Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1926, Page 81

Season of the Fisherman at Hand THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 20, 1926—PART 5. And Uncle Sam Is Doing His Part Recent Work of the Government’s Bureau of Fisheries Aids the Anglers of All Parts of the United States. DISTRIBUTION CAR OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHERIES. HIS {s the season of year that the angler pated, and last r far from the shores where ‘the m; ading in the will start nner de lzaac Waltc Accordin along o shal isherie ment and numbe! ry in the prese bass and othe most seclude and stream In the ¢ thing auton en know: e trails wo of binds th White o 1 his camy noth N 1 vering h of naturai ponds and ! ined & i m depleted ¢ o mi tains and offer no a + who has st entiul coun Yisheries stock o uch : or to cox e in ining to fi is therefo and bounds. Peoy toduy where former and because of and. it is neces: practicable e needs of the The local fi iatching trousgh ponds and cares the direction st Summer. the stock is d the organiz: au. half of the f planted in the stre club in question used to fill 4 that genes fes Commission first started 1 rection of the Secre “By this method for the bureau to Rervi son tween months that as the Bureau of sufficient pond area Il its output to ti Thus, if tr we plant them 1< oW hopes to have ndertook of the At the and I ations recetved f otherwis been planted directly ut fry are h months later, in September or early October, when they have grown to 23 in length, and just that ch better able to get along. days the majority of clubs interested in stocking their pr es want fingerling fish rather than the fry. The loss in rearin these fry in ponds is relatively sm and a game club that receives so )00 trout fry may raise an exce 9.000 of them to the fingerlin In this way the club in ques tion has available for distribution in fts own waters a much larger stock | than is possible in any other way “Our output of eggs, fry and fish exceeds 5.300,000,000 in the i vears, and this work is maintained in W sub fish cultural sta 1s scattered over the United States nd in Alaska Y KEREL is | deep has long antici- his dream is i as he w he haunts limpid m 1 screar s B roads 1 in t B au | stage. increase sponsible for on the trout e last of even t in mount our 70 m ti fish that o mystery of the Fitz Bur a is con- sidered the pri to G have erald erald, the fins and tails according | fisheries enzineer u of Fisheries. “Fish with which they they can come and g0 as An’ there you anythin e. ain't no different statement tell mack'rill, body can was | about was 2 > of a fishery v. Fi illustrates the present 1S to the migr.tory denizen of om a recent iss Jour his fishing (from a r rald, of hab. Davy { nal, and. according each | th s state ormation this elusive I : 1 ir s are now S B supervisi in charge of ndustries, on nets and als and an article has just the Fishing tie, in I ald recounts his board the Sunapee-“Net trip made this past ) tes t work by aren with hy by the the division board those us remote entirely il sei peared which M experiences s in ok trout that were He done on the bein L number countries, the addi 1 by sl ermen will litorial in life history tha is now kerel « I furn i " the me nents ol t hope swledg 1l benef cording same magazine of the mackerel f: v has always been one of nature’s bizgest myste ies. We have some 15 species in our own waters, and these ave what is known as ‘“pelagic,’ roaming the oceans in great schools and covering long distance in their yearly wander ings. “Little breed “There A govern; and tional ence. result 1 ! wilds or Secretary itive move bs of Bureau of the . as in or the| of the habits or whereabouts of th g periods 1l is known ng or even the ‘kerel durin total disappe waters the - from the steriously the 1 in trom cons he demand o1 want t 1y we suppli eatly to d says i ith and in the then Fall e, increased ! “All through the Winter months it T entirely unseen and \here the 5 | mackerel host congregates during the matter concerning been the most un- One of the most about the mackerel All s velop 1= season is a there has {limited speculation perplexing things is that the young are mever seen. |the specimens taken by fishermen are in a condition to spawn or not far from it. It seems then that the min- nows of the d aleof from the coast, schoolin me unknown depth or within some tropical current until maturity bids them seek the divided ngerl ecies wned by the v by tk wnse the abundance of mackerel varies enormously over a period of