International Fishery Congress. 
Below will be found a list of competitive 
awards made in connection with the fourth In¬ 
ternational Fishery Congress, Washington, D. 
C. , Sept. 22 to 26: 
By the American Museum of Natural History, 
New York city: For an original paper describ¬ 
ing and illustrating by specimens the best method 
of preparing fishes for museum and exhibition 
purposes. One hundred dollars in gold. Award¬ 
ed to Dwight Franklin, 207 West Fifty-Sixth 
street, New York city. 
By the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y: For the best 
paper setting forth a plan for an educational 
exhibit of fishes, the species and specimens that 
should be shown, the method of arrangement 
and suggestions for making such an exhibit in¬ 
structive and attractive. One hundred dollars 
in gold. Equally divided between Frederic A. 
Lucas, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, and Roy W. 
Miner, American Museum of Natural History, 
New York City. 
By the Smith&onian Institution, Washington, 
D. C.: For the best essay or treatise on “In¬ 
ternational regulations of the fisheries on the 
high seas, their history, objects and results.” 
Two hundred dollars in gold. Awarded to 
Charles H. Stevenson, Bureau of Fisheries, 
Washington, D. C. 
By the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 
Washington, D. C.: For a report describing 
the most useful new and original principle, 
method or apparatus to be employed in fish 
culture or in transporting live fishes (competi¬ 
tion not open to employees of the Bureau). 
Two hundred dollars in gold. Awarded to Dr. 
A. D. Mead, Brown University, Providence, 
R. I. 
By the Wolverine Fish Company, Detroit, 
Michigan: For the best plan to promote the 
whitefish production of the Great Lakes. One 
hundred dollars in gold. Awarded to Paul 
Reighard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 
By Hayes Bigelow, Brattleboro, Vt., member 
of the American Fisheries Society: For the 
best demonstration, based on original investiga¬ 
tions and experiments, of the commercial possi¬ 
bilities of growing sponges from eggs or cut¬ 
tings. One hundred dollars in gold. Awarded 
to Dr. H. F. Moore, Bureau of Fisheries, Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 
By Dr. H. C. Bumpus, director of the Ameri¬ 
can Museum of Natural History, New York 
city: For an original and practical method of 
lobster culture. One hundred dollars in gold. 
Awarded to Dr. A. D. Mead, Brown University, 
Providence, R. I. 
By John K. Cheyney, Tarpon Springs, Fla., 
member of the American Fisheries Society: 
For the best presentation treating of the methods 
of the world’s sponge fisheries, the influence of 
such methods on the supply of sponges and the 
most effective means of conserving the sponge 
grounds. One hundred dollars in gold Award¬ 
ed to Dr. H. F. Moore, Bureau of Fisheries, 
Washington, D. C. 
By Prof. Theodore Gill, honorary associate 
in zoology, Smithsonian Institution, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C.: For the best methods of observing 
the habits and recording the life histories of 
fishes, with an illustrative example. One hun¬ 
dred dollars in gold. Awarded to Dr. Jacob 
Reighard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 
Mich. 
By Dr. F. M. Johnson, Boston, Mass., mem¬ 
ber of the American Fisheries Society: For the 
best demonstration of the comparative value of 
different kinds of foods for use in rearing young 
salmonoids, taking into consideration cheapness, 
availability and potentiality. One hundred and 
fifty dollars in gold. Awarded to Charles G. 
Atkins, Superintendent United States Fisheries 
Station, East Orland, Maine. 
By the New York Academy of Sciences, New 
York city, Dr. N. L. Britton, president: For 
the contribution, not entered in competition for 
any other award, which shall be judged to have 
the greatest practical value to the fisheries or 
fish culture. One hundred dollars in gold. 
Awarded to John I. Solomon, New York city, 
for a paper entitled, “A process for preserving 
pearl oyster fisheries and for increasing the 
value of the yield of pearls therefrom.” 
Fishing in California. 
