St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-11-23

Secretarv-J. W. Titcomb, st. johns
bury.
Treasurer-A. W. Ferrin, Montpelier.
Vice Presidents--C. M. Wilds, Middle
bury E. c. Smith, St. Adams; J. G. Nc
Cullough, Bennington; W. S. Webb, Shell
burne F. d. Proctor, Proctor; Jas. W
Brock, Montpelier; Erastus Baldwin
Wells River.
Executive CONFEDERATION Coun
ty, d. A. Bisbee BRISTOL Bennington, W
H. Bradford, Bennington; Caledonia
James Richie, st. Johnsbury; Chittenden
Vim. w. Henry, Burlington; Essex, Ma
than Hobson. Island Pond; Franklin, F
]. Hawley, Swanton; Grand Isle, N. W
Fisk, Isle La Motto; Lamoille, Z. L. Noyes
Sec'y Hyde Park; Orange, w. S. Curtis
West Randolph; Orleans, H. s. Haskell
Derby Line; Rutland, {. A. Gale, Rut-
land; Washington, c. c. Warren, Water
bury; Windham, F. W. Childs, Brattle-
boro; Windsor c. F. Chapman, Wood
stock.
Auditors-A. B. Noyes, E. W. Ray.
mond, J. H. Mclntire.
Membership Committee-U. A. Wood
bury, Fl. K. Dorr, ]. w. Titcomb.
On motion, a committee was APP.
pointed by the chair, consisting OF
the president and the secretary OF
the League and one member from
each county, to be known as the leg
islative committee; it being under
stood that this committee will be
called to order at any time by the
president or secretary Of the League,
or simply on the request of two
members of the committee. The COM
mittee is:
Addison, W. X. Peake Bennington,
M. S. Colburn; Caledonia, E. A. Silsby
Chittenden, Fred H. Wells; Essex, Ma
than Hobson; Franklin, Chas. c. Gil
more; Grand Isle, N. w. Fisk; Lamoille,
{. 5. Page; Orange, ]. B. Pickett, Jr.;
Orleans, W. w. Miles Rutland, S. Z.
Burnham; Washington, Geo. w. Wing
Windham, Julius ]. Estey; Windsor, VIM.
S. Dewey.
On motion the president appointed
committee of FIVE for the introduce
ton of new game into our state, as
follows:
N. P. Leach, Highgate; w, Y. w. Rip
ley, Rutland; W. Seward Webb, Shell
burne; Jerome M. Celot, Middlebury; b.
r. Seymour, Burlington.
Directly following the annual
meeting came the
Annual Dinner
lust sixty-six sportSmen with their
friends assembled in the dining
room to enjoy the menu prepared
by mine host Clark, manager of the
Van Ness. Among the various dish
es named on the menu appeared
the shad and wall-eyed pike of Lake
Champlain and black ducks from
the preserve of the Swanton Gun
Club, with the compliments of which
they were presented. Among those
in attendance were Congressman
W. W. Grout of St. Johnsbury, Col.
A. P. Childs and VIM. E. Hawks of
Bennington, Geo. Atkins OF Mont
pelier, Gen. W. W. Henry, Col. U. A.
Woodbury., B. R. Seymour, Fred H.
Wells, and ]. G. Bellrose, and others
representing the sportsmen's clubs
of Burlington, Capt. F. ], Hawley,
Col. Charles {. Gilmore, and Editor
T. M. Tobin of Swanton, Hon. Mel
son Fisk of Isle La Motto, DR.. c. A.
Gales of Rutland, States Atty. John
B. Pickett Of Bradford, E. w. Ray
mond of Post Mills, representing the
Ompompanoosuc Valley Fish and
Game Club, DR.. W. S. Curtis and
John F. Mead of West Randolph.
H. R. Dorr, the president of the
League, being prevented from at
tendance by illness, Gen. Vim. w.
Henry acted as POSTMASTER and in
his happy faculty for telling stories
contributed much towards the pleas
ure of the occasion.
The members of the League do not
call the occasion banquet, but
rather a dinner. 1t is a notion of
most sportsmen that banquet, to
be successful, must be so arranged
that the fish can swim three times,
viz, before eating, while being eaten,
and after eating. AS this arrange
ment would be a departure from the
natural order in Vermont, the
League have always designated the
occasion by the title of Annual
Dinner. Toasts were responded to
by Judge H. S. Peck, who in the alb
sence of Mayor Hazleton, welcomed
the sportsmen to Burlington. Mr..
Richard Rathburn, representative OF
the U. S. Fish Commission and mem
Der of the joint commission to adj
just differences on the Great Lakes
as between the United States and
Canada responded tor the U. S. Fish
Commissioner asfollows:
RICHARD RATHBURN's REMARKS.
Mr.. President, and Gentlemen -
The U. S. Fish Commission is a large
topic, and you already know so much
about it that doubt if | can give YOU
any new information in these few mo-
ments.
1t attained maturity one year ago,
having been established in 1871 through
the efforts mainly of a few New Eng
land congressman, among whom one of
the most conspicuous was your own