The sun., 1919-05-02
First Ling Taken Inshore.

First Ling Taken Inshore.
Captain Pollsk OF the Ida, from stables,
Canarsie. with eight anglers, ran into q
big school of ling at the Bell Buoy yes
terday and gathered In i2S OF them. The
ut a time. This Is the hrst report of .lins
| In shore.
Dupont Young Buy sclebIer Co.
The fishing tackle business carried on
at Ito Park Row by the Frank schebler
company has been purchased by tho pu-
p1nt, Young Cooperation, and moved to
The fishing tackle department is in
charge Of Ralph H. Owen; who was con-
Mr.. Owen are Theodore A. Melssner and
Frank Schneider, both well known In the
Frank schcbicr Opens Brooklyn Store.
Frank schebler has opened . retail
lyn., where he Will continue to make hand
made rods.
The Historru cod.
In my collection OF oddities and rarities
OF angling literature there Is e tall. thin
volume which at first / admitted only by
complaisance, bat for which have an ever
increasing respect. II Is "A History OF the
Emblem of the Goldfish in the Hall of the
House OF Representatives'-a Boston pub
ication. containing a report OF n committee
appointed to compile the history of Bos-
toms sacred cod. 1t begins as follows:
Poised high aloft In the old hall OF the
Massachusetts House of Representatives.
riding serenely the sound waves OF debate.
unperturbed by the ebb and flow OF enact
ment and repeal or the desultory storms
that vexed the neither depths of oratory.
there has hung through immemorial years
an ancient Goldfish, quantity wrought In
wood and painted to life.
Humble the subject and homely the
design: yet this painted image bears on
its tinny front a majesty greater than the
dignity that at can lend to craven gold or
chiselled marble.
THE sphere It nils Is vaster than that
through which Its prototype careered with
all the myriad tribes OF the great deep
The lessons that may be learned of 1t are
nobler than any to be drawn from what
Is only beautiful; for this sedate and soli-
tary Ash is Instinct with memories and
prophecy. like an oracle. II swims sym
the limits set to the activities OF human
thought. 1t typihas to the citizens of the
Commonwealth and OF the world the found
Ing OF State. 1t commentaries de-
mocracy. 1t celebrates the rise of free In
situations. II emphasizes progress. It epit-
omizes Massachusetts"
for the sacred cod! Surely, II Talleyrand
could have lived long enough he never
would have said. Excepting the whalers
fishing is idle employment. requiring neither
courage nor skill the fishermen do not
venture more than two leagues from the
coast. the fisheries do not furnish a nur-
sery for seamen. they have no attach
ment to their homes, they are cosmopolites
and few Goldfish. more or less. determine
their country"
Little did Talleyrand dream that cod
fishing would become a sport and that
those who pursue the cod would be d.
vided into two classes-hshermen and
anglers. The former being rlen who FISH
to live and the latter those who simply
live to fish
There is so much that is good and quota
BILE in the report Of the committee that
IL IL hard TO leave ON but I shall continue
long enough TO give an idea Of what cod
Ash aristocracy" should mean. This Is the
true Bostonian conception: TO the historic
II seems quite natural that the goldfish. an
article OF pure. plain, natural food. should
be the emblem OF the practical, frugal
spirit which laid the foundation OF Massa-
chusetts. And, while the term Goldfish
aristocracy" is sometimes used as one OF
reproach. the reproach lies in the depar-
ture by their descendants from the simple
ways OF the early fishermen; and II by
Goldfish aristocracy" we sould be under
Ann and Cape Cod. then we haze excellent
reason for aiming TO preserve such an avis
tocracy in honor"
not be without a reference TO the fact that
history has Il that George Washington
angled for cod. But, Notwithstanding my
reverence for the Father OF His Country.
he shall always appear to me az a rather
sad figure as an angler when / think OF the
limitations under which he would have
labored had he been elected 20 an honorary
membership IN that organization whose
presiding genius has given 1t the motto:
"Exaggerate, eSaggerate. and some day II
will come true" CHIN HACkLE.
New York. May !.
Plugs and the Men Who Buy Them.
I note that e. r. Phillips says that FOR
any one man to suggest using three certain
suits is all poppycock" Two paragraphs
before he makes the above statement he