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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
sportsman.hip of Threader.

Strange as it may seem, the record
weakf1sh and the record striped bass of
the Cotton Thread Fishing Club were
taken within a few days of each other.
The wealxfish was caught in Fire Island
inlet, the striped bass in Jamaica Bay.
Russell A Bowen took the weakfish !;
"Si'' Rutland the striped bass. Both FISH
weighed identically s pounds ~ ounces.
When Mr. Bowen was told of the re-
markable coincidence he remarked:
ISL most certainly wins ALL the
brown derbies in derbydom. An uncom-
monty fine performance. My hat is off
to him and all the thanks and every
thing else I can conjure to mind are
his. But don't let any one say It's easy
TO land a weak of this size on "a thread.
It's not. Never was. and never will be.
rutland has 1t all over me from his
end Of it. l was weakfshing. He was
striped bass fishing. He trolled. l still
fished. Does this lessen the performance
Of either? Now I'm sorry l did not go
bass fishing and do some trolling. Per-
haps, then, some one would have had 1t
on me still fishing"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
The "Unwelcome Pickerel."

why all the TODD about the choice
of methods and tackle used in the taxi
Ing of the miserable pickerelr' writes
Silent Sam Robert Page Sncoln,"
silent Sam" continues, suffering from
one of his periodic attacks of scribbler's
itch, began to scratch, and the contaglon
spread to Plug Ugly and Snap On
Now I've got II. But I won't let 1t
bother me, for in about an hour, when
the sun begins to dip behind the west
ern hills, I'm going out to chuck a plug
at real game fish. And thank God
the pickerel is too much OF a Sinking
coward to take a sporting chance with
a plug.
And while on this unwelcome subject
OF pickerel. note the Rod and Gun col
umn exploits the feat of Richard Burton
of Highland. n. Y, who took one meas
uring twenty inches from the Ashokan
reservoir. Why. bless my soul in the
st. Lawrence River, where I first learned
to desplse these 'slinkies,' the minimum
length required by law is twenty inches
If one wants to keep them at all. The
pickerel is not a game fish, a fact rec
ognized by the Conservation Commission
Of the State OF New York. which dis
eliminating body refuses to breed and
distribute pickerel."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
FRIENDS OF FISHES TO
MEET IN LOUISVILLE
Ichthyologists and Other
"ists" to Be Present.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct 4.-The Amer
lean Fisheries Society will hold their an
nual convention in this city on October s,
9 and 10, and those who are coming to
attend, in the language of Mark L. Alex
ander. president, will comprise admin
istrators, anatomists, aquaculturists,
authors, psychologists, chemists. conch-
ologists, commercialists, conservators.
cuisines. cytologists. economists. embry-
ologists, entomologists. ichthyologists,
Psychologists, laymen, llmnologists, mann
malosists, metabologists, naturalists,
ornithologists. practicalizers, sportsmen.
students and indiscriminate friends.
otherwise. of fishes. the modest incom-
plete mention of which should create a
cheerful prospectus of the convention
programme"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Trout I'm High Temperatures.

G. c. Embody, professor OF agr!cul-
ture OF Cornell University. has found
trout thriving in temperatures between
75 and 81 degrees. Prof, Embody says
zone of the most common mistakes
made by fish culturiSts Is the assertion
that our Eastern brook trout will not
thrive In the brook waters whose highest
summer temperatures exceed 65 or 6s
degrees Fahrenheit. For many years I
have been taking stream temperatures
with a standardized thermometer and
have found great many streams where
native trout are thriving in water tenn
peratures as high as rs degrees Fahren-
heit; a few In II degrees and in one
case, 81 degrees"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
A Maine Tribute.

