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on the North Jetty, where a comfortable cot and a good 
cook are furnished at reasonable rates; there is a boat 
, to. the Pavilion twice or oftener a day. Then there are 
numerous combination power and sail boats with good 
sailors which can be had at very reasonable rates. 
The Tarpon Club sends out a boat for its members 
twice a day at 5 A. M. and i P. M. to the fishing ground, 
and a sober set of fishermen — most of whom have fished 
■overi.thirty years — compose the club and are ready to 
swap yarns, share bait aiul compare tackle with the 
fisherman stranger in our waters. G. E. MAnn, 
One of the Club. 
.written me by both the town clerk and the postmaster of 
Orleans, Mass. 
.There, lies before me as I write this a letter from the 
U. S. Fish Commissioner, in which he states : "An 
assistant of this" Cominission has seen several specimens 
of bass in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, which 
weiglied. 125 pounds, which seems to be about the 
maximum." 
The article is full of similar errors. Where are we to 
look for facts, if not in books of the character of "Forest, 
Lake and River" ? Daniel B. Fearing. 
The Striped Bass. 
. Newport, R. I., March g.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
Since writing you in December last concerning Dr. Heber 
Bishop's article on the striped bass (see Forest and 
Stream December 24, 1904), m "Forest, Lake and River; 
the Fishes of New England and Eastern Canada," by 
Frank M. Johnson. Boston, 1902, I have discovered the 
following facts : 
Giinther in. his 'Tntroduction to the Study of Fishes," 
Edinburgh, 1880. says : 
"The best known European species is Lahrax lupus, 
common on the British coasts. It is a voracious fish, with 
a remarkably large stomach, and received from the ancient 
Romans the appropriate name of lupus. By the Greeks it 
was so highly esteemed that Archestratus termed this, or 
one of the twO' other closely allied species taken near 
.Milet, 'offspring of the Gods.' " (Giinther evidently looked 
up his authority before quoting.) 
G. Brown Goode ("American Fishes," Boston. N. D.— 
The. prologue is dated 1886), writing on Roccus lineatus, 
quotes Giinther as above. It is undoubtedly by a printer's 
error that he calls the poet Archetratus instead of Arches- 
tratus. But having made the quotation, he distinctly says : 
"So writes Giinther, concerning the bass of Europe, the 
Xa/?(9a< and the Lupus of classical literature." 
.Dr. Bishop in his article applies this to the striped 
bass, misspelling the poet's name and showing clearly that 
he had not taken the trouble to verify the quotation. 
F'urther on he states that "they [striped bass] run up the 
Mississippi as far as St. Louis." Goode makes the same 
statement, giving Charles Hallock as his authority. But 
he qualifies this as follows : "It seems probable that Mr. 
Hallock Avas mistaken by the resemblance of this species 
to the 'brassy bass' — Roccus intcrniptus — which abounds 
throughout the Mississippi Valley." Since Goode made 
this, statement in 1886, it has been pretty conclusively 
proved by the U. S. Fish Commission that Roccus lineatus 
is not "found as far up the Mississippi as St. Louis." 
Then again he states that "the largest on record was 
taken at Orleans, Massachusetts, weighing a hundred and 
twelve poimds." This statement is also made without any 
attempt to verify it. As a matter of fact, the 112-pound 
fish taken at Orleans weighed 120 pounds, and was 
caught in shoal water between the Town Cove and 
Nausett Harbor, having been stranded by the falling tide. 
This fish was taken by Air. Geo. T. Smith, of Eastham, 
Alass., some forty odd years ago. This information was 
Salmon River Possibilities. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In Forest and Stream for March 11, I find in the 
editorial article on the subject of "Water Pollution and 
Fish," the statement that mill interests are so enormous 
and so powerful that it is practically impossible to cope 
with them. There is one place in which the matter 
can be dealt with to the advantage of salmon fisher- 
men at present, and in just one way. The first six 
rivers to the west of the St. Croix River in Maine arc 
all natural salmon streams, and a few salmon ascend 
as far as to the dams every year still, in spite of saw- 
dust and slabs. The country has been lumbered so 
thoroughly that the mill properties can now be bought 
at rates which would allow salmon fishermen to take 
charge of the mills and of the streams. The mills 
could be managed in such a way as to make some re-" 
turn upon the investment, and the sawdust and slabs 
could be burned. None of the dams are high enough 
to make the placing of fishways expensive. All of the 
streams contain fine trout, and in the spring there 
is a run of herrings. 
