Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-01
J. LOUIS TRoEMNER
On Goldfish

COVE ~.
VI '"' e"isi JOYS Ill oreeu'hS so'a-
hsh licS i'll the fact that you never
'I Nn"M just "hat you are going to get. The
s"iuhsn - highly hyDrldlEed product, and
t.s u.s.. prcea!ng Is continual battle to keep 1t
from reverting to Its earlier and more primi-
i've form. terhaps one in every hundred
turhs OUT 10 DC gooa fish. This Is the
sta.ement OF d. eouis Iroemner, fish fancicc
Vi tnlS CITY, winch IS the present center Of
soiunSh orecdlng tor the world.
1--WE have an unusual local condition hero
which places us at 4 great advantage in
breeding goldfish" he continued. The pc
culiar variety of food. which the young fish
require, the microscopic infusoria and the
daphne, is to be found in great abundance
in that section Of the city known as the
Neck, where the rott!ng of the refuse and
the material dumped there gives them an
There are four societies in this CITY de-
voted to tho breeding of fancy fish and .on,c
5000 O1O worth az fsh arn Sbinned IN other
cities eycry ypar. Evcn Argentinc sends
here for breeding fish,
800 for One Tiny Fish
"A,bou,b +ho nrics of n rood fob yb,cb
may run up 70 Sioo, or even more, sesihs
iii tbc "'-cmns,anccs arc considcrcJ Tho
care ,rhich mmst he taken I'm tho ,eloction
ana ,rnv,b nr ,bo 6sb anJ Tho d;ficuIfv l.,
nrodncInc ncrfect snccimcn mskc tbcm
mortb ali they cost
."Ths vc,enco of hraodinu goldfish had ;ts
origin about I5O0 ve,rs 400 In Korea Tho
Ib;nn.e ,nnl, - ,, onJ dsrolonod ths nr;mi-
tI~e corn a,ona certo;n biyhIv snecolizcd
lines nnre eoIdcn colnr was ottaineJ
conna-o tive,v lafe m. chinese tried "a
hrood into tio G.h oometbino ~ tbcir nun
erottc NV md thnv wcre the originators ~
10 hrin,m,o a." toIssnnn;c a,.e Y.bicS nmr hc9t
,,or,a.ia ,", -, hnro WV wa
~ ''N
mn tbo ,rt sn,,o 300 veors 400 n INV nor
t;nuinr o,tontion 70 ;bo sbaHn ~, thS hoI,
ond ~. 80 hiob hod hoon noo,onteJ hr 10
|m;,a"o ~ s"iortira hroaG;na thov nb bo,scJ
tho law c;Sor sLonad hod, ~ tho orIgipai
nu o,r 'VS hn ro,,n% torrn md ,hov oisn NO.
o"rp ,o.,S 10 ~" ~ Hn',,;,,a tou and 6ns IN tho
I.nou"T'u t"e .I 'is ;toS 49, thn ;t,iidtn,
"a"'' "a ~ S' T,'oaso ,'or,otios n,.or toJaH
t t!r, 1,a. ant ,"e o,,ai aros ''N''
"' .'<ne m,iI ' a. ,cors oro d,d tho ort
sontSnli ~ tbIS no,'%trr ria oMir
H"o, ,,'or. hrn,,aht bcro hy soi,nrs nv
l,s Sl,rr'ar'''s sao. ,hoso hoa ncror hncn INV
aa",esI w, W ;.ti ~ .".tn nf fsI froI tonnHH
Ss'ter"tHo" ' 80 ao'run vn oro ;ndn-
w "orIomt m't'" a. .ho'" coI,ntries ''N'
Pehdeh' oi '"oSe COUNTRIES
Or;.nt.I Snsci.s Innrovsd
.rr,. ,.IoI ,,,,,, So,,o,, .
iHed here twenty five years ago, crossed the
chinese ana the japanese ynr'esies ana sue
" m, a6 ,,J IL ,I..; 9 ~ .
or each' me eyes anu tne coa"rihg OF tne
<hihese "SH TcFT present "S we're Tue ms
ana Do"y OF nc SuPHNrHc'
lhc result OF thiS orceH'ns ana OF SUD
Srqueht rHprr!n.en,s 10 ~" Spe W''lS", we
now CONSIDER inc DrsI' ~ h"S IL proad !ail'
high d"rssl IN, varied r1or", IN when llit'e
OF the goIn remains HelrS'"pic Eyes ana
round HhoLt p",f NJ az "tneL y pes
OF courSc' pul lnl" ~ ne'u " W the I,sheSL'
HareiHl as we are IN srlrclihH our orecd'
ing hSh. thelr spawn Always Sn"WS an over
wheIming reVer"i9h 10 type. II we arc hoic
to secure one S""a ,Sn omI h ot t every HHhaFed;