man-eating sharks 
in Cuban waters, doubts were forever put to rest while 
within sight of the city not long since while a Havana 
steamer bound for New Orleans was passing out of the 
bay. 
As one of the sailors was hauling down the Cuban 
flag a short distance out of port, he fell backward into the 
water. A boat was lowered at once and hastened toward 
him. He was seen to be splashing the water with his 
hands, and the praicticed eyes of his fellow sailors knew 
that he had been attacked by sharks. Hoping to hasten 
his rescue, they threw him a rope. He seized it eagerly, 
but it proved to be a fatal move, for the instant he quit 
fighting the water the sharks lost fear. It became a race 
between the men in the boat and the deep sea monsters. 
The latter won. 
The rest is soon told. There were three sharks, and 
they attacked their victim viciously. It was ghastly play 
that the passengers of the ship watched the three brutes 
struggling for one man. Some turned away, unable to 
look on any longer. Vv'hen the sailors finally succeeded 
in snatching the prey life was all but gone, .and death 
came within a few minutes. 
The ship turned back to the city to leave the body of 
the dead man. and then went on its way again. 
^ The incident is attracting much attention and comment 
in the city, for it is the first well-authenticated case of 
a living man being attacked by a shark that has occurred 
■during the past five years. From time to time other 
stories have become current, but none have gained much 
belief, as investigation has showed that they were founded 
on circumstantial evidence; no one has seen the shark — 
the only fact known was that the man in the water had 
disappeared. There has been a great deal of discussion, 
both, public and private, on the subject, while the majority 
of persons believed that these sharks would' ^ttack living 
persons, very few knew positively of their Having done so. 
One man, in his desire to learn definitely whether these 
sharks are of the man-eating variety, offered a reward of 
$1^006 for any. well authenticated case. ,,' It has been -sug- 
gested .that the sad bcct^rrence of - Sunday be brtfught t-Q 
his attention and the money turned over to the family of 
the dead sailor. 
There has been some talk of the city council oflfenng a 
reward for sharks since they are so numerous, but as yet 
this has developed into nothing more than a suggestion.-^ 
New Orleans Democrat. 
The Indianapolis Outing Club. 
The Indianapolis Outing Club is the name of an or- 
ganization which" owns a club house in northern 
Wisconsin. The club was organized in the winter of 
1902. The committee having charge of the arrangement 
purchased between six and seven acres of land on Lake 
Planting Ground, one of a chain of twenty-six lakes in 
Oneida county, and located near the Chicago and North- 
western Railroad, 341 miles northwest of Chicago. The 
station is Three Lakes, and the club house is located 
about four miles from the station; the committee con- 
tracted for and had built an ice house, boat house, and 
a ten-room club house, and furnished the club house with 
a complete outfit, also purchased an eighteen foot Fay 
& Bowen gasolene launch and necessary rowboats. 
The club house is arranged for the entertainment of 
members and their families, and the wives and little ones 
get as much enjoyment out of the affair as the men 
folks. 
The club is capitalized for $2,500, providing for twenty- 
five members, who are required to take one share of stock 
of $100. During the open club season, which is from 
The Club's Wisconsin Home. 
June I to September 30, all matters pertaining to the 
management of the- club are looked after by a house 
committee. 
Last summer was the club's first season, and all the 
members who availed themselves of the opportunity to 
visit the club during the summer came home delighted 
with the club's location and surroundings, and pronounced 
it a typical summer resort. 
That part of Wisconsin being what might be termed 
the "wilds of Wisconsin," affords the members of the 
club and their guests an opportunity for every conceivable 
kind of recreation; fishing is excellent, as evidenced by 
some of the fine catches made by members of the club. 
These lakes abound in muskallonge, bass, pike, pickerel, 
and other smaller fish, and the larger ones caught by the 
members the past season were one weighing i6^ pounds 
by Mr. Bookwalter, a 2.? -pounder by Mr. Tutewiler, 
and the daddy of them all, a 35-pounder, landed by Mr. 
Bowlus. 
Hunting in the vicinity of the club's property is excel- 
lent, there being a goodly number of deer, partridge, 
ducks, and other wild game, and while none of the 
members availed themselves of a trip during the hunting 
season this year, in all likelihood another will not pass 
without some of the members taking advantage of this 
fine shooting, as some of them are not only experts with 
rod and reel, but with the rifle and shotgun. 
The club members are now discussing the building of 
an addition to the club house which will add about e'lght 
or ten bedrooms, which will answer for all purposes. 
The Anglet's Toast. 
When men meet to drink to those they love most, 
Let anglers fill up their cups for a toast, 
Touch lip to no glass 
To proud dame or lass 
Who from gentle sport will tempt you to stray; 
But let your cups clink, 
Ye anglers, and drink 
A health to the fish, 
To the biggest fish, 
The fish that got away! 
You lured him by craft; he fought you at odds— 
In fair fight or foul, he splintered your rods. 
Barbed weapon of steel 
You've oft made him feel: 
But, valiant and sti'ong, he won every fray. 
Then fill to the brim 
And drink deep to him — 
A toast to the fish, -.. 
To the biggest fish, . ' 
The fish that got away! 
.1 
What others you've killed. with cunning and s-kil! 
YouVe never caught him and never you will. 
In brook, lake or sea 
The monarch is he — 
Ye anglers, stand up and due homage pay. 
■ ■ . ■ • Let. every glass . ring, 
A toast to the King— . 
Long life to the fish , , , 
To the biggest fish, -'. 
' ' - . Thp fish that-. got ■ aWay ' :. ' 
: • ;--K9rTOfn Jeffries -in the ?Tew X^K^ ?^ 
Fish and Fishing. 
