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shipped in from other parts of the
world.
We do not pretend to be a nation of
fishermen, but our waters are so fat
in sea food that we could multiply
our product an hundred-fold. We have
not only the United States proper, but
we have our colonial possessions, about
which are fisheries now producing s15,
100000 worth Of seafood every year.
The F'ilipinos are like the Japanese in
that they live largely on fish, and our
islands have many kinds of fishes, from
those that live in the sea to some that
wade about in the mud.
We have one kind of herring which
is SO abundant that we catch more
than 1,0O0.000.0 900 Of them every year
SO many that their weight would ex-
ceed that of three or four million men,
or more soldiers than we are likely
to send for some time to the trenches
of France. This is the menhaden, a
palatable food fish, SO abundant that
our fishermen catch it in order that it
may be turned into oil and fertilizer.
The fish is almost as fat as the famous
candle fish of Alaska. which when dry
will burn like a candle. just before
the war began the bureau of fisheries
investigated this industry. 1t estimated
that the catch of that year produced
6,500.0O0 gallons of oil and nearly
10000 tons of fertilizer. and that the
number Of fish caught were so many
that if they were laid end to end they
would reach in an unbroken line six
times around the earth at the equator
We have more fishermen catching
menhaden than in any other branch of
the industry. The fish are taken in
seines. hundreds Of thousands being
sometimes pulled up in single net
They swim about in immense schools
their heads close to the surface, and
often tier above tier. packed almost as
closely together as sardines in a box
They are of a bright silver. and are
phosphorescent at night. so that
school then looks like moving bed of
flaming fire. AS they swim below the
surface in the daytime one may see
their glittering backs down under the
water and the boats seem to be gliding
over a floor inlaid with blocks of silver
This statement comes from one of the
reports of the bureau Of fisheries
Our best fishing grounds in propor-
ton to the number of men employed are
the waters of Alaska. We have $4,000
men there who are catching hundreds
Of millions Of pounds OF sea food every
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The United Service Club

toric, but they are spacious. roomy
and beautifully furnished. Mr.. West
inghouse has allowed the club to use
the furnishings. including some hand
some carved pieces of furniture, an
tiques more than a century old. tap
eStries of value and beauty. Statuary,
etchings and paintings which, by CO.
incidence, include number of por-
trayalS of the master general, Ma
poleon. The walls are covered with a
deep rich red plush. which forms a
tasteful background for the numerous
works of art.
scribed in its articles of Incorporation.
which set forth that 1.-THE particular
objects of the United Service Club of
America shall be the inculcation of love
for the service of our country, the
discussion of subjects relating to the
military and naval services of the
United States, the cultivation of social
and friendly relations amongst the
members of the CLUB and the esta blish-
ment and maintenance in the city OF
Washington and elsewhere of club
houses. with libraries, reading rooms,
restaurants and other comforts and ia
ciiities for the members of the club
and their guests
The club is not limited to reserve
officers. 1t is open to all commissioned
officers of the Army. Navy and Marine
Corps and certain officers of the Red
Cross whose status is that of officers
in the military service. 1t was formed
with the hearty cooperation of the
officers and governors of the Army and
Navy Club. whose president. Brig. Gen.
George Richards l.. S. NJ. c.. is a char
ter member of the new club. as Is Rear
Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN.
So popular has the club become in .
little more than month since its OPEN
ing that options already have been OBJ
tanned upon several other buildings In
the neighborhood. which are under con.
sideration for use as additional sleep-
ing quarters. In the original club
building there not only are rooms to
be had for officers who remain here
for time, but the fourth floor Is given
over to a barracks to accommodate the
overflow of transients who desire ac-
commodations for night or two ~
their assignments bring them to WASH
ington.
The board of governors has ruled that
'.all foreign officers Of the governments
of our allies are welcome at all times
with no other recognition than the uni
forms they wear" Many already have
availed themselves of this privilege
and they have welcomed this hospital
ity, while men in the United States
service have prodted by meetiAe the
men who have been at the front
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FTHE doctor took my pulse into his
counting room, and when he
emerged, three minutes later
q / was booked for long siege
and owed him SO.
He cleared his throat in such a man
ner that / was certain the situation
was grave.
Gases like yours are rare,'' he said
slowly.
For a moment 1 thought possibly he
would add that because of it's rarity he
would treat my ailrnent free. But that
was for only moment.
