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Dams. one year. :3; six months. 81.75; three
months. $1.00; one month. sue. ' .
WEEKLY. one year. in yadvance. $1.00; six
months. 600.: three months. 35c.
7—— TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1897.
W
lay Goul—(Ps—I’Iatriotism.
The popular idea of Jay Gould in-
.vested him with about-as much rever-
ence or sentiment as there is in a piece
Aof leather. Yet in one transaction Of
his 1ife,at least,he showed deep patriot-
ism and delicate feeling. Curiously
enough, it has never got into the Mount
Vernon guidebooks and histories.
Near Mount Vernon there is a wooded
promontory, a pretty tract of land, just
the place for a riverside resort. . This.
land originally belonged to the Wash-
ington estate, but fell into the hands of
somebody else, who, as time went on,
became involved in financial difficulties.
Some Washington business men heard
of this, and formed a syndicate for the
purchase‘of the land, intending that it
should be used as a pleasure garden Of
some sort or another. I
This did not agree with the ideas of
the Mount Vernon Association. They
haveralways striv-en to preserve the dig.
nity which should attach to the home
of the first President, and to keep the
place undisturbed by frivolous people,
who are merely out for a good time.
. All the boats on the Potomac toll their
hells in passing Mount Vernon, and the
place is always closed on Sundays and
holidays.
It was therefore a great annoyanceIto
the association when they learned what
the syndicate intended to do. But there
seemed tohe no way for them to pre-
vent it, unless they could buy the land
themselves, which wasimpossible. Just
at this time Jay Gould happened to go
down to Washington and visited Mount
' Vernon. The Superintendent told him
of the impending sale, and what it
would probably mean. Mr. Gould lis-
tened, but did not say anything. After
he had been shown over the house and
the grounds, just as he was leaving the
wharf, he said to the Superintendent:
“You go over to A txandria and buy
that land, and add it to the Mount
Vernon estate, and I will pay for it.”
This the Superintendent did, and
telegraphed Mr. Gould that it was done.
Bythe next mail came a check for $14-
000; And that is the reason why visitors
to Mount Vernon can enjoy the peace-
ful stillness of the placé‘ without all
sorts of brass band noises coming to
their ears from a neighboring pleasure
resort.
Propagating and Protecting Fish.
Time was when the fishery interests
of the country were treated as forests
of valuable timber were;
destruction was allowed to go on all the
time, and no one thought of the neces-
sity of protecting or replenishing the
stock left in the waters. The ultimate
result was the same in. both cases—
streams, lakes and even the sea itself
were depleted of several varieties of
the choicest food fishes until it was
found necessary to take up the work of
artificial propagation to save several of
the best species of fi~h from total extinc-
tion.
The first and most notable success in
this line was in the restoration of the
shad .to the rivers -of the Atlantic sea-
board. This excellent fish has become
nearly extinct in Waters that had for-
merly swarmed with them, for the rea- I
son that because of their habit of as-
cending the fresh water rivers annually
for spawning they were not only slaugh-
tered by the thousands by devices in.
tended for their own entrapment, but
the young shad were slaughtered by
the millions in the traps set to catch
other fish. The restoration Of the shad
involved not only the necessity of arti-
ficial propagation, but of cleaning out
the traps that slaughtered every species
of fish that pass up and down the fresh
waters of the seaboard.
The succzss attending artificiél prop
agation of shad has led to a much wider
application of this plan, and now We
have Federal and State Fish com-
missions stocklng streams and even the
' shore waters of the sea with the varie-
ties of fish that have become scarce.
The annual report of the Commissioner
of Fish and Fisheries at Washington
gives an insight into the magnitude of
this as now carried on by the govern-
ment. During the past year 93,000,000
oi shad fry were turned loose in the
waters emptying into the Atlantic and
Gulf of México. The lobster fry num-
bered 97,000,000,,with a prospect that
the output will be doubled this year.