years, and this, of course, affects the commercial ' fishermen whose livell- hood depends on an accurate predic- tion of the quantity of fish to be caught the mext season, a long and laborious study of the mackerel habits must be undertaken through a number of years. The Burcau of Fisheries gsing live fish, which are then released, and or capture of these specimens will vstem was ) r the dl etary of Commer it is now supply in the Sy 1a have eams, reries has not in which to rear e fingerling st Saases s 4 the | afford a clue to the movements of the mackerel host along the shore. Other samples of fish are taken in order to mples of their scales, which, be examined under the microscope. what are called the “annual { rings” that tell the age of the fish in question, The California Fish and Game Com mission has had the tunas, a member of the mackerel clan, under closesob servation for some years past, under | the direction of Willlam F. Thompson, rector of the International Fisheries Commission at Seattle, Wash., as the tuna seems to have as equally myste. rious habits as its Atlantic ocean rela iz | show - THE scope of the activitles Fisheries Bureau is by onfihed of the tion to any o sectlon country. or to merely the preserva | of one variety by the exhibit at the nial at Philadelphia. The recreational features will include anglers’ supplies, of the United States the | largest manufacturer in the world, ac Sesquicenten- which 1s cording to a recent bulletin of the De. | | partment of Commerce elliptical pool, aquaria with specimens of live fish, and globes of pearl essence that will illustrate the basis of imitation pearls. The biological investigations of the eau will also have an exhibit of fish tagging, ovster farming, terrapin culture and other interesting activities of the Fisheries Bureau. In connection with planting” of the bureau, such items the following are of regular occur rence in various sections of the coun- try: “A large tank boat from the hatchery at Charlevoix docked at Me- nominee, Mich., last week, after plant- ing millions of trout and whitefish fry Jong the west shore of Green Bay.” The bureau is not through with the voung fish thus set out when the boat from the hatchery returns to its base, for a sharp lockout is maintained by Harry C. Cry | game warden and supervisor for Lake Lirie, who has many fascinating sto- ries to tell of the old-time fish patrol that warred with pirates. According to an account given in the June issue of the Fishing Gazette, the Oliver H. Perry, State hatchery tug, a man-o'war in those days, and carrled rifles and ammunition for the entire crew. The modern fisher- { man does not try to trim the fish laws quite as often as in the good old day according to Mr. Crossley. and, be. sides, the two new gasoline State boats make 18 miles an hour, as against the 15 or less of the average fisherman’s outtit | " Incidentally, if a suspected fisher- man gets away into the waters of an- other State, Ohio laws calmly wait for | his subsequent return. Mr. Crossley relates the incident of one Pennsyl | vania tug, the T. B. Walker, which | fished off Sandusky without a license, {and upon being arrested the owner | fought “the case in court. But the court decided in favor of the State, and the owner had to pay $1,000 fine, and this, plus the lawyer's fees and the court costs, took from the opera- tors not only the tug but he { tug, the Penn their catch. As the price of a fishing license would have been only $100 for the | Spring and Fali season, the moral is | obvious. The patrol makes several | trips around the lake each season, and, according to the supervisor, the effect is much the same as the pres- ence of motor police on road traffic, and persons usually think twice be: fore violating the law. el By CCORDING to one of the chiefs in the Foodstuffs Division of the De- partment of Commerce, three States In the Union maintain fish patrols of an the “spring the | no means | f fish, as will be shown | ey, Federal and State | their own, including Maryland and Virginia, and these armed State naval | forces protect the oyster beds from | illegal practices, such as poaching theft. In st there were many bitter bat recially off the Che peake shores and down on the Gulf of Mexico the breeding grounds | of the oyste > maintained. At the present time a great deal is { being said and written on the urgent | necessity of controlling the petroleum iymllulinn of our coastel and inland | waters, which for many ve af; | fected the output of the fisheries of ) the Nation | The Fede the pa al Government