Nov. i8, 1905.] 
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Ouananiche in Lake St. John. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Regarding Mr. E. T. D. Chambers and his correspon- 
dent who desires information about the ouananiche fish- 
ing in Lake St. John, I would like to add my mite for 
what it is worth. I believe there is no better authority 
on fishing than Mr. Chambers, and I have a nutnber of 
times availed myself of his generous offer to furnish any 
information in his power. 
The early part of last September, with my wife and a 
couple of gentlemen, I went to Lake St. John, expecting 
some rare sport with the landlocked, but the trip was a 
decided failure and disappointment, as we never saw a 
single fish. One reason was that they seemed very 
scarce, or would not bite ; that the water was so low it 
was impossible to get to the grounds; the hotels were 
closed and men were unprocurable. The worst part of 
all this was that we did not know of these facts until on 
the ground, information which, I think, should have been 
sent us before we started, as accommodations and men 
were engaged ahead of time. Even at the Hudson Bay 
post, Pointe Bleue, we could get no guides. From these 
circumstances and from talking with the natives I have 
formed the conclusion that the ouananiche of Lake St. 
John are not as plentiful as supposed, or in other words, 
that the place is fished out. The drain has been very 
great in the last few years, and even the hatchery could 
not stand it. I understand that hatching ouananiche has 
been discontinued and salmon has taken its place. 
I believe there are fine rivers comparatively easy of 
access in the Labrador peninsula, where the ouananiche 
can be found, and it is my desire to find some next sea- 
son. Let me say, that when we found it impossible to 
fish the Grand Discharge or elsewhere at that time we 
retraced our steps somewhat and at Lake Edward, on 
the Quebec & Lake St. John Railroad, had the best 
brook trout fishing that the most enthusiastic could wish 
for, and the camps, men and food as furnished by Mr. 
Rowley, who conducts them, were the best. The charges 
were reasonable and the fishing fine. For one wanting 
large trout and comfortable accommodations where a 
woman can enjoy it, I know of no better place. Tire 
members of. our party were far from expert, but caught 
all vve could use and, more, sending the surplus to the 
hotel at the station. One fish weighed 4. pounds, a few 
at 3 and from that down, and we would have had largei 
fish, the guides told us, had we gone earlier or later, 
September being spawning time, and_ most of the fish 
consequently indisposed. This is written for no other 
purpose than to tell fishermen the truth and facts as we 
found them. Stephen P. M. Tasker. 
Philadslphia, Pa 
Keeping Fish Alive. 
Consul-General Guenther, of Frankfort, GermMy. 
writes : “It is reported that the French naturalists, Bil- 
lard and Bruyant, have rnade a discovery with reference 
to keeping fish alive, which may be of practical im- 
portance. . If 
“The reported discovery concerns a tiny alga, by itselt 
not visible" to the naked eye, which po_sesses _ the remark- 
able property to preserve the water in which it exists 
in a state of great purity for an almost unlimited period. 
The little plant possesses also the advantage of multiply- 
ing rapidly, and thrives in almost all kinds of fresh 
water To the naked eve the presence of these algse is 
, noticeable through the ' brilliantly green color of the 
water, provided it contains a large number of thern. i he 
two scientists have succeeded iti keeping brook trout 
alive in a large-sized vessel for six weeks, so that their 
taste at the end of this period did not appear to be im- 
paired in the least. This is all the more remarkable as 
It is well known that otherwsie brook trout can only be 
kept alive in running water. Leeches have been kept 
alive by the same process one and one-half years without 
change' of the water. Experiments have already been 
made to make practical use of the discovery for the trans- 
portalion of live fish. . 
“Live brook trout, for instance, were shipped by rail, 
tlie journey consuming seven hours, at a temperatuie of 
2^^ degrees, m vessels filled with W3.ter to which these 
a]c-?c had been added. The trout were all fresh upon 
arrival, while of others, shipped at the same time m pure 
water 11(4 containing these alg£e, not a single trout arrived 
alive The explanation of this phenomenon is probably 
that these algie, like other green plants, decompose the 
carbonic acid exhaled by the fish, and so reoxidize the 
water. The two scientists are also of the opinion that 
the algae also render the poison, which may have been 
secreted by the fish, harmless.” 
A Tame Eel. 
