Evening journal., 1892-05-24
WILL LIFT THEIR NETS.
Fishermen Are Losing Money
and Will Quit.
THE SEASON NEARLY ENDED.

THE SEASON NEARLY ENDED. |
4 Vessel That Is Matching Thousands of
the Iish The wounded hungarian WIN
Get weii- Young men who Have De-
eided to Kics-A wen-imown Farmer
Loses Iiis Reason.
Special Correspondence Evening journal.
NEW CASTLE. May 2i-The shad sea-
SON. which has been such q failure i'm the
Delaware this year. and upon which
scores of families depended for their
daily bread. win practically end this
week The laws of Delaware permit
fishing until june no. but the New
Castle and New Jersey fishermen will lift
their nets because they are not paying
expenses. and because the vocation of
fisherman does not evcn.olier good liv
ing New Castle fishermen and fish
statesmen are discouraged because they
had planned for such a successful season
Many have lost money while others have
not made a living. as they would have
done i'm other business.
The fishermen uscribe their poor luck
TO the scarcity of shad alone They say
/ it is the same story all along the river
and that many Of the giilers have not
made enough to pay expenses The water.
/ 80 is stated. has been just right for the
/ fish. and an other conditions were favor
able toward the last of the season. but
the shad did not seem 90 run in big
schools I'm fact they nearly deserted the
Delaware this year. but the fishermen are
confident they will return In increased
numbers next season The up-river fish
cries have also ceased operations, but
those along the bay and gillers are still
catching limited numbers of shad
The United States steamer Fish Hawk
lying i'm the Delaware river of
Gloucester is quietly continuing this year
the work of propogating shad i'm this
important stream, and despite the adverse
circumstances. Is meeting with fair sue
cess. Since the cutting ont of the net
at the Gloucester fishery the supply Of
fish is procured from farther down the
river and enough are secured daily to-
hatch out millions of eggs SO far this
season 11.454, 600 eggs have been se-
cured and 0,0ls 900 distributed i'm
. Pennsylvania New Jersey and New
York waters. About G,0O0, 900 eggs are
now being hatched on board the vessel
leaving q loss of about 1000, 600 eggs
OF the fish distributed 2,400 600 were
Woodbury. creek. About 800 coo shad
p were sent out for distribution yesterday.
and 600 600 more viii be sent ont every
d day this week.
Farmer Kemether Dementod.
Officer Thomas Morgan had a distress
ing ease yesterday Vincent kemethcl
is a well known farmer of Glasgow. wh,
has for years attended the markets I'm thil
city and Wilmington. Several years ago
in a ht of despondency, he walked ul
Delaware street. this city. cutting hi
throat Patr0lman Williams arrested hin
and he soon recovered his senses Sine
a that time Kemether has been diligont in
his work. but did not prosper on his farm
. and Yesterday he came into town suffering
, from melancholia and DR. J. J. Black SEN
4 for officer Morgan The latter had KEN
ether examined by Drs Black. Tybou
s and Stewart and obtained from them Ger
tifcates of insanity Kemether was thei
{ removed TO the insane hospital at Farm
hurst. He is a well-built man. g. year
/ old He has a wife and six children ano
has always been a good husband anc
{ father.
New Loan Omcers.
The New Castle Loan Association No
[, . at its first annual meeting, heard tn
report of the secretary, which showed
= gain of j2i cents the share The OLE
!. treasurer and board of directors were re
y, elected Secretary James Nanarsdale
y resigned. and Frank c. Weggenman wa
elected In his place The association
considered 10 be i'm a very pr0sperou
condition The number of shares in TIA
loan is 36S divided among siXtyfv
shareholders The Board of Directors
I. as follows: Henry Foster. James NJ Wise
- Jr. John Pagan. John Ridings, Frank c
N Weggenman John J. Reynolds Edwi
T. Deakyne, James Vanarsdalen, John 5
# King
Local Wheclmen VIII Race.
i- The Wheel Club of this city, will hav
'- a ten-mile bicycle road race on saturda
% afternoon, june A. The course is fron
y the old Court House to Wilmington AM
return James E. Booth viii be the onl,
scratch man. Other members of the clul
IS who have entered have been awarded
]. handicaps as follows Wilson rs minutes
lr Hamilton. 16minutes Doris and Brougl
1O Rogers, s. Weggenman, b Foste
he and Herbert 4 Lancaster .. Prize
re- will be awarded the winner of the rae
N and the rider making the best time
N Jeweller J. W. Hanf viii offer a beautiful
IN piece of iewelry as time prize.
Men Who Propose To Kick.
Il Members of the foot ball team to b
organized here this season viii meet thi
~ week and choose captain and manager
= so that practice for the seasons worl
/, may begin at once. Among the player
d, who viii Join the club are the following
{. J. f. Booth, j. T. Challenger, f. j. Veg
Y .genman, Hugh Duffy, Keith Rodney, w
~ J. Hofmam Brown Lancaster, John NJ
Wilson, Rudolph Vallette, E. p Challen
,v ger, Thomas Wise. Alfred Wiswell an
. others The club viii probably co-operat
ID, with the base ball club in re-htting Bat
terry Park.
le Incidents Of the Day.
id Lieutenant l. s. X Reeves, Z. S. n
who is visiting his old home here wi
shortly be appointed an engineer il
{. charge of the United States fish commits
Is sion
New crop fancy n. o. Molassos. Boyle's.
Rev IT, f. Martindale was in Philade
nhia Yesterday making arrnnuemenfs ia