July 7, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Freight Car,” ‘‘The Story the Keg Told Me,” 
“The Man Who Didn’t Know Much,” “How 
John Norton, the Trapper, Kept His Christ¬ 
mas,” “Death a Gain,” and “The Old Apple 
Tree’s Easter,” are undoubtedly classics. His 
John Norton, is the sole rival in American 
literature of Cooper’s Leatherstocking, while 
his “Holiday Tales” have been ranked in this 
country with Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” In 
the literature of sport and wild nature, he has 
no superior, and his name belongs naturally to 
the class of Thoreau, Cooper, Audubon and 
Frank Forester. 
It is proposed to form a national society of 
men and women interested in keeping green the 
memory of the “Great Evangelist of the Out¬ 
door Life,” to whose influence so many 
thousands of Americans owe their appreciation 
of nature and the health and happiness which 
have come to them from vacations spent in the 
woods. The name “Adirondack Murray Mem¬ 
orial Association,” has been suggested. The 
purposes would include the erection of a suit¬ 
able monument above Mr. Murray’s grave, the 
preservation of the homestead at Guilford, and 
the republication of all his books, so that his 
widow and four daughters (nine to eighteen 
years of age) may be assured a helpful income, 
which would assist the daughters to continue 
their education, and that his great gospel of 
outdoor living, and the humor, pathos, sim¬ 
plicity, beauty and reverential character of his 
writings may go on doing good in the world. 
The exact form of organization has not yet 
been determined, but it is expected that a plan 
will be arranged whereby a single subscription 
of a few dollars will entitle to permanent mem¬ 
bership, without payment of annual dues. All 
who are interested in the man, or his work, are 
invited to correspond with any of the under¬ 
signed friends and admirers of Mr. Murray, 
who have felt it to be both a duty and a pleas¬ 
ure to serve as a provisional committee on or¬ 
ganization, when further particulars will be 
made known. Suggestions are invited, and the 
literary, religious, sporting and lay press of 
this country and Canada, is asked to* lend sup¬ 
port, especially by reprinting this letter. 
James H. Cutler, 
Care American Forestry As¬ 
sociation, 510 Twelfth St., 
N. W., Washington, D. C. 
M. J. Hapgood, 
Peru, Vt. 
John S. Huyler, 
64 Irving Place, New York. 
W. H. Merrill, 
Editorial department, Boston 
Herald, Boston, Mass, 
(former Associate Editor 
of the “Golden Rule”). 
Fletcher Proctor, 
Proctor, Vt. 
Col. A. A. Pope, 
Pope Mfg. Co., Hartford, Ct. 
Harry V. Radford, 
212 E. 105th St., New York. 
Paul Smith, 
Paul Smith’s, N. Y. 
W. J. Van Patten, 
386 Pearl St., Burlington, Vt. 
M. F. Westover, 
General Electric Company, 
Schenectady, N. Y. 
Charles Goodrich Whiting, 
Editorial department, Spring- 
field Republican, Spring- 
field, Mass. 
Pennsylvania Fishing. 
Sayre, Pa., June 14. — Thus far the trout fishing 
has been considerably below the average, and 
this statement, we believe, applies to a good 
many of the favorite trout waters of Pennsyl¬ 
vania. Reasons might be advanecd for this state 
of affairs without convincing the average reader 
of their accuracy, but the fact remains that the 
trout supply, if not below that of former years 
in quantity, is below it in bait-taking ambition. 
From all the local streams the same complaint is 
voiced, that there is a scarcity of trout as com¬ 
pared to the supply of former years. M. Chill. 
International Fishery Congress, 1908. 
The Fourth International Fishery Congress is 
to be held at Washington, D. C., in September, 
1908, and will greatly interest all fishermen and 
fishculturists. In connection with the Congress 
a number of competitive awards of money prizes 
have been arranged, covering the most important 
investigations, discoveries, inventions and im¬ 
provements made in 1906, 1907 and 1908, relating 
to fisheries and kindred subjects, including aqui- 
culture, ichthyology, disease of fish and so on. 
The competitions will be open to individuals, 
associations or companies on certain easy con¬ 
ditions. Each competitor shall notify the secre¬ 
tary of the Congress before July 15, 1908, as to 
the particular award for which he competes, and 
shall qualify as a member of the Congress; each 
paper or exhibition for competition must be in 
the hands of the General Secretary on the day of 
the opening of the Congress; papers may be 
written in English, French, German or Italian. 
A model or an illustrated description shall be 
presented to explain each device, apparatus, pro¬ 
cess or method for which an award is asked. The 
Congress shall have the right to publish any 
papers submitted in competition prior to their 
publication elsewhere; but if the Congress fails 
to publish within six months after the session, 
the author shall be at liberty to publish when 
and where he may wish. 
The papers, appliances and exhibits in com¬ 
petition shall be submitted to an international 
board to be appointed by the president of the 
International Fishery Congress. This board will 
make the awards, and its decisions shall be final. 
Awards may be withheld, in the discretion of the 
board, or divided. The board shall report to the 
Congress not later than the day preceding final 
adjournment. The awards are to be announced 
at a session of the Congress, and each award will 
be accompanied by a special certificate or diploma. 
Seventeen museums, associations, companies 
and individuals have donated prizes to be awarded 
in this competition. The largest prize, $250, is 
that donated by the Fisheries Company of New 
York city, Mr. Jos. Wharton, President, for the 
best essay treating of the effects of fishing on 
the abundance and movements of surface swim¬ 
ming fishes which go in schools, particularly the 
menhaden and similar species, and the influence 
of such fishing on the fishes which may prey on 
such species. Other donors of prizes are the 
American Fisheries Society, American Museum 
of Natural History, Forest and Stream, Museum 
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
New York Aquarium, N. Y. Botanical Garden, 
Smithsonian Institution, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 
Wolverine Fish Co., W. Hay Bigelow, Brattle- 
boro, Vt.; Geo. M. Bowers, U. S. Commis¬ 
sioner of Fisheries; Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Mr. John 
K. Cheney, Prof. Dr. F. M. Johnson, N. Y. 
Academy of Sciences. 