has finally | taken cognizance of the seriousness {of the situation and has called an in ternational conference of ons to nsider what steps shall be taken to | force the various oil companies to | ceae the pollution of our waters. At one time the Hudson River was noted for its annual:run of shad and | salmon, but this is no longer the case, and it is the same condition that has destroyed the salmon of the rivers of Connecticut and the inland fish of the rivers of Ohio, Arkansas and of Indecd, it is stated on reli hority that unless Immediate | steps are taken the former | production of the Great Lakes will be | seriously affected, as Lake Michigan is already in a dangerous stage of de. | pletion and will soou be as bare as the Hudson One the favorite the fishermen in the Journals, concerns the tivities of the 1lls, whose vora clous appetite great alarm | Along the Eastern Shore, for example, {it is suid that during the time of year that thousands of little crabs sit out |on the marsh grasses, for a breath of | fresh air millions of gulls swirl over- head in greedy wartare. The infer. ence being, of course, that the afore said gulls deserve stiff murder. However, the following month is sure to find another letter | from some warm friend of the gull | Who points out thut he is innocent. | Other salt water fishermen have great tales to tell of the capacity of codfish for lots of jack knives, marbles or beer bottles, One old timer in Portland, Me., sald that some of the hoys on the ship | New Dawn were cleaning their catch |and found a regulation size heer bot- |tle inside a cod. The latter seemed none the worse for his choice of edi- bles. Occasionally jewelry is dis covered in such fish Apparently fishing is of great bene. fit to the hardy sailors of the coast, |as the Gazette gives an count of a | veteran lobsterman who has lived for 50 vears on Teels Island, in the mouth ‘Of the St. George River, off the coast | of Maine, and has never had a doctor w day in his life. He Is still going strong, and hauls his lobster pots by | hand on the 28:ucre ‘siand whero his | father _and grandfatner lived before him, and has caught in one | many as 500 lobsters from his string |of 100 traps. He is now 88 years old |and says he hopes to fish until he is a hundred. It may well be that by the time Mr. Teel does reach the century mark the Bureau of Fisheries will have its fleet of air craft to patrol special waters requiring extra attention, as the Ca- | nadian government even now is using seaplanes for its fish patrol work in | British Columbia, and has two planes |located at Prince Rupert for such operations. France also has inaugu- rated this since last year, and in addition, an officer of the French scientific office reports on all observations thus made. Meantime a nswspaper account re- ports the departure of 2,000 of our inest top minnows that are riding in official state on the battleship Mo- reno for the Argentine, as tiny en- voys of good will from the United States, as they are sent at the request of the International Health Board, in an effort to stamp out malaria from he America of complaints of various fishing nefarious TAKING SHAD EGGS FROM A COMMERCIAL SEINE FOR GOVERNMENT HATCHERIES,IN CO-OPERATION WITH FISHERMEN AT BRYANS POINT. ! Ihave volunteered i auxiliaries have offered their services prolific | sentence for | aircraft inspection service | HE program given to the audi- ence in Grover's Theater on its opening is before me. You may read it. “‘Programme Grover's Thea- ter (Old National). Leonard Grover, Sole Lessee and Manager. Grand Opening Night -and Inaugural Per- formance. This evening, April 1862, The Serious Family, Farce, J. J. of the War Department. “As played by the brilliant comedy combination that has ever ap peared on the American Stage. Inaugu- | ral overture by the entire Marine Band -two_performers, who have generously offered thefr services for the new theater's initial pe Miss Lettie Parker, Miss ber, Mrs. J. Germon, Mis son, Mrs, Hand, Mrs. J Miss Brarnaire, Miss Williams and a large and beautiful corps de ballet their services for the occasion; also Messrs. J. Sevmore, J. M. Ward, William Baker, L. Martin, G. Hill, and & complete corps of ophia Julfa Edwards, the | id will, between nd balcony concerts. tar said of the enter- Grover opened the elegant and popular | | combination of artistic dramatique. | | Miss Hough did well. We need not | {allude to the genius of Mrs. Germon: Ther talent in ¢ parts is too well | I known to speak of here received | several encores. The night {was a