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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-08

There is in imagination than people think for
have the money your magma
ton for few cool breezes home
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first of these boats ever constructed was
built with a view to destroying the feet Of
Great Britain. John p. Holland, the in
during the Fenian rising of 1867 had to fly
from Ireland with several other patriotic
young men. A skilled mechanical engineer,
he bent his whole efforts toward construct
ing some engine of war which might equip
Ireland to meet its powerful oppressor at
least half way in a struggle. He invented
his wonderful submarine boat and called
the first one the Fenian. 1t was not as
perfect as the present Holland boat, but
was built on exactly the same principles"
Diamond Joe" Reynolds relates this story
Of the late Philip Armour of Chicago, who,
in answer to an inquiry if he was not often
troubled by those in need Of assistance, an
swered:
Every day. | have one impecunious near
relative who is forever importuning me for
help. Finally / shut down on him. A few
days ago when he came to this Office | re-
fused to see him. He went home and
pestered me with letters. Finally told my
financial man to write him that IL he would
agree not to worry me for two years | would
let him have $500. He wrote back, Mako
1t five years and 81, 900
That was so like an Armour" said Mr..
Armour, with a chuckle, that let him
have it. Well, in about two weeks I got a
letter from his wife saying that, as she had
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will occasionally heavc a sinkor against
their fellow mans head. Blu. they will
also apologize, which is a startling i'm
provement over once upon a time. They
fove to make their joys and griefs pub
lie in loud tones. They bait the sea-
sick brother numerically. But on the
whole they are a fine, good tempered,
sturdy and delightfully."- jolly crew.
The seasick angler is always among
those present. No ocean can be too calm
for him to be overtaken by his manifest
destiny. Some Of him get seasick even be-
fore the lower harbor has been traversed.
There is ample saloon accommodation on
the boats for him, but, true to the natural
history of his kind. the seasick man would
die rather than to admit that he needs
retirement.
He sits and g%urgles, with a patient,
greenish smile fixed immovably on a face
whose cheerful misery would soften a
stone image of Baal. Deaf to friendly ad-
vice, he stays on deck. He even succeeds
in %jointing his rod and rigging his line.
Then he waits, a picture Of Death in the
Revels.
Now, the rolling of a side wheeler is not
so bad, even in a seaway, when it is in
motion. But when it is anchored the
ground swell begins to work its worst.
That, and the hideous occupation of bait
ing hooks, that is going on all around
him, gives the seasick brother his final
blow, The climax comes suddenly. terri
bly-always unexpected equally by him
and his %neighbors, who complain Indignantly
that IL he does that again right over their
shoulders they will have to get sick. too.
Persons too far away to be Inconvenience
shout with Viking laughter and warn him
that he is spelling the fishing by cumming
the wrong way. That is a venerable old
one. It's birth has been traced back to the
first seasickness on the first fishing ex-
petition out of the mouth of the Nile. But
it is such a strong joke that it is as good
as ever.
However, the seasick brother is bundled
out of the way as soon as it is reasonably
safe to approach him. BY that time the
sides of the steamer are spiny with rods
of every description, from the real wood
enc for a dollar to the fifty
dollar split bamboo There are
tiny water spouts all around the craft
as from infantry fire. Those are the sink
ers plunging into the depths. On the fish
ing banks a line must get to the bottom
quick and stay there. If 1t drifts It will
foul other lines. So the sinkers weigh from
one-quarter to one-half pound each. The
rods must be stiff enough to carry this
weight, and also to lift fish Of from one
half to seven and more pounds clear of
the water and up to the deck. There is
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1t is impossible to make any estimate of
~Seir numbers that shall be more than
fairly exact, for they go out in every kind
of marine vehicle from handsome, especially
built and equipped double-deck side wheel
ers to glaringly inadequate scows, that are
doubtful improvements over the primitive
dugout.
Several thousand go out daily in the
regular fishing banks steamers The rail-
roads that run to the various fishing sta
lions on Staten Island, Sandy Hook and the
hi.h ands, the Long Island Sound, and the
great bays on the south shore of Ions
Island, carry 10000 anglers every day in
the season, according to a moderate esti-
mate made for this article by the traffic
manager of one of the lines. In the rush
days. either when there is a holiday in
the good fishing season, or when there hap
pens to be an unusual run of founders, weak
fish or porgies, the number is more than
trebled.
In such favorite waters as Jamaica Bay,
which lies partly in the boundaries of the
city, it is a common matter to count as
many as a hundred boats filled with anglers
within view from any of the ~favprite boat
houses.
In the early spring and again in the
autumn, when the fiat founder begins to
bite, many of the railroads send out
founder trains early in the morning for
the sole accommodation of anglers. They
are crowded to the guards every time.
