FOREST AND STREAM 
[Dec. 2, 1905. 
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Co-Operation on the Delaware. 
The upper Delaware River is an ideal stream for the 
fishermen. Having its source in pure mountain streams, 
its waters flow clear and undefiled, here and there dash- 
ing over rapids and anon forming into pools where the 
sunlight glistens or where the waters lie dark under 
the shadows of the overhanging trees. Realizing the 
capabilities of the Delaware, the Legislatures of the 
three States bordering on its shores have passed legis- 
lation forbiding the use of all destructive appliances 
for fishing in so much of the river as lies above Trenton 
Falls, leaving the rod and line of the angler as the 
only legal method by which fish can be taken. 
Under the protecting aegis of the law, the fish should 
multiply wonderfully and the river afford as fine sport 
as any stream in the eastern section of the country; 
but there is no Eden without a serpent, and in spite 
of the protective laws the fish pirates have done much 
destructive work in depleting the waters of the Dela- 
ware of fish. With the organization of the Depart- 
ment of Fisheries of Pennsylvania two years ago, more 
, energetic measures were taken in the line of protec- 
tion and for breaking up the evil practices of the vio- 
lators of the fish laws. Correspondence was entered 
into with the Fish Commission of New York and New 
Jersey and those officials promptly signified their as- 
sent to co-operate with the Pennsylvania authorities in 
breaking up the piracy on the boundary river. 
The first case to come up was that of a sturgeon 
'fisher in the lower Delaware. Caught red-handed in the 
act of taking immature sturgeon, he escaped from a 
Pennsylvania warden, who was in a rowboat, by the 
superior speed of his naphtha launch. A telegram to 
a New Jersey warden was swifter than a naphtha launch 
engine, and on landing in New Jersey the pirate found 
himself in the hands of a New Jersey warden. From 
the insecure lockup in which he was placed the man 
escaped during the night and hurried to his home in 
Pennsylvania only , to find a Pennsylvania warden close 
upon his heels. Panic striken, he went to Delaware 
where a letter from his wife informed him that a 
requisition from the Governor of Pennsylvania would 
be sent to the Governor of Delaware asking for his 
return. With such a prospect before him, the man con- 
cludefl, like Davie Crocket’s coon, to come down, so 
he surrendered to the Pennsylvania warden and paid 
his fine. 
Last fall Mr. J. S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and Game 
Commissioner of New York, notified the Department 
of Pennsylvania that eel baskets were being placed in 
the Delaware River in the waters lying between New 
York and Pennsylvania. The officials of the Erie Rail- 
road also sent word that an eel weir was reported in 
the Delaware River near one of their stations. Both 
the New York officials and the railroad authorities of- 
fered to co-operate in clearing the river and the De- 
partment of Pennsylvania promptly sent two wardens 
to the spot. On reaching the river at Matamoras, the 
wardens discovered several eel baskets in the river 
with stone dams almost entirely closing the stream so 
that nothing could descend while the eel baskets were 
of a type that would permit little or nothing in the 
way of fish life to get through. Ostensibly built for 
the taking of eels, which fish, the builders said, are so 
very destructive to fish life, there was little that went 
into the baskets that was not [cept by the operators. 
From one basket, it was currently reported, five 
hundred pounds of rock bass had been taken in a night, 
while upon the slats of all of them were stranded num- 
bers of young shad, caught in their efforts to descend 
the' stream. The Pennsylvania wardens one night 
watched the baskets near the Pennsylvania shore and 
wheii.they had sufficient evidence to convict the fishers, 
started to arrest the violators who turned out to be 
R. R. Bowley and W. A. Bond, of Port Jervis, New 
York. 
Not a boat could the wardens secure to take them 
out to the basket as every boat, owner seemed to be 
in sympathy with : the operators of the fish basket. 
Finding that they were detected the two men fled to 
the New York shore, where they were arrested by the 
New York wardens, who turned them over to the 
Pennsylvania officials who had hurried over after them 
over the bridge. 
Unfortunately, the two men could not be held under 
Pennsylvania warrants as they were in the jurisdiction 
of New York, and their attorneys advised them not to 
ret’wn to Pennsylvania for trial. The wardens tele- 
gtaphed their find and a special deputy was sent from 
the Department to the spot. A warrant was sworn 
out for the two men and to this was attached the testi- 
mony of the wardens as to the guilt of the men who 
fished the basket and a requisition was asked for by 
the District Attorney of Pike county. 
The deputy brought this request to Harrisburg when 
it was taken in charge by Mr. William E. Meehan, 
the Commissioner of Eisheries, who presented it to 
Governor Pennypacker, who promptly granted it. 
