Evening star., 1916-01-08

visited the vicinity of Gravelly creek
| and along the river near the south end
OF the railroad bridge over the Potomac.
He was Charles Smith. who was ia
| miliarly known as Frog"
Fishermen say he lived alone in an
ark for the past seventeen years and
referred to him as the hermit
Il am happier than the President.
Smith was frequently heard to remark.
The lone occupant of the ark did his
own cooking and laundry work. it is
stated, mended his own clothes and
| always seemed happy and contented.
This winter he became ill and died. and
his funeral was held at Lees chapel.
William Ward, Percy Harding and C.
G. Barteman, enthusiastic anglers. who
last season visited Rock Point a num-
ber of times, last week received a re-
minder Of their pleasant outings at that
resort.
oysters from one of the captains" said
Barteman.
They were big. fat oysters. he added.
"and the crabs in them suggested that
they were of the Norfolk kind"
The three anglers enjoyed their
discussing their anticipations of the
coming fishing season.
Kirk c. sipher. Mrs. sipher Miss Ruth
participated in a cold weather trip to
Mills Point, st. Mary's county. Md.
where they were guests of ]. B. Lyons.
They had enjoyed fishing trips there
during the warmer weather. and had
splendid sport. and, it is stated, the
water and oysters proved attractive on
the occasion of the cold-weather trip.
1T was too cold for fishing COM
mented Frank Monroe. father of one
member of the party. but not too cold
to catch chickens"
FRANK related story of how mem
bers of the party were given scare
on the homeward journey. They had
met with no accident on the road they
stated, but when Waldorf was reached
the sight Of an object on the car gave
them scare. In the darkness it pre-
sented much the appearance of some
thing ghastly.
And it was only a ten-pound rooster
that had ridden all the way from Mills
Point, said Monroe.
And" he added, "chanticleer will die
OF old age, members of the party hav-
ing sent it to a nearby farm, with in
structions that it must not be killed"
n. l.. Pulliam, sportsman who sell
dom misses an opportunity to indulge
IN an outing where fish or game is to
De found, this week tried his hand at
not-water fishing near Benning bridge.
announcement in The Star that fish
tne not water waste from the power
plant empties was all that was
necessary to induce Pulliam to get out
ms M tackle and try his luck.
went there" said the enthusiast.
and found number of anglers land
ing catfish. The warm water seems to
make. splendid feeding place for
them'
The day following his catch of cat
hsh Pulliam went across the river to
IN cbnf
Two at ducks. There were plenty
OF ducks on the river, he said, but the
water was too rough to go after them
IN SKIN. and the sportsman had to
content himself shooting from the
shore. He killed one big, fat mallard.
william Wynkoop enjoys the dis
tinction of being the first sportsman to
land Mississippi catfish this year.
lie ne caught more than one COM
panied him on the first trip. but who
failed to accomplish anything more
than TO have several fish entertain him
by playing with his bait.
Wynkoop and Sparrow, equipped
with supply of shad bait, went to
Fletcher's for week end outing, and
the former caught three fish, the
largest weighing four pounds, but the
latter was unable to make a catch.
tuesday the sportsmen returned to
the river
"And 1t was the same old story" said
Sparrough. Wynkoop caught the fish,"
Joe Fletcher caught four big fish
Tuesday night.
An enjoyable, as well as successful,
hunting trip was made few days ago
to West Point. Va, at the old planta-
tion home of Charles Fox Brookes. In
the party were Medical Director Ed
ward H. Green. U. S. N; Capt. Charles
H. Lyman, U. s. NJ c.; Charles F.
Brookes and D. Hinckley Lyman. A
number of quail were bagged, also