To the salt water angler the season is all
the year. There never has been a snow
storm so fierce that search would not have
disclosed some hopeful spirits casting the
line into the sea off New York. 1t is of
record that during the famous blizzard of
'SS an amateur angler of parts caught a
Goldfish off the point of Rockaway beach.
That angler is dead now-driven to his
grave, it is said, by the jeers with which
his simple tale was received whenever he
offered it for consumption.
If the season ever may be said to be
dead, it is dead from the beginning of De-
cember to the last week in February.
During that time only the hardy ones go
forth. Clad in oilskins and boots, they
shiver off the Coney island beach, over the
Rockaway shoals and far off shore for
miles down the New Jersey coast, angling
for the useful but not brilliant Goldfish
and ling.
Washington's birthday is the opening
of the real season. Then the fleets go
forth to seek the spring run of cod and
ling and hake. The trains roll out loaded
18Th men who aim to capture the foun-
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little opportunity for the use of even a
gaff hook.
II the spot" is good 1t will not be long
before some one begins to reel in swiftly
with a painful expression of indiffer-
ence, carefully made prominent all
ever his face. Got one!" shout all
within sight. There is eager scrutiny
OF the surface to catch the first glimpse OF
1t. sea lass" yells a quick man. mo,
it's a blackhsh," shouts another. The lucky
angler says nothing. with a mighty effort
he hoists the fish high into the air, over the
rail and slap into his neighbor's eye. That
T~atient one hands the quarry over politely
and wipes his face, without allowing the
trivial episode to distract his anxious atten-
tion from his own line. The next fish is a
sea bass, tawny and big-eyed, with his
bluish-black mouth wide open and his hand
some fms sticking out in all directions. Now
all kinds of fish are Topping in on all sides.
A sharp, resounding s~lapping of the deck
tells of a fuke, the great predaceous sum
mer founder. He Is a big one, weighing at
least seven pounds. He has the hook deep
in his throat and his captor raves as he
tries to get it out without mangling his
fingers between the sharp teeth.
More men than he are raving. A person
has come into hateful prominence by hook
ing a huge dOgfsh. The laundering first
cousin to the shark has swan swiftly and
powerfully along the side and a score of
lines are trailing behind him-all tangled
around and around his brown body and
t~angling worse as he rolls over in his
struggles. And the fish biting everywhere!
The unlucky neighbors of the dog fisher
man heave and haul and beg him to hurry
up and roar at him to haul in and to let go.
They discuss him with freedom, ]untempered
by the remotest desire to spare even his
hottest feelings. At last, driven frantic by
the sight of fish being swung inboard all
around them, the unwilling syndicate hauls
that dogfsh in collectively and all pounce
desperately on the snarl. 1t is an axiom
that twenty furious anglers cannot Olsen
tangle one common snarl. The end usually
is that the knives come out and all cut
away as much as possible of his own tackle.
But If the fish are not biting! Then a
deep voice somewhere booms out suddenly:
Move the boat!" A chorus repeats It after
him. 1t is a command hallowed by an
tiquity. That cry was raised on the first
fishing banks boat that ever went forth from
New York before the civil war. 1t has
never changed. No fishing banks captain
has ever been daring enough not to obey.
The big anchor chain begins to wind in
board. The anglers reel up and open their
baskets. Peace and contentment resume their
sway under the golden magic of expectation
of what the next spot" is to produce.
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ders. All around New York there is no
vessel so mean that it is not eligible as
a receptacle for as many anglers as can
crowd into it.
The number of founder fishermen that
crowd into any particular boat when the
rush is on is estimated simply and beau
tifully on the basis of the room in it. Alb
stract questions of buoyancy and sea-
worthiness do not enter the problem ex-
cept occasionally, when a fault-fnding
curmudgeon happens to be of the party.
Why several hundred do not drown each
week is past finding ont. New York's salt
water angler, as a class, is too deeply oc-
cupied with speculations as to catching
fish to devote much time or attention TO
the means, and he goes forth with supreme
Inconsistencies of danger in craft whose
condition would make an old sailor shud-
der If he saw them essay to cross a duck
pond in a fiat calm. Shops whose every
timber bear convincing testimony to their
having been launched from Ararat before
the water subsidized, tugs that roll guards
under in the wash from a ferryboat.
launches that toss as erratically as an
empty barrel, rowboats whose lines are
appallingly and prophetically coffin like
all go out filled with ~trustful persons with
f%shrods, and, to prove that truth is
stranger than fiction, they always return.
There has been only one really great acct
dent to fishing parties in New York waters
in many years. This exception was the
capsizing of the tugboat Nichols off
Sandy Hook.
