The sun., 1904-06-05
GOING FISHING.
One Way In which 1000 or 8.(NIO Mel
Get = Lot Of Fun Out OF It,

One Way In which S.OOO or 5000 Men
Get Lot Of Fun Out OF 1t.
III you could count 'cm up" said a
man who likes to 90 fishing himself. Il guess
you would find at this season, on holidays
and Sundays, out with fishermen in the
waters hereabouts. from It's to 200 sloops
OF ten tons or so apiece, each with a party
Of somewhere about thirty men aboard,
fishing. If you figure that up, you'll find
you get between five and FIX thousand
men fishing; and there's that number OF
men in New York, easy. who, when they
do go fishing, like to go fishing that way;
and there's that number Of shippers 175
or 200 of them, owning ten-ton sloops, who
make specially of catering to these fish
ermen.
Some shippers have fishermen who come
to them regularly, and some know people
who have been out with them who get up
parties for them among people they know.
Many Of the fishermen work in factories
or big establishments OF one sort and an
other where there's always a great lot of
men who like to go fishing; and some man
working in one of these places who has been
out with some skipper before gets UP a
party for him from among his shopmates,
and it may be that the skipper gives him
a small commission for getting up the
party. to pay him for his time and trouble.
The party pays 40 much a head, all
around. and the skipper at his own cost
furnishes beer for the whole party, to the
extent of three bottles. or six glasses. a
head though II is a common custom for
the fishermen themselves to pay for the
ice. And then the skipper has. besides
paying for the beer, the expense OF a man
to help sail the boat. and then he has TO
provide for the wear and tear Of the boat
and the upkeep Of the boat and rigging;
and altogether, considering that he
doesn't get these parties every day, there
isn't such tremendous profit in it as YOU
might think though it is a reasonably
profitable way Of using boat.
But not all the parties are got up by
one man, by any means. Plenty of men
get together by themselves and hire boats
and shippers; and then there are plenty
of men, all sorts of men, nc. devoted to
fishing regularly, who like to get out once
in a while when they get a chance, and
take breath of salt air in a smack and 20
bluefishing maybe in the season.
you u find plenty of men doing this
all sorts OF men, Office men, and every
DOuy, d,u tHey Ret together ana nave
great time over the prelimnaries and
then delegate somebody to make the ar
rangements.
Summer is the time when there are the
greatest number of these boats out and
the greatest number Of fishermen but they
make a long summer OF it, They begin
really early in the spring and they keen
it up until freezing weather In the fall.
And there are ardent fishermen who 70
out in these boats for days fishing, for ccd
and the like in winter. Not 80 many to a
boat then-about fifteen; for the cabins
are small and there may be times when
they must have shelter. In summer they
sit all around the boat TO fish. and go they
do in winter. but in summer they can stay
out all the time while in winter they must
sometimes have shelter and the boat can't
carry any more men than can crowd into
the cabin.
But taken altogether, summer and win
ter, there's whole lot OF men that
like to go fishing in this way, in ten-ton
sloop, for one day. or for as many DAYS as
they can, and they get whole lot of fun
out Of it