I have been told by residents, that with the exception 
of Denny's River, no salmon fishermen ever visit these 
waters. Now that salmon fishing is being sought so 
eagerly by men who have the means to buy up mill 
properties and restore streams to their original beauty 
and value, it may be well to keep these Maine rivers 
in mind. I had the offer of one mill property, to- 
gether with control of all of the salmon water, and 
several thousand acres of culled timber land that will 
become valuable again, for about $20,000, and would 
have taken it, excepting for the fact that I have so 
many other interests that it would have been impossible 
to give the time to the development of this stream. 
These streams are all so near, and so naturally at- 
tractive, that they ought to be in the hands of men 
who would do for them what would be done with the 
same w-aters in Europe; and I will give details to any 
one who cares to call and discuss the matter. 
Robert T. Morris. 
New York, March 15. 
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receive attention. We have no other office. 
Legislation at Albany. 
.Albany, Marcti 19.— Bills amending the game laws have just 
been introduced in the Senate as follo'vs: 
Senator Armstrong (Int. No. 684), amending Section 17S so as 
tr, direct the game protector to destroy nets or other devices un- 
lawfully used;, also provided that the Forest, Fish and Ganie 
Com.mission may direct a game protector to retain certain nets 
and seines for the use of the State fish hatcheries. 
Senator Goodsell (Int. No. 710), amending Section 29a so as to 
provide tliat no person shall take in the county of Orange more 
than twelve eacii of woodcock, grouse and quail at any one time 
or on any one day, nor shall any one person take in that county 
in any one calendar year more than six of either variety of such 
birds. 
The Senate has advanced to third reading the following bills: 
Senator Prime's (Int. No. 98), providing for restocking the 
Adirondack region with wild moose. 
Senator Alld's (Int. No. 486), providing for the publication of 
the forest, fish and game law, as amended by the Legislature of 
19C5. 
The ^ Senate has passed the bill of Assemblyman Foster (Int. 
No. 262) amending Section 48 so as to provide that muskallonge less 
than twenty inches in length shall not be possessed or taken, 
and if taken, shall, without injury, be immediately returned to 
the water where taken. 
Bills just introduced in the Assembly are the following: 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1076), amending Section 112 so 
as to forbid the use of nets which have meshes less than six-inch 
bar in Jamaica Bay and adjacent waters. 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1079) amending Section 113 so 
as, to provide that there shall be in Coney Island Creek at low 
tide a passage not obstructed by nets not less than ten feet wide. 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1075), amending Section 139 so 
as to provide that for a violation of Section 127 a penalty of $60 
shall be imposed, and to an additional penalty of $10 for each 
lobster taken or possessed in violation thereof, for every other 
violation of said article of a penalty of $100. 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1077), amending Section 23 so 
as .to provide that no person shall take more than thirty-six wood- 
cock in an open season. 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1078), amending Section 173 so 
as to give game protectors power to execute commitments issued 
for the violation of the forest, fish and game law, and allowing 
them, without a search warrant, to examine the contents of any 
building other than a private dwelling house. 
Assemblyman Reeve (Int. No. 1074), amending Section 27 so 
as to forbid the offering for sale of grouse or woodcock taken 
without the State, except as provided now by law. 
Assemblyman Bedell (Inf. No. 1087), amending Section 29a so 
as to _ provide that woodcock, grouse and quail shall not be 
taken in Orange county for the purpose of selling or offering for 
sale the same. 
Assemblyman F. G. Wood (Int. No. 1181) amending Section 29b so 
as to forbid the taking, in Orange county, of more than twelve 
woodcock, grouse and quail each, at any one time or any one 
day, or more than thirty-six of either- variety of such birds in a 
calendar year. 
