The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-08
EMMA JUCH'S CAPTIVES
She Had Them OH a String
in the Wi1ds of Penn
SylVania.
PLAYS OF THE COMING WEEK.
Kitty Hay Is Living Quietly in
JerSey--General News About
Stage People and Their Doings

I had an odd encounter last week.
Judge Gildersleeve had told me that the
Fin and Feather Club. of which he is
president, wanted to get control of some
woodland where there was good trout
fishing, and undertook to help him out
There is no part of the country more
thoroughly familiar to me than the
Pokono mountains, near Canadensis, and
undertook to find just the tract suitable
to the clubs needs. OF course personal
visit was necessary, so went up there,
and started out on tramp over the hills.
just as | had settled upon the exact
place for the proposed park-a tract about
half mile square on one side of Bull
Nose Hill saw woman fishing This
was very interesting. There are not
many women who go fishing, and this one
was casting the fly in manner that even
old DIR. Clerk would have commended.
A long climb brought me near enough
to the fair angler to see that she was
beautiful blonde-yOung and slender, and
graceful as a Greek statue. BY that
time she had hooked trout, and was 50
interested in landing him that she did
not notice my approach. The struggle
was magnificent The slow reeling In.
with the slender split bamboo, held we'll
against the line, writhing and twisting as
the fish rushed from side to side of the
little pool at the base of Pokono Falls,
filed me with all the enthusiasm of the
amateur
But that was nothing as compared with
the interest aroused by the beautiful
woman who held the rod. At last the
trout, tired as tired could be, was drawn
slowly alongside of the fiat rock where
the young girl stood. Changing the rod
to her left hand, she stopped, picked up
her landing reel, and in a moment beauty
lay nasping its life out on a bed of grass.
could stand it no longer. I rushed
forward and stood az the side of the
fisher maiden. She looked at me without
alarm, and simply said
is he not a beauty"
'1ndeed, yesl" said /; s'but that is not
the point. I-er--I-er--" Then was at
q loss, and my hesitation was just enough
to remind the young lady that was q
stranger.
Pardon me, sill" said she; II really do
not understand your intrusion
Twas at a complete loss, when, suddenly
as the flash of lightning across Septem-
Der sky, an idea darted through my mind.
II am very sorry to tell you" said l,
'that you are breaking the laws of the
State of Pennsylvania. For every trout
you have caught you are liable to fine of
IS, as the Legislature has decreed that the
trout season closes on the first day of
August. The informer gets half the fine.
and while am loath to give trouble to a
charming woman, am constable, and
have no option in the matter"
The young lady produced her pocket
book with an enhancing blush. Then I
was in @ quandary. The money must not
be produced, and she had three other
beauties. The smallest of the four must
have weighed three-quarters of pound.
and the biggest, the last one, was a fat
two-pounder.
Il beg your pardon" said 1. 81 am not
game constable That was the first ex-
cuse for my intrusion that occurred to
me. am a newspaper writer and from
New. York, and earnestly beg your par
seldom one finds charming woman to
be skillful angler, and hope you will
let my surprise excuse my rudeness."
Then was more surprised than ever.
You are quite forgiven" said the
young lady. 81 have met newspaper men.
and have only to ask your name Mine is
Emma Juch"
That settled me. 1t was indeed the
charming little woman whom | had SO
much admired on the stage last winter
She begged me, on the way to her mother.
who was not far distant, to tell nobody OF
the meeting, as she did not want to have
the seclusion of her favorite haunt de-
stroyed.
1t turned out that she and her mother
were at Spruce Cottage, only a short dist
ance away, and that Miss Juch was in the
habit of spending few days there occa-
sionally in order to get rid of the roar of
the city.
have kept the secret as long as can.
My enjoyment of the adventure was so
great that ! cannot forbearto share it.
Ilrpr,