The subjects of most of the papers are of high 
interest and of very great practical importance. 
They cannot fail to be most useful to all who are 
interested in fisheries. The constant decrease of 
our salt-water and anadromous fishes is alarm¬ 
ing, and to check it the best efforts of the best 
men will be needed. 
Maine Fishing. 
Boston, June 30. — A member of the State Asso¬ 
ciation who has just returned from Rangeley 
tells me he had one afternoon’s fishing on this 
trip which was the most satisfactory of any in his 
experience, and that is a good deal for him to 
say, for, as an angler, he is a veteran. On that 
afternoon he took seven good fish on the fly, two 
of them weighing upward of 4 pounds each. This 
•was on the Upper Lake. This gentleman has 
been going into Maine for spring and fall fishing 
for a number of years, and I have the story from 
his own lips. 
Mr. S. F. Clark, one of the large Maine 
pharmaceutical party that has recently been tour¬ 
ing the Rangeleys, took three salmon of 3, 4 and 
5 pounds. P. S. Noble landed three salmon, 
weighing 4, 4 and 4pounds. 
L. H. Hazard and Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Sayles, 
of Pawtucket, are occupying the camp of Hon. 
Walter Angell, of Providence, at Long Pond. 
Mrs. Walter F. Medding has to her credit on 
the log a 6 ) 4 -pound salmon, and Mr. E. M. 
Whittle,- also of the Malden party, one weighing 
6)4 pounds; but Mr. S. O. Lunt, of Boston, beats 
that by netting one of 8)4 pounds. 
Some Of the catches on Mooseluckmeguntic are 
by W. K. Stratton, Haverhill, Mass., 4 pounds, 
and Mr. S. H. Hayden, Haverhill, 4)4 pounds. 
Two New York gentlemen brought in 3 and 
3(4-pound salmon, and a fine trout which tipped 
the scales at 5Rj pounds. 
A wealthy English gentleman who has been 
traveling extensively in this country recently took 
a 4)4-pound -salmon and declared that it gave 
him as much sport as a tarpon which he caught in 
Florida waters, which weighed 125 pounds. He 
has as guide Arthur Huntoon. 
Your readers have already learned that the new 
hotel, The Sargent, has replaced the Shaw House 
at Eustis, which was burned down some two 
years ago. At this point the sportsman divests 
himself of society clothes and dons his woods 
garb. From this hotel the fisherman and hunter 
departs for King and Bartlett, Blakesley and 
Spencer lake or stream, Round Mountain Lake 
and the Megantic preserve via Chain of Ponds. 
To Eustis the writer’s guide, Joe St. Ober, 
recently brought eight bear skins as part of his 
winter’s harvest from trapping. The skins were 
sold for $20 apiece. 
As mentioned in a former letter, the sportsmen 
have been severely handicapped by rainy weather, 
there being less than half a dozen pleasant days 
during the first three weeks of the fishing sea¬ 
son. This, however, did not deter the strenuous 
ones, male or female, from fishing more or less. 
But all are doing their best now to make up for 
lost time, for every genuine angler “counts that 
day lost” when no fish is taken. 
A great record has been made at “Pond in the 
River" this season, three trout of 8 pounds; one 
by Mr. Reed, of Utica; one by G. H. Johnson, 
of Canton ; the third by John C. Young, of New 
York city. These were actual weights at the 
hotel. 
In Washington county at Calais is the Union 
Pool, not often mentioned in Maine fishing news. 
Perhaps the people of Calais have been chary 
of their secret, preferring to have the sport to 
themselves rather than the shekels of outside 
sportsmen. When three io-pound sea salmon can 
be taken, as they were last week, by one angler 
in a few hours’ fishing, it is time the whole 
country should know it. But everybody can’t go 
a-fishing, so I will close just here. 
H. H. Kimball. 
Nelson and Angling. 
Here is a note printed in the London Quar¬ 
terly Review in 1828, which has a bearing on 
some recent discoveries of Nelson as an angler: 
“I was at the Naval Hospital at Yarmouth on 
the morning when Nelson, after the battle of 
Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before 
him), arrived at the Roads and landed on the 
jutty. The populace soon surrounded him, and 
the military were drawn up in the market place 
ready to receive him; but, making his way 
through the crowd, and the dust and the clamour, 
he went straight to the hospital. I went round 
the wards with him, and was much interested in 
observing his demeanor to the sailors; he stopped 
at every bed, and to every man he had something 
kind and cheering to say. At length, he stopped 
opposite a bed on which a sailor was lying, who 
had lost his right arm close to the shoulder- 
joint, and the following short dialogue passed 
between them: Nelson—“Well, Jack, what’s the 
matter with you?’ Sailor—‘Lost my right arm, 
your honor.’ Nelson paused, looked down at his 
own empty sleeve, then at the sailor, and said 
playfully, ‘Well, Jack, then you and I are spoiled 
for fishermen—cheer up, my brave fellow.’ And 
he passed briskly on to the next bed; but these 
words had a magical effect upon the poor fellow, 
for I saw his eyes sparkle with delight as Nelson 
turned away and pursued his course through the 
wards. As this was the only occasion on which 
I saw Nelson, I may, possibly, overrate the value 
of the incident.” 
