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[Oct. i, 1910. 
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bottom boats, and others all relating to sport. 
Over 175,000 persons go to this place every year 
for the fishing alone. Transportation to the 
island and back costs $2.50, living expenses $2 • 
to $10 a day, and from $5 to $10 per day is ex¬ 
pended for hire of guides and launch; all of 
which amounts to a large sum, representing the 
economic value of the sport at this one island. 
A collection of photographs of the famous ang¬ 
ling piers of the Pacific Coast could be shown. 
Some of these cost $100,000 and are given over 
entirely to the angler. 
In one section of the sport appliances I would 
show all kinds of spears, as grain, harpoons, 
turtle pegs, floats, lances, etc., shark harpoons, 
etc., and every appliance used in taking a game 
fish in sport. This collection could be augmented 
by photographs of anglers taken at the great 
angling tournaments of the country, as that of 
the California Tuna Club, from May to October, 
and the various casting tournaments of the trout, 
bass and salmon clubs. There should be in this 
hall copies (photographs) of the most famous 
paintings of trout, salmon, etc., by the best 
artists, and series of photographs could be given 
showing the peculiar economic uses to which 
game and other fishes are put, such as the light 
of the candlefish, tarpon scales as post cards, fish 
scales in art, shark skin as leather, ear stones 
of white sea bass (California) as jewelry, etc, 
eyes of Santa Catalina fish as pearls, hardened 
by a peculiar process. In connection with the 
exhibit of game fish tackle I would have a case 
or collection called “ancient angling appliances." 
Here I would show the fishing tackle of the 
ancient Americans, as, for California, the aba- 
lone hooks, and others in all stages of making 
from the circular disk to the punctured disk, and 
then the complete hook as found in the mounds; 
hooks with the barb on the outside; the kelp 
line; spears used for fishing, bone, stone, wood ; 
fish clubs of whalebone; in fact, make this tell the 
complete story of ancient fishing methods in 
America. I would follow this with the fishing 
appliances of the last two centuries, so that it 
would be possible for a student or angler to ob¬ 
serve at a glance the complete evolution of the 
rod, line, or hook, sinker, or the art of angling 
as a sport in America. He could turn from the 
shell hook to the perfect series of modern hooks 
of all kinds and varieties. 
In connection with this educational display of 
fishes, if in a large museum, I would advocate 
the placing of a library of sport where the 
principal books on angling from the time of 
Walton down to to-day could be seen or con¬ 
sulted daily. Thus a visitor could turn from the 
ocular demonstration to the literature of the 
subject. I would also include a map or maps 
colored to show the localities and distribution of 
all game or food fishes. Thus could he seen at 
once the localities for tarpon, salmon, black bass, 
etc., as on the sportsman’s or angler’s map pub¬ 
lished by various railroad interests. 
If the museum had special days or had lectures 
to teachers or others, a series of lectures could 
be illustrated by the stereopticon, showing the 
great trout streams of the country and the 
famous fishing grounds of California. 
In the field of economic fishes, interesting 
histories could be given and illustrated by photo¬ 
graphs, valuable fisheries to be given as types 
being the sardine fisheries and canneries of San 
Pedro, Cal.; the sardine fisheries of France and 
