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THE FISHING GAZETTE 
There will be nobbing to prevent the complete 
installation of exhibits in this section by May 1 
A pornon of the building will be occupied by the 
State Pish Commission exhibits of Pennsylvania 
and Wisconsin, and the State exhibits of Ohio and 
Missouri, which ■will consist of aquarial displays 
of living fishes, coloured sketches and mounted 
specimens of fishes inhabiting those states, 
together with practical displays of fish culture, 
showing the modus opprandi of hatching fish by 
modern and improved methods. These several 
exhibits will be exceptionally interesting and 
instructive as showing the progress of this branch 
of practical S'lence, and will prove one of the most 
novel and attractive features of the great exposi¬ 
tion. The rest of the building will be devoted to a 
comprehensive display of all the tools, tackle, 
implements, and accessories pertaining to the 
gentle art of angling, and is designed to show the 
wonderful progress made in recent years in the 
s^eral branches of industry in that connection. 
The perfection of modern fishing tackle, in which 
(with the single .exception of the fish-hook) our 
country leads the world, will be fully represented 
operation in a circular tank of water. C. V. 
Graves will also exhibit the latest trolling 
wrinkle, a live minnow inclosed in a small glass 
cylinder—a miniature representation of a “bottle 
of bait.” A. G. Benson will show a patent com¬ 
bination of rod, gaff, and landing-net; while 
Joseph Rosatka will exhibit an automatic fishing 
outfit. There will be sinkers and swivels, lines 
and leaders, floats and flies, creels and bait 
boxes, tackle books and fly books, and every other 
article going to make up the angler’s outfit. , 
Comstock will show his angler’s tent, the Gold | 
Medal Company camping furniture ; while fishing i 
boats will be presented in all shapes by the Acme 
Company, the Osgood Company, and the St. Law¬ 
rence Company. There will be paintings of fishes 
by C. T. Webber, Walter Aiken, and Wm. C. 
Harris, of the American Angler. The largest 
tarpon ever taken on a rod (weighing 2051b.) will 
be exhibited in a case, with the rod, reel, and line 
mu captor, Mrs. Essel Stagg, of Kentucky, 
ihe Forest and Stream will have a beautiful dis- 
play, one feature of which will be a historical 
series of “ old ” Kentucky reels, none being less 
[May 13, 1893 
WHERE THE ENGLISH TROUT 
SENT SOME TEARS AGO TO 
AMERICA WERE PLANTED. 
Mr. a. Nelson Cheney, angling editor of 
Shooting and Fishing, writes : 
Glens Falls, N.Y., April 9, 1893. 
My Dear Marston,—I mailed you a day or two 
ago a photo which my sister made of a bit of 
Half-way Brook. The stream gets its name 
from Colonial times, when it was half-way 
between the two English forts. Fort Edward on 
the Hudson river, and Fort William Henry on 
Lake George. On the site of old Fort Edward, 
there is now a thriving village of the same name, 
and at the head of Lake George the Fort William 
Henry Hotel stands, near the ruins of the old 
fort, which are preserved as much as may be. 
Half-way Brook crosses the highway a mile and 
a half from where I live, and it has been one of 
the most famous trout streams in this State. 
The first brown trout planted in northern New 
York I plant^ed in this stream, and I also planted 
f f f BROOK BETWEEN GLENS FALLS AND LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK USA 
trout from Europo, ruol.ai.p . p 
From a Photograph by Miss Rose Willis Clienoy. ^ 
and happily shown in the “ Kosmic ” rods of A G 
Spalding and Brothers, the “ steel ” rods of the 
Horton Manufacturing Company, the celebrated 
Bethabara rods of A. B. Shipley and Son, and 
the tine band-made rods of G. W. Boyd. In fish¬ 
ing reels will be shown the famous “ Kentucky ” 
reels, by Milam and Son, and J. L. Sage- the 
unexcelled tarpon and other reels, by Julius von 
Hope; a big display by Meisselbach and Brothers- 
while the automatic reels will be well repre¬ 
sented by Yawman and Erbe, the White-Ross 
JManufacturing Company, Ac. There will be 
several fine exhibits of artificial flies. The 
Ualtcmian Manufacturing Company and Robt. 
Ramsbottom will have a number of expert men 
and girls at work tying the feathery lures, 
giving to anglers and the public generally an 
insight into the mysteries of constructing the 
fairy creations that never fail to elicit expressions 
of delight and admiration from the beholder A 
varied and really remarkable display of troilinu 
spoons and artificial baits will be furnished 
by the Buel Company, C. B. Hibbard, G. M. 
Skinner, and others; while the beautiful little 
Angell wings will be shown in practical 
^an fifty years old, and several about sevent 
ihe^ first multiplying reel in the world was mac 
in Kentucky.’ When the exhibits are in their plai 
1 shall have something more to say about ther 
At present the only case is one of steel rods, bi 
; it was locked up. Dr. Henshall is meanwhi 
! in building a full-sized copy of Izaa 
Walton’s fishing cottage in Dovedale, and tt 
^te selected is in the grounds not far from tf 
I Fisheries building. Mr. Marston has ler 
valuable assistance by forwarding photograph 
^nd descriptive details. There is, in the mai 
1 building, a huge model of the Baltimore fishin 
j school, in which the Baroness and Mr. Burdetl 
[ Coutts, M.P., have taken a deep interest. Noi 
wegian exhibitors show a number of casts of fisl 
I upon whose bodies the exquisite sheen almos 
; amounts to the irridescence of nature. The fin 
^ are cleared and thinned out to be in some wa' 
like as life. In the States fish cast? are mad' 
of a preparation of gelatine, by which the effigie 
are made as near nature as can be reached. Thi 
Norwegian tinting, however, is marvellously sue 
I cessful, and I doubt if there is any finer.—R ej 
foi’iNNER, Chicago, April 20.” 
in it a portion of the fry from the eggs of the 
trout which you sent to me. At 
j different times I have mentioned in Shooting and 
J^islnng the remarkable growth of the brown 
j trout in this stream, and the largest of them 
I were caught just above and below where this 
: picture was taken. I hope that Mr. Andrews 
will publish his papers on “ How to Breed and 
j Rear 1 rout,” now being printed in the Gazette, 
; in book form later. It will make a book of great 
value to all English-speaking people interested 
in fash-culture, for he goes to the bottom of the 
subject in detail, and makes all so plain that his 
j book would be standard for years to come. I 
make a note of this in Shooting and Fishing next 
j issue.—Yours ever sincerely, A. N. Cheney. 
j We have much pleasure in giving a photo- 
, ^^o^^Hng from Miss R. W. Cheney’s charming 
J photograph; it is interesting of itself, and 
doubly so as being the home of the trout we sent 
as a present to American anglers per Shooting 
and l^ishlng some years ago. It is satisfactory 
to know salmo fario is doing so well. Our thanks 
are due again to Mr. Cheney for so kindly 
remembering the F. G, 
