FOREST AND STREAM 
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Of Interest to Fishermen at the 
Panama-Pacific International 
Exposition 
Illustration Shows Niche Back of Colonnades, 
Court of the Four Seasons. These Niches 
Contain Sculptured Groups Typifying the 
Seasons, the Work of Furio Piccirilli. Murals 
of H. Milton Bancroft Were Set in Place 
Here a Full Five Months Before the Open¬ 
ing Date. 
San Francisco, Nov. 28. (Special correspond¬ 
ence.)—Not only will the exhibit of live and 
mounted specimens of fish and game at the Pana¬ 
ma-Pacific International Exposition, which opens 
at San Francisco on February 20th, 1915, be the 
finest and most comprehensive ever shown at any 
great world’s exposition, but in the waters of the 
Pacific, which lap at the very foundations of 
the magnificent exhibit palaces, will be found the 
most interesting of all exhibits to the sportsman 
and angler. 
It is not generally known, excepting to scien¬ 
tists and a.few observing “farmers of the sea” 
that the California coast waters, within a hun¬ 
dred miles of the Golden Gate, can supply the 
dinner table with a different variety of edible fish 
each day in the year, not counting shellfish of 
sorts numerous enough to lead the menu with a 
different species each day for a month. That 
many of these finny denizens of California 
waters, such as the delicate sandab, found no¬ 
where else, the barracouda and the striped sea 
bass, are a little bit better than those of less 
favored parts of the world, is well known to 
epicures. 
On the Zone at the Panama-Pacific Interna¬ 
tional Exposition these 365 varieties of California 
sea fishes and “fishes built like a nut—-with 
shells,” will be exhibited in the most alluring 
form possible; that is, baked, broiled, planked, 
fried, steamed; in chowders, au gratin, a-ia New- 
berg, and a-la ’Frisco, and served in a dining¬ 
room decorated to simulate the sea shore and 
seating 1,300 people. Adjoining this room will 
be a sea-food kitchen 50 by 100 feet, opening into 
the New England and Clam Bake and California 
abalone department. This room will be arranged 
to give the illusion of a cove on the sea shore, 
and will be fitted up with dining tables and ap¬ 
pliances for steaming and otherwise preparing all 
sorts of shell fish indigenous to California 
waters, including the succulent aristocrat peculiar 
to our coasts, the univalve abalone. There will 
be a clam bake every day, in the style made popu¬ 
lar around Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Cape 
Cod, and visitors desiring to partake of the wild 
life of the shore may ‘bring their camping outfits 
and swap yarns around the camp fire while 
watching the steaming of the clams and mussels. 
From New Zealand, Canada, Hawaii and far 
away Bolivia, exhibits have arrived on the 
grounds, and still are coming, of mounted speci¬ 
mens of the animal life of these countries. Can¬ 
ada, in the Canadian Government exhibit, more 
than a thousand cases of which have already 
been received, will have on display a complete 
exhibit of her natural history specimens, some of 
them almost unknown in this country. 
By the steamer Marama there has arrived on 
the exposition grounds 230 cases of exhibits from 
New Zealand, a large portion of which consists 
of exhibits for the New Zealand national pavil¬ 
ions. In this display the greatest emphasis is 
laid upon the attractions offered in the line of 
sport in that country. Sportsmen of Great Bri¬ 
tain declare that the red deer shooting provided 
in New Zealand more than equals the shooting 
in the famous deer forests of Scotland, and the 
antlers of a royal buck are considered among 
the most valued of a stalker’s collection. 
There also are models of trout from the Rain¬ 
bow of America to the great brown trout of 
Europe. With these there will be illustrations 
of the rivers and streams that are now attract¬ 
ing the fishermen of England. Each year sees 
a greater number of sportsmen making the trip 
to New Zealand. 
The Hawaiian exhibit of fishes will be shown 
in an aquarium which' will occupy the semi-cir¬ 
cular annex to the main pavilion. It will consti¬ 
tute the most wonderful piscatory exhibit that 
any country has ever presented. The walls are 
lined with great glass-faced tanks, ten in number, 
in which the celebrated “painted fishes” of the 
islands will be shown in all their marvelous vari¬ 
ety of form and hue, making a kaleidoscopic dis¬ 
play as they intermingle. This department is a 
reproduction of the famous aquarium in Kapio- 
lani Park, near Honolulu, of which Dr. David 
Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford Uni¬ 
versity and one of the world’s recognized author¬ 
ities on fishes, wrote: “No aquarium can boast 
a collection of fishes more unique in form or 
coloring.” 
They are the despair of artists who have at¬ 
tempted to reproduce their markings upon can¬ 
vas, and in shape they are an aggregation of ec¬ 
centricities. All the colors of the rainbow with 
some exclusive colors of their own are found in 
these finny freaks. Even the crustaceans are un¬ 
like any inhabiting other waters. Crabs that are 
crimson shelled before being boiled are among 
the varieties. 
Extraordinary pains are being taken to have 
the piscatorial display an unbroken success. 
Water for the tanks will be brought from twenty- 
five miles beyond the Golden Gate, in order to 
avoid impurities and it will be kept at an even 
temperature of 74 degrees while in use. Capa¬ 
cious storage tanks from which those on exhi¬ 
bition will be supplied are now being constructed 
in the rear of the aquarium and excluded from 
public view, so that there will be no possibility 
of the water being fouled by accident or design. 
During the month of January the various species 
will undergo a “trying out” process in the exhi¬ 
bition tanks, and when the exposition opens only 
those that have thrived during the test will be 
retained. 
NINE BIRDS COST $190. 
Shooting six 'blackbirds and three robins in 
Lower Merion township near the Philadelphia line 
cost Michael Lauria, a resident of that section $90 
Because he is an alien in possession of firearms 
and because he did his shooting on Sunday, 
Lauria also had to pay $100 extra. If he had 
been punished for all charges of shooting birds 
made against him, Lauria would have paid ap¬ 
proximately $150 more. As it was, he got off 
lightly with the $190 fine. He also paid costs. 
Lauria had these penalties imposed by Squire 
Lewis at Bryn Mawr on charges made by De¬ 
tective James Meli, of Chester. 
Meli also arrested Luigi Morio, living near 
Lauria, on a charge of having a weapon in his 
possession. Morio is an unnaturalized alien and 
had to pay a fine of $50-and costs. 
The Squire said that the blackbirds eaten by 
Lauria and his friends were even more expensive 
than the famous hot bird that goes with the cold 
bottle. The sardonic thing about it was that both 
men did the shooting on their own farms. 
Tympanum, Palace of Education. 
