The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-12-24
Vermont NelUs.
SPEAKERS WHO DIDN'T SPEAK.
A Story Of DR.. Bishop at Fish and
Game League Banquet.

The very best of the 'We.have.with-us.
tonight" stories that have ever come into
the Listeners listening is that describing
an experience of Dr. llebcr Bishop of this
city in Vermont the other day DIR.
Bishop is well known rs a mighty hunter
OF large game in the northeastern wilds Of
America, and was present in that char.
OF the Fish and Game league at Mont
pelier They had with" them there that
night, ranged in due order of importance
at the head table along with our fellow
townsman, Governor Prouty and the lieu
tenant governor, Ex-Governor Proctor, the
speaker of the Vermont house, Congress
man Foster the attorney general OF the
state; the president OF Middlebury col.
lege. a state senator or so, the head ui
the fish.cultune department of the Wash
ington bureau OF fisheries. the famous
bird protector OF lonkers, \. Y, Hon.
Dwight Huntington. and the fish an
game commissioner of Vermont. II so
happened that owing to certain require
ments of the man running the moving
picture machine II was thought best to
introduce that feature first, after which
the chairman would call up the great peo.
pie whom I'VE have with us tonight
But, as a matter OF history, with all the
array that they had with us here to-
night" DIR. Heber Bishop turned out 20
be the sole and only speaker. While &c
was describing in general the life OF the
trail and woods and had not fairly con-
fronted the big moose as yet, of course |
the banqueters simply would not hear to |
his stopping; and after he was up to"
the moose his giving way to any with |
us-tonight" was out of the question. He
had begun with his motion pictures of
trout and salmon fishing, picturing the
doctor and friends identified to the audi.
ence standing in flowing waters with all
the realistic details down to lifting the
exhausted game fish with the net at the
close of the struggle.
The picturing of the new Tor, rather,
very old crow'snest hunting made the
outlook of the "with-us-tonight" even
more distant and dusty. The doctors
talk is of that easy and conversational
sort that sportsmen prefer, because 1t
really tells the story to them. The
process of Turing the big game up to the
trees in which the hunters roost in these
for days together, of course
left an audience largely of experts only,
eager for more. There was no possibility
ut that point of the most persuasive
chairman suggesting for a moment that
here was anybody else with us tonight"
So the talk and the pictures ambled on
up to the presentation of the pictures of :.
he big cow moose swimming desperately /.
or the shore. This film was made while
he biograph was within eight feet of
he animal; her laboring shoulders, dis
ended nostrls and the wild raising Of !
Ter name all are seen in this picture in d
ction Another similar picture from a !;
anoe is the hashlight taken so close to |,
he animal that the water is dripping =
rom her muzzle as she raises her head
rom the roots of the lily pads-the =
tartled turn of her eye CLEANS and !,
ashes and the standing hackles of her
ack are in movement. The governor, the
eutenant governor and the ex-governor,
he speaker of the house, the congressman,
he state attorney general and the state o
enator. the college president and the bu- 8
eau officials from Washington were hap o
Ter with lis tonight" looking at these i
ages from nature literally alive with in. IS
crest, than in making their speeches, and y
/, DR.. Bishop went on till his box of pic II
Tres was completely exhausted and the "a
me of day was i2.40 a. m. Meanwhile
lie audience, now of about a thousand in sc
/, counting those at the tables and those Al
athered in the hall after the dinner, mad b
zen spellbound as none of the profess C;
onal spell-binders with us tonight CT
uld have managed Listener in the Es
oston Transcript. Fl