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Amateur photo by J. T. C. BROOK TROUT FISHING ON PINE RIVER. 
culture is more important than sport, let 11s 
sportsmen cry commerce and agriculture with 
all our might. We will be listened to with an 
infinitely greater amount of attention, and will 
gain our own ends at the same time. In con¬ 
clusion I would only say, take care of the little 
brooks and the streams will take of themselves. 
Percyval. 
Tarpon in New York City. 
A living tarpon has never before been seen 
in New York city, but now there are two at the 
New York Aquarium in Battery Park, which 
may be seen by any enthusiastic angler who 
cares to inspect them. They will be found in 
the large tank immediately facing the door on 
entering the building. With them are two large 
sturgeons, some small sharks and a few other 
fish. 
The tarpon is a resident of the tropics, and 
only occasionally straggles so far north as our 
latitude. Nevertheless almost every year two 
or three are taken ofif the coast of Rhode Island 
and Massachusetts, one or two in the pound nets 
outside of Long Island, near Montauk Point, 
and one or two off the Jersey coast. Inside 
of Sandy Hook, however, they are practically 
never seen. A specimen is said to have been 
washed ashore about forty years ago on Staten 
Island in the lower bay. The fish was then un¬ 
known to anglers, and was not identified till 
about thirty years later, when Mr. Vom Hofe 
saw and recognized a number of the scales, 
which had been saved and tacked up on the 
walls of the Excelsior Fishing Club house at 
Huguenot, S. I. 
The tarpon hitherto taken on our coast have 
been captured in pound nets, and were usually 
dead when found or were killed before they 
reached the city. On Friday and Saturday last, 
however, fishermen tending pound nets inside 
of Sandy Hook captured two of these fish alive. 
Each was put in a long box, which was filled 
with water and brought to the city in a launch. 
The fish were hard to handle, for they never 
stopped resisting, thrashing about and trying to 
escape. That they should have reached the 
aquarium alive is regarded as very fortunate, 
and that they should have lived now for two or 
three days is still more so. Whether' they will 
survive the rough handling that they necessarily 
received is still a question. They have not yet 
—on Monday—reached a point where they will 
take food. One of them, the larger, though 
swimming strongly enough, nevertheless lies so 
close to the water’s surface that a part of the 
dorsal fin and of the caudal fin is above the 
water. The other smaller fish seemed rather 
feeble on Sunday last, but has recovered, and 
now appears to be quite strong and hearty. 
Although it has been impossible to measure 
the fish accurately, they are estimated as being 
5 and 4Rj feet long and as weighing about 75 
pounds. All tarpon fishermen and a great mul¬ 
titude of other anglers who have never had an 
opportunity to fish for the Silver King, will be 
anxious to see the specimens at the Aquarium. 
It is hoped that they may live long and prosper. 
Some Wild Adirondacks Left. 
From the Whitehall Chronicle. 
It is not generally known that there are ap¬ 
proximately 250 square miles of Adirondack 
mountain region possessing surpassing grandeur 
of mountain and valley scenery, including lakes 
and lakelets and tributary mountain streams that 
are seldom visited by persons in search of the 
pleasures and benefits these conditions confer. 
But such is the fact, and that fact has been re¬ 
cently impressively brought to mind by a visit 
last week to this place of a gentleman who is 
known as an ardent devotee of the rod and gun 
and the pleasure and benefits of outings where 
such conditions prevail. 
The territory alluded to, is the north part of 
Washington county, including parts of the towns 
of Putnam, Dresden, Whitehall and Fort Ann, 
lying between Lake Champlain on the east. Lake 
George on the west and north, and the Cham¬ 
plain Hudson valley on the south. By visitors 
from the south it can best be reached by way 
of the Delaware & Hudson Railway and its 
station at Fort Ann, which is the fourth north¬ 
east of Saratoga—a rail ride of a little less than 
six hours from the Grand Central station in the 
City of New York. 