The Assembly has advanced to third reading the following 
bills: 
Assemblyman F. G. Whitney's (Int. No. 1019), allowing the use 
of tip-ups and set-lines in fishing through the ice in Big Sandy 
Pond, Oswego county. 
Assemblyman F. G. ^^'hitney's (Int. No. 784), allowing the use 
of nets from July 15 to Sept. 1 in Lake Ontario, in the towns of 
Sandy Creek and Richland, Oswego county, with certain re- 
strictions. 
Assemblyman Stevens' (Int. No. 1006), making the close season 
for trout in Rensselaer, Warren and Washington counties from 
Sept. 1 to April 30, both inclusive. 
Assemblyman Apgar's (Int. No. 866), relative to the close season 
for deer in certain counties. 
Assemblyman Hubbs' (Int. No. 113) relating to wildfowl on Long 
Island and in certain counties (spring shooting bill). 
Assemblyman Reeve's (Int. No. 115), relative to penalties. 
The Assembly has passed the following bills: 
Assemblyman F. C. Woods', (Int. No. 428), relative to the 
compensation of game protectors. 
Assemolyman Gray's (Int. No. 263), relative to the close season 
for squirrels in certain counties. 
Assemblyman Gray's (Int. No. 264), relative to the close season 
for trout in Dutchess covmty. 
The Cruise of Whitecap. 
i . BY L. S. TIEMANN. 
Aug. U to Sept. 7, 1903. 
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Cottage City is the ideal harbor for small boats. 
It is artificial, being a small lake, with a passage cut 
through the beach and protected by jetties. The Gov- 
ernment has thoughtfully put down barrel moorings 
for cruising yachtsmen, a custom that might be fol- 
lowed to advantage elsewhere. The next day -we again 
planned to make the run to Nantucket, but were once 
more disappointed. The high wind and frequent squalls 
through the night was still much too vigorous in the 
morning to make the thought of 25 miles of rough 
water agreeable. Knowing that these delays would 
have to be made up later on, if we persisted in carry- 
ing out our intention of going to Nantucket and Cape 
. Cod, it seemed the part of wisdom to cut these out and 
hea^d .toward home. This gave us two extra days which 
caine in useful later on, and we had no occasion to re- 
gret our decision. Our revised plan made Cuttyhunk 
the. next stop, and reference to the invaluable current 
table showed that a start after lunch would enable us 
to reach there easily before dark. Starting with double- 
reefed mainsail, we soon had both reefs out and were 
making fine time, with a quartering breeze and the full 
strength of the flood tide, for Quicks Hole. We choose 
this for its size and because it looked easier than the 
Other passages; but experience is a great teacher, and 
we^^ should now be better satisfied to try one of the 
snfaller openings. When fairly in the passage, we be- 
gan to get the full strength of the wind, from wliich 
we had been sheltered before by the islands, and abreast 
of 'the Can Buoy- had to stand' by the main sheet to 
ease her in the puffs, there being no chance to luff. 
On 'the .Bu/zard's l]ay side we had to take a very 
uncomfortable shaking up, as the strong northeast 
wind, blowing against the strength of the flood tide, 
kicked up a nasty chop, and with the sail we were 
carrying, gave us a very wet quarter of an hour. Once 
the sea scame on board both fore and aft at the same 
time,_ wetting us down pretty thoroughly. As soon as 
possible, we worked to the west out of the rip and 
lowered the mainsail. Having only a short distance 
to go to reach Cuttyhunk, we made it fast to save the 
trouble of reefing, using the jib to run into the harbor, 
where we -made that fast also and started the engine. 