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the work of ,
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1n the effort to restore the mackerel to!
our coast waters 24,000,000 eggs were
collected. Salmon hatching is prac-
ticed on a large scale in the Pacific
coast waters, and an extended eflort is
about to be made to introduce the
Pacific salmon into the streams of the
Atlantic. Five million eggs are to be
transferred from the California Hatch-
ing Station to the stations in NewYork,
Vermont and Maine, to be hatched and
liberated in the Penobseot, Kennebec,
Merrimac, Hudson, Delaware and Sus-
quehanna rivers.
Success has already attended the ef-
forts to propagate white fish and lake
trout, and many millions Of the young
fry of both varieties have already been
turned loose in inland waters, while
facilities areincreasing for extending
this work on a much greater scale.
Even the propagation of codfish is as-
suming surprising proportions, 225,000,-
000 young cod fry being the expected
output of the present year. When to
this work of artificial propagation,
carried on under the supervision and
at the expense of the United States
Government, is added the work of the
various State Commissions chiefly in
the direction of restoring the native
fishes of the fresh waters of the coun-
try, i‘t will be seen that this interest is
already assuming immense proportions.
Artificial oyster propagation has long
been demonstrated to be a marked suc-
cess. '
That there is much yet toflbe done for
the protection of the salt and fresh wat-
er, fishof the country is very apparent.
It is not enough to propagate edible fish
by the millions if they are liable to be
slaughtered before reaching maturity or
to be prevented from reaching the places I
for natural propagation. Money expend-
ed for the artificial propagation Of fish
is money well expended, providing the
young fry are protected to maturity,
and Congress and State Legislatures
will do well to give special attention to
the reports of the various Fish Com-
missioners, for the purpose of enacting
legislation that Will effectually protect
the fish hatched at the public charge
until they are big enough to be of some
value to the public. The propagation of
food fish on the largest possible scale is
to be advocated, but the successful pro-
tection of the fish so propagated is quite
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IOI—LADI'ES’ SKIRT. .
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The shaping is accomplished by seven
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Nada-the Followinglfiains in the'Ye'arI l896:
Increase in Income,
$ I ,057,8 I 6.28.
Increase in IAssets,}f '
I $I,997,23.4,42.
Increase in Surplus,
:OAIIDIIIEII & NITOIIEL'L.
CHILDREN’S
Wagons, carts, Barrows,
Iloops, Garden Sets,
Kites, Marbles,
Tops, &c.
SChooISdpphés
We have the biggest Tablet
in town for 5 cents.
Real Estate and Steamship
' Agent.
JOHN Imus, ,
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A fine building lot onWilton ave-
nue. If you intend to build, look at
' this before purchasing.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue.
Will be sold at a Bargain.
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$l98,8l6,8l.
Increase in New Life Business,
$ I 598,668.00. --
lncrease in Life Insurance in Force,
$5,608,680.00.
Increase in Accident Insurance in Force,
$2 I ,736500 00
Increase in Accident Premiums,
$ [75,086.72—01‘ 62 per cent.
Increase in Ne .v Life Insurance Written in COn-necticut,
$3 I 0,642.00.
Increase in total Life Insurance in Connecticut.
$472,569.00.
From the increased Surplus the usual increase of divid
pong-holders will be paid in I891, making the Twenty-Fifth 3:31;:
Annual Increase of Dividends to the insured, and a record unparalleled
in the history of life insurance. . . 3
Notwithstanding the material increase of new business on which
the expense in Life Insurance is chiefly incurred, the ratio of expense to
income on the Life business of this company, excluding, the Accident
business, is somewhat lower than last year, and is 23 per cent. less
_ than the average expense of the ten leading “purely mutual” companies
ear I895. . -
Their figures for l896 have not been published.
herein a. BIILIIELEY, President.
J.C. WEBSTER. Vice-PreS. J. L. ENG DISH, Sec. ' H. W. 81‘. JOHN, Actuary:
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E. E. HALLOCK, General Agent, 5 Eubinger Bld’ ., New Haven.
J. I. HuroHINsON, General Accident Agent, Hartford.
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