Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-20
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Coming International Fisheries Ex- hibitiOn 1n Lon6On-Preparattons by the United States Fish Commission Interesting Exhibits.
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| The Coming International Fisheries Ex- | hIbition 1n London-Preparation by the United States Fish Commission = 1 Interesting Exhibits.
 l WASHINGTON, D. C., January r, 1883. 1 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: I suppose you know that on the first of | next May there will open in London, Eng land, an International Fisheries Exhibition | (under the patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen) that will continue for six months. Judging from the prospectus, the affair is to be very swell indeed. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales is the president, and in the list of vice presidents and in the general and executive committees are the names of ncbles and patricians in scores From what we now know of the ap plications for space received from the vari- ou5 governments interested in this impor- tant and daily-increasing industry and of the allotments thereto, we have every reason to suppose that the exhibition will be a great success At any rate the United States Com mission of Fish and Fisheries feel that it is pretty sure to meet foemen worthy of it's steel, and is exerting every effort to make the exhibit of the United States as extensive and as elaborate possible. To the care of the commission was entrusted, by act of Congress, not only the preparation of the exhibit of the government per SC, but also the custody of all private exhibits and the care of arranging them to best advantage in the Exhibition building. A large number of circulars were sent to merchants and manu- lecturers in all parts of the country, accom- panied by copies of the prospectus, etc., and these have responded in such hearty man ner as evidences the 1iveliest interest in the exhibition. Spurred on by the success achieved at the IasternGtionGle FIscherei- AussteZEatalg held at Berlin April 20, 1880, when it carried of the first prize, the com mission is ende avoring, not only to outdo it. self with view to capturing the first again, but to induce individuals and firms to con- pete. The Berlin prize is 8 large crystal and gilt stand, very elaborate and very conspicu- ous-nos particularly beautiful, nor, appa- rently, of very great intrinsic value, but possessed of an extrinsic value that is diff cult to gauge.
 The prospectus of the London exhibition is remarkably comprehensive in scope and elaborate in detail and it is surprising to contemplate the extent and variety of the factors now considered important in the fish cries industry that would have been consid- cred absolutely foreign thereto but short time since. The range of these factors em- braces the rude methods and appliances of the pre- historic fisherman, using wood and bone hooks and lines of vegetable fibre or animal sinew, and the abstruse disquisition on the economic condition of the fishermen of the present day. Prizes are offered too for essays on such subjects as the present legislation affecting fisheries, condition of streams and harbors and fishermen's life i'm surance; and the best means of improving that legislation.
 It occurred to me that short letter on this subject might be of interest to your readers, and have hastily sketched the fol- lowing brief notes of the exhibit as 1t now appears Soms of the officers of the Fish Commission and National Museum are ar ranging the government exhibit and many of the private exhibits in the Museum building. It is a little chaotic as yet, but will very soon