The sun., 1919-07-01
The Parting Toast.

The Parting Toast.
FIJI them Up. lads. againi for e'er July the
TO aridlty's desert condemns us to thirst,
Let us drink. one and all. our last parting
To the prince Of all mixers-the bartender
host!
He has stood in the past for us all at our
For our troublesome CAB when In liquor
Immersed;
We consede-do We notT--that his friend
He was good many times for a drink and
touch!
In the mad nights of folly false friendship
abounds
For the guy with the wad who is going
the rounds:
But on morns Of awakening, who welcomes
the bloke
With thu the thirst Ike a sponge but nnan-
Do the friends7 They do not! They but
vanish away
Like the frost of the dawn meath the
flame Of the day.
rhere Is one, only one. with a smile for
drink.
Does ne speak. as he might. of the eve
swinging door
fears
That we wound up the night with
session of tears7
Does he ask with a sheer what we want.
or Just why
We had blned defenceless old gent In the
Or inquire Pho does not!-he slips us a
And wins us for life by forgetting 1t ALL
Drink browns with false solace d.spairs
poignant ember;
VINO drinks TO forget wakes with more to
may attend
When despondency's depth yields. the
hand OF friend!
Here's to you. bartender! Though parting
We hope for reunion in some bright to-
When wen ,drlnk---lf in iuck!-with our
sins all forgiven.
Ana yo o9 h.s serve us again with the nectar
VI heaven! SKIP.
Land Nine weakhsh.
Weakhshing Sunday from slagen and
IN Per Ganarsiet George steng and son
weaknsh. one of them ~ FOUNDER. Al
Phiilips, one OF the guides with Mr.. Nichols
weaknsh.
Sea Bass on tho Jersey Coast.
The Evelyn ran into the sea bass yester-
Gay on the Jersey coast and no less than
AZ were 6oated by the anglers aboard.
Two men, H. Borman and r. Russo, had II
sea bass each. These were the big catches
from the point OF numbers. The prize fish
Emil Kleisch. Kieisch also had seven sea
pass. Other catches were: w. Mitchell.
r r.; charles Heiiman -; r. stohler, II;
run OF bass with few humpbacks amongst
them.
Sea Bass Arc Biting Again.
Archie Buckner teiephoned The Sun yes
terday that passengers on the Captain Joe
II: had caught fine messes OF sea bass
with catches running up to rs. J. Burch-
ard was the lucky man who gathered in
bass and a six pound nuke and Incidentally
the nuke took the pool for the heaviest
81, J. Maloney and C. Murphy had 81
between them. The catches averaged is
to a man said Capt; Buckner and the nsh
ran from half to three pounds in weight,
with some humpbacks amongst them.
Pennsylvania Opening Day for Fish.
To-day is the opening gay In PennsyI-
vania for the following nah; Lake trout or
salmon trout. black bass Uarge or small
mouth. rock bass, white bass crapple.
straw berry or calico bass, grass bass. pike
perch otherwise called wall eyed pike or
perch and muscalnnge or Western pike.
GroundswelI Affects Fishing.
A heavy groundswell. which was the
the deep sea fishing boats last Sunday, also
affected angling. and catches OF bass
hlackhsh and fiuke were few and far be-
tween.
Sufficient for u Days Catch.
on the Giralda one day last week
caught at Sandy Hook Z fuke and 3 sea
bass, sufficient for a days catch. At Sea-
br gilt we caught few sea bass. but we
failed TO hook those persistent biters. the
bergs.ls. q. A. w.
New York. June 30.
striped Bass Bite at Highlands.
Have patience, then you'll get EN-" 30
said Bill Bruins and Frank Couch OF the
Oar He Club of Highland Beach. " j.,
both OF whom have been fishing the bridge
~ the Highlands for the last six weeks
In search OF striped bass.
Their patience was becoming exhausted
and they decided to put their entire fish,
ing outfits under the hammer. until last
Sunday evening Bruins picked up
weighing ten pounds and on Monday about