What ihe Ouananiche has to Contend Against. 
Mr. J. G. A. Creighton, of Ottawa, , tells of catching a 
ouananiche abotit a pound in weight, *virhich, before it was 
landed, was seized and swallowed by a pike weighing 
ioj4 pounds, and says that upon another occasion he saw 
another ouananiche of 5^ pounds swimming about in an 
odd and helpless manner, and found that his spine had 
been broken by a pike so that he could not use his tail. 
I well remember, too, that some years ago, after a day's 
fly-fishing for ouananiche in the Grand Discharge with 
Mr. A. N. Cheney, we both trolled for pike for part of an 
hour in Lake St. John, immediately in front of th? Island 
House. My spoon was promptly taken by a small ouan- 
aniche, and Mr. Cheney, following close behind, had 
his troll seized in almost the same spot by a 12-pound 
pike, a second one of the same size taking my troll a few 
minutes later. These monster pike must do a frightful 
amount of slaughter among the ouananiche, particularly 
in Lake St. John itself, and in the rivers flowing into if, 
for in the rapid waters of the Grand Discharge they are 
apparently less abundant, . 
More rapacious still, however, are the burbot or ling 
of Lake St. John, sometimes known as fresh-water cod. 
It grows to an immense size in this lake, and is rnore dan- 
gerous to its betters from the fact that it is largely 
a night feeder. This huge skulker not only preys upon 
the unsuspecting young of the fresh water salmon, but 
specimens of the ouananiche half as large as itself have 
been found in the stomachs of these prowlers of the 
deep. It is supposed that they commit their worst ravages 
among the ouananiche during the winter months, when 
the latter are most abundant in the lake. Large nurnberi 
of the burbot are then taken through the ice on night- 
lines by the settlers about the lake, who use them for 
food, and veiy good they are, too, at this season of the 
year, being almost as firm and flaky as cod, despite their 
somewhat repulsive appearance. Mr. Yarrell, in his 
"British Fishes," says that the flesh of the burbot "is 
white, firm, and of good flavor, and by some considered 
superior to that of the eel." In fact, this burbot is a 
species of cod or ling, and from its liver may be extracted 
an oil similar to cod-liver oil. The habitants call it lush, 
and, before I had obtained specimens for examination 
and identification, frequently and erroneously described it 
to me as a catfish. I take their name of the fish to be a 
mispronunciation of the French loche (losh), though that 
"most dainty fish," as Walton calls the laoch, neither be- 
longs to the same family as the burbot, nor yet has it the 
same peculiar arrangement of fins. But while without 
the tapering, eel-like form of the hinder part of the bur- 
bot's body, the little loach "has a beard or wattles like a 
barbel," and lives and gets its food close to the bottom 
of the water. In these respects he is resembled by the 
burbot, and herein it may be that the latter has received 
the name by which he is known to the French-Canadians 
of the Lake St. John country. In the greater depths^ of 
the inland sea he often attains a size much exceeding 
that to which he grows in English waters, and has been 
taken there from three to four feet long. 
The burbot of Lake St. John is the ordinary Lota 
americana — the Lota maculosa of LeSueur, which is 
found as far south as the Mississippi._ It is common 
in Lake Ontario, and is known in various localities as 
ling, eel-pout, lake-lawyer, and fresh-water cusk. Experi- 
ments have proved that it is capable of being so salted and 
dried as to be practically undistinguishable from salt cod- 
fish. 
North American Fish and Game Protective Association. 
The Hon. Leroy T. Carleton, of Augusta, Maine, presi- 
dent of the North American Fish and Game Protective 
Association, has called the annual meeting of the Asso- 
ciation for the 20th and 21st of January next at Portland, 
Maine. It is expected that there will be quite a large at- 
tendance of eastern Canadian and New England mem- 
bers of the Association at this meeting. 
A Cod that Swallowed the Burial Service. 
Perhaps one of the strangest articles ever found in any 
member of the finny tribe was that discovered by Mr. C. 
Volcker, of Penzance, Cornwall, in the stomach of a cod. 
According to his own account, this gentleman was fishing 
off Lamorna Cove, near Newlyn, when he caught a cod- 
fish weighing nearly 19 pounds. 
On being opened and cleaned the following mornmg, 
the stomach of the fish was found to contain a copy of the 
Burial Service of the Episcopal Church, in a complete 
state of preservation. By certain writing which was found 
in the book it was possible to identify an undertaker who 
had provided the book at a funeral seven years before, 
l3Ut there was nothing to show how it came to have been 
cast within reach of the fish. Probably, however, it was 
dropped some time later overboard from some vessel, 
for as both the print and the writing were quite legible, , 
it does not seem likely that the book had. been for any 
great length of time either in the water or in the stomach 
of the fish. E„ T. D. Chambers. 
Long 'Jottfneys Made ^^7 "Whales. 
Addressing the Academy of Science of Christiania, 
Professor Goldlob said that the whales that swim about 
the islands which lie off the coast of Norway and Fin- 
land in March and April travel immense distances. In 
May they turn up at the Azores, or even at the Bermudas, 
and sometime^ pay a visit to the Antilles. They swim 
fast, for in June they are back again off Norway. Some, 
-of these whales have been known to bring back evidences 
cf where they have been, for harpoons of the peculiar 
kind Used off the coast of South America have bevu 
foitfld stuck in them,— St. James's Gazette. 
A Fist Story. 
.^ fiSHY old fisher named Fischer 
Fished fish from tlie.edge of a fissure; 
' A : cod, with a grin, ^ 
Pulled- the fishermaij in— 
Now they're fishing the fissnre for Fispher. . . . ; 
— .Cittcittnati Trib«n«u. - 
