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came to my lure. My experience is
that a trout of equal weight would
have quit in half the time. And, as
for his brother, the small-mouth, I
have yet to note a difference in the
fighting instinct. During a fortnight
at North Hero I took from six to
eighteen a day, all between one and
four pounds, with quite a number of
pickerel. I don't care for the last
named. They fight like a shark, rather
than a bass or a trout or a salmon.
The range of the basses is from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and
from the Atlantic Coast to the Rocky
Mountains, where they live in the
lakes, rivers and smaller streams.
They all like cool waters, the smallmouthed
preferring them cooler and
swifter than are demanded by their
brothers of the big mouth. Many
anglers call it the gamiest of American
fishes, for it will take the artificial
fly, the baited hook or the troll
with equal avidity and in a fashion
to thrill the most experienced of anglers.
The small-mouthed variety will
weigh from one to six, or even eight
pounds, but the thrill will be just as
intense with the little fellows as with
the big brother. If you take one for
the first time and are really meticulous
about whether he is a smallmouthed
or a large-mouthed, your
curiosity may be satisfied by counting
the scales on his cheek. The largemouthed
have ten rows of scales, the
other species have seventeen rows.
The mouth of the large-mouth extends
back of the eye, that of the
small-mouth even with the anterior
margin of the eye. Each fish is usually
almost black, but if there are
any colorings the small-mouthed will
show vertical bars of black on the
sides, while the large-mouthed will
have no vertical bars but will show
a broad band along the side from
gills to tail.
The family habits of this game fish
are extremely interesting to the real
sportsman. Both species are very
zealous in their breeding habits and
are actually ferocious in their guardianship
of home and family. The fish,
which have been in schools throughout
the winter, become paired in early
spring and begin the preparation of
their nests. The nest is located in
comparatively shallow water and usually
consists of fine gravel brushed
into a circular mass a foot and a half
or two feet in diameter. Or, sometimes
it is merely a rounded oval
area on a gravel, clay or mud bottom,
from which all foreign material is
removed by the parent fishes. When
the eggs are deposited they become
attached to the bottom and are thenceforth
continually guarded by one of
the parents, while the matter above
the nest is kept in continuous agitation
by a gentle motion of the fins
of the guardian fish. Sometimes both
parents stand guard at once, in order
to keep intruders away from the eggs.
From two thousand to ten thousand
eggs are deposited by one fish and
the period of incubation is from one
to three weeks. When the young
emerge they remain in the nest for
several days while the yolk sac is
being absorbed, when they rise in a
school and hover over the nest for
several days more before scattering.
During this post-incubation period
the parents continue their guardianship,
circling about the nest and
keeping all enemies away, at the same
time preventing the family from wandering.
Finally, the young must separate
in order to find food and they
are then driven by the parents into
dense marine vegetation or shoal
water, where they are deserted and
left to shift for themselves. Their
food consists of minute animals and
insects and each other, for they are
all cannibals and this cannibalism
continues through life, the adult fishes
being voracious feeders, eating all
kinds of fishes, as well as small mammals,
frogs, tadpoles, snakes, worms,
insects and a great variety of vegetable
matter.
Is it any wonder that they will take
an artificial fly or a copper spoon,
or that they are full of the devil
when they discover that they have
been fooled and are on the end of a
silk-worm gut and a silk line attached
to a man?
W. M. Havlland James H. Quigley
Michael Sabroski Charles A. Goss
RECENTLY RETIRED VETERANS
Mr. Haviland left the service early this
year at Jersey Shore, Pa., while Mr.
Quigley, of Weehawken, was a ferryboat
engineer until March 1. Michael
Sabroski, Section Foreman on the
Saginaw Division, had served the
Michigan Central forty-one and onehalf
years. Mr. Goss made his farewell
run on a decorated engine in the
Buffalo Yards the first of the year.
Clinton Auxiliary Gives Dance
"in»ETWEEN six and seven hundred
persons were present at the first
public reception and dance of the De-
Witt Clinton Women's Auxiliary of
the Capitol Chanter Veterans' Association.
The affair was held at the
Vincentian Institute of Albany,
April 10.
Besides Mrs. Worthington, the reception
committee comprised the officers
and wives of the Capitol Chapter
New York Central Lines Muguzine fur .May, 192S
and the officers of the auxiliary,
among them Miss Esther McGill, Vice-
President, and Mesdames John W.
Lyon, Recording Secretary; Fred
MacMartin, Corresponding Secretary;
L. H. Albers, Historian; O. McAvoy,
Oliver Earing, Samuel Knower, W.
H. Grassman, Oliver Dansberry and
Louis Henion, Directors.
D. A. Carver Now in Florida
HE recent retirement of D. A.
TCarver from the New York Central
ends a career of forty-five years
that Mr. Carver
has been with the
Railroad as fireman
and engineman.
In his new
role of leisure Mr.
Carver will continue
as a booster
of the company
he served faithfully
for the
greater part of
his life.
Starting as a
fireman at Collinwood,
Ohio, in
1882, he was pro­ D. A. Carver
moted to engineman in 1887 and con
tinued in that capacity. His last few
days of service were marked by visits
from friends who extended to him
their best wishes for a long and welldeserved
rest.
