Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-07

instance, here is one entitled Dressing
Mackerel," which reads as follows:
Son the left is man splitting a mack
erel. In the center another glbbing'
or eyiscerating the fish, which he holds
in his left hand. The man on the right,
dressed In 'petticOat- barvel,' Is 'cut-
ting away" etc. Every stage, then,
in American fishing is illustrated, from
the way the fish is caught until it is
finally prepared for food. Here are
scenes of vessels caught in a gale of
wind. with fishermen III dories, rowing
In order to escape from the coming
storm. characteristics of the fishermen
have not been overlooked. Here Is a
group of Irish fishermen who draw the
net or set the line in and around Bos-
ton, who still, in a certain measure, adj
here to the old country methods, using
SOME of their Irish gear. Here are
Portuguese, Malay, Kanacka, and Chi.
nese fishermen, the cleaning of the
American seas attracting labor from all
parts of the world. The Indian por-
poise fisherman is represented, who
launches his frail boat and, with q rusty
musket rarely misses the ocean pig.
When the section of apparatus used
by our fishermen is examined the visi-
tor is amazed at its magnitude. Here is
model of that vast net used by the
mackereler, and to show its size
model of mackerel schooner, with the
seine-boat, is suspended near it. Some
idea is then had of proportion. The
lines, hooks, travis, and engines of cap
ture will fill innumerable cases. After
this come the rods, reels, lines, and flies
used by the angler. Here are cases of
flies, with pictures of the insects which
they initiate. A fishing box--one of
those light, portable houses which pack
up In small space-will show our Eng
lish friends how the American angler
takes his ease. This house Will have In
it all the traps the angler may want, his
bed, his store, and his cooking utensils.
Nothing has been forgotten or over
looked which might illustrate the ways
and manners of our New England fish
erman, for here are his amusements, his
games, the literature he reads, the med
icines he takes, the clothes he wears,
the food he eats. There is the greasy
pack Of cards, thumbed almost out of
existence, with which he plays eUchre,
or high-low-jack, and the accordion that
walls melancholy of nights, or the fd-
die, which, when he scrapes, brings
the wind. As to books, his library is
larger than one would think. There is
his BilAe, Shakespeare, Walter Scott,
and next 10 it " Robinson CrusOe;" there
is Two Years before the Mast" all
Dickens, with the cred Rover of the
Seas" and Old Capt. Iaryatt with the
younger Russell. Here are love stories
of the most languishing kind, with song
books innumerable. Fisherman Jack
takes little medicine if he can help it,
but here is his rough and ready phar-
macOpCea; plasters for his Nounds, and
castor-Oll, and blue mass, and one I'M
mensely big box as large as a salt box
labeled epson salts. Were this descrip.
ton extended over innumerabIe columns
1t would hardly give more than scant
idea of the thorOughness of this ex-
hibition. All the sea birds, the animals
which prey on fish, will be sent, to-
gether with all the primitive fishing gear
III use by the American Indians. In adj
dition to the objects illustrating fish and
fishing the lighthouse board and the
| life-saviug service will send exhibits.
| Everything has been SO arranged and
! systematized that the process OF install
alton IN England viii require but very
| little labor.