The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-29
GLOISTEIN AFTER MACkEREL.
FAR-F4.NED FISHING Club
TACKLES GOWANUS CANAL.
"Just Wait for the School to Come in."
Says Charlie Crawiey, "snd Don't
bother With the Suck ers'-"Guess I'm
der Sugker voucc More" Says GIoistesn

DER SukHcf vVuCG U0T6, 6oyB obVsssSss'
August j. Gloistein and several members
Of the Gloistein Fishing Club went fishing
Yesterday in Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn.
Inasmuch as it was the first fishing party
ever seen along that sweet smelling stream.
whose inky ripples battle the sides OF coal
wharves, garbage dumps and gas houses,
old South Brooklynites at first rubbed their
ewes in astonishment and then turned out
by the hundreds to- enjoy the rare sight.
Charlie Crawley. the sage Of the Homard
Club. at Sixth avenue and Ninth street.
Brooklyn, arranged the trip. hut kept very
much in the background when the fishing
began.
Crawley met Gloistein for the first time
several DAYS ago in Gloistein's hotel in
Forty-second street.
Il understand that you are something OF q
fisherman" said Crawley.
Sure said Gloistein. 1--WE got der
greatest Club in New York. Everybody
knows dem
That's So said Crawley. they are
certainly great
BY the way continued Crawley, have
you fellows caught any mackerel ateiyN
.Ach, no. said Gloistein. We only
caughdt eels der lasdt time ouid.s
IN put you on to something, SAID
Crawley. y know a stream near Brook
Ign where there have been several schools
Of mackerel lately. and the fishing has been
great. Nobody is on to it, except few
Of US. The stream is so narrow that the
school fills up the entire space when it
comes in. ! caught ninety-two in thirty
five minutes the other night.
"Ach, dell me abouid i'd said Gloistein
excited!y. dell me quick. Ninedy-two
in tirty-fife minudes! Ach, dell me undt
/ viii gif you half vat vass cotched py me.
Bring along some Of your friends Sun
day morning." said Crawley. Meet me
at Hamilton Ferry with some kind OF
t1at and l will pilot you to the spot As
you nave to wait for the schools some time
you had better bring refreshments.
Gloiste!n's crowd was at the ferry in time
Yesterday morning with the clubs naphtha
launch, which had been brought over from
Staten Island, 1t was we'll stocked with
beer and eatables. Crawley and several
OF his friends were waiting Tor them.
.Pop" Duval, one of CIawleys friends,
added to the excitement by telling how on
Saturday the mackere were so thick in
the stream that he scooped them up In q
basket and mad hard work pulling row
DO6L through tlc
when put me oars in tho water. said
Pop. they fairly bit them. The ends Of
the blades was all Clipped.
Under Crawiey's direction the launch
was guided into the canal up as far as Ninth
street.
1T is useless to fish for at least an hour
said Crawley, when the launch was fastened
to the spile OF lumber wharf. The tide
is just eubing." For an hour there was Ugh
tide in the cabin and then C1awley said;
ut, vic nd w va
got to 60 away. Have patience. Some
times you have to wait for several hours
before the school comes in. There are
some suckers in this stream, but they amt
good to eat. Don't save any OF them.
Good by and good luck"
The fishermen then grabbed their poles
and threw the lines into the canal.
-Begorra. Oh don't loik the shmell av
this place. remarked Pat Connolly. e1-
Mayor OF Poverty Hollow,
yass vat brings der mackere!s here. Id
vass der smell vat maigs Limburger cheese
so goodt."
The fishermen held on to their poles faith
fully for an hour wishou. gsttuIng bite: hsn
the others began to grumble. Wait for
der school
-Berhabs dis iss nod a Sunday school,
remarked Charley Wagner.
A crowd gathered on the Ninth street
Wait, We hat der laugh ven school obens,
shouted G!ois'ein to them:
About an hour later Glostein thought
he had bite, He tried to pull in the line
and there was stout rss:s, sta, anc e. sbo,sd
Il hat der bide! hat der bideI Looa
ouid efrerybody, oog ouid undt pull in quick
Der school at lasdi"
0ioistein ,ugged at the line and then
something came flashing through the air
| ha NJ tho limo that GhoWera tho
| crowd with black mud and filed the air
with an overpowering smell.
| The thing on the hook wriggled as y
| descended and Gloistein threw himself
on the deck as Gloistein struggled with
| his catch, and the crowd on the bridge
| howled.
"Begorra, va have been fishn' in sewer, :
yelled Connolly. Let's get Their boat out
| av here or we will be shmot hered wild sewer
| gas Wow! Wow. Will zey shmell av it,
When Gloistein was disentangled from
| his line il was found that he had hooked
in an old hoop skirt.
Several cops came along few minutes
later. =.
what are YOU doing down there''
shouted one OF them.
-, -Fishin' for mackersls:' 81, shouted back +
der oben.' -,
the cop. -von are causing crowd to collect
and raising disturbance"
Il want some mackerel before I GO re-
piled Gloistein "Ven der school comes
! will gil you some to cad by your breag-
| fasdf +"
You lobster" shouted back the cop,
"a fish has ss much show in that stream
| as a snowfall in hell
While Ghistein Was arguing with the
policeman the rest Of the party. with the
exception of the engineer in charge Of the
launch. had climbed TO tho wharf and made
| themselves scarce.
Get out or will pull you in. shouted tie
COP. . - -
again nit dor poles, said Gloistein 10 the
engineer Il 60 me ouid of here. too. Only
for der bolice would he bringing home
some Ash. would hat been satisfact Toned
to hat caught some OF dose suggers dat
dat Crawley's man caught guess I am
| der sugGer vonce more