Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-05-15
The Return of the Fishermen.

A number OF mammoth dry goods
boxes in the rear room of b. w. Carpenter
& Co. IS drug store, yesterday noon, at
tracted the attention of select crowd of
spectators, who doubtless wondered what
in the world dry goods could be doing in
there. The appearance on the ground,
however, of Messrs. w. f. Hendee, John
Van Sicklen, +. l.. Taft and A. L. and A.
H. Barrows partly explained the mystery, as
these gentlemen were known to have been
absent for the past three or four days on
fishing trip to Lake George. and the as
sumption that the dry goods boxes con
tanned their catch" was naturally and
speedily made. A few moments later the
suspicion ripened into certainty, as the
boxes were opened, and disclosed to the
eager eyes of the privileged bystanders
layer after layer OF superb lake trout,
packed in ice, and fresh and gumy-looking
as when they left their native element.
"Well, those are darlings" exclaimed
an authority in piscatorial art as he handl-
ed the sleek, red spotted beauties with
the loving touch of the sportsman.
Here's a bouncer," said one of the en-
| thusiastic fishermen, producing trout
the likes of which" had never been seen
! by any of the party before. at weighed
| twelve and Il half pounds D'i ..e IL was
dressed" The big fellow was passed
around the circle and all agreed that the
fortunate captors modesty was excessive.
He should nave had it weigh at least
twenty-five pounds. Further inquiry Ill
cited the information that the big trout
was caught on gang of hooks by deep
trolling with IA sinner for bait, and that
it took thirty minutes hard work to land
him in the boat All the trout We're
caught in the same manner, the trolling
! being done, for the most part, in water
forty feet deep. The catch averaged seven
pounds apiece in weight, though, besides
the big one just mentioned, two were
caught weighing respectively ten and a
half and nine and II half pounds each.
"How much did your fish cost you ~
asked the omnipresent genius who reduces
everything to a prosaic level of dollars
and cents.
well" said one of the fishermen, they
cost us more than we could have bought
them for outright, | suppose. Each one
of us had man and boat that cost us
So per day, in addition to our other
expenses. We could have bought our
trout at twenty-five cents pound, but
the fun we have had couldn't be bought
| for any money"
The bystanders assent to the philoso-
ply of the statement, and the big boxes of
iisn were again nailed up for future refer
ence and a division of the spOilS.
The st. Johnsbury and Lake Chainplain
Road.
From the Danvlle North start
The following is from the Burlington
FREE PRESS "WhIle other sources OF
news sometimes fail, the regularly recur-
ring accidents on the St. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain road furnish the strug
Cling Vermont newspaper man with an
unfaling supply of incident. 1t is to be
| hoped that the new owners of the road
will find means to change all this-even
though it should depress the rural news
market for time" Just So 1t is abso-
lutely necessary that the road should be
put in tolerably safe condition at once
What is needed more than anything else
is new ballast and ties. The road never
was half ballasted and as II natural con
sequence the frost has thrown the track
all out of shape in many places. The
track layers evidently took care that q
joint should not meet on IA tie and this eX
pertinent has ruined hundreds OF good
steel rails 1t will he necessary to eXpend
IA large amount of work before the road Is
suitable for the amount of business that
is expected of it during the coming season
and the job should be accomplished n
soon as possible, for the good name of the
road.