New-York tribune. [volume], February 04, 1906, Page 3, Image 17

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THE "FISH CAVALRYMAN" PREPARING TO ROUND UP A LOT OF FISH.
w+io m t*;is pan* Want from the prirßeces of
tli^ it -i I tut ion
Fri«-:ids and FkOav Students: As we meet for
th«» tirst ttnw undrr new conditions to enjoy the
KT«nt privilt^r.-s <>f ivn-.i rollegie. we think at once
of you wiio are now (i.|iriv«il o€ tteae privileges,
OOT <if itistlof sho»f us that others have
til* s .:]•■ riplits as ourselves, and the l^a^hinps of
• 'hrist i-;k1 ::s ta "muc'iuber tlivni that are in
Jmit ds us bound with •. !i>-!ji •■
We r»":ili7>' that \<>u ;ire "ttinfl'l from the rlass
nena rf Dem Colleen, ■hick w* m hlchly prise,
b>- dv fatdt of poor para, rod tfcal this Sirashtp ;<
a T'-^rt ..if n laag IhM ' % f teprivath— midt r vhicb
you live. )'•--.:.>. >..u amre J« 'm in ■ r»e* 10-i^r
oprnssod ur.'i l;:rsr|y mna.isshl ;iml undevelo|M 1.
hi-nri! ss ;...;i.. f.^i it>.--.- «>>«« t<> .In v.-v Krone
iaul tb/omtßtUtam peoph n:e, t your attempts at s-lf
iTrrT' wmeni witii indUfnvnoe <-r pcorn K.«-n
P'«>d pOMfAI KBM tim.'s f'-:ir in r« <•<•■-: i-.r/.f your
■u-0r'.1.. <>r talu pour part la ri nHstiborly w:iy. be-
BSBM 9f 1 I • . of 1 1 •■ pPfJadICM mod BS.
BT« .:• i • • ■ • :■■ krruvTi yr u . .ir known I
! thai v. krem- yny ar.- rt*H}g ai.^n 1
:.'.\ ~"- ■• ■ ■-• ■ ' nd ntto«liic ■ raprfty aii'l ■
• - • . • - ..._..,._... v. v.'.'
to !,-.-r of row ■ -'■! fts at Ki.-k
Tr.iv- r- •• I I • ■•-... Is. :::i1 that
you v ". • • . •■• rnnrtatton sf y. -.r
l«-..pl.- !•■ 11-,.I 1 -,.- .\>> .-..: i.: • ■ leahw t.. .«■<•"
m bmi ror * ■ ■ ■ ■ •■ t : .-r . race.
w. k- .•»■ i » :t t >>-i can compel inor.-is :..- rc»pc<t
bj ■ :.;-i--v tndnstiT, BkiML hon< '• truthful
ji.-^s ttt4 i God ■■ ■ ■ ■ '■ God Uu»Ut»a- life In
■ r._ T ili l BC . ' !•••!' them
I \'.ur people you v\::i be niCSCd la M «••»>!•»
.::.1 heroic ■ v...rt i • •' ..rv pctrj t irho ever
• ■ • !ni siifr- r. .i far his peaple'e nr*>'.. Ar..i v.<u
uil! al«mf« h..\- :!•;.■- and the frfradship
of thi beat ;w..,:,i..; w .., : ,i.. thn aehoul th* anorid. We hoT>**
n*-v< r to )h- .ifr'ud or ashamed to >!i^w anr ap-
of icy colored person irho baa U*e '-Viarr.cio r
a.nd aroi • • ft 1 .. (<•. !■'■,• rmnlrnta rf p.. r^a.
\v< . .:■•■ t'.. re hi piuiWug funds
to :,s>: • •. ... \..;ir edaratlOß. :-n<\ w*"
'■■ « • • • • • ■ -will Gad way* in which to
;'v by the noksred raa W« know that
• .• .' 1" ita care and help as we
haw - ■ rfully t- r i\- \iy> a part of fir
own '. .■ • : . ir: order iat the cA
ored ;•••';:• may have their Jtxst Bhare,
Th<^ last roramwi ement *xertises, which were
held in a Rreat pwve :i!>out the college tal>er
nafle, were attended by nearly v- tea thousand
puiWHU. Acoordiss to the law, the colored ata
d-r.t.s who had completed their courses In other
institi: 1 could not even return to Bcrea to
rectiv*' th^-ir df-prf^s from the institution which
was thtir real alma mater. Fisk University,
Han!pt<>!; Itistitute and Knoxville College pave
df^r<-es to five I>erea colored students. They
did return bo paoefva ad t-undem d«*rees, which
the law did not prohibit. They delivered inter
esting addr»-«»ses, one of which had the title
"What the N'-jrro Promises and What He
Ask^." They took part in the laying of the
cor».< rsti-ine of a new Carnegie library building
and ir. the d*-dication of a new waterworks sys
tem.
tUFOBTASCB OF thrift.