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 10 .—Editor Forest 
and Stream: There is still much agitation among 
the fishing fraternity concerning the action of 
persons who own land along some of the finest 
trout fishing streams in the State and who have 
erected trespass notices warning the public at 
large that fishing will not be allowed. As there 
are no trespass laws in the State making it an 
offense to follow a stream while fishing, it is 
"doubtful whether such notices will avail the 
landowner anything other than the contempt of 
anglers. The streams, lakes and sloughs that 
have been stocked with fish at public expense 
are open waters to the public generally and it 
is not likely that there will ever be a statute 
denying them this privilege. 
The fish commissioners have demonstrated to 
their complete satisfaction by recent investiga¬ 
tions that striped bass spawn in the vicinity of 
Vallejo. They found small bass in large num¬ 
bers and this means that the commissioner’s 
work last year in spawning these fish at Bouldin 
Island has been successful. Striped bass in 
large numbers are to be found in San Antonio 
slough and local sportsmen are making regular 
trips there. William F. Hillegass took a 21- 
pound fish there last week with rod and reel 
and 15-pound fish are frequently caught. 
This is the closed season for salmon and steel- 
head trout, but fishing will be permissible again 
Oct. 23. A. P. B. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order . Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
Virgin Fishing. 
When the angler looks over his fishing 
tackle in the autumn, he recalls past ad¬ 
ventures, and indulges in fond anticipations for 
another outing in a far away land—a new land. 
There, to see a stranger, rod in hand, would 
have very much the same effect that a new but 
distant settler had on Daniel Boone; he would 
feel that the place was getting crowded, even 
were he miles away. 
This country, where trout and salmon crowd 
the streams, where they are as unsophisticated 
as an Indian maiden, where the splash of the 
artificial fly awakens no more fear than the 
dropping of a .forest leaf, and the wiles and 
tricks, necessary with the educated fish of our 
land, are not needed. 
If a man tells a plain, unvarnished tale of 
fishing in such a land, he is likely at once to be 
invited to join the Ananias Club, no matter 
how truthful and free from exaggeration his ac¬ 
count may be. Yet, with this fate staring me 
in the face, I purpose to tell the readers of 
Forest and Stream a story which will be 
recognized as true by at least two of them, who 
were my companions on that trip into the wilds 
of Newfoundland. Whether others believe it or 
not is quite indifferent to me, but at least it 
may serve to amuse them, and we will be on 
the record. It is also to be expected—so differ¬ 
ent will be the point-of-view—that we three 
shall be set down as fish butchers, though never 
was there a fish voluntarily wasted during our 
numerous trips of this character, extending over 
a series of years. The guides were only too 
glad to smoke or salt them for “their winter,” 
and we had too much respect for the salmon to 
permit them to be needlessly sacrificed. 
Only one instance of “wicked waste” during 
the last eight years has come to my notice, 
where a person, who, considering himself a 
sportsman, too, left forty fine salmon (averag¬ 
ing ten pounds each) to rot in the bushes by 
the stream whose headwaters we explored in 
the summer of 1907. 
We had been fishing a couple of the lower 
pools of this river for three years, but had but 
slight knowledge of its headwaters; in fact, ex¬ 
cept in winter, when, the Barrens being frozen 
solid, and the country covered with a heavy 
blanket of snow, trappers on snowshoes or with 
dogs and sleds crossed the country to the 
regions of the falls, none had ever explored 
the valley of the river, nor fished its numerous 
pools. So we determined to remain no 
longer in sluggish ease, catching every day all 
the fish we needed at our very tent-flaps, but 
to start out and learn where our game was 
bred, or where it took refuge after it had 
jumped the twelve-foot fall at the head of our 
pool and had disappeared in the foaming rapid 
beyond. 
Waders were to be carried on the proposed 
trip, not worn. They are not comfortable to 
travel in, even over the sodden barrens, those 
immense plains of sphagnum moss which 
