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FOREST AND STREAM 
[April i6, 1904. 
at a tremendous speed through the. water. Brown had 
not had time to get the rod in his hand, and away 
went the reel spinning at a furious rate. 
"Good gracious! dot beats me; I vunder if that's 
a feech or if dot vas a horse." And down came his 
hand on the reel so suddenly that it brought the fish 
up with a sharp turn, and it was a beauty. Brown in 
his excitement grasped the reel so hard that it had 
become unseated from the rod, and here he was with 
a monster fish and no appliances for handling him. 
"Veil, veil, veil, I think dese feeching tackles is no 
good," as with the reel grasped in both hands he was 
holding it out at arm's length with the line still run- 
ning. Mr. Piper was so fully occupied with his own 
line that he could not give his companion the assist- 
ance the situation demanded, but finally, having landed 
his fish, he gave his attention to Brown, and Brown 
was a picture beyond description. Leaning over the 
side of the boat, with arms extended as far as he could 
reach, holding on to the reel for dear life with both 
hands and a hundred feet of line out, the situation was 
to the novice desperate to the last degree. 
Mr. Piper finally succeeded in getting Brown straight- 
ened in his seat, which was fortunate, as the equilib- 
rium of the boat was very much endangered by his 
position. After replacing the reel on the rod he passed 
it again into Brown's hand. 
"Veil, dot's all right. Now, how you wind him, fast 
or slow? and he began to slowly reel the line in. The 
fish had had his play spell and came along a distance 
of fifty feet with such rapidity that Brown had trouble 
in reeling his line as fast as the fish came in his direc- 
tion. The fish, however, after covering this distance 
changed his course, and trouble began again immedi- 
ately. Mr. Brown, having full confidence in his appa- 
ratus, lost his grip on both rod and reel when the fisli 
made the turn, and had it not been for a quick move- 
ment of the oarsman both rod and reel would have 
gone to the bottom. 
"By gracious! dot feech vas quvick, und I think dot 
rnah Dave vas aboiit as lifely," and he took the reel 
from Dave's hands. "Und dot's vat you call, expe- 
rience, und I have got dot, but I don't got der feech. 
Veil, here ve go again." And he began to turn the 
reel, a : dozen turns or more, with nothing but slack 
line to show that the fish was lost. 
"How's dot?: I don't feel him some more," and he 
continued to wind with a pained, expression on his face 
which exhibited no concern over bread, or cakes, or 
biscuit. He finally came to .the end of the line, and as 
he looked at the bare hook he turned despondently to 
his ■ companion and! said:. "You think dot feech bites 
again, huh? I think dot feech must be pretty sore, 
and I don't feel I was much success for a fisherman 
yet." 
"Well, never mind. Brown, that's part of a fisher- 
man's luck, and all there is to do is to try again." 
"Oh, yes, dot's all right. Dot's good advices, but 
it don't caught the fish dot vas lost." After a few 
minutes of silence he continued: "Veil, how long you 
stay here? I thought I vould go back to-night, but if 
you think you vill stay I vill stay, too, and ve'll try 
them anoder day." 
"Brown, I believe you are getting sporty." 
"I think dot's sc, but you know I must make up for 
lost time. Meester Piper, van you coom this way 
again you buy for me some of dose feeching tackles 
und I vill try und make up some more of dose lost 
times. Veil, veil, veil, how you suppose I forgot my 
beer, I got no beer since last night." 
Florence L. Wright. 
The Rhapsody of an Enthusiastic 
Angler, 
We are waiting for the first of May. It will soon be 
here. That calendar fact is inevitable, however little it 
means to the majority of people. But there is a com- 
paratively small but fast-growing class in Michigan in 
whom its approach arouses the liveliest emotions of the 
round year. Because they know that the trout season 
opens on that day. 
The trout season! What currents of happy anticipa- 
tion it sets in motion! what longings lift in the soul! 
what desires swell the heart! what iridescent bubbles 
of hope rise to the surface of the mind, whereon with a 
wonderful magic are painted scenes and pictures and 
visions and images that the craftiest hand of man never 
fixed, but which the deeper inner sight depicts with the 
perfect distinctness of accurate realism. 
