Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
TWO SORTS UF FISHING
SCOTCHMEN ANGLING FOR SAL
MON AND TREASURE.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
GLASGOW, December 1-Heavy rains
have fallen in Scotland during the past few
days, and the flooded state of the rivers
has greatly interferred with salmon fishing.
The spate, however, has brought up an
enormous quantity of fish. and sportsmen
on the few rivers still open should obtain
record results.
The fishing closed on the Dee, Don and
number of other rivers after an Indifferent
season, the long drought experienced during
the months of August and September being
mainly responsible for the lack of sport.
Between the floods capital creels have
been got on some of the reaches of the
River Tweed. On Sprouston Water, for in
stance, one of the best reaches on the
whole river, almost record catch has been
gathered during the past month, and among
the successful sportsmen were the Earl of
Eglinton, Lord Montgomerie, Sir Redvers
Butler and Capt. Trotter. On the Duke of
Roxburghe's Floors Castle reaches Lady
Evelyn Ward and the Hon. G. Ward have
been among the favored anglers, and nearly
thirty fish were captured by the guests of
the duke on a single day recently.
When Princess Louise opened the Queen
Margaret College in st. Andrews Hall the
other afternoon she really laid the founda-
ton stone of the Students Union. The need
of developing university life on its social
side is becoming everywhere recognized.
Only few weeks have elapsed since Edin-
burgh University opened an addition to
its Students Union at cost of over $780,
000. for which sum the undergraduate has
obtained the run of a fully equipped club
and a library of 5000 volumes. On that oc
casion Mr. Haldane. who as lord rector of
the university, took a leading part in the
ceremony, bore testimony to the barrennesS
of university life as he knew it in the days
before students unions were thought of. In
81 60 I, ho
in places where the CONCENTRATIONS were
festive rather than academic. Mr.. Balfour,
though he said he could not speak from
personal experience of a Scotch university,
laid stress upon the value as an influence in
the molding of character of the social life.
After the Galleon.
Once more the search for the Spanish
treasure carried on this season for thir
teen weeks has been discontinued, as the
recent operations did not yield the results
which the more sanguine among the men,
bers of the syndicate fondly hoped Dur
ing the first ten weeks quite an extensive
portion of Tobormory bay was most thor
oughly investigated with the Priestamn
digger and boring apparatus and quite
plethora of relics recovered in course of
the search. But during the last fortnight
operations were almost exclusively con-
fined to one spot where the salvers were
told by q expert tHdl tney were
daily nearing mass of silver. The silver
was not Forthcoming, however The result
has therefore been most aggravating, but
the members of the syndicate are not men
to give up enterprise because there are
obstacles or because their labors have not
been crowned with success. AS to the
depth at which the treasure galleon will be
found there are differences of opinion One
expert Iuts it at twelve feet beneath the
silt, another at twenty-five feet, and
third at between twenty-five and thirty
feet; but as to the process to be followed
in finding the ship, almost all are agreed
that the search must be carried out with
the boring apparatus worked by handles
from platform over the sides of the div
ing lighter. Among the relics lowered
during the last two days of the operations
was silver dessert plate eight inches In
diameter and weighing over a pound. The
silver of which 1t was composed was purer
than in the two plates recovered at the be-
ginning of September. There were also
brought up two scabbards, from the leather
of which the polish had not disappeared,
while the wood inside, which kept the steel
edge from the leather, was still preserved.
y fine specimen of a sword and an are
quebus were among the finds on the last
day of the fishing operations.