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Among his angling guests have been George 
F. Baker. Samuel Thorne, L. W. Hill, Pres. 
George B. Harris of the Burlington and Dr. 
George D. Stewart. 
A distinguished party of New England ang¬ 
lers finds it easier and cheaper to reach their 
river, the Natashquan, 500 miles east of Quebec, 
on the north shore, by steaming around from 
Boston in a specially chartered yacht. The party 
includes E. C. Chapman, the broker; Mr. John¬ 
son, of the Red Cross manufacturing concern; 
F. S. Hodges, a former engineer of the South¬ 
ern Pacific, and others. 
This is the river which the Earl of Beaufort 
and Billy Florence, the actor, once reached be¬ 
taking an Allan steamer from Liverpool and 
paying an extra $500 to be dropped off in a boat 
opposite the mouth of the stream. 
The salmon of the Natashquan do not run 
particularly large, but they are very numerous 
and rise freely to the fly. 
The river itself is a very sporty one, the best 
pools being in the vicinity of heavy falls and 
dangerous rapids, where several lives have al¬ 
ready been lost. Here perhaps, better than on 
any other Canadian river may be enjoyed the 
spectacular sight of myriads of salmon essaying 
the leaps of the waterfalls, sometimes 8 to 10 
feet from ledge to ledge, of the rocks, often 
negotiating the flight, in perfect safety, after 
perhaps several unsuccessful attempts, but oc¬ 
casionally being mortally bruised against pro¬ 
jecting points of rocks. 
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, who is one of the oldest 
anglers on the Restigouche, had less sport the 
past season than on some former occasions, 
owing to unfavorable weather conditions, 
though for a part of the time the fish rose quite 
freely. 
The Restigouche Salmon Club is the most ex¬ 
clusive of its kind in the world. Its shares are 
worth some $15,000 each, and can only be held 
by those who pass a ballot of the existing mem¬ 
bers. The annual dues are very heavy and it 
has been said that every salmon killed by mem¬ 
bers of the club costs them from $5 to $10 per 
pound. 
Seward Webb recently shipped a salmon, 
with his compliments, to almost every railroad 
president in the United States. 
The fishing privileges of the Restigouche 
Salmon Club are certainly worth fully $1,000,000. 
Some of them are only leased from the New 
Brunswick and Quebec governments for a term 
of years, but others are riparian rights, for 
which enormous sums of money have been paid 
to the fortunate original owners. And yet there 
is still living and fishing an old angler who 
forty years ago paid but $100 a year for the lease 
of the entire Restigouche River. Walter 
Brackett, the fisherman in question, is a famous 
fish painter of Boston, who created the four 
pictures of which reproductions are so common, 
entitled "The Rise, - ’ "The Leap,” “The Strug¬ 
gle" and “Landed.” He is now 87, and has 
been fishing this year on the Marguerite, a 
branch of the Saguenay, where he had as 
angling companions for a part of the summer 
Messrs. J. Murray Kay. of Houghton, Mifflin 
& Co., and H. G. Pickering, also of Boston. 
Mr. Brackett is an adept at salmon fishing, and 
even now thinks nothing of going down a rapid 
in a birch canoe, standing up in the frail craft 
and hanging on to a running salmon at the 
other end of the line. 
Mr. Brackett’s advantage simply illustrates 
the fact that American salmon fishermen per¬ 
sist in fishing to the very last, no matter how 
old they may be. Dean Sage died while fishing 
on the banks of the Restigouche a few years 
ago, and in the following season the same fate 
overtook the late Dean Hoffman. Col. Sweeney 
also died on the Restigouche. Only last year 
death similarly overtook A. T. Patterson, the 
senior director of the Bank of Montreal. He 
was 76 years of age and had just made several 
casts', using a fairly heavy rod. when he was 
suddenly stricken with apoplexy in his boat 
and had almost breathed his last by the time he 
was taken ashore. 
