Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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INSCRIPTION ON ROCK IN CRANBERRY LAKE IN MEMORY OF REUBEN WOOD, A GENIAL GENTLEMAN AND GOOD FISHERMAN, WHO WAS FOND OF THESE SOLITUDES. [PAGE BREAK, the rest of this is unrelated] FISHES AND FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 277 knickerbockers, a linen collar, lived in a caravansary, made trips, dined in a dress suit and attended hops, and became another creature altogether. For the old fishing resorts were fast being depleted; the rude camps were supplanted by cottages and hotels; sport became work; fish baskets grew smaller, and too large at that, for they seldom ran over. Yet, the genuine sportsman — not the man who fishes to fill a tub and salts down trout for his winters food — think of that! — did not regret that women and children and invalids came to his old haunts and drank in the beauty and joy and health that so long had been his own. The gentle sportsman sighed for what had departed, but breathed a thanksgiving that these others might now share these blessings — even a goodly portion of his own. Still, he of the generous s

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