THE PISHING GAZETTE 
[Februart 11, 1893 
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fishing, or golfing. It is very thick yet light, and 
one can almost say weatherproof, so defiant is it 
of storm and cold. The Ashiestiel Cheviot Tweed 
is rather finer in ([uality. One, in two shades of 
brown, would make a very stylish travelling cos¬ 
tume or cloak. The Cranite Tweed also makes 
up very well. One of these has a dark brown 
ground, flaked with light brown, green, and 
red; it would make a very pretty bride’s travel¬ 
ling dress. Another, in two tones of grey, would 
look very effective for travelling if trimmed with 
dark grey or black velvet. The Lucy Bertram 
costume cloth would make a very useful travel¬ 
ling dress. It can he had in either grey, red, or 
brown, and shades from dark to light, whilst a 
small white fleck is introduced into it. Itcostsonly 
43. fid. the yard and is 47 inches wide, and would 
wear, to use a popular phrase, for ever. The 
Lucy Bertram serges are also most useful wear. 
One, of a warm green, would look most stylish 
1. Tho Kttriok Forest Tweed, made from lambs'wool. AVidlh, 
n. Price 38. Gfl. ]H*.- yard. 
2. Sliephenl Checks and Sj)t>rtsnmirs Fine Saxony Tweeds. 
Widtli, 28in. Price 3s. I Itl. per yard. 
3 and 4. Torwoodlee Suitings and Tmuserings. Width, 2Hin. 
price Is. Id. jicr yard. 
Shepherd (’hecks and Siiortsman’s Fine Saxony Tweeds. 
Width, ‘J8in. Ihdce 3s. 1 Id. per yard, 
t). The Oala-Watcr Trou.serings. Width, 2Sin. I’rice 3s. 7d. 
per yard. 
trimmed with black braid. Will the time-worn 
popularity for serges ever die out? That would 
be impossible, surely, if all the serges, so called, 
were of the weight and durability of those pro¬ 
duced by this firm. The Mary Seaton and Mary 
Barton serges, in black and navy blue, make up 
splendidly for knockabout dresses for country 
pursuits, (loojerat indigo blue and black serges, 
checked and twilled, are a better make and more 
expensive, but truly w'orth the money asked. The 
Flower of Yarrow costume cloth is very light and 
])retty, and would make up as charming spring 
costumes. A pretty golf costume could be made 
either of the Star of the East cloth, a medley of 
brown and white, or of the Tidford homespuns, 
which can he had in a variety of tasteful mixtures. 
But not only for the wants of the ladies does this 
firm cater. Golfers of cither sex can find some¬ 
thing to suit their case, whilst the rough Pilot 
cloth would be suitable either for a great coat or 
for a smart little jacket, and anglers need such 
warm wraps whilst Avaiting, exposed to the 
treacherous east winds for a run or a rise. 
In order more effectively to bring these 
materials to the notice of our readers, we have 
tried the experiment of reproducing by photo¬ 
graphy, six patterns, selected quite haphazard 
from the many scores which the firm produces. 
I Of course, we can only give them in black and 
I white; the originals are of all shades. W'^e con- 
j sider the experiment quite successful. 
3®aalt0Tiiana 
I AM informed that the conservators have given 
way in respect of the proposed bye-law by which 
increased netting facilities were to be conferred 
on the multitude of personages, great and small, 
who own a few yards of river frontage. They 
have also promised to amend the proposed bye¬ 
laws in other ways. In this they have yielded to 
the force of circumstances which were too strong 
for them, and I have no doubt that we have to thank 
certain members of the Corporation of London 
for helping to bring about the desired effect. 
The next question is, will the conservators meet 
the wishes of anglers and benefit the fisheries of 
the Thames, by making the improvements in the 
exi.sting bye-laws which have been so strongly 
urged upon them by men who know their subject ? 
We asked for bread and were offered a stone ; the 
offer of the stone has been withdrawn, but is the 
bread forthcoming ? That is the point. 
It must not he taken for granted from these 
remarks of mine, that everything which was 
objectionable in the proposed bye-laws has been 
removed. The conservators have not yet, so I 
understand, decided to forego the clause which 
would prevent the taking of fish for fish culture 
and other scientific purposes, and I am not at all 
sure that they propose to place the backwaters 
generally under the operation of the bye-laws. If 
they do not, it will be in the power of persons 
owning land on the hank of such backwaters to 
net out the fish which take shelter there in times 
of flood, and which frefjuent such places for 
spawning purposes. It must not be forgotten 
that owners of fisheries were entitled to night 
line in the fence months. 
