The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-18
MINARD Tells OF
A FISHING TRIP
AN INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL
LECTURE WAS DELIVERED AT
THE N. D. A. C. INDUSTRIAL.
SCHOOL YESTERDAY - MISS
cuRRY's LECTURE,

Varying somewhat the routine Of the
work Of the summer school at the A..
c., Professor Minard yesterday ad-
dressed the students, telling them of
his experiences during the summer of
1908, on board mackeral schooner on
the New England coast
The ship that he sailed in had
crew of fourteen men, who went out on
the shares plan. That is to say, the
ship took two-thirds the value of the
catch, and the men the other third
On this basis it had brought in to the
men in the crew, for one weeks work.
on the preceding trip, $50 apiece. There
were cases where as high as $3.50 per
week was the share OF the men in the
crew, but those cases were rare.
The crew as it came on board was
drunk. just enough men able to steer
the vessel out past the capes and into
the open sea. They sailed along the
coast, sometimes in sight of shore,
sometimes far out at. sea. but on this
trip the mackeral were not in sight
Once the lookout reported fish in
sight, the long boat was lowered, the
net, quarter of a mile long, with a
puckering string in the bottom, thrown
out, and catch Of fish utterly wortn-
less was made. 1t took until late at
night to put back the net
Some line fishing was done. not for
the money in 1t, but to give the men
change of diet. This proved very
hard work as the lines were UP l.,
500 feet long, and weighter with ten
pound sinkers. A sword fish and oc-
casionally shark was sighted The
weather remained fine for a couple Of
weeks, but the catch Of fish was very
small.
Then fog came up, the wind began
to blow, and soon the little ship was
in the grip of September gale that
tried 1t in every timber. After an ex-
citing and perilous trip it finally made
the harbor, only to find that many OF
the ships in the fishing fleet mad gone
down or were driven onto the rocks.
Once the professor heard the captain
say, as he staggered down the hatch
way. during the storm, "And they say
that fish are hight" AS they read in
the papers the names of the dead. one
Of the crew, a grizzled old Newfound-
lander, voiced the feeling OF the crew
by saying It's hard sentence, but
it's what we are all coming to IL we
keep at the business"
"And yet" the professor concluded,
"there was something about the life,
its freedom, it's excitement, its tang
OF the primitive, that made a man,
once he had experienced It, always
long for the open sea, the days under
the awnings, the excitement of the
catch, even for the grim battle with
the storm. with life itself for the
stake"
Miss Curry's Address.
Monday afternoon Miss Mary a.
Curry, one of the leading nurses at
the st. Johns i1ospital addressed a
large and interested audience in the
college gymnasium, on the work of the
trained nurse.
Miss Curry outlined the work that
the nurse has to do in order to learn
her profession, and then gave some
very valuable information as to the
care of the sick, the detection of sick
ness in its incipient stages, the pre-
cautions to be taken in the case OF
infectious diseases and other matters
of interest to the teachers in atten-
dance at the lecture.
The afternoon lectures are proving
one Of the best features OF the sum
mer school work. The wood shop and
manual training work is going very
we'll In fact the whole progress of the
summer school is most satisfactory
both to the faculty and to the stu
dents in attendance. Especial mention
is made by the students Of the excel
lent training in domestic science Civ
en- by Miss Hoover. the newly elected
| professor Of domestic science in the
agricultural college.