~
Quaint OK Bowl Loveliest village. midst
Where farms and forests border streams
ana rilis:
Where age. unknown. gives place to bouAs-
Where Natures God unfolds his chang.
less truth
We Hail Theel
Tho many miles we sundered be-
from busy marts, worlds industry.
from wars alarms and lannon's roar,
True Liberty Is here in great store
We Hail Theei
4 little town, midst forests tall.
"A town which Is no town at all"
tfut only Just a Maine plantation,
IN Que best state in all the nation
We Hall Thee!
Potatoes king, OF Inca birth,
Held in the womb OF Mother Earth
illl voyagers brought It to our shoreA
ana hIled our pockets and our stores
We Hall Theel
Vast herds OF fishes. birds and game
FIND here their solitary hamo
me Inc woods resound with whIstllng deer,
Inc partridge. trout and duck are hero
we Hail Theel
The lordly moose goes snortIng round
secure he stands on solid ground
~ Laws defence. The sneaking hear
1oes proving forth from out his lair
(and steels a sheep)
We Hail Theei
Our sunset skies, and DAYS Of reg,
Make lite.s worst ills a thing OF lest:
We bury burdens under ground;
mere health and strength and life are
found
We Hall TheeI
Ihen drop your toll my wesried friend
TuSe DOCKS and bills; alas, no end;
take rod and gun and northward trend.
Anu mere glorious outing spend''-
We Hail Thee!
j. @ HApTSuppNR
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Drinlxer have or
namented their summer home at Beach
Haven with the skulls of sharks that
have killed. During the summer Just
ended they caught thirteen.
The thirteenth shark nearly jerked
the rod from Mr.. Drinkers hands Mrs.
Drinker sprang to the wheel and turned
the boat slantwise with the shore, in this
way helping TO drag the shark into shall
low water, Mr.. Drinker meanwhile play
ing the fish
As soon as Mrs. Drinker got the boat
close TO shore and threw an anchor in
the sand to hold the vessel secure, she
seized n harpoon and rushing into the
water until she was waist deep, drove
n harpoon into its body and added an
other skull to the collection.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Surf Fishing in October.

Howard Kain, who has fished from
Ocean City to Long Branch this season.
says that II Is hardly worth while to
fish the beach In the day time: the best
time being Is from shutdown until IL
O'Clock. or early morning.
Later, in October" he writes when
there is a cloudy day they may be taken
in the surf. Night fishing, however. has
proved to be the best. The fish will not
come over the bar until nightfall, and
the best proof is this. A small boat
goes out almost every day from the
pier at Asbury Park and fishes Just
outside the bar and the fisherman al
ways brings in a nice mess of weakfish
and croakers. while those who fish from
the pier get nothing but the fioaters until
nightfall. when the fish come in on the
beach to feed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
NEED OF NATIONAL
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
Department Of Physical Edu.
cation in Cabinet Essential,
Says Sportsman.
IDEA OF J. e. SULLIVAN
War Demonstrated America
Lacking; Favored by Physi.
cal Research Society.
IDEA OF J. e. SULLIVAN
BY PETER r. CARNEY.

We may be Just a wee BIT ahead o.
the times when we shout from houe.
tops that in the course of few NOR.
years there will be director Of physical
education in the Cabinet Of the Pce,l.
dent of the United States
There has been need for such a Cabi.
net officer for years. The late unpleas.
antries with the Huns showed Wherein
this country was lacking.
This idea of n national department OF
physical education is not new one. W.
heard James E. Sullivan talk about n
ten years ago. 1t was one of the things
that Sullivan hoped to put overland II
he had lived you could have wagered
your last cent that there would be such
department on the United States pay.
oils to-day.
A department of physical training IA
Just as necessary as a Department OF
Agriculture, Labor, Mines, &c. Red
blooded boy and girls cannot be deyel-
veloped in the open. The body must
be developed at the same time as the
brain.
All children should receive the proper
physical education to fit them for the
work that is in front of them, and this
physical education should be national,
hence a national department.
The work of the national department
of physical work would in a great meas
ure be for the schools and colleges but
there is no reason whatsoever that II
shouldn't-and would be-followed by
clubs and individuals. The national d.
rector should be responsible for the build
Ing up OF our citizenry-for the better
we are equipped to fight our way through
life the happier will be our homes and
families.
Outdoor sports will take care Of them
| selves in the long run because more peo-
pie are taking to them all the time
With a national department to direct the
work II would be much easier and bet
| ter 1t is the sport-like trapshootlng
and golf-that has no bleacher that Is
gaining so much these days.
At a recent meeting OF the Physical
Research Society DIR. T. A. Storey Of
the College of the City of New York and
State Inspector of Physical Training had
that body go on record kas approving a
national department OF physical educa.
ton, and word was sent to Congress and
the President of the action OF the body.
1t would be well for all organizations
interested in the development Of the
United States to take the same action as
did the Physical Research Society and
keep the matter before Congress.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
BIRDS OF PREY
SEEK ALBINO TROUT
Reason Why Fish in Wild
State Is Seldom Found.

