June 27, 1908.] 
1005 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
PLEA FOR A PURE HUDSON. 
In acknowledging his appointment by Mayor 
IcClellan as a member of the Hudson-Fulton 
Celebration Commission the venerable John 
ligelow, dean of American diplomats, has ad- 
ressed to Col. Henry W. Sackett, secretary of 
commission, an interesting and characteristic 
:tter. His protest against the defiling of the 
ludson, says the Times, is as vigorous as might 
e expected from a man of only half his ninety 
ears. After saying that the Hudson-Fulton 
elebration has, from its inception, been of 
eculiar personal interest to him, Mr. Bigelow 
ays: 
“All the intensest and dearest joys of my 
outh are associated with the Hudson River. I 
/as born on its western bank. While in my 
;ens I swam in its waters, sailed over it in 
kiffs. canoes and dories, and on the breaking 
p of the ice in spring paddling out on its float- 
ig cakes. In the winter I skated, sledded and 
rove on it. My first experience in the use of 
rearms was shooting into the flocks of thou- 
ands of wild ducks and pigeons on their re¬ 
am from the South. I fished in it when its 
/aters swarmed with white bass, dickups, eels, 
had and herring. There was no season of the 
ear that the river was not a joy to me. 
“Unhappily my grandchildren have been per- 
litted to share but few of those pleasures in 
onsequence of the pollution of the waters by 
he drainage from the habitations of the riparian 
ities and villages of the Hudson and its tribu- 
aries. The fisheries with which the Rocke- 
ellers, within sight of my father’s house, laid 
he foundation of their massive fortune are no 
anger profitable, and even the ducks and pigeons 
ave deserted their ancient resorts. 
If your society could include the purification 
f the waters of the Hudson in your plan and 
cope it would be more enduring in a worldly 
ense, more profitable, and in all senses a far 
nore useful recognition of the world’s obliga- 
ion to the men who first navigated the Hudson 
>y sails and the man who first navigated it by 
team than any other. 
“How can the banks of the river ever be made 
iermanently attractive, with whatever expendi¬ 
ture of talent and taste and wealth, when even 
ts inhabitants, the fish, its native homesteaders, 
tave already declared it uninhabitable and have 
iractically abandoned it? 
“The first financial speculation I ever made was 
n Hudson River shad. When about eight years 
>f age I bought 100 fresh from the nets of the 
ishermen for $5 and retailed them at six cents 
ipiece. I doubt whether in the last ten years 
here have been as many as 100 shad seen so far 
ip the Hudson as that speculation was made. 
“Of course, I would not have anything I have 
laid here regarded in the light of a criticism 
ipon the plans and scope of the commissions 
iharged with the celebration, which are all well 
rnough, but should not the river be cleaned be- 
ore its bedroom is decorated?” 
While expressing his thanks for the compli- 
nent of the appointment, Mr. Bigelow feels ob- 
iged, on account of his years, to decline to as¬ 
sume the duties of membership in the commis¬ 
sion. 
BOLDNESS OF PIKE. 
The boldness of a pike is very extraordinary. 
[ have seen one follow a bait within a foot of 
he spot where I have been standing; and the 
lead keeper of Richmond Park assured me that 
ie was once washing his hand at the side of a 
boat in the great pond in that park when a 
like made a dart at it, and he had but just time 
:o withdraw it. A gentleman now residing at 
Weybridge, in Surrey, informed me that, walk¬ 
ing one day by the side of the River Wey, near 
that town, he saw a large pike in a shallow 
creek. He immediately pulled off his coat, 
tucked up his shirt sleeves, and went into the 
water to intercept the return of the fish to the 
river, and to endeavor to throw it upon the 
bank by getting his hands under it. During this 
attempt the pike, finding he could not make his 
escape, seized one of the arms of the gentleman, 
and lacerated it so much that the wound is still 
very visible.—Fishing Gazette. 
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