grand succes | |~ Miss Hough, mentioned by The Star, {is not named on the cory of the old | {bill_before me, but 1 am sure this | sprightly-—even spritely—little dame capered that night. Perhaps you were |there. Lotty Hough was a toas There were gay c n Washington shelks of thelr day—though we called ‘em dandies and the old people called ‘em fops—who sent bouquets to Lotty Hough. I can see, in my mind’s eye, Horatio, one of thbse houquets now. It is o bunch of pink roses, bunched {as tight as the flowers can be pressed together. Above the top of the roses towe a calia iy Around flowers i« a white cardboard “holder’ edged h paper perforated re ble white lace You remember the bouquet, don't you Beg papdon, was not a “bookay but a “bokay Florists do not fix them that way now | They make the roses into a loose bun . with a lot of green--asparagus or fern—thrown in And t of them! Why h and independ enf man can buy flowers now with- out his wife finding it out A fe used to be able to zet a bokay at Nick Studer’s shop fit for an opera queen for 50 cents and now if vou buy less than $7 worth of flowers and t » the {girl to a dinner that ss than $8 and then spend an mobile ride around the Speed she’ll tell her friends next day you're a “cheap skate” and a sundae cowboy One of my The Marine Ba acts, perform The Evening tainment: “Mr. | house with an to costs $3 for “nut boy MARY ANDERSON. (Photo_by_Handy.) his week’s chivalry last night and the lady said to me this morning: showed him nine jewelry windows on street and I didn't get a bangle! I pointed to a dozen lovely wrist watches and all the dumb brute sald was, “They serve hot cakes at Childs".” That fellow mever breaks more than a dollar bill at a time and he carries the change in a purse. He takes his best girl to dinner at a cafeteria and buys balcony seats at the movie before 6 o'clock. He is a Thrift Cam- pagn!” pay on voun friends spent * x K X ERTRUDE, in the days I am thinking of. when a young fellow lifted his beaver with a flowing ge ture and showed his freshly ofled hair, shifted his gold-headed malacca walk- ing stick to the other hand, bowed as low as a courtier asking Queen Eliza- beth for a raise in pay, and then handed over one of those tight bokays done up in a paper collar, he was irresistible. No lady could turn him down or give him the air. Pleasp let me cut out that phrase, “Give him the air,” and make the sentence read, “No lady could say him nay.” 'Tis more courtly. I see some of those old beaux on I street now. And mot a woman turns to look at them! Pretty tough, this getting old? I know that Lotta Hough was in the opening show at Grover’s Theater, Tuesday evening, April 22, 1862, be- cause The Star aid she was going to be there and then said she was there. I rest my case on that. The old Star may not be scintillating at all times and may not print enough thrills to throw you into a fit, but we get the facts. In The Star's ad- vance notice Tuesday afternoon, April 22, 1862, was this: “Miss Lotta Hough sustains the principal female character. Miss Hough was the special pet at Laura Keene's for the past two seasons and is said to be the very finest soubrette on the Amer- ican stage.” The second attraction at Grover’s of which I have the record was Grau's Itallan Opera Troupe, which sang La Favorita” May 5, 1862. Elera a’'Angri, Brignoll, Amodio, Mancus; and Susini were the stars and Muzio the conductor. In the history of Grover's Theater I find that “L. M. Gottschalk, pianist, in conjunction with the opera” appeared. Constru- it | w | of Washingtonians. CLARA MORRIS, this with the advertisement in Phe Star, [ believe that the company Favorita” on Thursday and jday, May 8 and 9, and that a stschalk concert was given Wed nesday, May 7, the planist being as tsted by the orchestr eminent vocallsts of the 1 am sure the names ¢ and Gottsel give v jolt. And I am thinkin of Gottschalk. He did not imitate thu xzylliphone (I ca spe Ihe was the loved pt grandmother, and girls anc | been pla “The Last “Dying Poet | dred others made a more 1did not come to Wash | for he traveled the world | people loved music Your grandmother | beau of a | grace of mind, ta | you, dear heart today. T went found this retere | Americana [ep 7 horn and fire. count of his pro 1 play strongly thumbs, while plays arpegglos above and belov 1s uezia’ posed fantasie: His ‘St highly n the , chorus and t troupe . Brignoli a mnemonic particularly 1 pianist who derstorms and the it 1it). Child Loys have s (1855) nist of b Hope,” “Marche 1 think Lotty Hou he’ Seric “Upper Ten companied b Francaise ssion on He ton ofte wherever ar 1 even that they ) screen shel ary and clopedia ed ¢ talk ¢ in TSCHALK compaser May, 18 and pi was He GOl ind OUTS MOREAU American pian at died . 