In the experience OF the New York
State fish hatcheries. one brook trout in
about every $4,000 Matched is an albino
II these albinos are picked out of the
school and carefully reared they will
breed true.
At the Caledonia hatchery there are a
number Of large albino lake trout, which
are so old that they are now blind.
Adult albino trout in wild state are
seldom, II ever, encountered, one reason
being that on account of their conspicu-
BUSINESS they are the first to be destroyed
by kingfishers and other birds OF prey.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Threaders seek Records.

Nine members OF the Cotton Thread
Fishing Club of America go to Bay
Shore, L. l., to-day in the hope of equal
ing IL not SURPRISING the pound IA
ounce weakfish and striped bass, the
record fish OF the club taken on "a
cotton thread by Russell A. Bowen and
Isl" Rutland.
Those in the party include Lloyd
Marshall, Thomas Cleary, f. Reynolds,
II. Christian, ]. McCullom, Alexander
Spear, who has been catching on the
standard line of the club small mouth
black bass in the Muskegon River,
Michigan; William Uren. DIR. Henry
Babe and J. L. Jordan.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
spani.h-Ameriean nird Treaties.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 4.-Prog-
ress is being made on the attempt to
negotiate treaties with the Spanish
American republics for the protection of
migratory birds. The matter has been
referred to the Department of Agricul-
ture that appropriate conventions may
be drafted. The State Department has
promised to act as soon as these drafts
are received.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Fish sound. for balloons.

WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-The Bureau
of Fisheries is assisting the balloon and
airship division of the army in its search
for a suitable gas tight covering for
balloons and dirigibies. and has fur
nished this division with fish sounds OF
several species. including cod and hake,
and with whale intestine. The fitness
OF these products for this purpose has
not yet been determined
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Weak Hooked in Mouth md hack

The largest weakhsh taken from the
Ocean City Club pier at Ocean City.
N. j., was caught by ]. B. Gold and
weighed eight pounds. Mr.. Gold was
angling with two hooks at the time.
One OF the hooks was set in the mouth
OF the FISH, the other became imbedded
in its back as the fish struggled for
liberty.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
PickereI Bites with Hook in Jaw.

CHAuwoNT, N. Y, Oct. 4.-Hen-
drick Gould and DR.. G. s. Farmer, fish
ing recently. had an unusual experience
fishing for pickerel, Mr. Gould hooked
a pickerel and lost the fish, the smell
breaking A few minutes later DR..
Farmer landed Mr.. Gould's pickerel with
the hook imbedded in its Jaws
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Barn. gnt Wreck Lures PorEie..

Sixteen miles off Barnegat. N. J., is a
wreck known to the Barnegat fishermen
This old wreck is n gathering place for
schools Of porgles, and during the past
week fish weighing 8 and pounds each
have been taken.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

According to Frank H. Stewart of the
Ocean City Fishing Club, who has made
study OF the Colonial history of New
Jersey, old man Peck owned the entire
beach known as Ocean City. The place
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Roosevelt Experiment Station,

me establishment at Syracuse Uni.
versity OF the Roosevelt wild Life Forest
experiment Station marks the first ac.
1--WE step in movement much talked
ABOUT recently and likely to go far IN
the United States.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

On board the Bijou Mt the Lightship
last Sunday, ling and whiting were
taken, the latter fish being hauled
aboard sometimes two and three at
clip.
Charles Wilder OF 1913 wyckofr ave-
nue.. Brooklyn, says that on the way
to the grounds. Capt Bryan saw
punches of bananas drifting and two
clusters were hauled aboard and dis
tributed.
At the Lightship on Tuesday, ang-
lers in the Linta caught hake, whiting,
ling and cunners.
Tomcods are biting we'll in the Hud-
son at Riverdale, according TO Fred AL
hers of Hoboken. On Sunday last, tom
Gods. lafayettes and several striped bass
we're taken.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Largest Private Game Preserve.

Robert J. Caldwell OF New York is
about to establish near Saranac Lake
In the Adirondacks the greatest private
game preserve in the world Several
thousand acres of cutover forest land Ia
being fenced, in which will be established
great herds OF elk and deer.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Take. 10 Mu.Iie. in One wee,l.