Editor Forest and Stream: , 
A recent article on this interested me much, in the 
rotunda of a hospital in Cincinnati is a large granite 
basin supplied wdth clear and cold well water friam a 
bronze figure of a boy standing on top of a large 
oranite block and holding in an uplifted hand_ a leaking 
boot. About the base of the large block which is sup- 
ported by iron standards, so that it is about six inches 
above the bottom of the basin, are piled loose fragments 
of o-ranite. rvith interstices for the passage of fish, in 
tbe'^ basin are a number of bass, sunfish, small carp, 
minnows and gold fish. There were also two eels, one 
verv large, and two turtles. I fed them two to three 
tim'es a rveck on meat finely cut, bread crumbs, etc , 
and during the summer occasional grasshoppers and 
moths from about tbe arc lights. They became quite 
tame, and rvould come with a rush to take their food, 
and many of the bss and sunfish would take it from the 
hand as' would one turtle and the larger eel This 
eel o-rew remarkable tame. It rvould not only take 
mcarfrom the hand, but allow rubbing with a stick or 
the hand and rvould seem to enioy it and turn over on 
its sMe for piore, and finally could be lifted out of the 
water and rvould not attempt to get away. Many of 
the fish seemed to have regular habitats m some nook 
nmon<^ the rocks. It was an interesting study. 
S. Whitaker. 
Codfish Taken with the Fly. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
There is a long narrow inlet of the ocean running 
from Halifax Harbor to the northwest, called North- 
west Arm, in which during May and June there is good 
fly-fishing for pollock. At the junction of the arm and 
harbor is an extensive shoal, Point Pleasant Shoal, on 
which at low tide there is about three to six feet of 
water. This is good ground for trailing. Last June I 
was casting for pollock and getting none, but to my 
great surprise I raised and killed six codfish, rangurg 
from two to six pounds. This is the first time anything 
of the kind has occurred here, at least as far as I can 
find out. 
Will your piscatorial experts kindly say if the occur- 
rence is known to any of them. G. I. Miller. 
Association, which was held at headquarters, Oct. 23 to 
28, with a recorded grandest week’s sport that ever took 
place in this State, there being some six States repre- 
sented in famous sportsmen and packs, and 125 riders, 
with no blanks in a lyeek’s chase, but from one to three 
foxes caught every chase, and yet without a least serious 
accident to man or horse. The hotel also owns kennels 
of. fine dogs,, which are ready for the guests when needed, 
also guides are provided. 
During the Christmas holidays there will be another 
rather informal fox chase meet here, owing to the popu- 
lar ‘demand generated during the October hunt, when 
there were some 125 hunters and other guests. The next 
annual meet will . be Nov. i of next year. Col. W. P. 
Hughes is president of the Virginia-Carolina Fox Hunt- 
ers’ Association, and Mr. E. W. Overbey, of Boydton, 
Va., the famous fox hunter and foxhound breeder, is sec- 
retary and treasurer. W. E. D. 
International Fisheries Conference. 
Seattle, Wash., Nov. ii. — The International Fisheries 
Conference, after adopting a resolution 1 equesting the 
fish commissioners of Washington and British Colurnbia 
to prepare complete data on the run and pack of sock- 
eye salmon for a number of years past, adjourned 
yesterday. This was the only recommendation made 
by the commission, the Canadian members refusing to 
take up the question of a close year. Both fish com- 
missioners were present at the conference, and stated 
that the work of preparing the requested data would be 
commenced at. once. 
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Tclegony. 
Editor Forest and Stream: / . 
' The paper on “The Tr.ansmission of Acquirements in 
3^our Oct. 28 issue, while strong throughout, and to a 
layman Convincing in general, is -very far wrong in deal- 
ing with telegony. 
The fact seems to be that this phenomenon, while ex- 
ceedingly rare, does occur but only in a very small per- 
centage of cases of mesalliances. Some years since, I 
collected statistics very carefully and thoroughly, extend- 
ing my inquiries for about' two years, and as you. Mi. 
Editor, are aware, I knew lots and lots of dog men in 
those daySj and I got but one case that was thoroughly 
establisb.ed, and one more that seemed possibly to be a 
case of telegony, but there were se'veral chances of super- 
foetation; and, as I remember, this one case was offset 
by over 200 cases of mesalliances, where telegony did not 
show. And while the percentage of occurrences of tele- 
gony in my statistical effort was only One-half of one 
per cent., it must further be remembered that instances 
where it does show are remembered, from the very faxt 
of their unusual nature, while where it is not shown the 
matter is forgotten as just the usual rule. ^ 
'Hylr. Reid is eminently correct in saying that the 
mother is not changed by a mongrel alliance; thM 
precious bit of rot has been championed, but only by 
“changes in cell structure” and “all the formulas and 
phrases that opnress her” (Science). 