1869 his r became the anist in Ar rfined to b traveled ext | West Indies and was taking fata at Rio de Janeiro Morte." " The 1 | confined to s ow not sound true. It may be accurate, but my emory is that Gottsch was one of the pupils of Chop! that he played in his Americ corts all the ballads, nocturr | fantasies of Chopin. Gottscha sis very Chopinesque. And while T am on this subject T recall that a piano cotemporary of | ttschalk was Thalberz. He was an older man than Gottschalk. Your | randmother “fairly raved” about Thalberg, and when Gottschalk was not near perhaps she loved Thalbe: the more. Your grandfather, when he drew himself away from the cock- fights between the champion birds of Virginia, Maryland and the District or could get away from the good cora- pany at the Rum Blossom Tavern went to hear Thalberg. Thalberg | played all the familiar melodies, lav- ishly accompanied, but he made a point of making the melody sing high and clear above the accompaniment, so that you were never in doubt as to which was the song and which was the “arrangement.” While you are at it, you may read this from the Ameri- 5 cana: May 30, 15 “Sigismund Thalberg, Swis logg began born, Geneva, 7 January. 1812; died, |at Grover's. 1 se Naples, 27 April, 1871. He was thein the old natural son of Prince Moritz Dietrich- [ Theater for stein and Baroness von Witzlar. At|Lout 14 he was an accomplished player. In|time before the 1830 he made his first concert tour of Germany and in 18351845 toured Belgium, Holland, England, Russia and Spain, while in 1855 and 1856 he visited South America and the United States. His playing was notable for its beauty of tone and the charm of Janeiro, B lied in Paris Unite most popul Ilis plavin, jvely in Me South Ar v il while nis Tatest work “His plavini ompositions™ does 0. the rica, and playing La was s mu is KATE From the adver | Ten and Lower {1 get these nan Miss Lotty Hougl Miss_Effie Gern son, Mrs. ( Gimber, Roge: Mr. Ward. H. Stage manager. O\' Ti anist, | planist | it | mermoor.” " Louise, and T wo the line quoted another sweet si time whose nam Car novations in playin th him accented many coming (French . Mr. Meldrum, M history Clara Louise Kellogg, Theatrical Performances of Days Long Past, and Singers Who Thrilled Big Audience (Photo by Handy.) its legato rather than for brilllancy To him belong certain in cepted on ac nence, though not such, for instance, the cantilena in notes with the disengaged hand octave passages melody. His 1551) and ‘Cristina were both faflures piano pieces, in S or themes from udies’ for the piano. valued by teachers opening of Grover's of Graw's Italian 1gh and co-artists fol yus Family” with the and Lower Twenty," farce “Ici on Parle spoken here). m ing he CLAXTON (Photo_by Hands.) isement of “Upper Twenty" in The Star ses_of the company: h. Miss Susan Denin, n, Miss Julia Nel- C. Germon, Miss Sophie Iton, D. Setchell, Ben Bokee and B. Phillips was the Lo 62, Clara Louise Kel- a short engagement e a strange mistak of the N says: “Miss Annie e Kellogg stepped for the first footlights of the Na- |tional, in the opera ‘Lucta di Lam- Miss Kellogg was Clara nder if the writer of had not in mind nger of the Kellogg e was_Annie Louise from (Photo by Handy.) ' | ot he Rambler Writes of Famous Stage Folk Who Once “Played” the Capital 11861 to about 1880, sang In opera and concert, and drew large audiences She was advertised and acel rd “The Great American Prima Donna,” and it was accepted that the lady was a singer of the first rank, an excellent actress and as muc liked for her character and way of living as any other woman on the st P She was born in Sumpterville July 12, 1842, and made her first | pearance in opera as Gilda in “R |letto” at the Academy of Music, New York, in 186 She toured the United States many times and in 18678 and 1872 sang in London with great suc cess. It is recorded that “her | was a pure and flexible soprano and her execution brillint.” ¢ organ {ized an English Opera comy in 11874, traveled thronghout the United | States and organized an Italian opera {company in 1876, which was success |ful. She married her mar Carl | Strakosch, in 1887 and soon after th retired from the She published { her memoirs 13, i Speaking Annie | suggests that I look up | She was born in Wayr | 22, 1842, studied in this Ttaly, most of the time made her debut {1868, She returned States in 18’ country until married to Charles retired from () tinued to sing ch: for years —how ma | know. I have heard many to whether Mis 1 y was the bet were talented wor of my tired voice b 1 of Lou her 1 Car: aph Octobe d Milan, Copenhagen to the United 188 Argument < Miss The some | them. | These reminiscences of Clara Loui | Kellogg and Annie Loulse Cary re { call to you—it should—anot! 1Amerlvau inger who lived in the times we are thinkinz of. She was Emma Abbott. S$he was born at Ch cago in December. 