St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-14
BROOK TROUT IN SALT WATER.
How the Muddy Water of the Bay
Is Made as Clear as Drink
ing Water.


ly, old-fashioned munitions of war,
the port holes were filed with Win
dow glass, a stage was built, an
auditorium with orchestra and gal
leries was arranged, and from then
on the gods of war were turned
out and in came the graces and the
muses.; the smell of gunpowder and
the trappings of the military were to
give way to the ornaments of the
peaceful pleasures of metropolitan
life. The voices Of Malibran and
| Jenny Lind came with the dying
echoes of Revolutionary struggles,
and Fort Clinton became Castle Gar
den. From 1922 to 1855 Castle Gar
den was rented as a place of amuSe-
ment by the city, and used by it
for public receptions and the like.
Here Lafayette landed and was
given a glorious reception in 1924
when he first returned to America;
here the city extended it's welcome
to various presidents of the republic,
and within it's circular walls were
heard in public meetings the great
men of our country between 1922
and 1855; and until 1854, when the
Academy Of Music was built, it was
the swell place for opera, the drama
and extensive social functions.
THEN ITS GLORY FADED.
and in 1855 it was turned into what
most people now living know it, an
immigrant station, into which all
immigrants to New York were driv-
Ell like so many cattle. So it con-
tinued till 1891, when Ellis island was
substituted. And now, change upon
change, it is a public aquarium.
Its sole original purpose was to re-
pei foreigners; no thought of pleasure
was in the builders mind, but the
metamorphosis came, the thought of
pleasure was the only thought, and
then to make the little irony of his
tory more emphatic, instead of re-
pelling foreigners, 10, and behold!
it was turned into place of well
come to them.
But amid all the vagaries of shift
ing uses, the old building has re-
tanned with singular distinctness its
original form, and were Gen. Wash
ington to come back to US and walk
along the Battery, he would not
need to be told that the newly paint
ed and bedizened circular building
on the waters edge was his old Fort
Clinton.
However, I wanted to tell you
about the new aquarium. More i'm
portant than the building is the
man at the head of it, DR.. Tarleton
H. Bean. He is one of the best prod
uctS of American science, and was
the representative of the United
States fish commission at the Column
bian exposition. He is the superin-
tendent of the aquarium and OBJ
tanned the position in a competitive
examination, obtaining 99b per cent,
and it has been said of him: cit is
a rare and remarkable thing in this
city of New York that we should
secure for a public office of this i'm
portance, not an Individual who has
always made his living by politics,
and who secures his position by a
political pull, but an admirably
equipped scientific man, who for
many years has devoted himself to
the subject he is to handle, and who,
by his training, experience and in
vestigatfon, is in all respects its
master" Well,
THERE IS MUCH WORK
for such hands to do in the present
case, as, under the former board of
park commissioners, contracts We're
given out to build the aquarium
under specifications laughably insult
f1cient for its purposes, and there
fore much of the work must be torn
down and done over. But DR.. Bean
knows his business.
L think I am the first newspaper
man who has been allowed to enter
the New York aquarium. 1t is not
yet open to the public, and on the
main door is the stern statement,
Positively No Admission" and be-
hind the door stands a gray-haired
Celtic with an upper lip as long as
the rest of his head, who says, before
you get a chance to tell what you
forninst the door? Well, what does
it say to you, then? Sure, the fishes
are receiving divil caller this pris-
int day. Oh, it's DR.. Bean you're
after SEEM. Why didn't you say so
at first. Walk in, sor." 1 wanted to
ask my Emerald Isle friend if he'd
been there since he landed at the
Garden, but was afraid of him, and
then he looked a little ashamed of
himself. He made me think of Cor
don McCabe, the Virginian school
master, and perhaps the best story
teller in America. who said once to
me: I'm not a, converse tionalist;
I'm a monologist. If a man is talk
ing with me, and stops to spit, he's
lost
Once inside the aquarium, the OBJ
ject of it's existence is perfectly ap-
parent. It is a show aquarium pure
and simple. 1t is to amuse the pub
lie. All thought of it's being a COM
bination of pleasure place for the
people and a school of instruction
Tor the scientist vanishes as soon as
one enters. The
NEW YORK AQUARIUM
should be a geological station as well
as a show place. In Naples the above
combination exists, being established
by German naturalist some twenty
five years ago for the purpose of MAX
ing a thorough scientific investigat ton
of the animal and vegetable world of
the Mediterranean sea, as well as an
entertainment of the curious. So adj
mirable has been the engagement of
the station that an income OF upwards
of $4,000 is derived from foreign uni
yersities and governments for the priv