Armed with this requisition the sheriff of Pike county 
went to Albany, where New York Commissioner 
Whipple took him to Governor Higgins who promptly 
signed the requisition. When the two men learned that 
the wardens were backed up by the authorities of the 
two greatest States in the Union, they concluded that 
the easiest and best way out of it was to go before the 
Justice of the Peace, in Matamoras in Pennsylvania, 
plead guilty and pay their fine of $50 each. 
This was the first move in the decided steps that the 
joint authorities of Pennsylvania, New York and New 
Jersey intend to take in clearing the Delaware River 
of the violators of the fish laws. In the recent cases 
the Pennsylvania authorities are loud in their praise 
of the support that was accorded them by the New 
York authorities and the officials of the railroads. It 
is hoped that this severe lesson will do much to abolish 
the eel ba.skets in the upper Delaware, thus giving 
the young shad a chance to return to the sea, making 
clear stream for the lordly salmon with which it is 
hoped to stock the stream, and leave for the angler 
the gamy bass or its not less gamy companion, the pike 
perch. 
An Anglet^s Golden Wedding. 
The St. Louis Republican of Nov. 22 contains a note 
which we are sure will be interesting tO' the many ang- 
ling friends of the author of “When, Where and How 
to- Catch Fish on the East Coast of Elorida” : 
“Yesterday was the fiftieth wedding anniversary, the 
‘golden wedding,’ of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gregg, 
No’. 3013 Pine street. While scores of friends remem- 
bered the occasion and the house was flooded with flow- 
ers, many gifts in the precious metal, and telegrams and 
notes of congratulation, the day was most informally 
observed by jMr. and Mrs. Gregg, a family dinner at 6 
in the evening being the only festivity. Mrs. Gregg is 
not in the best of health, which precluded a larger and 
more general function, which they had expected might 
include all their many St. Louis friends. 
“Mrs. Gregg was Miss Orian Thompson fifty years 
agO', and belonged to one of the best known and most 
representative families of the city. On Oct. 22 she was 
sixty-nine years old. Mr. Gregg is five years older. 
“This interesting couple, who have been identified with 
the best social and business interests of St. Louis for 
half a century, travel a great deal. They go each winter 
to Florida, where Mr. Gregg has long owned a fine steam 
yacht, the Orian, and on board of which he spends many 
happy hours. He has explored the Florida waters from 
one end to the other, and has written several treatises on 
the fish of Florida, which have given to him a prominent 
place among writers of Waltonian lore. His book on 
the tarnon and some of its kindred is authority. Mr. and 
Mrs. Gregg spend their summers about as far north as 
they go south in the winter. They own a commodious 
cottage in Canada, in the Province of Ontario, at the 
picturesque little point Pennatanguishene, where the hos- 
pitality of “Cedar Knoll,” as it is calle,d is far famed. 
The dinner party guests last evening consisted only of 
members of the Gregg family. They are Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles Hayes, of Canada, who arrived this week for 
the celebration ; Mr. and Mrs. Norris B. Gregg, Mr. and 
Mrs. Ezra Hunt Dyer, Mr. and Mrs. Will Gregg, Miss 
Orian Gregg and the couple’s seven grandchildren.” 
More Light on the Carp Controvefsy. 
Dr. Robert T. Morris, of this city, informed us that 
he had had a discussion on the carp question with the 
Prince of Colloredo-Mannsfield while the latter was in 
this city on a visit, and that the Prince had informed him 
that on his estates the balance of nature in carp waters 
is managed very well by the pike. 
The Prince subsequently informed a Forest and 
Stream representative that while he would be very glad 
tO' give some expression of his opinion on the question, 
he wished first to read in Forest and Stream the dis- 
cussion that has been running through several issues, 
and this he would not haye time to do until his return to 
Austria,_ when he promised to give facts and figures from 
the statistics in his library at home for the information 
of our readers. _ He sailed for home on the 28th inst. 
Among other things he said : 
“Not having with me some statistical notes about carp 
breeding and their relation, as in number, etc., to the 
pike when stocked as in our country, I could only give 
very short and valueless information on this subject. 
After reviewing the discussion relating to the carp and 
the nature of the complaints and their causes, it will then 
give me great pleasure to write a few detailed notes, 
which would, perhaps, be of some interest, and this I will 
do as soon as I arrive home in Austria. 
“It is quite true that we succeed in preventing the carp 
from multiplying through the pike {Esox lucius), and 
the Hungarian pike or fogos ; and that the places where 
we keep the carp for breeding purposes must be kept en- 
tirely free from the pike, but this is only the case in lakes 
or artificial ponds, and I doubt very much if it would 
have any considerable effect in running waters,” 
The Catp to Stay. 