Mr. Carver is at present living at
706 Robson Street, Tampa, Florida.
C. W. Y. Currie Made Publicity
Manager
HARLES C. PAULDING, Vice-
C President, Public Relations, New
York Central Lines, on April 15, announced
the appointment of C.W.Y.
Currie as Publicity Manager, New
York Central Lines.
George Krause, Jr.
EORGE KRAUSE, Jr., sixty-
G seven, General Freight Agent of
the Big Four Railway, who completed
fifty years of service with that road
on December 1, 1927, died suddenly
April 27, in Cincinnati. He was one
of the most popular employes of the
Big Four. He also was president of
the Cincinnati Traffic Club.
Mr. Krause started in 1877 as a
messenger in the freight office at
Cleveland. At that time the name of
the railroad was Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati & Indianapolis and the line
from Cleveland to Indianapolis was
known as the "Bee Line."
John Cummins
OHN CUMMINS, eighty-three, re­
J tired Big Four Engineman, died at
the home of his son, the Rev. James F.
Cummins, in Cleveland, April 8. Burial
took place in Calvary Cemetery.
Mr. Cummins was a native of Ireland,
but came to this country with his
parents at an early age. He started
work with the Railroad, firing a woodburner
in 1869. He was made an engineman
three years later and worked
with the Big Four until he was retired.
New York Central Lines Magazine for May, 1928 23
West Albany employes from the Motive Power, Car and Stores Departments at a Safety meeting at the Railroad Y. M.
C. A., where they pledged themselves to renewed efforts on behalf of fewer casualties.
West Albany Employes Strive
to Improve Safety Record
Ti/irOTIVE Power, Car and Stores
IvJL Department employes and officials
attended a special Safety meeting
at West Albany Shops April 16,
which was addressed by Charles E.
Hill, General Safety Agent.
Mr. Hill, who also attended all of
the Division and principal shop Safety
meetings on the Line East during
April, showed the West Albany men in
chart form their Safety performances
during the years of 1926 and 1927.
The Motive Power Department in
1926 had 151 employe casualties, and
in 1927, 107. The Car Department
reduced its casualties from 30 to 17.
In 1926 the Stores Department had
23 employe casualties, which were cut
to 14 in 1927.
Further reductions in employe casualties
were also made at this point
during January and February, 1928,
under the corresponding months of
1927. The names of some of those
attending this meeting, in the front
row of the picture, from left to right,
are as follows:
F. P. McGirr, Shops Safety Agent;
C. M. Thomas, Safety Agent, Mohawk
Division; George Fox, Superintendent
of Shops, Car Department; John Parsons,
SuDerintendent of Shops, Motive
Power Department; Charles E. Hill,
General Safety Agent; John T. Grow,
District Master Car Builder; E. C.
Totten, General Car Foreman, Weehawken,
and John Seim, District
Storekeeper. In the back row are C.
W. Adams, Division General Car
Foreman, and C. D. Shaff, Supervising
Safety Agent.
S i x R o a d s i n Safety B a l l y at Y o i a e g s t o w e
^CONSIDERABLE impetus was
given to Safety work among employes
by the Co-operative Railroad
Safety Rally held in Youngstown,
Ohio, April 10. Nearly four thousand
employes from six railroads entering
the city crowded the Stambaugh Auditorium
to hear addresses and music.
Dr. J. W. LeSeur, Special Representative
of President P. E. Crowley of
the New York Central Lines, was the
principal speaker.
Dr. LeSeur urged railroad employes
to inculcate Safety in the hearts of
everyone they met, whether at work
or at home. He pointed out that
wealth is not the greatest human attainment,
but rather, service to humanity.
" 'It is more blessed to give
than to receive'," he reminded his
hearers, "and it is service that makes
genuine friendship. Is life worth living?
That all depends on you."
Dr. LeSeur praised the co-operation
given the railroads by city officials in
helping to reduce deaths and accidents
at railroads crossings and at stations.
The greatest reduction in fatalities, he
said, is due to instruction in proper
Safety methods.
The surgeon's address was preceded
by an introduction by Judge George
H. Gessner, who afterward expressed
the audience's appreciation for the
surgeon's visit and invited him to come
again. F. H. Babcock was chairman
of the program.
A motion picture, "The Fair of the
Iron Horse," was shown and several
musical numbers were given by local
talent.
The railroads participating in the
rally were the Baltimore & Ohio, Erie
Railroad, Pennsylvania, Lake Erie &
Eastern, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie and
the New York Central.
Neil Mooney Heads Agents'
Association in East
EIL MOONEY, Assistant Gen­
N eral Passenger Agent for the
New York Central in New York, has
been elected President of the General
Eastern Passenger
tion.
Agents' Associa­
Upon his induction into office last
month, he was warmly praised by Edgar
S. Barney, retiring president, who
is General Passenger Agent of the
Hudson River Day Line. Addressing
Mr. Mooney, Mr. Barney said:
"You have been honored by election
to the highest office within the gift of
this Association. It is an enviable
office to hold, and richly do you deserve
it. Your fine manhood, your
sterling character, your uniform courtesy,
your winsome smile, your magnanimous
trait of which you, yourself,
have so often told me—of striving to
perform some kindly deed toward
someone every day—all make you the
man whom we delight to honor and
follow. . . .
"I place in your hand this gavel as
a symbol of authority to rule, and I
ask you similarly to transfer it to
your successor. I know you will
wield it in justice. I ask you to wield
it in mercy."