"Only the rarest drugs will aid you,
he said. Some physicians says no drug
will help. 1 almost agree with Them
This seemed strange. indeed. as / had
no idea when ! called that there was
anything wrong with me. Passing by
his door. l had seen the room full OF
people and, being in perfect health,
supposed. 1 dropped in to read the
magazines until he received the mar
first in line before me. But. seeing {
fresh victim, he took me first. And
there / was, all doubled up with {
strange disease that I had been pack
ing aware of it.
X
There is something wrong with your
nerves." he said. land it will cost you
hundreds to get set right
You bowl me over. DOCTOR / said,
"but since you say my nerves need a
new shoe or an inner tube, or some
thing. I'm content to see it through.
Certainly you have nerve enough to
spare: if any one can fix me up, you
cam
He told me to open my purse, shut
my eyes and show him my tongue.
did. and he was greatly impressed.
"Your tongue has a shoddy coat" he
said.
Three cheers." I cried II feared it
might be something cheap, like silk
You are suffering" he continued,
from an overindulgence in pleasure.
Have you not been having a rip-roar-
ing good time of late""
Doctor, l never drink fastened to
explain.
'.Oh. l don't mean that" he respond
ed. "One does not have to drink to be
filled with pleasure. Come. tell me
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Still smiling. he hailed stretcher
bearer across the way.
'I sye. 'Awkins. this blighter wants a
bloorin' map of Frawnce; e wants to
know where e is.
"'Awkins.'' across the way, answered:
Tell i'm 'es bloomin well in Sam
Isaacs fish 'ouse down Tottenham
Court road. awaitin' for is order O. fish
and chips.
This brought a general laugh from
the Tommies opposite me and on my
right and left.
Somewhat incenscd at their merri-
ment. I retorted:
Quit your kidding: for the love of
Mike. have some sense. What's the
matter? An l wounded"
The stretcheS bearer, still with the
sunny smile on his face. which made
me feel little ashamed at my resent
Tnent. answered:
Nav. you amt wounded. myte. You
Just 'appened to fall down in the
bloomin' road and one O. those blinkin'
tanks crawled over you.''
This rather frightened me- and in a
pleading voice / asked:
please tell me; what is the matter
with me-
The stretcher hearer leaned over and
read from little tag pinned to my
tunic:
Ct S. E. left face-(two) left shoul-
der. Cot
Then he carried on:
Hit means that YOU ave rife bull
let through the left side of your clock
(face) and two bullets through your
left shoulder, and that you're a cot
case. which means that you won't ave
to bloody well walk. Two of US poor
blokes will ave to carry you on q
stretcher. You sure are lucky bloke;
pretty cuShy, j calls it,
l asked him if the wounds were good
for Blighty
He answered.:
Yes. you're good for Biighty. and
I'm a-thinkin' that they're good for a
discharge That left harm O. yourn
will be out o commission for the rest O.
YOUR life. Your wife. if you've got one.
for you-that is, if you're lucky
enough to get any blinkin' meat on the
pension the top ats 'ome will and
you"
a feeling of pride went through me.
In hospital of wounded soldiers a Sc
verely wounded case is more or less
looked Up to, while man with a su-
periicial wound is treated as an or
perhaps intermiXed with little envy.
in the. eyes of the surrounding Tom
mics and medical men.
The door at the end of the ward
opened. A howl came from the cot at
my right, and a gruff Irish voice
shouted:
Close that damned door. You
bloomin hospital men have no sinse
at all. Here l am. knocked about by
a shell. and the likes @ youse puts
me in a bloody draft. It's a good
thing we have a navy. with the likes
O you blokes in the army we certainly
need one"
A snicker went up from the patients.
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is good for the bite, I rapidly calculat-
ed that the doctor was about to put me
on diet of grape juice and white
radishes, so I dashed for the window.
He dragged me back into a chair
Despite what you tell me-" he re-
sumed. 81 can readily see that you have
been partaking too freely of the pleas
ures of life. In other words. you have
been doing as you pleased: bachelor.
l take it. You have suffered no re-
verses, no anxieties. no pains. You
have permitted your nerve fiber to be-
come fat and fiabby."
Yes" l mumbled, in my degrada-
ton.
Yes he shouted. springing to his
feet and swinging good right arm.
Henceforth you must partake OF that
which you dislike most"
And then he pasted me in the nose.
1 sprang at him with the fury of a
tiger. He laughed.
wonderful" he said. You are show
ing new interest already Go forth and
partalse of more that you dislike.
After all. 1 pondered, there might De
something in his advice. so l plunged
deep into. distasteful things.
If there is one thing 1 hate worse
than all others it is the stale vaude-
VILE Joke. / dashed into vaudeville
hats and spats and carrying walking
sticks, came out. 1 began to feel better.