1849, and died e City. Janua 1891, She her public singi the chot nouth Church (Henry Ward Beecher's church) in Brookivn, and | studied several :ears under mous _instruct Milan and Pari Col. Mapleso ¥ h Oper. wpany she made her debut at Covert Garden, London, and traveled with the Mapleson compar Great and the United L. |about 1830 inized Abbott En : company gz i ol in nma Tha he company leased 1884, I am not to look it vou can ha the Al Albaugh date am not 1 T t {the fun of cal | Upon recons sentiment, I fin Opera House w night, November mma_ Abbott pany d among Miss Laura Bellinl dale, Willlam erick, Wal |aptetra and Fabrina | the week were for & Day | GirL,” “Mignon me Jering foregoins | Marit The “American Type.” | AY Amerlc velop this type point where ch diffi the peoples of is the lusion anthropologist o ' scientific measure those whom he des Americans i of the immigrant | differing ®om the original stock | “The work as now cc 4, says | Dr.” Hrdlicka, “shows he olde | stock has approach wtion of a distinct Ame type is still neare progenitors, the British, but in sta in physiognomy in_behavior it already more or less different—Amer; can. The type is a good one. Here is Dr. Hrdlicka’s description of the American type of man so far as it has been developed It is characterized by being the talle all groups of white average, a medium pigmentation of the hair, with arcity of adult blonds and near absence of blacks: by preva- lently mixed eyes, or light ones show- ing more or less of a brown admix ture; by an inelinatic especizily in vouth, to sinewy slenderness, and by other features. h in character tics of its behavior are, in gen frankness, openness yvet shrewdness, energy and persist with, in gen eral, but little sentimentality or af- fectation, and relatively few extremes except perhaps in industrial, financia and occasionally in religious en- deavors, “This type, contrary to recent un scientific belief, is not Nordic: it is not even nearer the Nordic than it is to the Alpine. Like the British, it is an intermediate type. 3 “The bulk of the immigrants repre- sented in our records, outside of head form and a few other featur: are re- markably uniform in physique, with the exception of the Jews and the southern Italians, both of whom are characterized by smaller stature and other more or less aberrant features, They are, in general, a good, sturdy lot. In average stature, in size of chest and in muscular strength they are above the mean of the Europeans They present, as groups, no signs of physical degeneration.” . stock it | | | that i the fo type. to that of its 1 11 stature of the larger people; by, on the & Glands for Tetany. ‘WO physicians of Florence have performed an operation which bol sters up the failing hope that gland grafting had put a new weapon in the hands of the medical profession for subduing hitherto unconquerable dis- ease. Drs. Cesare Frugoni and Vittorio Scimone have announced; says Science Magazine, the results of treating a case of tetany, a chronlc disease re- sembling lockjaw, with a graft of hu- man_parathyroid, one of the small glands placed around the better known thyroid in the neck. The technique followed was that of Dr. Serge Voron- off, one of the original experimenters in transferring glands from apes to humans. The results were almost instantane- ous, according to the authors. The patient, released from the terrific pain suffered during six or seven long at tacks every day, picked up amazing! Tests made some time later {showed a slight p#athyroid deficiency, but the ingrafted piece was still firmly attached under the skin five montns after the operation. The question of greatest concern to | physicians with respect to the case is how long the gland will persist, for the laws that govern a graft's chance | of survival comprise one of the sub. {jects on which the medical profession |is still in the dark. A Bn;l G;less. Son—You know the other might when you told me that 11,786,728 was a heck of a lot? Father—Yes; what of it? Son—Waell that wasn't the right answer.