It is- probably twenty years since Dr. Jonathan Hutchin- 
son. (I think he was President of^ the British Medical 
Society ; anyhow, he was a highly distinguished man) set 
forth the theory that explains telegony, and does not lug 
in ..“changes in cell structure,”, etc., ad nauseam. In the 
words of a layman, it is about this: At the time of the 
mongrel union, the stroma is abnormally thin, a sperm 
penetrates it, and reaches an ovum only developed to the 
extent of' the outer layer, from which the skin is evolved, 
and fertilizes that ovum to the extent of giving life to 
that layer (I wish I could remember the name of that 
layer; it is a “blast” of some kind, but I forget whether it 
is the “epiblast” or another one) ; at the next union, with 
a sire of her own breed, or race, that partially fertilized 
ovum- is ripe, is fertilized, and in all other “blasts” but 
this outer one, takes the form and type due to the last 
• mated pair. 
This fact thoroughly accounts for the fact that telegony 
is invariably shown oulv in the skin (or the haii, an 
appanage of the skin). The pug bitch, who underwent a 
“clrange in cell structure” through a rough-haired ter- 
rier’s assistance; at her next litter, got by a pug, had one 
puppy with the coat to be expected of a terrier-pug; but 
z\\ conformation was that of the pug. 
I thoroughly believe that Mr. Reid is entirely correct 
in scouting that moonshine nonsense of “maternal im- 
pressions”' affecting the progeny. I have never seen or 
heard of a case where that was alleged, that it w^as not 
self-evidently the plain results of a mongrel union if 
facts were at all fully given. Somebody may cite Herbert 
Spencer in support of telegony, and Charles Darwin as 
affirming “mental impressions.” But Mr. Spencer stated 
that they accepted statements oj others, whom he sup- 
posed knew what they were talking about, and when Mr. 
Everett Millais and some more got after those sources of 
“information” they .shut up like clams, and “did not wish 
to be involved in any controversy” (wise that), and Mr. 
Darwin’s instance of a greyhound bitch, in heat, follow- 
ing her master riding along the public road, teased by a 
mongrel on the wav. and although served by a thorough- 
bred greyhound, threw a litter of mongrels, would cause 
a dog man to ask whether that bitch was ever five min- 
utes out of her master’s sight? Wm. Wade. 
Garment, Pa., Nov. 4. 
The Mecklenburg Meet, 
Chase City, Va,. Nov. 9 . — The sportsmen accustomed 
to 'the finest fall fields sport of the Mecklenburg are here 
with the first flushes and have not missed a day’s shoot- 
ingC-since the opening of the season, Nov. i, and are bag- 
ging daily from one to three dozen birds. 
TheAveather, fields and roads are in perfect condition, 
and the sport could not be better. The hotel game pre- 
ser\Ts 'are 18,000 acres. The Mecklenburo- hounds are 
fanioiis', and have had field practice all the season, foj the 
Mecklenburg meet of the Virginiq-Carolina Fox Hunters 
Points and Flushes. 
The Imperial Bloodhound Kennels, Danbury, Conn. 
(Dr. Knox, proprietor), advertises puppies in our busi- 
ness columns, and for this stock Dr. Knox gives assur- 
ance of character and breeding, and of excellence for 
bench show or trailing. 
^‘Only a Dog.” 
The New York Times says: “A three-masted bark 
(who ever heard of a bark with only one or even two 
masts) believed to be the Orion,” ancl then goes on to 
tell that she was passed in midocean by the White Star 
Liner Teutonic. “The officers leveled their glasses on 
the craft but not a sign of life was seen unless a black 
object that some thought w'as a dog; was, in fact, the 
Orion’s mascot.” 
We should like to kno-vv, and others would like to 
know also, how those officers who “leveled their glasses,” 
,lhe steamer being “within five miles _ of the derelict,” 
could have definitely settled in their minds whether that 
“black object” w'as not the colored cook, and if it was 
only “a dog,” why they did not rescue the dog, it would 
not have cut down the steamer’s “record” more than 
half an hour to have learned definitely if there was any 
.luunan or animal life on board. 
