Evening journal., 1905-04-03
$40 SAAD WERE
!. CAUGHT LAST WEEK
Brought s45 Wholesale But
Retailed at 81 and SI.5o
Each
BIG RUN EXPECTED SHORTLY
special to The Evenlng Journal.

New Castle, April S.-Notwithstand-
ing the fact that during the past week
the mercury went several points
above the so mark the shad fishing
season has not fairly opened as yet
and il will require several days OF
warm weather before a big. run OF the
fish can be expected.
Last season the first shad were
caught on March % and fishing began
almost Immediately thereafter. Dur
ing the past winter the Delaware river
was almost continuously packed with
heavy ice and as a consequence the
waters became chilled to such an eN-
tent that the season will be necessar-
lily set back.
AS result OF last weeks work in
the neighborhood Of 800 fish were
caught by boats from this port, the
highest individual catch being 10. The
market price was S45 per hundred and
about 75 per cent Of the fish caught
were bucks. individual fish sold. how
ever, as high as 81 and $3.50 apiece.
PROSPECTS GOOD.
Last season was an unusually good
one so far as large fish were concern
ed although in many instances the
money realized at the end Of the sea-
son fell short Of expectations. Nine
land ten-pound shad were common
catches with the fishermen and twelve
pound shad We're not especially rare.
! From the size and appearance OF the
shad caught so far this season there
is every evidence that this springs
run viii be equal II not superior I'm
size and quality TO those netted last
year
MANY BOATS TO FISH.
II is probable that there will be
about thlrty-eight boats fish from
New Castle this year. OF this num-
Der po 'ibly thirty Of them will be
equipped with new nets. while the re-
mainder will be Clippers" or those
fishing with last years nets or the
boats engaged in fishing fully fifteen
OF them will be self propelled.
Preparations are being made for the
shipment of fish by local handlers to
New York markets and the first ship
lments will be made this week The
New Castle t'ishermens Association
for which William Deakyne is age
viii begin shipments i'm few days
Joseph II. king has erected his large
platform on Delaware street wharf
which Is used for loading fish on cars
He Skinned ~ fine fish to New York
from Wilmington on saturday John
Walls win not ship for several days
yet
II Is admitted by those commission
merchants in New York and Phil1
delphia who handle Delaware shad
that the fish shipped from this point
are superior I'm quality and condition
to any received from other points
AN OLD-TIME MINUTE BOOK.
Among the relies OF bygone days IN
the possession of New Castle people Is
Ian old minute book first used lO5 years
ago by the trustees of the New Castle
Academy and which until recently was
fused by the Board of Education, In
whose possession it now is. II reads
las follows part being printed and part
lwritten AT a meeting of all trustees
of the New Castle Academy, Septem-
ber 80, 1900 Resolved unanimous,y
that the tuition money and contingent
Expenses which may hereafter become
due for the scholars in the academy
together with the arrearages, be paic
either TO the tutor or the treasurer
within one month after the expiration
of each quarter and upon failure thai
lthe child or Children for whom sucl
payment shall be neglected to be mad,
shall be excluded from the academy
until the sum so due be discharged e
the treasurer and his receipt for tn,
same be produced to the tutor"
Resolved That the tutors give no.
tice of the above resolution to the par.
ents or guardian Of the pupils undei
their care"
Appended to this is the following
, receipt:
Z George Pierce. Dr.-tSOO-Oct. %
! for instructions to Miss Eliza
, Pierce from 26 July at S4OO
[ / per quarter ...................S $40
= Assessment for contingent ex-
I penses .............. -