MILWAUKEE,. Wis. Oct. John G.
Reuterman of this city in six days fish,
ing In Pelican Lake. Oneida county,
landed IS muscalonge weighing from IL
to 80 pounds each. Mr.. Reuterman
holds the record biggest muskie OF this
lake. 80 pounds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Connecticut Opening October 8.

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 4.-The sea-
Eon for hare, rabbit. gray squirrel,
quail, cock pheasant Qntroduced), Hun
garian partridge and woodcock opens In
Connecticut on October =
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
ConservationIsts to Meet.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Oct. THE Inter
national Association Of Game, Fish and
Conservation Commissioners will meet
in this city on October ana 7.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Old New Yorker Write. of Bass.

"Pop" writes that he recalls the time
when as a youngster he used to dig
sandworms along the New York Cen
trails tracks near McComb's Dam
Fridge and at old Capt. Hunts pier at
155th street. Hudson river, caught
striped bass. THE crack bass fisher
men OF Washington Heights" says
Pop" used bloodworms but often
times with my sandworms could take
more bass than they could. That was
thirty-five years ago."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Ontario Yields IL Lib. Pike.

CHAUMoNT, N. Y. Oct 4.-Joseph
Harp, angling in Lake Ontario, caught
a pike SO inches long and Weighing IA
pounds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Chill S and Rock Bass Fight Hard onFl
Doings of Local Anglers
With Rod, Reel and Line

THE SUN will be glad to receive from
anglers photographs Of their catch for
reproduction on the Sunday Rod and Gun
page.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
woodcoek Opening in New Jer.y,

TRENTON, N. j.. Oct. 4.-The wood
cock season opens in New Jersey on
October 10.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Lafayettes in Jamaica Bay.

Joseph Rindskopf of 9S4 Tiffany
street, The Bronx, writing of day on
the Carrie from Canarsie. says that the
eight anglers on board took big lafay-
cites, some weighing a pound each. in
addition to porgies.
Angling for lafayettes," Mr.. Kinds
kopf writes. with steel rod Weighing
four ounces Is sport. At times l had to
stop Keeling in order to save my tackle.
In fact one of the men broke his rod
while trying to bring in n porgie. La
fayettes make a fine pan fish and sixty
two were eagerly taken by my neigh
bors"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
New Title for Federal Inspector.

Federal inspectors are now United
States game wardens.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
The Return to sheepshead hay.

A. ]. Mountrey of 1895 Prospect place,
Brooklyn, checked Off the catch of ang-
lers at Sheepshead Bay last Sunday.
THE Elmar, Velocity, NJ. J. r. III.
Lundy and the Giralda." he writes,
'wero loaded with fish, ling being car
ried off by everybody. The Josephine
ad blackfich. The Evelyn brought in
the first cod of the season. some sea
bass and porgies"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

John Brown Of 302 West Forty-sec-
ond street, who has been trying for
weakfish in Freeport waters during the
summer and failed to take any. says
that the netter in one day made a haul
of 1000 pounds of weakfish. To the
hauling of nets in Freeport waters he
ascribes the poor fishing of anglers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Wade Cautiously, Cast Up.

Wade easily, cautiously. up the water
along the lake shore and cast up. Let
the flies sink some six inches and then
play them along with slight witches OF
the wrist, to give them animation. You
will not fail 10 catch their attention IL
you play the flies with a zlg-zag motion
In the water. which, strangely. proves
very lifellke.
Where the perch are found in the
streams they generally are large and
active. On the brink OF autumn they Z re
again active and along the little bars.
In swlrl-poo!s, beside rocks, &C. they
Will be glad to try your artificial pro.
ducton.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

Miss Ada Cooper's homestead at De
Bruce. N. Y, conducted for many years
as hotel for fishermen and known to
all trout anglers of New York, has
passed into the hands of Lewis Par
sons, and arrangements have been made
to improve the homestead, which will be
known as De Bruce Inn. For the trout
season OF 1920 twenty new baths will
be installed.
Charles e. Beatty writes that many
good catches of trout were taken out
Of the Willowwemoc during August"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
and Lafayettes in Jamaica.