Mr. S. Weir Mitchell, one of the oldest ang¬ 
lers-on the Restigouche. has had for fishing 
companions at various times On the river: 
William K. Vanderbilt, Billy Florence, Stanford 
White, Henry T. Sloane, Rev. D. Rainsford, \\ . 
Seward Webb, Robert Goelet, W. N. de For¬ 
rest, William L. Breese, and the son of ex- 
President Roosevelt. 
Another club of millionaires leases the Cas- 
capedia from the Quebec government, paying- 
some $12,500 annually for the privilege. This 
was the club to which belonged the late John 
G. Hecksher, secretary of the New York horse 
show. It was formed by W. H. de Forrest, 
Harry Hollins, R. G. Dun and others. Mr. 
Dun "and H. R. H. the Princess Louise are 
credited with killing the two largest salmon 
taken out of this river, one of the fish weighing 
54 pounds and the other 52. The present king 
of England and almost all Canada’s governors- 
general of recent years have also fished the Cas- 
capedia. 
C. B. Barnes, of Boston, who is an octogen¬ 
arian, and has fished the Cascapedia for a num¬ 
ber of years past, killed a 44-pound salmon at 
the very beginning of his fishing this year. In 
two weeks’ fishing in the lower waters of the 
river, his total catch weighed over 1,000 pounds.- 
It was in these waters, which are below those 
of the Cascapedia Salmon Club, that the Princess 
Louise did most of her salmon fishing in Cari- 
ada, and the fishing lodge occupied by Mr. 
Barnes was purchased by him from the Mar¬ 
quis of Lorne, together with his fishing rights, 
when his excellency was leaving the Dominion. 
Dr. Blake, of Boston, killed a 41-pound sal¬ 
mon in the Cascapedia this year. 
Mr. Mackay, of New York, who had Mr. 
Kane with him, enjoyed splendid luck in August 
on the same river, and in order to lose as little 
time as possible from his fishing, traveled both 
from and to New York by special train. 
Eight salmon in a day is the limit placed by 
the Cascapedia Club upon its members and their 
guests, and so excellent was the sport in the 
early part of the season that Mr. Van Allan 
and others frequently killed their eight apiece 
in the morning and had nothing to do for the 
balance of the day but to enjoy the sport of less 
fortunate anglers. 
Sir Lomer Gouin, Prime Minister of Quebec, 
and a party of friends have returned from fish¬ 
ing the Moisie, the finest river on the north 
shore of the St. Lawrence, as guests of Ivers 
W. Adams of Boston, who also owns a good 
part of the Nepisiguit in New Brunswick. Mr. 
Adams paid $30,000 to the government for the 
entire bed of the Moisie with all fishing rights 
owned by the province thereon; but other priv¬ 
ileges bought by him on the same stream ma¬ 
terially increased the cost of the fishing rights, 
which are now valued at considerably over 
$100,000. Fish are frequently killed in this river 
weighing from 30 to 40 pounds each and even 
more, and they are exceedingly abundant. 
Litigation is now pending before the privy 
council in England as to. the proprietorship of 
the stream, the fishing in which is claimed by a 
party owning most of the river banks, in oppo¬ 
sition to the contentions of the government and 
the party to whom it has sold its rights. The 
question is one of vast importance to American 
salmon fishermen, as it may affect many other 
fishing rights in Canada based upon riparian 
ownership. 
Louis Cabot, of Boston, has, in the Grand 
River of Gaspe, one of the best of Canadian 
streams, well-stocked with heavy fish, over 100 
large salmon often, being visible at a time in 
the Grand pool, a few miles above his rustic 
camp. Another splendid south shore stream is 
the Bonaventure, in which two club members 
killed thirty salmon early in August in a couple 
of days. Senator Forget has a 45-pound fish to 
his credit out of this river and his daughter, 
Mrs. Skinner, killed one this year weighing 31 
pounds. 
DEFYING THE SOCIAL LAWS. 
Colonel Brown (soliloquizing on his host): 
Confounded fella— (pff )—right and left every 
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