The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-01

DSCuSSiOu Oh now 10 raise ana pro-
tect tho game fish, particularly the
little mouth black bass. occupied the at
tention OF two hundred and fifty men,
bers and guests Of the Wayne County
Fish and Game Protective Association
at the annual spring banquet, last
evening. at the Odd Fellows Hall. Ad-
dresses were delivered by q number of
Indianapolis sportsmen, from whom
the local association has been taking
advice as to the raising OF fish, also
addresses by several local rod and gun
lovers.
The affair was beyond the fondest
expectations of the members and Off
GERS Of the club. It Is doubtful, IL on
any occasion, there ever was q more
representative attendance at banquet
than that OF last evening. The ban
queters included the merchant, the
professional man and the man in the
factory, one and all with the common
purpose of doing something for the
protection OF the fish and game Of the
county.
Plates Well Filled.
Each plate was served with half OF
baked Mallard duck, cranberries, po-
tatoes, celery and the like and for the
second course, baked bass was served.
The banquet menu was such as one
would prepare for himself after good
luck from an all day fishing and hunt
ing trip.
There were four long tables and a
smaller table at which the guests of
honor and several of the officers OF the
association were seated. The table
decorations included the sixteen bass,
which four members of the club caught
on Tuesday. The bass weighed from
one and half to three pounds The
association expects to use these fish to
stock the broodery.
Owing to the necessity OF e. E. Earle.
chief deputy fish and game commits
sioner of the state. having to return to
Indianapolis at an early hour, he was
first introduced and gave short talk.
He pleaded for the enforcement of
the fish and game laws OF the state,
and advocated prosecution as the only
means to demand respect for the laws.
The club was disappointed over the
inability of Judge Fox to be present,
owing to illness, and his place as toast
master was filled in most admirable
manner by William H. Kelley, the
president OF the association.
Mayor Prefers Horses.
Mayor w. w. Zimmerman delivered
hn ~ al nd nri-
ately described the meeting as a
school Of and for fish. Reference to
the representation of the classes as
sembled and the purpose Of the meet
ing was made. He advocated sport
as the proper recreation. He said he
himself could not get the strikes in
the fishing game. and consequently had
taken up with the horse.
Judge l.. C. Abbott, introduced as
the wizard of local sportsmen, gave an
interesting talk on what he did not
know about fishing and hunting, but it
developed that he knew more about
the sport than he did not know. The
key note of his talk was the conser-
walton of fish. The Judge said that
he who has keen love for nature is
a man who has bigger heart, redder
blood and greater patriotism than he
who has not.
At this juncture, Toastmaster KEEL
ley was handed a telegram which prov
ed to be one Of keen disappointment to
all. President w. H. Taft sent his re-
grete. The president also stated in
the telegram that as he and his prede-
cessor, who was present" did not
mix well, since the tariff furry, that it
might be we'll that he was not present.
Roosevelt Was There.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was intro
duced. He was impersonated by Lau-
renee Handley, his costume and outfit
being an exact likeness of Bwan Turn
BIO. His remarks were in full, as fol-
lows:
My friends:
81 am dee-lighted.
81 have enjoyed my sojourn in the
African wilds. You who are fisher
men and hunter know something of
the sigh OF relief that / must have
heaved when left the cares of state
far behind and lost myself in the
wilderness, where obligations of so
ciety and the soft and slippery poll
tician could not reach me. All, what
a relief to get out where / did not
have to shave or care continental