To those who know not the inner cult all this is 
absurd — to the trout fisherman it is a solemn truth 
rising almost to the seriousness of a deeply impressed 
religion. 
These are the visions the old trout fisherman sees in 
the dreams he dreams at his desk, in the factory, in 
the store, on the street, in all his active duties- — the 
sub-conscious structure that rises like a fairy palace, 
but holds its place and form like a tower of granite. 
The limpid stream swiftly hurrying over its bed of 
sand or gravel, gurgling over sunken logs, swishing 
around the roots of old stumps, deftly touching and 
swaying down-bending boughs, noisily rattling down 
boulder-strewn inclines, diving deeply and silently under 
overhanging banks, breaking into foam and lace-like 
strips of white water on the rocky riffles, but ever 
gently pushing the slow-wading, lone angler on and on 
to some unknown and never reached goal; the tracery 
of the trees against the deepest of deep blue skies, faint 
green of spring touching daintily every twig; little slants 
and bars and slivers, and sometimes broad sheets of 
most golden sunshine; often the half-hushed note of a 
nest-building bird, perhaps a surprised mink on the 
water's edge or a soft-eyed doe stealing down to drink, 
occasionally the deep resonant throb of the rolling war 
drum of the rufifed grouse far away in the woods; the 
soft beds of mosses along the brink, the green early 
things that spring from the rich mold, the vagrant un- 
known flower that shrinks beneath the ghostly birch — • 
and above it all the voices of the water, talking through 
the long afternoon, plain to those whose ears are 
taught to hear, gossip of the woods and the wild things, 
and of the secrets that nature hides away from men — • 
except from those men who silently wander along the 
streams, deftly casting a string of bright-colored flies 
lightly ahead of them, hoping that it may haply fall at 
the doorway of the home of the brook trout. 
This is what the dreamer sees when the first of May 
is near at hand. This is trout fishing in Michigan.— 
W. J. Hunsaker in The Gateway. 
Legislation at Albany. 
Albany, April 9. — Governor Odell has signed the bill of the 
Senate Committee on Forest, Fish and Game providing for the 
creation of a State park in the Catskill Mountains, in Ulster, 
Sullivan and Delaware counties. 
The following additional bills have passed the Senate: 
Senate Committee's bill (783 — 1013), Constitutional amendment 
authorizing the Legislature to direct the removal of dead timber 
from burned areas in the Adirondack region for the purposes of 
reforestation. 
Senator Malby's bill (538 — 1049), relative to fishing in .certain 
waters of St. Lawrence county. 
Assemblyman Wolf's bill (S. Pr. No. 1033), relative to fishing 
in Jamaica Bay and adjacent waters. 
Senator Brackett's bill (883 — 1197), relative to the close season 
for trout in Orange, Saratoga and Tompkins counties. 
Senator Elon R. Brown's bill (917 — ^1263), providing for the 
publication of the forest, fish and game law, as amended. 
Assemblyman G. H. Whitney's laill (552 — ^1794), relative to fish- 
ing in Saratoga county. 
Assemblyman Graeff's bill (1267 — ^1761), relative to fishing 
through the ice in Lake Champlain. 
Assemblyman Pearsall's bill (321 — 1806), relative to taking fish 
through the ice in Chenango county. 
The Assembly has passed these additional bills: 
Assemblyman ■ Bechtel's bill (1294 — 1792), relative to fishing in 
Richmond, county. 
Senator Malby's bill (5-38 — 1049), relative to fishing in certain 
waters of St. Lawrence county. 
Senate Committee's bill (481 — 754), providing that no person 
shall take any wild deer between one-half hour after sunset and 
one-half hour before sunrise. 
. Assemblyman, Cook's bill (1115 — 1470), relative to the close season 
for trout in Erie county. 
Senater Le Fevre's bill (326 — 1041), relative to the close season 
for quail, woodcock and grouse in certain counties. 