I THINK, too, after attention was drawn to the 
fact that the old bye-laM' conferring certain 
j limited rights of netting on private persons was 
' more or less idtra vires (which being translated 
means that the conservators had never any power 
to make such a bye-law), and that practically, no 
netting is being carried on, that the conservators 
should have omitted such bye-law altogether, 
merely reserving to owners of private fisheries, 
where such exist, no greater powers than are 
reserved to them by Act of Parliament. It 
should be understood that by Act of Parliament 
no one has more right to net in the river than, 
another. The law does not draw any distinction, 
between angling rights and netting rights. What 
the private owners have is the ownership of the 
fishery with power to exclude the public, but they 
can only use their fishing rights according to 
' the regulations of the conservators. Netting 
privileges were brought into existence by the 
i conservators, and not by Act of Parliament, 
i Thames anglers have prevented the conservators 
I extending those privileges as they proposed, they 
should now endeaA’Our to sweep them aAvajr 
altogether. I trust no appeal to the Privy 
; Council will he necessary, but I hope next week 
! to give some interesting facts conct.rning the 
costs of such an ap]>eal, and the way in which it 
i should be made. 
' The event of the week in angling circles has 
' been the birth of the British Sea-Anglers’ Society. 
I was present at its formation yesterday week 
and have never seen and heard greater enthu- 
I siasm at any public meetin g. If one thing was 
I more clear than another it is that a large section 
[ of the angling public desire to know more about 
i sca-fishing and to have greater facilities of enjoy- 
' ing it. The drawbacks to sea-fishing are about 
‘ four in number. Some of thc'Pa the society hopes 
to overcome. First, I would put sea-sickness. 
For that the society can little more than provide 
basins and mops, which, after all, do not console 
sufferers to any considerable extent. But the 
society can of course discover where the best 
fishing from piers, rocks, jetties, d'c., is to be 
obtained, and communicate such information to 
its members, and it will no doubt open out the sea¬ 
fishing (and splendid fishing it is, too) which can 
be enjoyed on the land-locked inlets of the sea on 
the West Coast of Scotland and in certain estuaries 
where the water is calm as on any mill pond. 
The second drawback is the way sea fish have 
of only coming in shore to he caught at uncertain 
intervals. This can be overcome by the society. 
Not that it can alter the habits of sea fish, but 
by it can have corresponding members all round 
the coasts who would keep those at head quarters 
informed of the arrival of fish and the chances 
of sport. No member would then visit the coast 
at the wrong time, for by telegraphing the hon. 
sec. he would find out the right place to go to at 
any particular season. These corresponding 
members, who in some places would doubtless 
form local branches with local club houses, would 
be able to give a great deal of useful information 
on a variety of subjects, which Avould, I imagine, 
be published from time to time in a journal. 
The third disadvantage in sea fishing is the 
difficulty of procuring baits, and this could doubt¬ 
less he dealt with by the society. Last, but not 
least, is the cost of sea fishing from boats. This 
is, as I have often pointed out, more than the cost 
of trout fishing. AVhy, one can catch salmon at 
Killaloe for less money than one can catch whit¬ 
ing pout at Brighton ! Where the fishermen 
were amenable to reason, the society would doubt¬ 
less make special terms for members, and Avhere 
this could not be done the society could, when 
funds permitted, own boats of its own. Possibly, 
too, the society would be able to obtain cheap 
railway travelling privileges for its members, 
which would enable them to go farther afield and 
get better fishing than they can near London. 
Such privileges would be of value more particu¬ 
larly to London anglers, but as far as 1 under¬ 
stand it, the society is not a London one, but 
British in every sense of the word. I venture to 
express the hope that ladies and hoys under fifteen 
will be admitted as members for the same sub¬ 
scription as members of angling clubs are to pay, 
namely 5s. fid. It would add greatly to the plea¬ 
sures of a visit to the seaside if we fathers of 
families could send out our boys with reliable 
fishermen where they could catch some fish and 
have a day on the sea for a reasonable outlay. I 
hear that since the meeting, Mr. Peter Bsslemont, 
the chairman of the Scotch Fishery Board, has 
accepted the post of vice-president of the associ¬ 
ation, and that Mr. Ball, a well-known sea angler at 
Deal, has very kindly given the partial use of 
his rooms at Ififi, Haymarket, London, as head¬ 
quarters of the Society. Anglers Avishing to join 
should, therefore, write Mr. Aflalo, the hon. sec., 
at that address, enclosing their half-guinea sub¬ 
scription, or the lesser sum which members of 
clubs are to pay. I hope there will he a rush to 
join the asscciation, so that the gentlemen who 
are giA'ing so much time and trouble to its forma¬ 
tion will not be hampered for want of funds. Df 
course, the greater the number of members the 
more money the society will have at its com¬ 
mand, and the more can be done. AVith such a 
low subscription, the roll of members ought to 
reach four hundred at least Avithin the present 
year. Templar. 
The AVorld’s Fair at Chicago. —For the con¬ 
venience of visitors to Chicago during the forth¬ 
coming exposition, a mammoth hotel is being 
erected by the AA^orld’s Fair Co-operative Bureau. 
The hotel is in blocks, somewhat after the plan of 
St. Thomas’s Hospital, and will contain over 
0000 rooms. These rooms will be let at a uniform 
rate of a dollar a day to those Avho pay a nominal 
registration fee beforehand, and thus secure the 
right of occupancy at any time during the exposi¬ 
tion. The sole representation of the AVorld’s 
Fair Co-operative Bureau in tireat Britain, has 
been placed in the hands of the City Press 
Agency, 1, King’s Arms-yard, and 51, Ooleman- 
street London, E.C. 
