The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-12

whose name It could obtain. In this cat
elogue the firm stated, used the heading
OF salmon flies, mat 1t was satisfied the
salmon could not distinguish between the
feathers Of the blue chatterer and those
OF the blue kingisher any more than they
could between the barred feathers of the
wood duck and tfle feathers from the flank
OF the widgeOn. Consequently It made
the cheeks of its salmon flies of blue king
Usher instead OF chatterer, and used strips
OF Widgeon instead of wood duck in the
wings. Possibly the concern was right
in its statement that the salmon would
not know the difference. 1t did not take
the anglers into consideration, however.
ana these did know the difference, and
as they wanted their flies made right,
the sales Of that particular firm in this
country have not been very heavy. The
only difference to the firm was that chat
terer skins cost Sc each, and are hard to
find, while kingfishers may be bought IN
any quantity at Is cents each. In regarl
10 The other feathers. some flies call for
both wood duck and widgeon in the
wings. The firm was silent as TO how Il
would get over that point.
United states in the Lead.
England has always pretended to be the
greatest artificial reproducing country
and her pretensiOns were justified unth
lately. Now the United States produce
many tunes the HuulDeT MANUFACTURED IN
the British Isles. In fact, Americans have
pushed the manufacture of flies to such an
extent that the fly tiers OF England are
either coming over here for work or else
going out Of business. A former Dublin
man. now and for many years resident Of
Brooklyn. made visit TO his old home this
summer When his relatives were inform
ed that he contemplated paying them a
visit, he was deluged with letters request
ing him to bring over different articles
OF American manufacture, and among the
requests were several for artificial flies
This somewhat surprised him, as in hts
youth the city of Dublin was considered
a great place for their manufacture. Dur
ing his visit he investigated the matter
and on his return to New York reported
that ne could find only one fly tier in the
whole city OF Dublin and that one being
married woman add her household du-
ties taking much of her time, she could
pay little attention to her trade She
informed him that the Americans made
the larger part of the trout flies used in
Ireland. She also said that Germany had
been paying attention to this branch OF
business for some time. but that German
flies were not good. The Germans are an
enterprisng people, and are getting all
branches Of trade. but their great fault
seems to be that they send out cheap ar
ticles when they might find sale for high
er-prlced goods. The German-made flies
that come to this country seem to be on
par with the cheap goods made here,
| and American high-grade fly tiers neec
have no fear Of German competition.
In Scotland there are still many good sal
mon fly tiers but they are gradually los
ing their American trade Many rich
Americans still import their salmon flies
because they have an idea that flies can
not be made so well here. They have nor
taken the trouble to find out what I'm
provements have been made here in the
past few years. Then again, there are
men, even among anglers, who thinks that
anything made in England is better than
home manufacture