The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-07-17
NEW FISHERIES CAR
Has Been Placed in Commission for
U. S. Government

U. S. Government.
Washington. d. c., July 14.-The
new bureau of fisheries car, construct
ed at Wilmington, Del, arrived at
Union station. Washington, July /. The
car was delivered to the bureau and ac-
cepted in May, but has since been at
Wilmington for the installation OF
special equipment preparatory to being
placed in commission. A crew OF flve
men has been assigned to the new car,
transferred from one of the old wooden
cars.
The car Is entirely of steel, includ-
ing all interior bulkheads, partitions,
doors, berths. lockers, and water tanks
and is thoroughly insulated by the lat
est improved method to insure against
heat and cold. 1t has a length of Go
feet and onehalf inch over ends of
body plates, and a standard width OF
10 feet. The weight Of the car with
equipment is 10000 pounds, and is de
signed to carry load of $4,000 pounds
including water, fuel. ice and other
supplies. making its total weight when
loaded $4,000 pounds or 90 tons
The car is especially designed for
carrying live fishes long distances In
the center, running lengthwise on each
side. are insulated tanks with total
capacity for 13O ten-gallon cans in
which the fish are held During trans
portation the fish will be furnished
with oxygen and fresh water by means
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six horsepower steam boiler. The
boiler will also furnish heat to the car,
but in addition to this independent
heating system the usual train at
tachment for heating the car from the
locomotive is provided for.
Tanks for carrying reserve water
supply are located beneath the car,
and an fee box of capacity of one ton
of ice provided In addition to the
facilities for the transportation of fish,
the car is fitted with living accommo-
datons for crew of five men, cook S
gallery, an office, and space for a din.
ing table.
Fish are distributed by the bureau
of fisheries in every state of the union
some 10000 individual applications be-
ing filled annually in addition to the
large public plants of the so.called
commercial species In the Great Lakes
and coastal streams of the seaboards
This phrase of the bureaus work has
grown to enormous proportions, and IN
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1915, for
ty-nine species were propagated, these
including, in addition to fishes, the
lobster and several species of econ
omically valuable fresh-water mussels
The total output of these was ovei
four and a half billions, which wer,
Some idea OF the magnitude of th'
work of distributing fish is indicated
/, by the fact that it involved 637, III
: miles to travel. of which 146,54l va
by the bureaus special cars and tn
remainder by car messengers. Thes
marine and fresh.Watcr fishes are II
, vertebrates were collected and hatche
p by 40 stations and 30 sub.stations Il
= Gated in 3i states and Alaska. In at
l dition S,40i. 900 food and game hshe
1 were rescued from overtlowed land
h and returned in safety to the streams
j. otherwise they would have perished /
e the temporary ponds left by the rece'
X ing waters.
o Solely by reason of these fsh-cultu
}, al operations and similar activities o
the part of the states. the supply
. trout and other game and food fishes
streams and small lakes is being mai
tanned and increased, the whtelish
the Great Lakes Is holding its own, Il
! shad in certain waters Is being save
! from extinction and the effects of e
! haustive fisheries for the Pacific 81
! mon and certain marine fisheries a
I being Offset. As result of tran
] planting, the Atlantic shad and STRIPE
| bass are abundant ON the Pacific Goa
! and the former are being shipped ba'
+ in large numbers to supply the mark