The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-03
ON LAKE A
WITH SECRETARY LANSING
OBERT LANSING. Secretary of
State, was graduated from
Amherst College in 1886. Since

TX state was graduated from
L Amherst College in 1886. Since
that time he has devoted him.
SELF seriously to two pursuits, the
study of international law and fishing.
And Of the two it is possible that the
latter has the higher place in his af-
fections.
For the past fortnight Secretary
Lansing has been fishing. and he
ended his vacation last week with cal
loused hands, bronzed face and lin
gering memories of the best bass
fishing that the justly famous shores
OF lake Ontario have furnished him
In many a year. Last year Secretary
Lansing was too busy to take a vaca-
ton. for he not only was burdened
with the duties Of Counsellor to the
State Department but he was also
acting Secretary during the time that
his predecessor. William Jennings
Bryan. was on the Chautauqua cir
Sut'' Nhu So lHN dtdtioh just ClOStu
was the irst that Mr.. Lansing has had
since he entered the State Department
a year ago last March.
Mr.. Lansing has been spoken Of
highly as Secretary of State. II you
ask the natives OF Henderson Harbor,
n. Y. about him they too will speak
highly OF him. hut az Bert Lansing
the fisherman. To them he is a man
truly great. Bert Lansing. the best
way he is known at Henderson, and
his phenomenal success with the hard
fighting bass seems to Justify his rep
utatioh.
For about as long as any one can
remember Mr.. Lansing has been GO
ing annually to Henderson for his two
weeks bass fishing. He went there
first with his father. John Lansing.
when he was studying law in Water
town. When he was just IA plain law
yer in Waterfowl he helped to or
ganize the F~ortnightly club. origi-
nally a literary society, but his glowing
tales OF the bass fishing OF the Gal
loups Islands, told during the winter
months when rightly Shakespeare and
Dickens should have held the stage. so
worked on the sporting instincts of his
fellow members that 1t finally became
the custom for the club to spend sew
eral days each summer on Big Gal
loups Island. Here Mr.. Lansing and
his companions in years past have
had fishing to their hearts content.
and In more recent years the club has
erected a so-called clubhouse amid the
wilderness Of the island.
True to his custom and his promise
made weeks ago. Mr.. Lansing spent
a night in the shack recently n
there told of the difficulties and dis
cussed the problems of a Secretary
Of State with his former law partner,
the president of the Wa,ertown bank.
the principal OF the high school and
some other local celebrities. all old
friends of days gone by. Incidentally
he gave them all a few points on bass
fishing and brought in a bigger string
Of fish than any two others of the
party.
When the Secretary of state camps
out he camps out like a man. When
the boat draws up on shore he is
the first one out and AT once starts
to collect stones to build the stove,
VIII Stevens, who has been Mr.. Lam
sings guide for years-but then IT is
wrong To call him a guide. for there
ism, IA man at Henderson a knows
more likely PAGES for fishing
Mr.. Lansing himself-has always had
the help OF his distinguished employer
when it came to cooking the shore
dinner. 1t might surprise Ambassador
Won Bcrnstorf and others of Mr.. Lam
sings friends Of the diplomatic corps
to see the Secretary OF state kneelinG
on the rocky shores Of Lake Ontario,
his face covered with SCOT and his
hands the color of the ashes before
him. holding "A frying pan with II
hand and stirring the tomato soup
with the other. For be it understood
Mr.. Lansing can clean a fish as hand
lily as the next a and like every
true fisherman can cook 1t as II
should be cooked.
On the eve of his departure from
Washington for his brief vacation Sec
rotary Lansing announced that he vas
going to leave behind him all the
cares and responsibilities of the state
Department. Henderson Harbor was
the place he selected for his vacation,
and certainly there is no place this
side Of the great Canadian woods
where he could obtain greater privacy
and at the same time keep in touch
with Washington. International prob
lens, or national problems for that
matter, seemed to he about he last
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