Jamaica Bay. says Capt. Julius Tallo-
WITT, is alive with large lafayettes,
crabs, small sea bass and founders
Weakf1sh are biting also.
Recently Charles Bunta in the Betty
Il. from Kline's, Bergen Beach, caught
% weakfsh, fluke and 81 lafayettes.
The high hooks included George Alters,
William Brent. Larry Prean and c. Ash.
The Whileaway. Capt. John Ebel, re-
turned with 10 weakfish and 20 lafay-
cites. The topnotchers consisted of
Ralph Rosewood, G. Meyer and Albert
Alderman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

DR.. ]. lsaacs, fishing with the Oppy
Fishing Club at the oil wreck off Rock
away Inlet, brought up three blackfish
at clip, the catch weighing about five
ponds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
BRINK OF AUTUMN
MAKES PERCH GAMEY
Common Fishes That Take the
Fly Create New and Pro-
found Friendships.
ANGLERS SHOWER PRAISE
Sunfish, Graphic and Rock
Bass Not Merely PIaythings
of Boys Linen Line.
By ROBERT PAGE LINCOLN.

When the list of fly fishing deals
are catalogued and put away for refer
ence it may and 1t may not be that
the common fish which take the fly
(sometimes more readily than the trout)
will be the last on the list.
Some will not put them on the fly
taking list at all, content with number
ing only the various trouts and CHAIRS
as the high members and quite apart
from the rest OF the finny brood as
regards particular gaminess.
The fact remains, however, the COM
mon fish take the artificial fly and
generally put UP just as good a fight
as the average trout or CHAIR. The
aveage trout and CHAIR may be loggy
especially II taken from dead water.
The average sunfish and perch fight
with might and main at the end of the
leader and provide days of fishing, often
hard to equal. 1t is entirely in the
viewpoint. AS long as trout obtain men
exhaust themselves in telling of trout
fishing. But when trout fishing grows
duh then is the time the common fishes
of our lakes and waters become more
important.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05

John Seger OF Asbury Park reports
that blueflsh are in schools at the north
point of Barnegat.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-16

How could any ordinary man in every
day life be expected to walk into the audi
tors department and be able to say there
was nothing wrong? He might even find
n mistake or evidence of one crime but
could not say readily there were not
others. We defy any man to take any
of our financial statements and say in an
hour how much the State owes, how much
money H. has on hand, or how any single
department actually stands. The same
thing is true Of most municipal fnan-
cial reports.
All of us humans are liable to gain the
impression or unconsciously take the posi-
ton that we own any office we happen to
fill temporarily, especially If we stay in
pie have no right to satisfy their curios-
ity about what are really their own af-
fairs.
1t has been said over and over again and
we'll said, that the first remedy for ills
of the body polite is publicity; that the
second remedy is publicity. and that the
third remedy is again publicity. In other
words If the people insist upon knowing
what Is going on, wrong-doing is not
likely to occur or az the very least not
long to contiouc.
AS our present lawmakers search for
solution of the problem how to prevent q
recurrence of the present Vermont scan
dial. they can not afford to lose sight
for a moment OF one supreme considera-
fairs should always be as an open book
so that he who runs may read, to the enc
that he who reads shall not want to run.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-01-16
LOU FOSTER FREE

Lou A. Foster of Halifax. sentenced
November IA, 1913, to serve not less than
13 months nor more than 10 years at haro
labor in the State prison at Windsor on
conviction of manslaughter, has been
%pardoned and is now in Iowa. He was
released November q, but no announce
ment of the fact was made. A rumor
that Foster was out was verified on
inquiry at the warden's office at the
State prison. Foster and Ossie Prouty
occupied adjoining farms in Halifax ana
bad blood existed between them. On the
evening of October 16, 1913, as Prouty was
passing Fosters home, the two men got
into a quarrel and Foster drew a re-
volver. which he claimed was in self
defense, and shot Prouty with fatal re-
suits. Foster in particular came of an
excellent family and the case attracted
wide interest. 1t was stated at the office
Of the Governors secretary in Montpelier
that there had been more petitions and
correspondence in the Foster case in the
last two years than all the other similar
cases combined during that period.
Judge Frank Worden of West Halifax,
formerly for many years an assistant
judge of the county court, ex-Lieut. Gov.
Frank Z. Howe of Bennington and Sena-
tor c. II. Dunton of Poultney were
among those who were especially inter-
ested in Fosters behalf.