The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-31

Inc lion Amos j. Cummings OF New
| York, has had a most varied career as
/ sportsman. He has probably had more
/ interesting and exciting experiences with
rod and gun than any other man IN con-
/ gress.
1 There are few sections Of this country
/ that he has not hshed or hunted in He
I spent ten or more winters iu the middle Of
1 Florida. His letters from there to the
| New York Sun are now used in the sports
/ mans official guide book Of Florida. His
"reminiscences of hunting exploits in the
south twenty years ago are of the blood
curdhng order. We have tshed together
great many times and I'm different sec
lions Of the country, and l nave yet to
learn the particular fish he loves 70 fish
Tor most. He is now in New Hampshire
with his cousin, Charles II. Cummings,
where he expects good trout fishing.
Hon. John II. Gear Of Iowa, member or
the house, and the recently elected United
States senator from that state, is an eX-
pert angler. The smaI-mouthed black
bass is his specially. Like Wade Hamp-
/ ton Ohe ex-senator and now railroad com
missioner, Gov. Gear would rather kill
/ dozen bass with fly, than fifty with bait
! HIS favorites haunts are the lakes and
rivers Of Michigan, Wisconsin and along
| the Great Lakes. He also visits Canada
/ in search Of his favorite sport.
/ The Hon. Dennis T. Flynn Of Oklahoma
/ IS what the members call "a handy boy
/ with a rifle" He is the wild turkey
| sharp in the presnt House of Representa-
! tives. Like the Hon Mare A. Smith he
/ has the steady hazel eye of the expert
! marksman. He tells me that al the gun
/ ners in the state could not kill off one
/ third of the flocks of wild turkeys now
running through Oklahoma. From the
/ records he exGICTTtts they must be wonder
! fully plentiful there
Newton c. Blanchard, recently a mem
Der of the house from Louisiana, but now
member of the United States senate, has
/ the reputation Of being a dead shot with
either pistol, shotgun or rifle, and is also
I very good fisherman. He was one Of the
| drst to discover that some of the best
1 shooting territory in the country was to
be found in his own state, in and about
! Trivia, COncordia parish. 1t is here the
| WoodcOcS winters In great numbers, while
deer and bear are plentiful. The famous
! papabott is also to be found in Louisiana.
and the stories told by the statesmen of
| the rejuvenescent powers of the flesh OF
this bird have caused many an old rounder
to wish he could take the first train for
! New Orleans. I met Senator Blanchard in
| Savannah, Ga, last winter he was OF
his way to one of the neighboring islands
to hunt deer. Being sick, I could not ac-
company him. The party returned with
record of nine deer in two and half days
hunting.
The Hon. Myron B. Wright of Pennsyl-
vania is at his best when on a fishing eX-
petition. When politics does not interfere
the height of his AMBITION is to secure a
yacht from Charlie Ellis at Clayton. N. Y.
pick up half dozen good fellows, and
steam away to the Bay Of Quinte on the
northeast shore of Lake Ontario Black
bass are very abundant but Wrights IA
vorite fish is the muscallouge, and he has
caught hundreds of them. The head of a
forty-siX FOUNDER sent to me by him
adorns my library.
Hon Alfred c. Harmer of Philadelphia,
Pa, is an hereditary angler, and his sons
are likely to become as clever with the
rod and reel as is the general himself. In
the spring and fall he loves to run up
to Harpers Ferry and battle with the
gamey small mouth bass of the Potomac.
He owns a large tract Of land at Brigan-
tine Beach, N. j.. and resides there during
the hot weather In fact he has spent
thirty-five years at this salt water angler S
paradise
Hon. William H Hatch of Missouri, the
chairman of the agricultural committee
of the house, and Gen. Harmer are known
as the Damon and Pythias statesmen.
They are always together. In this way
Hatch has become an authority on salt
water fishing. He has fished for jack or
pickerel, and bass in his native state, but
now he is one of the most enthusiastic
bluetish fiends in congress.
Hon. John De Witt Warner of New
York with that modesty which charac-
tertzes the true angler, does not now
claim to be an expert for the reason that
his congressional duties prevent him from
INDUCING in the sport, but from boyhood
up to a short time ago he devoted much
time to fishing, He was brought up OF
the shore of Seneca Lake, n. y, and re
members the time when fishing for lake
trout was the daily sport of the natives
there has not been lake trout caught il
these waters for years.
The Hon. Hugh a. Dinsmore, late Uni
ted States minister to Korea, and now g
member to congress from Arkansas
claims that he is not fly or bait roc
angler, but after the style of the niger
= and the paw-paw pole, he thinks he car
: beat the world a-snakin out fish" He i:
more of a gunner than angler, and has
: hunted everything from a tiger in the
mountains of Korea to the jack snpe il
Arkansas. With becoming modesty h,
claims to have killed more snipe thar
J tigers.
Judge 10 Abbott of Texas loves the gen
tie art of angling about as much as any
one of his colleagues. His retreat is OF
81 the Brazos River, Texas, where the gas
- pergow is found in great numbers. He il
a member Of the Hillsboro Artificial LAX
Company, organized for the propagation
, of bass and the protection of game fish
- Judge Abbott is also a tarpOn expert
The Hon Jerry Simpson of Medicine
Lodge, Kan, began life as a sailor at tn,
5 age of a. During his twenty-three year,
D of sailor-life on the Great Lakes, fish
ing was the only pleasure he INDUCED in
Trolling for lake trout was his favorit
= pastime, but he spent many day on tn,
i trout streams in Northern Michigan anC
81 Wisconsin, years before the south shor'
of Lake Superior was quite so we'll know
as it is now. His first love, however, il
the gun. He hunts deer in the Indial
81 country and New Mexico. He says tn
e Cherokee Strip is covered with black jacl
, oak, which, in winter, is alive with wil'
/ turkeys and deer.
1 Hon. Thomas A. f. Weadock Of Ba!
o. City, Mich, spends his vacations in tn
, ! northern part Of his own state, Turing tn
grayling to his death. He claims that tn,
home Of this game FISH is Michigan H
% is one of the few members of congress
; who never told a fish story" This Is hi
, chief distinction; his piscatoriaf FAM
among his colleagues rests upon this fact
, The Hon c. r. Breckenridge Of Arkan
e sas, who has just finished his duties oil
the ways and means committee, to repre-
/ sent the United States at the Russian