The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-21
FLORIDA A LAND OF ROMANCE.
GOV. BLOXHAM DELIVERS An IN
TERESTING ADDRESS.

EaTiIeF-.luun OEtcE anu
Daughter of Chief Hirrihusua the
Actors in the Earlier Romance.
Tampa Bay Hotel, Tampa, Fla, Jan. ~
AT the reassembling of congress this all
ternoon Gov W. b. Bloxham of flotil@
delivered an address of welcome,
This was responded to by President A.
Nelson Cheney, as follows: Ladies ana
Gentlemen: on behalf of the delegates OF
the National Fishery Society, desire TO
thank you, and also the people Of Florda'
for your most gracious welcome As you
have said, the food problem is most I'M
portant one to this country and 70 an
countries, and fish food is not the least
important. In looking over this assem-
blage Of delegates. am reminded that we
are apt some times to forget the pioneers
who begun great work, and called on
unexpectedly, as I have been, 1 thought
could do no better than to state to you
of the beginning of the fish propagation
leading back some centuries. The history
of our FISH culture in all its details has
never been written. 1t is on record that
Don Pinchon, French marquis, Matched
fish in 1920 The real father of fish cui-
ture was stephen L. jacob, a German
fish breeder, who made known his discov-
cry in 1851 He pracbced it for some
twenty years before that date. His obser-
walton was conducted in a little wooden
trough, and he himself, or his sons, CON
tlnued the work for thirty or forty years,
after 1900" He gave out many interesting
facts in his brief address.
A letter from President Mckinley to
Col. T. T. Wright Of Tennessee, the pro-
moter of the congress, was read, expressing
good wishes for the congress. kilograms
10 the same gentleman from Theodore
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy; S. 2. Fish. president of the Illinois
Central Railway; John Sherman, Secre-
tary of State, and other distinguished men,
were also read.
Plant, who responded briefly by saying,
among other things: I am not a public
speaker, and l am rarely called on to
make an address, especially to such large
and intelligent audience of people as l
see before me now. 1t gives me pleasure
however, to be here in the pres
ence Of the gentlemen who are
devoting their time for the benefit
of mankind an an effort to promote the pro-
pagaton and preservation of that excel
lent food for man-fsh-and / thank you,
sir Gov. Bloxham, for calling the atten-
ton of the American people, and not only
the American people, but the people of the
world generally, to the idea that fish, in
order to have them preserved, must be
protected 1t is not an easy matter to
protect the fisheries of this country,
whether it may be fish that swims in the
water or the fish that is hidden away in
the sands. You have done well, sir, to
call this convention. You have, perhaps,
done better than you thought to bring it
TO the attention of this whole country, as
well as the countries represented here. It
was the intention of the Emperor of Japan
through his cabinet to have sent a dele
cation here. and I am informed that the
occasion for not sending is a change in
the official cabinet of the Emperor.
4 had assurance from the prime minis
ter that there is no subject which could
have been brought to the attention of the
Emperor and his cabinet that they felt
greater interest in than that of the preser-
walton Of the fishing industry"
the following telegram was received to-
night by Col Wright:
washington. Jan. 2O.-A reply to your
letter of the 18th was unavoida bly, de-
layed. / have already teegraphed the
Governor at Tampa freezing the congress.
Suggestions concerning the proposed Or
ganization of an international fishery as
sociation may proftably come from rep
resentatives of the United States Fish
Commission, and if a practical plan be
developed, will take pleasure in bringing
1t appropriately to the attention of the for
eign governments. John Sherman"
Prof Taylor's paper came next, fol-
lowed by an article on green turtle by
Ralph M. Munroe of Florida.
A paper by Prof. Jacob Reighard of the
University of Michigan of Ann Arbor, on
the biology of our fresh waters in its re-
lation to practical problems, was read.
Following are extracts from the address
of Gov. Bloxham:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The assembling of this Fishery Congress
is the result of the suggestion of Col t.
Z. Wright, one of the most progressive
intellects of the South. His presentation
of the possibilities of such a meeting was
the prompting cause of my issuing the
call, and he organized the movement so
well executed by Tampas Board of Trade
and Hon. II. M. Smith of the United States
Commission of Fish and Fisheries.
'Tampa's representative will bid you
welcome to this city, and l have been re
quested to welcome you not only to this
progressive and prosperous city but &c
Florida. l take pleasure in performing
the pleasing task, feeling that in doing So
1 but voice the sentiments of our entire
people.
Il welcome you 10 a state whose history
is the most romantic in the annals OF
America.
You meet here upon this historic
ground, where the footprints of some oil
SPANS greatest cavaliers and America
noblest captains, can be traced. While
1t is not my intention to recur to theil
heroic deeds, or TO offer you a cup filled
with the ambrosia of ancient story, ye
there is one romance, based upon historic
fact, associated with this very spot thai
] feel you will kindly indulge should brie
reference be made thereto.
wherever the history Of America 81
read, there the story Of Pocahon Il
known. The romance is most captivating
and some of Vrginias most honored son
trace back a lineage to this daughter o
the forest. But the historic fact that
similar scene was enacted on this yer,
spot, three-quarters of a century befor
the name of Pocahonias was ever lispet
by English lips, is unknown 10 even man,
Floridians. II was here, in 1925 lively
years before De Soto landed on Tamp
bay, that Juan Ortez, a Spanish youth o
Is. having been captured at Clear Water
was brought before Hirrihugua, the ster1
Indian chief, in whose breast was rank
ling a vengeance born of the IN treatmen
OF his mother by the followers of the iii
fated Narvarez. Ortez was young an
fy Int he ,rfral chief had trf,.of, tt,o q,