The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-02

president of the Pennsylvania Fish
Commission, is at the Riggs" says the
Washington Post. He has facts and
figures relating to the fisheries of his
state at his tongues end and makes
plain the interest that he has in the
efficient conduct of his office.
THE output of fish for the year
ended June 1, 1898, was 165 11S,S07, COM
posed of 109, ,455,OOO pike-perch or Sus-
quehanna salmon, 5000 900 white fish,
1921 900 shad, and the remainder trout,
black bass, Atlantic salmon, and game
fish, said he. The output for the
year ended June 1, 1900, was 81, ,160, 1887.
AS the last figures have not yet been
published, l give them here in details:
Fry, or less than one year old, brook
trout, 3,901500; lake trout 1000; rain
bow trout $4,000; brown trout 243,000;
Atlantic salmon, 2i9 l64; shad, 4,30O,-
600; white fish, 81, 900, 900; pike-perch, or
Susquehanna salmon, 29,000,0O0; blue
pike, 100000; frogs, 100000. Mature
fish, over one year old, brook trout,
9,112 rainbow trout, Cos; brown trout.
500; hybrid trout, 500. The output of
this year is about 30,000000 above the
average.
1.-The reason only 100000 fish were
hatched in 1899 was because the pro-
vious year the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture adjourned, forgetting to make the
usual appropriation to the fish COM
mission, and the commission was only
able to keep the trout stations in oper-
alton through the subscriptions of
private citizens, amounting to about
$4,000. When the Legislature met again
| this omission was rectifled, and n de-
! ficiency bill was passed refunding the
money to the subscribers, but the an
nual appropriation was heavily cut,
and the last fiscal year was run on
$1,000 less than usual; and the same
thing will have to be done until next
June.
Pennsylvania is fairly liberal tC
the fish commission, giving usually
| S45, 900 for two years for Matching and
| fish protection. But these figures are
far below New Jersey which pays $685.
900 q year for protection alone, and
New York, which appropriates over
| 100000 a year. The Pennsylvania
commissioners receive no salary. New
York's president gets, think, $4,000 q
year. The only salaried official of the
|
sistant secretary, who receives $500 a
year, the money coming out of the gen.
eral appropriation to the body.
"'You will notice that the Pennsyl-
vania commission pays more attention
to commercial fish than to game fish
This is because it is the most import.
ant. The United States fish commits.
sion and the Pennsylvania commits
sion Jointly have made the Delaware
river the greatest shad river in the
world. The value of the fish caught
there last spring is valued at $780,
600 at the nets, or about 81 100000 to the
dealer"
Among the visitors here last weer
was a former Scranton boy, John o
La Gorce, of Washington, d. c., who
looked in on his old neighbors for &
short time, on his way from the Re
publican National convention in Phila.
delphia to the Democratic Nationa
convention in Kansas City, where his
employer, the Western Union company
assigned him to manage it's corps o.
special operators, located in the re
spective convention halls.
Although a young man just out o
his teens, Mr.. La GorCes eXpertnes'
in telegraphy and remarkable mana
gerial ability have made him one o.
the most valued men in the com
pany's employ. During the sessions o
congress he has charge of all tn,
company's business at the Nationa
capital, and in recess time is employed
for the most part in special assign
! hnt hi lob hn ,
now engaged.
One of the greatest distinctions tina
has come to telegraphers in recen
years was a place on the corps O
confidential operators assigned to thu
war room in the White House during
the Spanish war. The corps was com
posed of four men and Mr.. La Gore,
had the honor of being the first chosen
Night after night, during the stirring
times Of the summer of '9S, he sat TO
as high as eight and ten hours at {
stretch with President Mckinley at hi
elbow, receiving and sending dis
patches that were making history, anC
which in some instances, when they
later, were given publicity, were EN-
blazoned on the front pages of th'
newspapers the whole world over. Th
president has no greater admirer thar
this young man, who had such al
exceptional opportunity Of studying
him. This admiration amounts t
something too, for leaving aside tn
matter of his natural powers of dis
elimination, Mr.. La Gorce is mad
unusually competent to Judge him b.
comparison, for his position at tn
capital places him in almost dali!
confidential relations with all the bil