1t looked like a rollicking evening for
abuse.
who was that lady I saw you with
this afternoon?" Comedian No. 1 said.
That wasn't lady; it was my wife"
No. 2 responded.
The house roared. and my nerves
fairly snapped with new life. They had
been crossed by the hoariest veteran of
all jokes. How 1 hate it.
-.
Having survived that, 1 reeled into
the open, fairly aching for further
treatment. A sign, Boom Proofo cigar,
best in the world for nickel. Caught
my eye, and I fell. I knew, well as
any one. that the best nickel cigar in
the world would floor a colored iron
molder, but treatment is treatment. I
smoked ten Boom Proofs, and when 1
came around 1 was leaning, somewhat
daZed, against the side of the Treasury
building. But my general state was
better. I was getting abuse right.
The doctor was delighted at my prog
ress.
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age fish used was as heavy as good
zised man. 1t was sliced in two. the
back and front forming two slabs of
snow-white meat. 1t was then hung
bone was cut out. The slabs were then
salted and laid one on top of another
i'll the hogshead until it was full of
what was practically solid meat.
Another fish from Alaska which
could easily be shipped as food for
our allies is the cod. There are great
banks about the Aleutian Islands, where
the cod sWarms as thickly as it once
did on the banks of Newfoundland.
We are now catching millions of
and the amount is steadily increasing.
We take great deal from the waters
of the Atlantic and we are planting
cod eggs and Goldfish in those waters
to increase the supply. About ten
years ago more than 100.oO0,0oO little
cod We're planted by the United States
bureau of fisheries during one season.
The cod is prolific. Ten million eggs
male. weighing seventy-tive pounds.
and it is a poor cod that will not lay
couple of million eggs
The cod is more popular in Europe
than here. 1t is greatly relished by the
French. Italians and Spaniards, and it
has formed one of the chief CONNER
cial GSntS I0T nuHuFeuS OF years. 1Hr
Romans and Greeks both ate it. and
also the AnRlo-SaNons, who gave it
the name of cad, from which the word
cod comes, CAD representing the rod
on which it was dried. 1t is claimed
by some that when the Danes came
from Iceland along about the year 1000
and discovered North America they
were looking for new codfshing
grounds. and it is said that the banks
of Newfoundland had been visited by
Spanish fishermen long before Column
bus crossed the Atlantic.
In connection with the planting of
Goldfish and cod eggs it will surpise
some to know that Uncle Sam now
matches fish as farmers hatch chickens
and that he plants the young where
he pleases. Within late years he has
been greatly adding to our food supply
by picking out the best kinds of fish,
and scattering them through the wa
ters of the United States especially
fitted for them. Just now his fish scien-
lists are devoting themselves entirely
to work along the lines of the war, but
in the year before it broke out he
planted three or four billion eggs or
tiny fish 8 I'd turned loose in the waters
twenty million flngerlings, yearlings
and adult fish of different varieties.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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In the Ward Of Casualties Clearing Stations% s%4

fix you up with a cushy Job at brigade
headquarters. pounding typewriter"
The Irshman, with a groan OF disgueev
addressing nobody in particular, signedf
"Out since Mons, and / end up workin'
a bloody typewriter at headquarters
Stick me in skirts and I'll go as manis
curist."
The doctor. paying no attention to this
left the ward.
As soon as the door closed . string of
oaths came from the Irishman:
"Poundin' a typewriter at headouarters3
just like the bloody British army: what
do I know about one Of those writfne
machines? Just my luck. Why couldn't
that shell have hit me in the hands. But.
s'pose. IL I'd lost my bloody hands
they'd made a tight rope walker out q
me. Win this war-what hopes?''
The Tommies were eagerly questioning
each other:
what did e sye to you?" "Are you
good for Blighty?" He marked England
on my tag!'' What does base hospital
mean? Does it mean that I'm to stick ie
out in this bloody mud while you blokes
are a'goin' to Blighty?" etc.
carrying little, oblong. green box. which,
we all knew. contained cigarettes. He
was greeted with a chorus Of:
Gimme a fag, mate. I'm all out.
Come on, chum. don't forgot me.
That's a good fellow. Let's have one"
Pretty soon every Tommy who was
able had a lighted fag between his
lips. and sigh of content went up as
he inhaled deep drafts Of the smoke.
1 certainly enjoyed mine.
The medical men came to attention. In
crisp tones he ordered:
Get the convoy for England ready.