There are at least 200 sloops and
schooners around New York that are de-
voted exclusively to taking out fishing
parties. The demand for them is so great
that after May it often is impossible to
hire them except for a date far in the
future. They are kept busy until we'll into
October.
Their owners generally sail them and
provide bait and, sometimes. tackle.
These men know the best grounds from
long experience. They know the waters
so thoroughly that they can drop anchor
in the right spots even in fog. They are
among the best sailors on the coast and
they rarely have an accident.
The fishing parties that go cut in these
boats or in the many tugs or other craft
that are chartered daily are surprisingly
mixed. Rich men and poor men fish shout
der to shoulder. They drink from the
same flask, lose the same kind of WHOM
pers and tell about it afterward in the
same way.
Next TO the sloops and schooners the
favorite vessel for private parties is the
tugboat. There is an elaborate fiction that
only seagoing tugs may go outside of
the harbor. The anglers are not narrow
minded men. Their conception Of a sea-
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not been a party to the contract, she hoped
| would make the same arrangement with
her"
Senator Stewart CT Nevada tells a story
in the Philadelphia Post of Mark Twain's
early days in Carson City.
AT that time" said Senator Stewart, "thc
humorist had not attained to the philosophic
calm which comes with college degrees. He
was a journalist and an unterrifed one. In
Carson City he bearded at the home of his
brother, who was a model citizen and a
Christian.
One morning | was a guest Of this
brother at breakfast. We had just seated
ourselves at the table when a voice drawled
from the stairway above:
Have you read the scripture lesson this
~morning?
Yes was the reply.
Had family prayers continued the
voice from above.
Yes, Sam said the host, smiling at me.
There was a pause. and then in the now
well known drawl came the question:
Said grace"
Yes responded the patient head of the
household.
"'All right, then came the cheerful com
ment from the stairway; "Ill be right
down And presently the irreverent youth.
who in a few years was to promote the
gayety Of nations, Joined US at the break
fast table"
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did not prevent him from practicing at the
bar nor has the society of peers affected his
radicalism. He is a strenuous humani-
tartan, which is a characteristic of the
Coleridge family.
William H. Garland, now living at Wash
ington at the age of SO years, entered the
navy when a youth and served several years
on foreign stations. He visited Napoleon
at st. Helena and has seen every president
of the United States except Washington
When the civil war broke out he responded
to the call for volunteers and served { Il
the close of the war, He was instrumental
in having female nurs S substituted for male
nurses in the government hospitals and
homes. He lost his entire family, con-
sisting Of a wife and four children, in the
flood at Evansville, Ind, in 1884. He him
self escaped by climbing a tree, where he
remained thirty-six hours. He is receiving
a pension of S12 a month, on which he sub
sists.
George Hoadly, who died in New York a
few days ago, was asked when a candidate
for governor of Ohio, in 1888, to ride TO
the polls with J. b. Foraker, his opponent,
and vote for Foraker, the latter to sim
ilaTly compliment his opponent. Not me, -
replied Judge Hoadly; 81 am asking all
democrats to vote for George Hoadly for
governor. / am a democrat and will vote
that way myself. II / don't respect myself
enough to vote for myself how can l ex-
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going tug is primitive. II 1t steams top
side up they are content.
A noble and imposing craft that is i'm
pressed in the service Of oceanic spor,
is the steam lighter. The owners Of these
craft have discovered that they can turn
an honest penny with them on Sundays
and holidays when they can not be used
for their regular work. SO many Of them
may be seen in the great fleet that steams.
sails, rows, paddles and wabbles out to
the fishing grounds in the early morning.
The best fun of all is on the fishing
banks boats that go out daily with the
regularity OF any other passenger vessels
There are always two or three and when
the season is especially good there some
times are as many as six or seven, all
making scheduled trips.
They are closely watched by the steam
boat inspectors and their management
is excellent. Once upon a time it wasn't.
Then the fishing banks boats were places
where a man might get fish, but surely
could get fight. He could always get the
fight, even if he couldn't get the fish, but
he could only rarely get the fish without a
light. Sometimes an angler would happen
to catch another in the nose or eye with
his hook. When a man hooked a fish he
ndu 10 nuSIle 10 get MIN ABOARD before
some less skillful but more resourceful
fisherman got hold of the line and con-
fiscated the prize. AS the anglers always
sat as closely together as they could
crowd, few fish could be landed without
bringing in with them a snarl of other
lines. Then there would be clamor, for
each man whose line was in that snarl
demanded that he be permitted to assure
himself by minute examination that the
fish was not on his hook.
If the snarl was involved il would not
be long before the feeble patience of some
large and husky disciple of the gentle
art would crack audibly. He would then
fall upon the tangle and rip it with his
knife, royalty regardless of the fate of
any line except his own. Sometimes the
large angler would not be large enough.
