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weather so that tho cells will stop running. Al

his mill the cSls work their way into the wheels
pack themselves so closely in the water co liz
that the simple flushing Of the wheel with water
cleared and then started. cutting up tho Bodies
OF those fish still loft in the turbines. Workmon
took over four bushels of cells out Of the wheels
on one occasion. On another. when the mill wac
run all night, one OF the wheels had to be stopped
Mt o'clock in tho evening and again Mt 3 o'clock
A good many were overlooked. and when the
wheel began to rotate once more the edges Of the
inches long. These pieces floatcd down the
stream from the tail race. Several cells weigh
taEen at this mill and ali we're Of good size.
Many factories in other parts of the state are
time on the part of the mill operatives is occa-
sioned while the wheels are being cleaned out.
But the hunters. are well satisfied. they are
fisherman on the Thames River. has caught in
eel pots and sold over thirty barrels. or about
factory turbines in his noighborhood in the last
four lou weeks: He ships his catch to New York
turns from tho eel fishery this fall than in .
whole season in former years.
All along the Connecticut shore of Long Island
Sound the catch of cells is very heavy. The fish
are 30 abundant and their food, consequently,
so scarce that they are ravcnously hungry. and
into the oaken splint pots used for trapping them
In this state in such numbers as to burst the
pots n sundcr wherever the wickcrwork is at all
Another source of wealth in Connecticut
waters is the Goldfish: Acres Of goldfish are al.
Plum Gut, and of, Bartictts Reef waiting to
be caught; A new business for he eastern Con-
and drying Goldfish after the fashion OF down
East" fishermen; will be the result. The
waters that the man who catches them 10
sell fresh from tho sea is enriched only by great
s snmt ses ,,G for vt they Iyr are e God q drug nGic in ,d the INA market:
ket for them is worldwide. The present
visitation of these tne iish is Of pre-
run Of codfsh, in the region about jamaica
Bay In New York waters last, November.
in places where they were never known before.
and at Block Island they have already been
were for the first time in local codfshine last
year. The smack fishermen Off Montnuk Point
are catching them BY the thousands great
average from eight to fifteen pounds.
The shore boatmen are Jumping into the fish.
and Quianibaug went fishing near Wicopesett
on Thursday and caught more than 900 large
moons sail in Fishers Island sound. pulled
twcnty mine cod fish into tho cockpit OF his yacht.
The m Urges ,srssst Weighed q tWenty,seyen pounds; and
The sloop Laura Reed, Capt. J: +, Luce. of Man.
tic. took ,thirty-ive fine goldfish in the Race
Vail OF Orient took an immense haul OF Goldfish
five pounds, on New London a big fleet Of
shore fishing boats is being loaded with Goldfish
close into the lighthouse. They nre also appear.
ing of Saybrook in their progress up Long Is
land Sound. Several boats have found them
lives in the Lymcs. took 2I9 zinc fish thcra on
Monday. Manuel Enos. n Portuguese lObsterman
Off Watch Hill. has caught several hungry cod
fish in his lobster pots. something entirely new
in the lobster fishery.
The very latest scheme to pull gold ont of the
waters of old Connecticut is being carried out
with a machine on Hammonhssct Beach in Mad
ison. The apparatus stands in n two horse
wagon and Is handled by two men. who will vol.
nntccr no information concerning 1t. The men
drive down to the beach at low lido and shovel
up a quantity of damp beach sand. cunning it
through tho machine. which extracts some por.
ton of IL. presumably mineral. The machine
is described as looking "somrthing like a corn
shelter Its owners appear and vanish with 10
so mys.erlously that there is no doubt whatever
in the minds OF the neighbors that tho men arc
getting a store of gold out of the silvery sands
of tho Sound.