Look alive, the ambulances are ex-
pected any minute"
The stretcher bearers entered, bustling
about, and the ward was in an up
roar. Then, outside, could be heard
the chugging engines of the waiting
ambulances.
As each fortunate Tommy was car
ried out the more unfortunate ones, who
were to be left behind at the base hos
pita1, bravely wished him Good
luck, mate, give my regards to Tra-
falgar Square. Be careful and don't
lost your watch in Pettiooat Jane.
Give 'er my love-"
AS I was carried through the door
the cold air sent a shiver through me.
and my wounds began to pain. The
effect of the chloroform was wearing
off. Outside it was dark and con-
fusion seemed to reign supreme.
Lanterns were flashing to and fro and
long lines of stretchers could be seen
moving toward the ambulances.
l was placed in an ambulance with
three others. A rasping noise as the
gears We're shifted, and with a jerk the
ambulnace started. That jerk make me
grind my teeth.
But 1 was happy in the thought that
at last l was on my way to that
longed-for heaven, Blighty.
Copyright. 1918, by the Mcclure Newspspss
Syndcate.B
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year. We have $4,000 fishermen farther
south in the Pacific ocean and about
10000 in the great lakes and the Mis-
sissippi river. We have $4,000 fisher
men in New England. $4,000 along the
Gulf of Mexico and more than 10000
working along the Atlantic coast from
New England to Florida. Altogether
there is an army of 10000 engaged In
fishing as a business and the capital
invested is nearly SS0,0O0,o00. The
number of vessels employed is more
than 1000 and the total catch runs
high into the hundreds of millions OF
pounds.
Our most important fisheries just
now are those of Alaska. Puget sound
and the Columbia river. This is on ac-
count of the salmon, which is put UP i'll
cans SO that it easily be shipped
to the soldiers. Salmon has become a
popular sea food all over the world. 1t
is known to every nation and eaten in
every country. Last year We took out
of the Pacfic ocean enough salmon to
fill 100000 cases, each holding forty
eight one-pound cans. In round NUM-
bers the amount was 900. 100000 pounds,
or more than the weight of the first
100000 men we shall send to the war
The whole catch was almost enough to
give a can to every man. woman and
child in Europe or three cans to every
citizen of the United States. 1t was worth
more than S7o,000,000. In addition to
this an enormous amount of salmon has
been Salted smoked. This also can
be shipped abroad for the use of our
allies. The same is true of halibut, her
ring and cod.
Nearly every part of the Alaskan
waters swarms with fish, and there are
certain banks beds of the ocean
which are paved with halibut and cod.
We used to get most of our halibut
from the Atlantic. and it has been one
of the chief sea foods of the eastern
part of our country ever since Capt.
John Smith wrote of it in his history Of
Virginia.
Now four-f1fths of our halibut comes
from the Pacific ocean and the bulk Of
It from the waters of Alaska. The
fish are caught with hooks and put
upon ice as soon as they come out of
the water They are shipped over the
United States by fast trains of cold
storage cars. Some of the halibut is
salted and put up in hogsneads for
shipment abroad. The Germans have
been laying in a stock of such fish for
their army. and 1 doubt not we could
use some in the same way for our SOL
diers. The Germans imported the fish
in hogsheads of $50 pounds each, at
cost OF 500 per hogshead.
saw them curing ha1ibut this way
at Prince Rupert. in Canada. The aver
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fPhotos in Planogravure Section. this issue.)
a RMY and Navy officers proverbial-
IN ly are chubby" Their interests
g q are peculiar, removed from those
of business and professional men. so
that an officers club where they may
eet together, discuss military topics
and meet their own kind is an inevita-
BILE part of the military establishment
of every nation.
Washington has a historic Army and
Navy Club. Like everything else con-
nected with the War or Navy depart
ments, the sudden expansion of the ma
tion's fighting forces overtaNed this
club. Officers swarmed to Washington
too fast to be absorbed by the existing
club.
Hence the United States Club or
America had it's inception. But the
Washington problem is not the only
one the new club hopes to meet. Hence
forth officers will gather in many cities,
near the great camps and environments
in this country, and later behind the
fighting lines abroad. Even greater
will be the need in these places for
some common meeting ground for men
who wear shoulder straps.
Last November three young officers
put their heads together to find way
to meet this need. They were Capt.
l.. H Ellison. engineers. U. S. R.; Capt:
r. H. MesseT. engineers, U. S. h. ana
Lieut.. L. C. Irion. infantry. n. A. Sec
retary of War Baker gave them his
hearty Endorsement of a project they
worked out for a service club. to be
launched in Washington, with auxil-
iaries wherever officers of the Army
and Navy are gathered. Maj. Gen. Will
liam Crozier, Larz Anderson. Miss Ma
bel Boardman, Mrs. Frederick L. Keep,
Mrs. Newton D. Baker and other
friends of the men in their country's
service aided the project and provided
financial backing.
