Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-04
SHELLFISH TO Be
SESSIONS subject
Delegates from Seventeen
: Coast States Will Meet in
Atlantic City.
Especial to the Evening start


TRENTON. May 4.-Arrangements
have been completed for the sixth an
nual convention of the Rational Assoc
citation of Shell Fish Commissioners
at Atlantic City next Thursday. FRI
day and Saturday, May 7, and g
In the convention seventeen states
bordering the Atlantic seaboard ana
Gulf of Mexica will be represented,
and many topics OF interest to those
engaged in the shell fish industry o.
these States will be discussed y emf
nent scientists and men Connected
with the administration OF the IN
dustry.
The nbjects.
The first public meeting Of the con-
vention will be held on Thursda ait
ernoon at 2 O'Clock and the eelesates
will be welcomed by Mayor William
Riddle of Atlantic city, and response
will he made by John Craft. president
of the National Association c Aia-
hanna, DR.. George w. Field, chair
man of the Massachusetts, commits
zion, will present a paper upon can
Cultivation in This State" and Dr. X.
r. Fitz Randolph, baeteriologlst OF
the New Jersey Board of Health, VIII
sneak upon his Investigations Of the
oyster Bearing Waters of Ihls state.
In the evening DR. Julius Nelson,
biologist of the State Bureau OF Shell
Fisheries. will give an illustrated lee
ture on THE Life History OF the Oys-
ter" to which the general public Is
invited.
on Friday morning interesting
papers will be presented by DR.. Fred
erick p. Gorham, professor Of biology
of Brown University, and biologist
of the Rhode Island Shall Fish Com
mission, on The Necessity of Uni
form LEGISLATION Regulating the SAM
tarv Condition OF Shell Fish" and
Lester A. Round, of Rhode Island, on
"Experimental Work in Oyster In
yestigations." Addresses will also be
made by DR.. II. +. Moore. OF the
United States Bureau of Fisheries;
Captain W. Mcdonald Lee, of Nir-
ginia. and NJ l.. Alexander president
of the Conservation Commission Of
Lou siana.
The Government Duty.
On Friday afternoon j. Charles
Linth cum member of Congress from
Maryland. viii make an address upon
'"The Duty of the Government IN
Protecting Sea Food Life and De-
Neloplng II
DR. Joseph Hyde Pratt. of North
Carolina, viii speak on "OYster Legs
lation" Charles Morris Howard, Of
Baltimore, viii take up the same sub
1ect with relation of Maryland, and
Hon. T. r. Hodges, shell fish COM
missioner of Florida, will speak upon
the development of the industry in
that State THE Contamina ton Of
Tidal Waters" will be the subject of
a paper by Frederick L. Perry. secre-
tary of the Connecticut Shell Fish
Commission, and George A. Dow,
shell fish commissioner of Maine, viii
present some facts regarding the lob
ster industry, which New Jersey is
just beginning to take up.
On Friday evening there will be a
banquet at the Hotel Rudolf to the
members of the association and
guests, with Governor James F.
Fielder and prominent officials of the
State as guests of honor. Among
those who have accepted invitations
are: David S. Crater, secretary of
State: Edward E. Grosscup, State
treasurer: E. L. Edwards. State
Comptroller; John w. Wescott attOr-
y-general: L. Edward Hermann,
secretary to the governor; Emerson
L. Richards and Carleton Godfrey,
assen1blymen from Atlantic county.
Invitations are extended to all the
oystermen and any one else inter-
ested in the subject to attend the
public meetings Of the association,
which win be held at Rudolf, and
especially the interesting and instruc-
tive lecture by Professor Nelson
Thursday night.