Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-25
ALL SHAD GOOD,
But We All Admit the Potomac Brand
is the Best.

The waiter had brought in a beautifully
Drowned shad reposing upon the charred
plank, where it had received the heat which
transformed it from a raw fish, such as the
man in the stone age fed upon. to the NOR
sci fit for the gods of any age.
"They do say" remarked the man on the
left of the river. as he wiped off little
| moisture that had gathered on his lips
while he surveyed the tempting dish, that
there is more jealousy among different sec
tons of the country over the merits OF
the shad Of their respective waters than
any other question excites."
rs that so?'
Sure. Now, take Philadelphia; it is no.
torious that the PhiladelphianS are that
stuck up over their Delaware Shad that
they will fight at certain stages of the
game IL you dare MAINTAIN that any other
| shad can equal theirs. Now. every reason
able man and judge of good fish knows that
the Potomac shad Is the finest favored shad
in any water. I can't see how people can
be SO unreasonable about the northern
shad
Then there are the New Workers., with
their Hudson shad. Naturally, nobody ex-
poets a New Yorker to allow that there Is
anything outside of Manhattan Island that
Is worth noticing, but their fanaticism about
their shad Is something ridiculous. I might
say that the Connecticut man Is pretty
near as bad. AS soon as the shad begins
to run up his river. he throws out his
chest and informs the guest within his
gates that now he will show him some
shad that is shad.
THE same thing goes on up the coast
until you get to the Bay Of Fundy. and the
blue nose of that section puts on as many
airs about his shad as all the rest. don't
know whether it is failing of human ma
ture or what it is but 1t surely makes me
tired for after all is said and done, the
Potomac shad has all the rest Of 'em skin
ned city block
At that moment the speaker stopped to
remove a bone and the man on the right
of the dish seized the opportunity to put in
a word.
II agree with my friend across the table
that shad are perfection when they reach
| these waters.
After they leave us they run up the Del
| aware, where they take on the flavor that
satisfies the people who have been drinking
Schuylkill water all winter. Recognizing,
so to speak, the flavor of the soil in the
shad, the Philadelphia naturally thinks
he has the finest shad in the world.
after a few weeks, the shad work their
way up the Hudson and the New Yorker
gets them. By that time the New Workers.
have become surfeited with Schuylkfll shad
their dense and provincial ignorance that
the shad was born and bred in the Hud-
son. and SO must be something superior.
Finally. about July or August they
after his winters diet of blubber thinks
| the toothsome southerner is surely the
| finest thing that ever happened. So there
is logical explanation for all this hide
bound sentiment about the shad"
| By this time the man on the left removed
| the last silver of bones and recovering his
| powers Of speech, asked: But what be-
comes Of the shad after he leaves New
| foundland? Does he go to Europe to incite
jealousieS there?"
Nobody knows. That is one Of the mys-
teries surrounding the case. The shad
comes no man knows whence and goes no
| man knows where. He disappears in the
big deep and no trace Of him is found un-
| til the succeeding spring, when he hobs up
in southern waters"