Show SEAL FISHERIES i The Commission Reported tw be Best for the Purpose SAN FRANCISCO Sept 6The steamship steam-ship Homer arrived from Uhalaska today having on board the 30000 sealskins al lotted by the government to the North American Commercial company for the present season Among the passengers was Mr J Stanley Stan-ley Brown superintendent of the North American Commercial company and formerly for-merly private secretary to the late P ident James A Garfield whoso sonin law he is Mr Brown In a interview with tho United Associated Presses tonight said The catch of the sealing fleet this s son proves to be light I is doubtful ifi i will average 400 skins a vessel or a total of less than 30000 skins Sealers les 30 Sele report re-port seals scarcer than ever before and there is no pretence made to conceal the fact that the herds have about disap neared csp Captain Hooper In charge of the Ber ing sea patrol is conducting an efficient supervision over the sealing grounds to > prevent depredations Thus fa six fceiz urea have been made of schooners ure ben me of schonr for pelagic flshingr the Aurora British James S Swan and Jane Gray American can and the Ainoko Vivo and Beatrice Canadian Bet ne iiering sea mixed commission of Americans Canadians and British under the leadership of President Jordan of Stanford university arrived at the Priby loffs on July 6 I Is the finest body of men that could have possibly been gathered gath-ered together for such scientific Investi gation with the great commercial and international questions attached to it The work of the commission has ben most thorough and the results attained are likely to be the most satisfactory of any work thus fa done in the way of investigating the present condition of seal life and to make recommendations or suggest changes il the protective regulations lations now In force The commission will not cease Its investigations in-vestigations until about the middle of September or the first of October when the dead pups resulting from the shootIng shoot-ing counted of the mothers at sea will have bees Dr Stegnegar of Washington D C Steegr o Washingon spent the early part of the season on tho Pribyloffs and then proceeded with Captain Cap-tain Morse to the Commander Islands Bennett Hamilton the London lawyer had already proceeded to the Commander Islands Is-lands thence to Japan and will arrive in San Francisco some time this month On August 15 Dr Jordan and Prof Thom Augst son of Dundee also started for the Commander mander Islands on the British warship Satellite leaving Dr Lucas and Se tary Clarke to continue the work on the Pribyloffs Dr Jordan has probably returned re-turned t Unalaska by this date He will leave for San Francisco about September 20 but some of the party will remain at Sl George island to complete the work of the commission The Albatross should arrive m San Abtros shoud ave Sn Francisco during1 the present month byway by-way of Honolulu She w to visit the Commander islands oft the coast of Kant chatska Robin Reef in the Okotsk sea and the Kurile Islands near Japan upon which seven or eight rookeries are known to have existed All the members of the commission were in the best of health |