The tatr AJpbeoa D. Ij-j P. "is, the New-York
I I 1 t. ■;»<-). ... s.jnnit a year, saved
fT.'r •.«»•*», v.as never weary of Impntabag thrift's
bupwtmea «-r> his Menda." said a lawyer,
"i aoo* told It. I'u Hois that I was going
I
he. 'Jf you do, they'll only laugh
* . ' ins, when they
r !;• ads '."
"And Mr. Dv Buis, as mi instance of the way
trav< ":t:g Americans get foolish over making
a - . ,'. opulence and liberality, told me about
; . woman who made a visit to Ireland.
1 Tt. k woman, getting off the ! Mat at Queens
1f...; hired an outside car for a drive. The
r.. y the hour was one and six (TJS cents)
for the car, and a shilling (a quarter) for the
iur\- :■ , or driver.
"W- :i, the woman gat up on one aide of the
f:,r. :irjd the -\. >• gat up on the other, drlv
;■ :• ■ajrav, arid they started off.
M AfU r a bit the woman pointed to the empty
flrlt rti sat in front and said:
• What « that seat in front for, young man?
" > ;r<% ma'am,' paid the wily Jarvey, 'that's
v): ->i ... c.ji the r«-serve seat, niceJy cushioned
. . thai kind Of thing, and is only engaged
. r«:a! gentry, they payin' for the same
hAUu'e and i*r, shillin's for the driver.'
I •.• maatOM .Hastily shifted to the driver's
■
V-u Fhould have told me that before.' she
How vas I, a stmnfTir, to know what
•• pr< ;><:r thing to 'J<» over h'-n-"
"And n p«U tw<lv<* h-hiJlings for tin- privi
. ■ I riding ii the driver's seat, to the aiimd*.
nest of _.. enstowaV
NEW-YORK DATLY TTURrXR BtJNDSY, FEBRUABY I IDOT>
FISHIXG WITH HORSES.
Belgian* Drarc in Nets Full of
Shrimp from the Sea.
The flshniiifii living in the barren country
S'.utb of X:. i;p..rt. IVigium, have not the same
fear of v disturbance of the water as some of
the Hudson River !ish« rmen of a oentmy ago
had. It is told of the latter that
\v!i- n the Cluuiout, the first steamship, went
splashing up the Hudson in ISO 7on its epoch-
Btaldng first trip the fishermen who saw It
rowed with appropriate language that the fish
:r.?» business la the river would be ruinod. "That
thins!] >t are all the fish out of the river," said
they, glowering after the cloud of black pmoko
boilins up from the funnel of the strange look
raft which was churning its way up the
river. Where'U our business be then?" they
I Hudson Rivor shad are still in the
market . although whiles no longer browse
within -triking distance of New-York. Perhaps
these same New-York fishermen would say,
however, that If they were the Flemish Osher
men they would not be alarmed, for the Helgl
ans fish in the edge of the sea. instead of a river
up which fish go only at a given season of the
year, and give the poor shrimps, which they
nek. little opportunity to escape. Armed cap
a-pie in ofMdna the I!rlgians march through
the water uix>n the little fellows with great
horses and the precision and irresislibk-n- ss of
cavalry.
They might not inappropriately he styled
"fishing cavalry.** These mounted fishermen al
ways move through the water side by Bide In
lines of a dozen each, and they have a manoeuvre
by which they change position from one end of
the line to the other in quartets. Fishing in
a solid line '!»<>' catch all of the lively little
shrimps over a wide strip of bottom, and < hang
ing the four at the outer end of the line to the
Inner every flshtrman has an opportunity to
A "FISH CAVALRYMAN" SORTING OUT HIS HAUL
reap the most fruitful part of the field, which is
the side toward deep water.