Prince’s Bay, N. Y . — Editor Forest and Stream: In 
the issue of Forest and Stream of Nov, 18 I read the 
carp story. I do not believe it is a story; I put it down 
as an actual fact. Here in our little village a man has 
on his estate a small pond, and he has in every way tried 
to rid it of carp ; he has even, after leaving the pond 
drained for some time, covered the bottom with lime 
and then let the water in slowly; but the quick-lime 
process did not kill the germs ; they are in the pond yet, 
and I agree with W. O. Watson “the carp is here to 
stay.”_ At this time, when some people are praising the 
qualities of carp, I wish Forest and Stream would re- 
publish the fact about the man that was black bass fish- 
ing and caught a carp, put a willow twig through his 
.gills and stuck the twig in the mud beside the river. 
Four years aftenvard, going by the same spot, he noticed 
the willow had taken root and the carp was in the top 
of the tree alive and well. Of course, there are more 
details to this fact, and if you cannot recall the circum- 
stances I think I can rewrite it word for word. *** 
New Toffc League. 
Seneca Falls, N. Y. — We want you one and all, and 
if you have at heart the objects for which the League was 
formed, a hearty welcome awaits you. Our next annual 
meeting will be held at Syracuse on Dec. 7, 1905, and we 
hope for a full representation from all parts of the State. 
Won’t you see that your particular section is represented 
at that meeting, either by an organized club, or by indi- 
vidual sportsmen? Full information and application 
blanks will be sent you by either our secretary or the 
undersigned, W e want every county in the State repre- 
sented. Do not delay action but let us hear from you at 
once. If unable to perfect organization so soon, come to 
the meeting and thus lend strength to the cause. 
Ernest G. Gould, Seretary. 
THE KING’S CUP. 
King Edward VII. of Great Britain has become a 
patron of American sport. The presenting of the cup, of 
which he has made the New York Y. C. custodian, tO' be 
raced for annually off Newport, is a very gracious act, 
and it has immediately given him a place in the hearts of 
all American yachtsmen. 
From the remarks made by Commodore Bourne at the 
special meeting of the New York Y. C. on last Monday 
evening, it is easy to trace the course of events which led 
up to the presentation of the trophy by His Majesty. 
When the foreign entries in the trans- Atlantic race for 
the German Emperor’s Ocean Cup arrived at New York, 
their owners received cards and invitations for all the 
good clubs in town extending the courtesies to^ them. 
Among the visitors was Lord Crawford, owner of the 
fine British auxiliary Valhalla. Lord Crawford spent the 
larger part of his time at the New York Y. C. He was 
interested in the fine library and the magnificent collec- 
tion of models; and then again he found there many men 
with .whom he had much in common. In a word, the club 
house’ and its atmosphere proved to be most congenial. 
Many of the club members got to know him well and all 
werr attracted by his charm of manner his unassuming 
ways and his wide knowledge of the sea. Lord Craw- 
ford’s contact with the members enabled him to learn 
their desires, ambitions and hopes in sO' far as the club 
and its future was concerned, and he perhaps was better 
able to advise King Edward regarding the trophy, which 
he has just presented, than any other Englishman that 
has ever visited here. 
The conditions governing the trophy are sufficiently 
clear to avoid complications, yet explicit enough to insure 
good clean racing. 
As the annual contests wil] take place off Newport 
during the cruise, this will make the cruise a more pop- 
ular one than ever, and intrenches Newport more firmly 
as a great yachting center. 
Schooners and sloops of about 60ft. waterline are now 
finding favor in the eyes of those building new vessels, 
and the conditions permit such craft to com.pete. 
The whole idea was a very happy .one and we hope the 
consummation of the project will be as satisfactory as 
was its conception by King Edward and Lord Crawford. 
It is pertinent to recall that King Edward, then Prince 
of Wales, was at the head of the Royal Yacht Squadron 
when the Dunraven episode occurred ; and his attitude in 
presenting this cup is a complete vindication of the New 
York Y. C. in connection with that unfortunate affair, if, 
indeed, any was necessary so far as he was concerned. 
AN OCEAN RACE FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO 
HONOLULU. 
Interest in. ocean racing has extended to the Pacific 
coast and on June next a fleet of yachts hailing from the 
Hawaiian Islands and California ports will start on the 
2,100-mile race from San Francisco to Honolulu. 
While there are many enthusiasts who indulge in yacht- 
ing on the Pacific, the sport has hardly made the progress 
there that it has in the East, and the fleet will not 
rival the one which sailed from Sandy Hook last May 
in the race across the Atlantic for the Kaiser’s Ocean 
Cup. However, it is just such races as this th/'.t will lay 
the foundation for a large fleet of off-shore cruisers, and 
the more men that support it and do their part as indi- 
viduals the greater the success the first race will be,. 