A good-sized sea, caused by the northeast wind, was 
running into the harbor, and, not wishing to repeat our 
Bristol experience of lying all night in rough water, 
we determined to get into the inner harbor or "Pond" 
if we could manage it, but were not very confident of 
success, both the Government Chart (No. 112) and 
Eldridge's Harbor Chart (No. 12) showing only one' 
foot of water at the entrance, while we were drawing 
about 3ft. 6in. We ran the engine slow and kept work- 
ing the lead, until we had less than 6ft., and then an- 
chored. I took the dinghy and rowed in, following as 
nearly as I could the cou'-se I had seen a fishing 
boat take, that went in just before we anchored. Inside 
I found a fisherman v.dio said he did not think we could 
get over the bar until high water at about 10 o'clock; 
and I was about to row out again, when a launch, lying 
close by, hailed me, and a man, who afterward turned 
out to be a New Bedford pilot, told me he had just 
come in drawing 3ft. 6in:, and thought if we followed 
the channel, which was marked by some floats I had 
seen outside, we could get in without trouble. I ai 
once rowed out, sounding every few yards with an 
oar, and found that the bar was only about soyrds. wide 
and seemed to have enough water over it for us to get 
across, so we hauled up the anchor and set the engine 
going at half speed, We touched twice, but were able 
to push off, and in twenty minutes were at anchor in 
12ft. of water, so clear that we could see the anchor 
on bottom. 
Cuttyhunk is exceedingly quaint. A dozen or so 
fishermen's cottages scattered about on a steep hill- 
side in no particular order, and with no apparent way 
of reaching them, except through neighbors' gardens; 
not a horse on the island, and only one primitive little 
church with a bell rung by the' first parishoner at the 
meeting. The settlement, as we scrambled up the ir- 
regular paths, gave very little promise of gratifying our 
appetites which grew while we climbed toward the 
house pointed out as the only one serving meals; h\xt 
Mrs. Allen had prepared dinner for some fishermen, 
who had not returned from the day's sport. We 
arrived, and, with true New England thrift, Mrs. A — 
said it would be too bad to let the dinner get cold— 
we kept it warm. 
The island is well worth a visit, but I should not 
recommend calling there in a small boat, imless of 
suffi.ciently shoal draft to .gel inside, the anchorage 
being wide open to the north and east, and even fron; 
the south there is no protection from the wind, only a 
strip of beach separating the harbor, so-called, from 
Vineyard Sound. There is no other shelter near, and 
any one caught there in a blow would simply have to 
take whatever came. 
The 27th was to be a banner day, with 45 miles of 
outside sailing to Block Island. We naturally wished 
to start as early as possible and avoid any chance of 
being caught between ports after dark; but 7 o'clock 
was the earliest we could hope to have water enough 
to get over the bar. Under these circumstances, 
patience became a necessity and we killed time until 
we could start, in vain hopes that the breeze, which 
showed signs of giving out, would hold after we were 
under way. Promptly at 7 o'clock we bumped over 
the bar, and once more in deen water lost no time in 
hoisting sail. The wind was evidently failing, but gave 
us about 4 miles an hour until 9 o'clock, when it be- 
came a case of engine or drife, and we chose the 
former. The compass course from Cuttyhunk to Block 
Island' is W. by S., but we decided to steer W. by N., 
calculating that the flood tide in the morning would set 
us toward Sakonnet and we would there catch the ebb 
out of -the river, and later out of Narragansett Bay, 
carrying us in a circle, never more than 5 or 6 miles 
from land. It was deadly monotonous with nothing to 
do but listen to the noise of the engine, and about 2 
o'clock, when we saw a little breeze coming out of 
Narragansett Bay, we had great hopes that we should 
have a fair wind for the remainder of the day, but it 
only lasted an hour and at no time blew hard enough 
to encourage us to stop the engine. Our course of 
W. by N. carried us around a circle just as we had 
figured it would, and at 2:30, when about 5 miles east 
of Point Judith, v/e picked up Block Island, shifting 
our course to W. S. W. to carry us around the bell 
buoy on the north end. Rounding the buoy, we made 
the mistake of trying to cut it too fine, and were al- 
most swept back over the bar. The tide, which had 
begun to flood, was running so strong that we were 
barely able to work away, and it took us fully an hour 
to get far enough out of the current to head for the 
harbor, which we reached at 6 o'clock. We had ac- 
complished the run undertaken; but it was certainly 
not the pleasantest day of our trip. An engine is all 
right_ for getting in and out of harbor, but no launches 
in mine. After our experience, of the strength of the 
current on the way in, we had no desire to be caught 
belween Block Island and JMontatik Point on the ebb 