The Teutonic must be provided with very powerful 
binoculars to solve such an important problem to the 
■satisfaction of conscience and the dictates' of humanity 
at a distance of “five miles.” Many a small boat has 
been sent from a ship to rescue a dog from a derelict, be- 
cause the captain of the ship loved dogs and would not 
permit one to perish at sea, when it cotdd be s'aved by a 
few minutes’ delay in the voyage. 
Many’s- the dog that has saved a ship, because God 
had given it an intelligence superior to the man who 
commanded the ship upon which he made his home. We 
have records to prove this statement. There may not 
have been a dog on the Orion, but it would have re- 
dounded to the credit of the captain' of the Teutonic if 
he had been sure that there was not, when it was thought 
that there was one on her lonely decks and des'erted, 
' ■“whence all but him had fled.” — American Shipbuilder. 
Officers of A. C. A., t906. 
(Assumed office Oct. 1, 1905.) 
Commodore — H. Lansing Quick, Yonkers, N. Y. . 
Secretary — William W. Clrosby, Brighton Mills, Passaic. N. T. 
Treasurer — Frederic G. Mather, 164 Fairfield A've., Stamford, Conn. 
ATLANTIC DIVISION. 
I’ice-Commodore — Woolsey Carmalt, S2 Beaver St., Neiv York. 
Kear-Commodore — Matthias Ohlmeyer, Francis H. Leggett & Co., 
128 Franklin St., New York. 
Purser — George S. Morrisey, 73 Mercer St., New York. 
Executive Committee— William A. Furman, 846 Berkeley Ave., 
Trenton. N. J. ; Louis C. Kretzmer, Schepp Building, New 
York; Clifton T. Mitchell, 46 E. Sedgwick St., Germantown, 
Pa. 
Board of Governors— Robert T. Wilkin, 211 Clinton St., Brooklyn. 
Racing Board— Daniel B. Good.sell, 36 Washington Sq., New York. 
CENTRAL DIVISION. 
ice-Commodore — Flenry R. Ford, 45 N. Division St., BufIalo,N.Y. 
tear-Commodore — Edward H. Demmler, 526 Smithfield St., Pitts- 
bur°^, Pfl. 
’urser— B. ' Irving Rouse, 981 Lake Ave.. Rochester, N. Y. 
executive Cemmittee— Tohn S. Wright, 519 West Ave., Rochester, 
N. Y. ; Lyman T. Coppins, 691 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y. ; Jesse 
T. Armstrong, Rome,- N. Y. 
toard of Governors— Charles P. Forbush, 164 Crescent Ave., 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
EASTERN DIVISION. 
\ ice-Commodore — H. M. S, Aiken, 45 Milk St., Boston, Mass. 
Rear-Commodore— Frank S. Chase. Manchester, N. H. 
Purser— Edgar Ward, 112 Highland St., West Newton, Mass. 
Executive Committee— Daniel S. Pratt, Jr., 178 Devonshire St., 
Boston, Mass.; Arthur G. Mather, 84 South St., Medford, 
Mass.; H. L. Backus, 472 Lowell St.. Lawrence, Mass. 
Racing Board— Paul Butler, U. S. Cartridge Co., Lowell, Mass.; 
Herman D. Murphy, alternate. 
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\ ice-Commodore— J. McDonald Mowat, Kingston, Ont., Canada. 
Rear-Commodore— James W. Sparrow, Toronto, Canada. 
Purser— Russell H. Britton, Gananoque, Ont., Canada. 
Executive Committee— Charles E. Britton. Gananoque, Ont., Can. 
Board of Governors— John N. MacKendrick, Galt, Ont., Canada. 
Raring Board— J. McDonald Mowat, Kingston, Out., Canada. 
WESTERN DIVISION.. 
ice-Commodore — Tohn A. Berkey, St. Paul, Minn. 
ear-Commodore— Lucien Wulsin, The Baldwin Co., 142 West 
Fourth St.,' Cincinnati, O. . „ „ 
■iirser- Wade Hampton Yardley, 49 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. 
Paul. ISTinn. 
xecutive Committee— George H. Gardner, 149 Kennard St.. Cleve- 
land. O.; Augustus W. Friese, The Journal, Chicago, 111. 
card of Governors— Henry C. Morse, Peoria. 111. 
acing Board— Frank B. Huntington, 90 Sheboygan St., Fond-du- 
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