New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13

wooden frames on which canvas roofs are spread
during the fishing season to shelter the men and
materials housed beneath In the autumn, When
they about to return to FRANCE the crews strlp
on the canvas again and leave the naked ribs to
bleach amid the SHOWS till they return the next
spring Repairs made to the framework with
poles cut in the forest, and sometimes the walls
are partly sheathed with slabs from the outside OF
some logs or planks out OF condemned boats. But
at the outside none of these establishments would
be worth more than a few pounds. Some OF the
smaller lobster eanneries occupied by the French
are tust as valueiess. The methods of canning the
crustaceans are so smplihed that all that is
needed is q hut to keep the materials In and
sheet iron boiler in which TO immense
thes tins. so that The. contents may DC
cooked and then Theoretically sealed. When
it is sraid that in some OF these canneries, or FAC
tories" they are more commonly known, only
two or three men are employed, II can easily De
understood that the value OF the nuts and pant
is only trivial Three or -FOUR, however einPio!
from fifteen TO twenty-five men each. and these are
in and the fsetories OF corrugated iron Two large
factories are maintained by NJ Lemoine; OF 81 81
the former forty-nine men being employed. and In
the latter si1ty-three These tWo i
churches. but have permanent boilers and are 4etl
men Ghf haye Of to esVe the fall But ZOO
apiece would be liberal allowance for each at
years in use, and have been let go into disrepar
OF late because Of the declining fishery while the
huts in which the men are berthed are mercy
canvas rooted tits" of the fashion already de-
ners against the hilsides and patched with boards
torn from the crumbling walls OF the previously
of these can be seen in every harbor on the
and testify at once to the extent OF the
II which exists. The Holsters are cauSft
submerged with putrid meat or fish in them to
serve as a bait to attract the Holsters into them
the dnef French Used o5 Of f them last
9 S E bor e from who G nfo back
the unused ones in the fall; soldering irons plugs
business requires a smaller less costly outfit and
several hundred so-called factories are IN opera
In the codhshery the nets. lines and other appli,
ances Used are OF the cheapest and and me or6 s
each submerged room OF netting so to speak, IN
by the French. though popular with the Newfound-
landers and thus this costly Item Will pc escaped
e rev crews aS from o fran nee to this
cod and holsters and for t T or TO
used about the coast by the men IN their dalS
pursuits, worth next TO nothing lhcy can De
got any time from the settlers for s. apiece
THE INDEMNITY CLAIMED.
The most formidable claim the French would have
would be in the indemnity for abandoning thelr
fishery operations But that would be largely con
ditioned upon their profits for an INDUSTRY Wn'ct
being steadily abandoned by them because II
orally recompensed when it was being legally abol
ished 1t follows. consequently, that no very heaTy
this respect, inasmUch the inevitable logic OF cir
c9mstances shows eradust deGnne IN mn the cntb of
cod and Holsters during the last ten twelve
stations abandoned by them and the totals Of their
aDders snow that their take Of cod and Holsters
is declining TO zero Where in 1879 seven French
this year the release of that three hundred miles
achieved BY The French reIinquishng 1t themselves
because II no longer paid TO hsh tnerf me me
West Coast by the depicting OF the COD
acre Sarey making livelihood out Of the business
i indeed that as several stations nay oeen ao ah
OF the French fishermen on the Treaty Coast last
IN ~ a AND a cases ESQ Of obseTs worth SIC
case, s4692o, a total of S67.32o. This, divided
for a6o Ut seven months wora very easre re-
hazards and dieconforts Allowing for the cost and
outlay in conducting the ishery me pTohts tf - any
year which, the basis Of twenty years, pu na
chase would sash fs OF tSe cod
fishers are concerned. they held on 70 the French
while now. with the sum they viii receive, they can
enter into the Grand Banks fishery Ike the other
atrI afoefber shou s may and Probably
But allowing liberal estimate for the value Of
boats nets, gear. stations and lobster outfits, the
French claims should be fully satisfied with pay
costs England every year 70 maintain four Var
sum TO set against the preservation of the peace OF
the empire and perhaps Of the world t,, atro, =,
three or four warships by each side has been main.
tanned cost of hundreds of thousands of
pounds and only the greatest forbearRnce on the
part OF the British, in the face of yexatious and
unfounded claims at various times, has prevented
a clash between them. Moreover, every few years
since 1884 there has been attempt made to settle
II by negotiations between the two powers, delega
lions to and from Newfoundland commissions. IN
Quiries and other processes tending 10 advance
peaceful and abiding compromise The cost of all
these endeavors. which continued down 1901,
must also have made enormous IN the ag
gregate, and now all further outlay on these &C,
counts will be disposed Of besides the colony and
the notherland obtaining full and undsputed right
to all of the soil and seaboard of Newfoundland,
and the liberty to promote the future advancement
OF the island according their lights without
reference TO the views of any foreign power. Mani
testify, then, the adjustment of this difficulty will
be very cheaply purchased by England, and the call
upon the British taxpayer should not be heavy
DR.. CARTER TO STATE HIS CASE