Assemblyman Sheldon's bill (1286- 1784), relative to taking black 
ba'-s. 
Assemblyman F. C. Wood's bill (792 — 1832) providing for re- 
stocking the Adirondack region with wild beavers. 
. As^emblvi-nan Cook's bill (1178 — 1594), relati\ e to gray sqviirrels. 
Senator Elon R. Brown's bill (472 — 852), pi escribing a method 
for acquiring land and water for State hatchery purposes. 
A. €♦ A. National Meet, Sugar Island, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, August 5- J 9, 1904. 
Duquesne C. C. 
BY H. W. BREITENSTEIN, DUQUESNE, C. C. 
The Duquesne C._ C. was organized September 25, 
1897, with eight names enrolled: S. B. Hughes Com- 
modore; H. E. McLain, Vice-Commodore; B. Danger- 
The Home of the Duquesne C. C. 
field, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer; H. A. Ross, S. B. Evans, 
G. R. Graham, .H. W. Breitenstein, T. W. Shepard. 
The national colors, with burgee, a blue field and 
horizontal white stripe, containing in red the letters 
D. C. C. were adopted. 
i:iii| m^ll with fiv? oam?§ ^44^4, constituted 
the charter membership, and in the following June, 1898, 
the club bought the Pittsburg Y. C.'s house-boat, which 
they moored in a small cove at Brilliant Station, on the 
Allegheny River, a very pretty pool of two miles to 
the islands. There the missionaries worked faithfully 
in the cause, with only three converts the first season. 
The fleet consisted of two i6ft. cedar boats and one 
2oft. basswood. 
At the annual election. January, 1899, the following 
were re-elected: Com., S. B. Hughes; Vice-Corn., H. 
W. Breitenstein; Sec'y-Treas., R. L. DemmJer. During 
this year the membership increased to about twenty, 
and the fleet to seven canoes, a number of the original 
members dropping out or losing interest; there was 
but little enthusiasm. 
For 1900, S. B. Hughes was re-elected Commodore, 
H. W. Breitenstein Vice-Commodore and W. C. 
Weckerle Secretary-Treasurer. Soon after Commodore 
Hughes resigned office, and H. W; Breitenstein was 
elected to succeed, and H. E. McLain to Vice-Corn. 
The membership gradually decreased and no nev/ ones 
were adm.itted. The ice-damaged house-boat had to 
be beached, and the outlook generally was gloomy. 
For 1901, officers for the year were: Com., H. W. 
Breitenstein (re-elected); Vice-Com., J. Wein: Sec'y- 
Treas., W. C. Weckerle. The election was held after 
a powwow of the six members who attended the meet- 
ing which was called to discuss disbandment. The 
vote resulted in the determination to reorganize and 
be a canoe club, or go broke. At a subsequent meeting 
all dead-woods were asked to resign, and the remain- 
ing few, with only three original members left, pledged 
enough money to buy property and build an up-to-date 
club house, which resulted in the present home of the 
club, now a chartered organization and a full member- 
ship. The club colors, adopted by the new organiza- 
tion, is a gold field with a design of the Allegheny, 
Monoiigahela a.x\i Qhig River-s and Fgrt puquesne in 
The club house was initiated July 4, 1902, by an 
annual meet of the American Canoe Association Central 
Division, and is situated at the foot of a long, winding 
pool on the Allegheny River, at Sylvan Station, ten 
miles from Union Station and accessible by trolley 
cars also. The surroundings are picturesque, the Alle- 
gheny being second to none for beauty, and very popu- 
The Pool— From the Porch of the Duquesne C. C. 
lar as a resort of the members, some of whom live at 
the club during the season. 
In 1902 the club re-elected H. W. Breitenstein for 
Commodore, H. E.. McLain for' Vice-Commodore, arid 
W. C. Weckerle for Secretary-Treasfirer. . , , 
In 1903 W, C, Weckerle wa§ ^lecte4 CQnTiti^odorCj F, 
