Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-11
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CARLOAD OF YOUNG FfsH SENT 10 TIE wEsr
The nsh commission car "Pennsylvania- was
attached 10 the train that LEFT the Baltimore ana
Potomac depot at ESQ O'Clock last evening. The
car before returning. Will make a trip as far as Sc
Paul, Minnesota, and viii return 90 Washington
PROBABLY In eight days This Is the third trip
made 50 Tar this season. one trip was made %
Boston, where young FISH were shipped by express
10 various points In New England. Another trim
mas been made TO Louisville, Ky, for the purpose
OF supplying the country I'm that region. The car
that left last night had on board a cargo OF
5000 young carp-the largest single shin
lacnt ever made The "BalfimOre ana
ohio" which has Just completed a trim
u the blue grass region carried 1000 earn which
was the largest cargo ever taken out before
Inst night The pennsylvania" which will
be attached on the different roads TO the fast ex
press trains, will make It's first stop at Quincy,
HI, from which point FISH viii be distributed
throughout Illinois. The next stopping place will
be DeS Moines, Iowa, whence fish will be dstrfb-
uted through Iowa ana the adjacent country. Sc
Paul will be distributing point for Minnesota
Wisconsin and Dakota The 5000 earn will sun,
ply 500 applicants twenty carp being given 10 each
applicant Mr.. Geo. II. IA. Moore was IN charge OF
The car He took with him two men 90 as
s,st him In handling the fsh, and a cook
The FISH are handled so carefully that In recent
long Journey, with large cargo, only two flsh
were lost They were two refractory little carp
who Hoped out or pail. A STAR reporter boarded
the car while II WAS lying on the track waiting for
the train There was not a fish 90 be seen any
where, they having been all slowed snugly away
In large cans or pals I'm the tanks or boxes rum
ming along the sides OF the car The hunks or
oerths, were closed up against the wall and
everything looked as shpshape as the cabin OF a
pleasure yacht From one end OF the car in n
little apartment where the cook had his stove,
came pleasant odors suggestive OF a tempting
evening meal The cook was busying himself
storing away supplies for the journey In many
curious III Tie lockers. Mr.. Moore showed the re-
porter through the car. The people IN the west,
ne SAID, were quite enthusiastic over carp cul-
lure. Texas seemed especially adapted for &c
on account OF the climate, the carp not being
Obliged TO seek the mud for shelter Every farmer
VINO could make little pond on his place could
raise all the carp he needed for home consumption
with very little trouble
"lts wonderful how they multiply" said Mr.
moore why, down In Texas, | Understand that
one pond became so crowded with carp that the
nsh were actually smothered To DEATH The men
TOOK the dead llsh out 10y the bushel The cranes
got wind or II and came In iocks 10 get the fish,
That sounds like flSh story said the reporter
"Well, IL may Lot have been so bad as that but
they increase very rapidly. have known fish to
be snothered. L have known mackereI 20 be
sinothered In the sand In the SuSquehanna river"
During the summer great numbers OF young
shad have been shipped away. Now nothing is
being shipped but carp. Soon the white fish sea-
son viii begin.