Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-07-15
TELLS OF FISHING
TRIP AT PANAMA
Major r. E. Turley, Jr., Whites
Interesting Letter of Fine
Sport In the Pacific

interesting letter about big fish
ing trip down in Panama to his
tather-in-law, ]. w. Elmore, at
Lancaster. The Record there got
1t and published it. What he saws
will be read with much interest
too, here at his old home bv his
many trends. 1t was as follows:
Mr.. J. w. Elmore,
Lancaster, Ky.
| Dear Sir
If you will get the old family
atlas down from the shelf, blow
the dust from its cover. and turn
to where Central America runs
into the southern continent, YOU
will find the Bay of Panama,
bounded on the north by the 18TH
mus of Panama, on the east by
the Columbian coast, extending
into the Pacific ocean on the south
and on the west by Punta Mala
Gas the Spanish explorers named
it i'll 1519D At longitude 78 west
and latitude north nearly nine is
most picturesque archipelago
containing the Pearl Islands, un-
| dlsputably the most famous fish
ing grounds in the world. also ia
nous for their pearl fishing beds.
There are hundreds of islands in
this group. ranging i'll size from
Il small but rugged rock to long
stretches covered by impenetra-
bic Jungles of tropical plants. The
first island reached from the Pa
Cihc entrance of the Panama Can
al is Pacheca about "a miles out
to sea. and the last i a lonesome
rock. Galcra. about 70 miles off .
the Coast of Panama.
1t SO happens that one Mr.. Rob
ertson, general manager of the
=. international Banking Corpora
ton. in Panama, has done MANY
favorS in business matters. such
as selling large stock of pearls
and Panaman bonds for firm Of
shippers and traders, Pipel Broth
ers III Panama City, and in order
to show Mr.. Robertson their ap-
probation they offered Mr.. Rob
ertson the use of one of their
ships, sea going schooner. for a
three DAYS cruise and fishing trip
around Pearl Islands. Mr.. Rob-
ertson called together Jolly
bunch OF fishermen, and on Friday
night. May 9th, 1921, we set sail
from Panama Harbor about s p.
m. The party consisted of MeSsrs.
Robertson; Martin. general man
ager Of the Panama Shipping
Agencies; Schaffer. general man
ager of American Foreign Bank
ing Corporation Morrell. auditor
for the Panama Canal: McGinnis.
owner of the Balboa Brewery;
Hammer. canal quartermaster;
Conner. chief of the Ancon hospit-
al: Lear. general foreman of the
Panama Railroad Company Capt.
Hunt. commanding officer of the
L. s. battleship. Tacoma and Col
Grain, Col. Brown. and myself of
the army. As DR.. Conner, a huge
Texan of some 24O pounds, climb
ed over the rail of the schooner
to come on board. his foothold
slipped and he fell with a splash
into the water and was rescued
with some difficulty, but his good
spirits were restored by some dry
clothes and sample of liquid re-
freshments from Mr.. MCGinnis'
brewery. We accused the Doctor
of knowing the contents of Nc
Ginnis' baggage and falling over
board on purpose i'll order to sam
pie it.
When the roll was called and
an even dozen answered to their
names, we searched about for a
suitable name for the crowd and
finally hit upon the name. Perlas
Double SeXtet, perlas being the
Spanish for pearl. AS we round
ed San Jose Rock with three mo-
tor boats in tow. the towlIne part
ed and the boats were adrIft.
Captain Hunt had brought two of
the motor boats from the Tacoma
and Mr.. Martin brought the third.
There were two sailors on each
of the navy boats, and two ne
groes on Martins boat. SO fear
ing that they would founder in
the rough sea, all hands set to
work to round up the drifting
boats by throwing them a line as
we circled around in the dark and
finally had them tied to the
schooner with a stronger -towline.
When we were under way again
some inquisitke member of the
party discovered that all of the
provisions had not been loaded on
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