The little crustaceans are taken in nets which
suggest plant cornucopias, not only in shape
but In contents, when drawn out of the water
at tie end of the march along the submarine
beach. The mouth is triangular in shape, the
third corner being held up by a stick attached
to the rod which stretches it to yawning dimen
sions, horizontally. With its mouth open the
THE "FISHING CAVALRY" OF SOUTHWESTERN BELGIUM CAPTURING FISH.
net slides over the sandy bottom In tow of a
horse, gathering all the Jelly fi.sh, shrimp and
sheila in front of it And fleeing from the dis
turbance mused by the horse's footsteps is only
jumping from the sizzling grease of the trying
pan into the roaring flames of the li-e, for those
who do not fall Into one month are gobbled up
by the one alongside. The "fishing cavalry" is
no friend to shrimps.
The hour before the turn of the tide at the
ebb is the time when the fishermen assemble
at the rendezvous. Like other good workmen
they come neither too Boon nor too late. One
by one they come ambling over the dunes on
their fishing horses. Their nets rolled <>n the
base sticks lying across the barks of their ani
•.niin-l one of tiif furled sails of a square
rigger. Balanced on the horses beneath the
riders are panniers for carrying the fish. The
fishermen, clad In oilskins anti pulling cheer
fully at pipes, sit with their t'e' t u[j In front of
the baskets as if they w< re jockeya ri.liiiij in ths
American fashion.
Only a few moments are required to attach
the nets behind the horses and stretch o| en the
mouths on the vertical sticks. Then taking tho
strings by which the vertical sticks are held
upright while travelling through tho wat • . the
men, one by one, mount and mar^h out Into the
rolling plain of the sen. which is their field of
rnanu-uvriw. Taking their places side by .^Mo
in a line which stretches out .so far that tho
outermost horses are almost submersed under
the big, chilly rollers that sweep in from the.
North Sea, the fishing squadron moves along the
coast gathering in the shrimps. I-"or an hour
perhaps the sqr.adron breasts its way through
the water, a roller now and then slopping over
the haunches of one of the horses, th iter
quartet giving place at regular intervals to
the next quartet. The fishermen sit th*ir ani
mals with little concern, smoking their pipes,
for tho horses know their duty as wtll as a
trooper's horse knows his, and there is little to
do except hang to the string which keeps the
prop of the mouth of the net in a vertical posi
tion. At last tho nets are drawn up to the shore,
the limber jelly fish and shells which have un
intentionally intruded are picked out and the
shrimps dumped into the panniers. Then the
homeward journey is begun, the nets being
drawn back over the ground already dragged
once. At last the horses, recognizing the rendea
vous instinctively, turn up through the surf to
the shore. Kvery man has his baskets full when,
with nets furled, he turns his horse eastward
In the rays of the setting sun toward his humble
cottage. His horse proves his hardiness by
showing no signs of fatigue or his immerstaa
for three hours in the chilly waters of the & r
man ocean.
NEW CLASSES OF DOGS.
Roseneath Terriers and Pa pill op
Spanieh Described.
After long years of wrangling and disputation;
after more 'dog talk" than could comfortably
be got into three volumes, two new clashes for
show dogs hare been created and for the first
time will be officially recognized and have s>
place in this country at the forthcoming thirti*
eth annual bench show of the Westminster Ken
nel Club, to be held at Madison Square Garden
on February 12, Li. 14 and 15. Of these a m
(Classes one is for Roseneaifa terriers, lone
founded with the Scottish terriers, and the < th.-r
f'<r Papillon or Butterfly spaniels, a French toy
breed long declared by some persons be only
a cross of the King Charles breed.
The Roseneath terriers am! the Papillon span
iels have enjoyed separate classes fi r some time
in European shows, but in this country the bun
upon them has remained. This does dgl mean
that they have not before been shown here for
they have, but they have never befor q
honored by being placed in separate cl isses. Now.
however, that the Westminster Club has this
season accorded them classes of their own and
the American Kennel Club has admitted them
to registration there seems to be no doubt about
the future of the Rob< Death t.Tri> ra and th*»
Papillon spaniels In America.
"They have come to stay," say their o
who, l>y the way, are few, for the <1 igs are rare
in this country. The classes win be email at
this first official exhibition of the two breeds
here, but small as they are they will i ryer >ye a,
feature of the show, and much Interval will
cent •• about them. Th • little fellows to appear
in t"ih classes are already taking great airs
to themselves over the new social disti :rtion
that has befallen them in the small world of
dogdom. So thoroughly Imbued with the sense
of his own Importance diJ one little >;; r.-wn
English, French Etchings
OF ism <i:vrri:v.
MK//.OTIN rs, PHOTOS AND CAKIIONS
OF AM. EIKOI'KAN GAI.I.IJKIKS.
12 West 28th St. GUORUI: BtSSC.
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