Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1928, Page 25

SHAD HATBHERY l NEW SHAD HATCHERY READY NEAR FORT HUMPHREY 10 BE READY SOON Buildings at Fort Humphrey to Provide Modern Experi- mental Statidn. Work upon the new shad and perch hatchery of the United States Bureau of Fisheries is rapidly nearly comple- tion at the new station at Fort Hum- pareys. Under the direction of Capt. J G. Harren of the bureau and with the Lu-operation of the military authorities. the piece cf land on the chores of the Potomac which was a_wilderness bog a few months ago, has been transformed | into a healthy building site, with a clean, sand beach in t and an at- tractive woods as baciground. The | original Potomac River shad hatcherv | | was established at Bryans Point in 1892, when the Government took a 10-year lease upon the property. | The recent law passed by Congress | recommending as much as possible the | use of Government lands for Gover- ment purposes instead of leasing o purchasing new lands. gave a logical | } solution to the problem of a new site in the selection of one at Fort Humph- reys. The advantages of the new hatch- #r¥ over the old are manifold. The water supply is much better and purer, being farther removed from the city pollu- tion than Bryans Point. It is also much | is THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, O NOVEMBER 18, b1 ACCUSED MAN, INJURED, B | FAINTS TWICE IN COURT Is Lawrence Fitzgerald, Colored. Held in Two Cases and Fine Is Impozed. Apparently suTering from injuries sustainsd when he rosisted arresy by Policeman R. T. Conilin of th> Traf- fic Bureau, Lavrence Fitzzovald, col- old, of the 1400 hlock of arraign- nearer the field where the shad egas Ahove: are scoured in the early Sprinz. ™ New which insures a permanent existence. znd Glen C. Leach. chief of (He g erected for hatchery racently removed from Bryans addition it i« on Government property. Peint. Relow. left to right: Leighton G. Harren, snperintendent of the station, ivision of Fizh Culture, ment on a se in Police Court, yester Fitzgerald's D man attracted Fourteenth and U the palice- number at ~Star Staff Fhotes “riday night Several Buildings Completed. ral buildings already have bee eampleted. These include the hatcher: ftgolf, a bunk house which will accom- 8 modate 25 men: a pump house in which | relati is installed the pump which supplies| Thirt; e water from the river to the hatch- | io fi erv; a mess hall, a large garage and | whic the superintendent’s house. A pier for | in the (he landing of the bureau’s new boat as well as visiting boats, and those of the fishermen who supply the hatchi- | cost from §3 to $3.50 per million. ery has been entircly completed and| As all of the buildings at this wharf is cited as an example =f|hatchery are expectes Government _economy. materials were obtained at Fort|cessful season is anticipated for the Humphreys, every pile being taken from | coming Spring—the spawning season the dense ery. Practically the only cost attached | phout the end of Pebruary or the first 10 the securing of the piles was ihe |of March snd that of the shad a few | labor of cutting them {weeks later, the end Were it not for the maintenance of | frst part of April the Potomac River shed hatchery. it is probable that within a fow years the species would disappear. Miilions of shad egzs are secured each season by the hatchery and these eges are| placed in jars where they develon. closely guarded. through the period of | {ncubation. When the baby fish arz BIBLE REA ated on the Atlantic Coast. ehout one day old, they are “planted back in the river waters as closely as DERS‘ LEAGUE ble to the grounds where they wer=| | UNOCHEON IS ARRANGED | ed. Thus each year millions u(‘ 1 are given back }to t;e rg—ers, wmch i { were it not for the hatchery which 4o 5 tie | Preserves them, wouid be entirely los: | E1ane to: Distribute 100,000 Goples o nature and men. of Book of Proverbs to The same thing holds {rus with :he\ 0 yellow perch, the work on which goes Be Discussed. 2 with that on the shad. The perch are the first to spawn and | as the last of the young fish, or “fry,’| which the P were quoted reh eggs. e paid erch from developed Arcording to the | ggs obtained from these figured that perch cgge cured t , it was | the retiy th hatehery Potomac Ri siiad and perc xperimental station siccessfully oper- | jrmarty N. C., in Arrangem: ior a lunchcon meeting of ihe District | leave the hatchery, shad spawn arrives. Inc, at the Men's| Fisherman Supply Adults. Ciiy Club_Novmber 28, when :eligiouc ‘Thus the hatcl is free to accomo- | leaders will gather to ss plens Jor | daie cach species in turn. An interest- | distribution of 100,000 copies of the inz fact was related regarding the | Book of Prove in the Distri: young fish hetched from the eggs in| The lcague, of which Mrs. Fran experimental incubator. ach | Howlett-Wright is president, is arrang- fish. soon as it is hatched, is | ing for this di a in conneuwca Fupplied by nature with a small food | with a similar d n of 10.009.- which supplics ils nourishment ' 000 copics of the “vouzhout the ring its first devs. Shortly after it United States end Canada. is released in the waters of iis natural| The local leaguz n.«s habitat, it quickly learns to securs food | tabifshed headquari=rs from 2mong the river grasses and the 1103 Varmon® avenu-. Readers’ League, es- 601 recently at Seasonal Debut to Be Made Tomor- | ty. d to be finished in | their seasonal. debui tomorrow and | Most of thea very short time, en active and tuc- | Tyesday evenings | Auditorium, Fiftcenth and Eest Capitol | ods surrounding the hatch-1for yellow perch commgneing usually |streets, in “Ye Old Time Minstrel.” sem) of March or e | gingers jAmong the feat With the exception of 2 small and | Balq: atl7ace artists, who scored a | program are Miss Anna Mae Clark. t- dancer; tl | Margy Roone: McCullough in a skit called “A Touch | of the South.” | | England, has been crime, &nd recently, for the twenty-first consecutive time, court was op>ned and ents ore being completed | g!cr‘séld without any business being trans- | . | the first of ihe|pranch of th: Community Bible | = ve Howard forced 19 back ths that Headquarters Dol Ogle, in the viciniir, . draw_his revolver to ho BY COMFORTER PLAYERS crond. 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