In such distressing circumstance his sub
sequent career would be all over the deck,
with from one to a dozen aggrleved fellow
sportsmen working hard with fists and
feet to convince him that the best way
to unite a knot is not to cut ton the
fishing banks.
The passengers on the fishing banks
boats of today are better men. They
long only to fish. They use rods, which
is something that was viewed loudly
and pointedly as unmanly weakness in
the old days. They still have their lit
tie fads. They race for the best places
and the old-timer who happens to be
euchered out of his favorite spot is
gloomy for the rest of the day. They
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poet those who know me less than l know
myself to cast their ballots for me p"
Paul Du Challiu. kindest and most cheer
full Of travellers, has been living in Russia
for the last year busted in the collection
of material for a book dealing with that
country. He means to devote three or four
years more to this preparation, perfecting
himself in the language, of which he al
ready has an excellent knowledge, and living
among all classes of the population. He
has had an interview with the emperor,
who is greatly interested in his plans and
who has promised to provide the author
with a particularly useful special passport.
When the late President Barrows of Ober-
lin college was asked by a student If he
could not take less than the regular four
years course Dr.. Barrows looked the APP
plicant over thoughtfully and replied
"Why, certainly, my lad. A short course
If you like, but my advice to you is to
take the longest course possible. The
length of time you wish to devote to study
rests with you entirely and should depend
on what you intend to become. Just re-
member that when God wants to make an
oak He takes 100 years, but when He wants
a squash He takes six months"
Now that the English government is
building a number of Holland submarine
boats" said an engineer at League island
"it is interesting to recall the fact that the
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ESSk H. Mccormick, the inventor of the
famous reap ng machine which bears his
name. Mr.. Mccormick was born in Wash
ington and was graduated from Princeton in
1879. Since that time he has been con-
nected with the Mccormick Harvesting Ma
chine company, of which he has been presi-
dent since 1884. He is one of Chicag IS
most influential bus ness men.
How old is Rear Admiral Thomas o. Self
ridge, retired?" is a question the Navy de-
partment is trying to solve. Is he SO or
100? The records don't show and Rear Ad-
miral Selfridge won't tell. HI says it is
nobody's business how old he is. But as he
entered the navy in 1875. and must have
been at least Is years old at that time, the
supposition is that he is between 80 and 100.
The admiral's oldest son, Rear Admiral
Thomas o. Selfridge, jr, owns to being sc
years. The senior Selfridge was born in
Hubbardston, Mass.
Lord Coleridge, X. c., represents the
third generation of a notable family of law
yers. His father was lord chief justice
and his grandfather also sat upon the bench.
The present Lord Coleridge was memb T
Tor the Attercliffe division from 1885 to 1894.
"hen the death of his father compelled him
TO take his seat in the upper house. 1t
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iRUs HALL MCCORMICK, the
president Of the newly organized
International Harvesters' COM
pany, is the SOL of the late Cyrus
H. Mccormick, the inventor of the
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YORK is unique among the
cities of the world for the won
derful number Of anglers who go
out daily to fish in the sea purely
for sport.
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not been a party to the contract, she hoped
| would make the same arrangement with
her"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-05
INDEPENDENCE THE WAY OUT.
From the Boston Post.

tFrom the Boston Post.)
When Congress expresses in the
Philippine bill the purpose which the
President declared at Arlington, then
will he an end Of the war in those
islands. This is all the people there
have been waiting for; it Is what they
are keeping up the fight for today.
President Schurman knows the Philip
pines. THE fundamental and control
ing fact in the Philippine situation Of
today" said he in his address before
the free religious association on Satur.
day, lis that 65O0,O00 civilized nd
Christian Filipinos Of Luzon and the
Visayns have their heart set on ma
tional independence. We may stop the
wagging of their tongues, hut we can
not stop the workings Of their hearts
and minds. And why should we want
to? 1t is all a tragic mistake. Why
ueIy TIE lilpiilos tue nDeTty ana luue-
pendence we have all delighted to con-
| fer upon the Cubans?'
Or President Roosevelt might issue
his procla lamation to that effect The
last word the Filpinos have heard di.
rect from a president of the United
States was that which Mckinley sent
them three years and half ago, giving
TEN the choice between benevolent
assimilat ton" and extermnation--
the proclamation which General Otis
edited with IL judicious blue pencil,
but which got out by accident in its
original ferocity and thus brought on
the war. President Roosevelt might
now proclaim ultimate independence
and thus end the war that his prede
cessor began.
But in any case, the Philippine bill
should speak of independence, fairly
and squarely.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-06-05


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