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HUNTING AND FISHING 
PRESIDENTS 
(Continued from page 10) 
“You’re a smart fellow,” replied the 
angler in costly attire, “but a good fish¬ 
erman. What did you make last year?” 
“Oh,” replied the man in oilskins, 
“about $1,000 a week. I was President 
of the United States.” 
Cleveland was a sportsman. He never 
took undersized fish and he never fished 
for the “limit.” Cleveland would never 
take more than twelve fish in a day. 
John Uri Lloyd, who fished with Cleve¬ 
land, says the President always carried 
a measuring-stick, throwing back into 
the lake all fish less than twelve inches 
in length. 
In “A Word to Fishermen,” in his 
“Fishing and Shooting Sketches,” Cleve¬ 
land shows the value of conservation 
when practiced. He writes : 
“On no account should edible fish be 
caught in such quantities as to be 
wasted. By restraining ourselves in this 
matter we discourage in our own natures 
the growth of greed, we prevent wicked 
waste, we make it easier for us to bear 
the fall between decent good luck and 
bad luck, or no luck, and we make our¬ 
selves at all points better men and better 
fishermen. 
“We ought not to forget these things 
as we enter upon the pleasure of our 
summer’s fishing. But in any event let 
us take with us, when we go out, good 
tackle, good bait and plenty of patience. 
If the wind is in the south or west, so 
much the better, but let’s go, wherever 
the wind may be. If we catch fish we 
shall add zest to our recreation. If we 
catch none, we shall still have the outing 
and the recreation—more healthful and 
more enjoyable than can be gained in 
any other way.” 
B EFORE Arthur became President, he 
was fond of going to eastern Can¬ 
ada, the home of the salmon. After he 
became President, he confined his fishing 
to streams within the borders of the 
United States. He fished in Florida for 
black bass, but liked to spend vacations 
at the Thousand Islands, angling for 
black bass and mascalonge. 
An interesting story of one of these 
trips is related by Julian Ralph, who was 
sent by the New York Sun _ to record 
the President’s doings. 
“We lived at the same hotel with 
him,” wrote Ralph, “and in the morn¬ 
ings he used to share with us the masca¬ 
longe or the bass he had caught on the 
previous day. And once it came about 
that he waited upon me as if he had 
been the humblest man in the land. 
“With another correspondent I had 
been kept up late at night telegraphing, 
and then had stayed up later still over a 
midnight supper. When we came to the 
hotel it was past midnight and the entire 
house—except the windows of the 
President’s suite of seven rooms—was 
dark and lifeless. His windows were 
still brilliantly lighted, for it was his 
habit to work or read until very late at 
night. 
“We tried all the doors, and when we 
Forest and Stream 
came to the last one President Arthur 
opened it and let us in. We apologized 
profusely, but he only smiled and said 
that his negro boy was very tired and 
gone to sleep, he thought he would rather 
let us in himself than disturb the servant. 
“ ‘You have found very agreeable 
society here,’ he said. 
“ ‘No,’ we replied, ‘we have been 
telegraphing.’ 
“ ‘Don’t tell me that,’ he insisted, ‘you 
telegraph only about me, and I have not 
done anything in twenty-four hours. I 
prefer to envy you, and to believe that 
you have found some one’s society very 
charming.’ ” 
When President Arthur was in 
Florida, he heard much of the size of the 
large-mouth black bass in interior 
Florida waters. So one day with his 
Secretary of the Navy, William E. 
Chandler, and another friend, they ar¬ 
rived in Kissimmee City. Here they 
were met by a guide. Boarding one of 
the queer little vessels that ply the lake, 
they sailed to the entrance of a creek 
where the President got into a canoe¬ 
like boat with the guide and started for 
the home of the bass. No others went 
along. For six hours, the President and 
the unknown but recommended guide 
were gone. When they returned, much 
to the relief of Mr. Chandler, the Pres¬ 
ident brought with him four or five black 
bass. It seems that the bass were not 
in a biting mood that day, but President 
Arthur at last found a fly that would 
tempt the fish and on a day when the 
“bass wouldn’t bite,” something all fish¬ 
ermen will understand, President Arthur 
made them bite. He may have accom¬ 
plished his purpose by making the fish 
so angry that they struck at the fly, and 
being an expert, hooked the fish. 
Judge Taft likes black bass fishing 
best and enjoys fishing for them in the 
Thousand Islands, at Murray Bay, sav¬ 
ing many a fish from a watery grave. 
Judge Taft can also tell yarns (what 
fisherman cannot?), and one of his 
amusing ones concerns Frank Cushman 
of Washington, whom he quotes as fol¬ 
lows in telling of the depths reached in 
the hard times following the panic of 
1893. 
“Out here,” goes the story, “we didn’t 
have anything to eat but clams. Our 
streets were paved with clams. We had 
buckets of clams sitting around the 
house. It was all we had to eat. Bank¬ 
ers, ministers of the gospel, lawyers— 
everybody ate clams. I ate so many 
clams myself that my stomach would 
rise and fall with the tide.” 
Of the Presidents which liked hunt¬ 
ing, Washington was partial to deer; 
Jefferson to deer, turkey, opossums and 
raccoons; Jackson to deer and turkey; 
Tyler and Taylor to deer; Pierce was 
fond of ’coons; Buchanan of quail 
(called partridge in the South), and 
Lincoln to turkey. 
Hayes had a similar bent; Garfield 
delighted in ducks and quail, Cleveland 
was at home with ducks and shore birds 
as well as upland game, not despising the 
humble rabbit; Benjamin Harrison con¬ 
fined himself to ducks and partridge, be¬ 
ing partial to red-heads and mallards. 
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