The morning news., 1888-08-26
Total number of fish, 80.

Total number Of pounds, 1928
Actual time spent in fishing, 5S16 hours
Salmon killing is beyond compare the
highest sport of the American fisherman
President Cleveland will not have achieved
the full measure of human greatness until he
has cast fly in search for the salmonide
of whom Pliny wrote l 800 years ago: at
passeth all other sea fishes whatsoever. 4"
To tell where it can be found on this CONT
nent is to name almost every river in
Canada from the straits of Belle Isle to the
jacques Cartier above Quebec. Within
the land of the free Maine alone furnishes
salmon fishing, its best rivers in that re-
spect being the Penobscot st. Croix ana
Dennys. In the last century the fish
swarrned in every river on the American
coast as far south as Connecticut. But a
stream once depleted of them remains for
ever barren, unless restocked by man, which
requires much patient, protracted and per-
severing effort. Nature has implanted in
the salmon an instinct TO breed in the river
where it was itself bred and in no other.
When an artificial barrier closes the ascent
of stream the fish will still return until
they die. OF course oven in such q case
the spawn is planted. but it is necessarily
cast in localities unstited 10 its develop
ment and consequently perishes, and the
river speedily becomes barren. This I'M
pulse to return to it's birthplaceis is so strong
in the salmon that il viii make almost in
credible leaps up falls aud fshways to
regain its place of spawning. A striking
illustration of this Is N Mr. FloTeuce's pos
session in the shape of an instantaneous
photograph Of salmon leaping fails of
the ST. Croix river sixteen foet high.
The fly fisherman who dex:erously wired
a salmon rod have increased ten-fold in
this country in tue last tsn years. A large
majority Of them are among the gentlemen
sportsmen Of New York and Boston. The
record for casting belongs to New York.
IL was made in Central Park in October,
1884, by Mr.. H. w. Hawes. He used an
eighteen-foot split bamboo rod. His C 'st
was 131 feet. The English record is 1876
feet, but it was made under circumstances
that still leave Mr.. Hawes' throw the most
phenomenal.
The rivalry among salmon fishermen has
become so great that stream privileges have
largely increased in value For individ-
uals the cost varies, according to the desir-
ability of the localities, from 81 day to
$25 a week for each rod. The creation,
however, of salmon fishing clubs ha' mar
rowod the field for individual sportsmen
and is rapidly enhancing the price Of privi-
leges. At the present time nearly every
river discharging into the st, Lawrence,
into the Saguenay and into Bay Cnaleur,
has q eluD DeuTlIlE US lElllC. Cti Aulul3 Llc
most famoug of these is the Restigoucge
salmon club, whose mombers are entirely
Americans and mostly New Yorkors An
idea OF its expensivenoss can BE- gained
from a remark made to me by John q.
Hecksher, the most thorough all-round
gentleman sportsman OF America, that
when ho fished every summer on the Resti-
gouche il cost him $500 beforol wet
line" This club was incorporated by The
legislature of Quebec IN 1850, tho petition
ers being nine New Workers; Locke w.
Winchester, Francis c. Lawrence, Oliver
X. King, Charles l.. Tiffany, Marve!ie w.
Cooper, Charles r. Fearing, Roland Red
mond, Robert G. Living-ton, and John l..
Cadwnlader THEFT stated desire wJs ITO
promote the nealth anu recreation OF It's
members by tho pursuit Of fishing and
hunting" and Ger that purpc5o they had
acquired q tract Of land On tho Restigouche
and Matapeiis riveis, IN tbc provtnee "f
Quebec and nuilt clubGoIIso al Iatapcdia.
They bought and leaSei properties at varI-
Gus points along these rivers for distance
sof dfty miles. The capital stock OF the
organization was haed al $4,000, divided
into forty shares, Of ti. .o00 each, hug those
menbership shares arC nov valued at S5,OO0
eaoh. Ia addition - tbc purchase Of At least
one share Of stock, eaon member Is required
% pay an eat. 2noo lee of $500. The original
forty members comprised the Following
wslHknown gentlemen, most OF whom are
oop;,larIy claTsed as millionaires: Chester
A. Arthur, who at the time Of his death was
president of the club; Francis Bartlett, tue
aistiuguished lawyer; Cornelius Bliss, the
banker: William l.. Breeze, OF the New
York stock exchange, who has just br ught
a anti for 81, 600 900 against his fellow fisaer-
man William X. Vanderbilt; M. Bayard
Brown. well-known Union club man;
John L. Cadwalader. Julius Catlin, Jr.;