The trip revealed to him that partridges, rab¬ 
bits, squirrels, and of late years, deer are plenti¬ 
ful, and that occasionally bears have been en¬ 
countered and taken by hunters in pursuit of 
them. That the mountain streams and lakes 
abound in trout, perch, bass, pickerel and other 
desirable fish; that scattered local residents, 
competent to act as guides, are sufficiently 
numerous to be readily obtained as such, and 
that hunters’ and fishers’ rustic-lodges could be 
readily erected at convenient points for the ac¬ 
commodation of parties of visitors who should 
desire to use them unmolested by persons seek¬ 
ing similar diversion, as is the case in many 
other'parts of the interior Adirondack region. 
Probably no part of the Adirondack wilds has 
greater attractions for the summer visitor than 
this region with Lake Champlain in sight in the 
east, Lake George in the west, Glens Falls, 
Saratoga and other beautiful villages nearby at 
the south, with scores of small lakes and lake- 
lets scattered about around the local mountains 
on which camping, boating and fishing afford 
pleasures not surpassed even if they are equalled 
in pleasure given by those parts of the Adiron¬ 
dack region further north and west. 
The elevation is high enough to afford as 
invigorating health promoting air as exists in 
any other part of the Adirondack region, while 
its nearness to the cities at the south makes the 
difficulties in visiting it less than are encountered 
in a sojourn in the central portion of what 
the D. &. H. guide books call a “summer 
paradise.” 
Anglers’ Club of New York. 
The secretary requests Forest and Stream 
to state for the benefit of members of the above- 
named club, that there will be no business 
meeting during August, for the reason that 
many of the members will be away on fishing 
excursions; but the next business meeting will 
be held at Burns’, Sixth avenue and Forty- 
fourth street, the second Tuesday in September, 
at 8 o’clock P. M., preceded by an informal 
dinner at 6:30 sharp. 
Permission has been granted the club to erect 
casting platforms on the pool in Central Park, 
near West One Hundredth street, and on the 
lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. These are 
soon to be ready for practice casting, and the 
first club practice will be announced in due 
time and members will also be notified by mail. 
The membership has reached the fifty mark, 
and so far two prizes have been offered for 
competition during the coming autumn months. 
One of these is a Gorham silver loving cup, 
on exhibit in the window of Thomas J. Con¬ 
roy’s fishing tackle shop, 28 John street; the 
other, a handsome trophy presented by Dr. *R. 
J. Held, a member. The conditions under which 
these will be competed for have not as yet been 
formulated. 
Snapping Turtle and Big Boy. 
A Middletown, N. Y. dispatch to the New 
York Times says that a turtle nearly drowned 
John Torrey, 12 years old, of Mechanicsville, 
while he was fishing in a pond near his home. He 
sat on the bank with his feet in the water, and a 
large snapping turtle seized him by his great toe. 
The boy was so frightened that he fell into the 
water. His screams attracted the attention of 
several laborers. They ran to the pond and suc¬ 
ceeded in pulling the boy out. The turtle was 
still clinging to the boy’s toe, and its head had to 
be cut off and the jaws pried open before the boy 
could be released from its grip. The turtle was 
one of the largest ever caught in this section. It 
weighed thirty-nine pounds. 
Kalamazoo Tournament. 
The international casting tournament, given by 
the Kalamazoo Bait and Fly-Casting Club, at 
Kalamozoo, Mich., Aug. 3 and 4, has a large 
number of entries and promises to bring out 
some interesting competitions. 
Vermont Bass. 
Sheldon, Vt., July 18.—Some fine catches of 
bass and pike perch(dore) have been taken out 
from Franklin Pond, within a few days. 
Stanstead. 
Catch-as-Catch-Can. 
“Howard got awfully thin this summer runn¬ 
ing to catch the 7 130 every morning.” 
“Yes; he looks trained down.”—Harper’s 
Weekly. 
