The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

Among the guests at the Rainier hotel yester- |
day were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene G. Blackford, OF |
Brooklyn. Mr.. Blackford, who is q member OF |
the New York state fish commission, is one of |
the prominent pisciculturists of the country
He is now on his way home from . trip to
Alaska. 81 came to the Coast said he yester- |
day, "purely for pleasure, but 1t has been q
pleasure for me to note the condition OF the
fisheries here. 1 have been 20 long interested
in the scientific propagation OF fish, and in their
economical use, that everything pertaining to
the subject attracts me. OF one tn ing am con-
WINGED, tina. you must have more stringent laws
here and in Alaska for the protection of the
salmon. They must be protected during the
spawning season, and they must be taken by
methods which will not deyastafe your waters.
Furthermore, no more fish must be caught
than can be used. You are wasting
and destroying wealth whose loss you
will keenly fee some day. For example, at one
cam merry which visited in Alaska 1000 salmon
were thrown away in one day. Think OF it
such thing as that is almost criminal The
cannery either had not facilities for packing or
else the proprietor wished to restrict the output.
In either case it should be seou to that contracts
were made with the catchers for no more fish
than the cannery could handle. I was much
gratiied to see how well the shad are doing
around san Francisco. Seventeen years ago we
stocked the rivers with q lot of little shad from
the East, for shad 10 not Indigenous to the
waters of the Pacific. In the East the chad
average three and half pounds apiece, and
one weighing Ave or six pounds is something
tremendous. But in San Francisco the shad
weigh eight, ten aud even fifteen pounds, and
the wholesale price is less than in New YORK.
In short, the Pacific shad are better and cheaper
than those of the Atlantic. The day is not far
of, l think, when at ieast car load of halibut
will be shipped daily from Puget sound into
New York. The achooncrs that run from New
York. Boston and Gloucester TO the Great Banks
for Atlantic halibut make q round trip in three
weeSs and bring in haiibut az least ten days Old,
and wholesaiing today at - cents a pound
| Your Pacific halibut are quite as good rs those
| OF the Atlantic. and a steamer can bring them
| from off Cape Flattery TO Seattle in day The
dealers here contract for halibut at cent a
pound and it can De packed, sent to New York
| and nut on the market for 4 cents. Express
trains would take the fish through to New York
in six days and fss. freight trains would carry
| them through IN a few days more. so the hall.
| but would To cheaper and freshsr than that
| canght in the Atlantic. You can certainly sup
! plsy sll of the Middle West with this fish, and
! probably large part OF tie Atlantic coast"
JR. Croker. of Chicago, presiden. Of the
| Washington Cedar shingle Company, which has
| It's mill on BelIinghsm bay. is at the Northern
| hotel lie manages the Chicago end of the bus
| mess. Last night he said: THE spring Is the
| time when shingles are IN demand, and the
| market i. now falling of trile. There seems
| To me a Dol ibilty that II the output continues
| there may be slut in the market. | greatly re-
rret that continued i'll health hiss made il neces-
sary for ]. 5. Mun3y, the manager OF our mill, 10
resign. He will be succeeded by my brother, ".
II. Croker, who has been IN the lumber bust
| ness on Coos bay for some tine. Our daily out
| nut is now shout 50, 0lo shingles"
| Nv Shepherd, Of Walla walis. and ]. T. ".
| s;oueroad, of Everett, classmates st Worcester
| university in ohio. met at thu Occidental hotel
| ls.t night for the hrst time in five wears. Mr.
| Shepherd is principal OF one o. the Walla Walls
! rI,blie schools. and Mr. Stcnsroat, no formerly
| ran the Hoauiam T-i5ane, is now in the rea
! estate business 81 Everett. "Waets WaIls uow
| has about J. go pupils in its schools" said Mr.
| Shepherd las. evening.
A RAYMOND excursion parry arrived at II.
Rainier hotel yesterday morn ing snd spent NOS
Of the day in the city. The members were Mrs
| J, II. Thorndike, OF Detroit: Miss E W. silsbee
| OF Boston: Misc 3 r. Richardson, Mrs. Ii. 5
Ns.e ard Miss n. T. Beauclerk. OF Cam bridge
Mass; Mrs. A. L Marsh and Mrs j. Marsh. 0
Philadelphia: NJ and Mrs. ]. B. Robinson. o
/ New York, and S. y. Hoyt AMI Mr.. and Mrs
: EGssae q. Blackboard, OF BrooKlyr-
he ents-prisIng advance agent of Q compsr
of singers who viii arrive here this veek ha
erected across Front street arch. presurnabl
{ OF welcome, hHt really 20 advertise the entel
! tslnms2t Among other legends which s 5or
4 the structure Is "Hsyden's Creation" Their