Early this month historic Washing
ton home was leased and opened as the
headquarters of the parent club. This
home is the so-called Westinghouse
mansion. 1900 goth street. facing 1)u-
pont Circle 1t was built by janis G.
Blaine. later belonged to his son. was
occupied for a brief time by Joseph
Letter. and passed into the hands of
the Westinghouse family, and now is
the property of. George Westinghouse,
jr.. from whom it was leased.
Not only are the clubs quarters his
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Then a Tommy on my left answered
this outburst with:
Bloody nerve, l call it. Ere e is
a covered with blankets and growlin
about d little drawft. and not many
hours back e was lyin' in bloomin
shell ole. with the wind a-blowin' the
whiskers off i'm, and e a-prayin' for
stretcner bearers. I'll wager a quid e
belongs to the Royal Irish Rifles"
The man on my right retorted:
Nav, I'm not in the Royal Irish
Rifles, but / belong to a good outfit
the Royal Dublin Fusilliers. and ! can
lick the man that says they amt
Just then, from the corner of the
bearer:
ZONES, get the NJ. o. (medical officer).
Evening star., 1918-01-13
BY Arthur GUY EMpEY.

E1HE battle of the somme was still
raging l had been hit by three
rife bullets, one through the
81 left cheek, the two others
through the left shoulder. while en-
gagged in a trench raid for prisoners
and was on my journey to Blighty.
remember being carried down a
flight of steps and placed on white
table in brightly lighted room, doc
tor and sergeant bending over me-a
delicious drink of ale, then the whis-
pered word "chloroform something
like a gas helmet being placed over my
nose and mouth-a couple of long. in
drawn, gasping breaths. rumbling in my
ears; then the skyline of New York sud-
denly appeared. This was quickly follow
ed by the statue of liberty shaking hands
with the Singer building: a rushing.
Kissing sound in my ears, like escaping
steam, and then-blackness.
1 opened my eyes. l was lying on a
stretcher. covered with blankets. in a
low-roofed, wooden building Across
the way from me was a long row of
StretcherS, each StTetcher hoidlng d
wounded Tommy, some lying fiat. 9th
ers propped up by folded blankets. 9th
ers were sitting on their stretchers ten
derly caressing an arm bound up with
white bandageS.
Occasionally a stretcher, reclining on
which was a muddy and bloody soldier,
would be carried down the aisle by two
stretcher bearers. This stretcher would
be placed in an open space in the row
opposite.
1 could hear a hum of conversation all
about me, and as my brain cleared
snatches of it became intelligible.
My right hand seemed to be in a wise.
/ could not release it. Squirming in
bed. which sent sharp. shooting pains
through my left shoulder. 1 tried with
my unbandaged eye TO see what was
holding my wrist.
A Royal Army Medical Corps man was
sitting on the floor at the head of my
stretcher, and had my wrist in his
grasp He was about twenty years old,
and looked dog-tired: his chin would
gradually sink to his chest, as if he
were falling asleep; then he would sud-
denly start, lift up his head with
jerk and stare around the room. Pret-
ty soon his eyelids would slowly close.
/ gave my arm tug and he quickly
opened his eyes: then across his face
flashed a smile. To me it appeared like
the sun rising from behind hill al
daybreak. That smile sent warm glow
through me. l believe that right then
I was in love with his boyish face. Then
he opened his mouth and. as is usual in
such cases, spoiled it all
''Strafe me pink. but you do tyke your
own bloomin' time to come out O chic
roform. I've been bloody we'll balmy,
'oldin' your bloomin' pulse
Out of the corner of my mouth I
asked him:
Where am I?''
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Jones came back I looked up at him
and he solemnly nodded.
One more son of Britain had paid
the toll of war.
My unbandaged eye suddenly be-
came cloudy and misty and hot tear
rolled down my cheek.
The door at the other end of the
ward opened and two stretcher bearers
entered, going in the direction of the
dead man. Pretty soon they left the
ward, carrying a stretcher Oh which
was still form covered with a bla nket.
The Irishman on my right was repeat
ing to himself:
Poor bloke, poor bloke: he sure done
his bit. and it won't be long before he'll
be pushin up the daisies somewhere in
France. And before this war is over