Show GREAT SPORT IN florida rL OEIDA ORIDA the president catching more fish than he lie ran can eat N NY Y sun Suu fanfoni SAN SANFORD S Foni fla april 13 11 i black bass lined the deck of the little steamer day before yesterday and the president is surfeit ed with the sport he ile had bad caught one nine and they were biting it go so freely that the P president r said it was murder to catch ca themas they could not begin to be eaten ande and could only be thrown overboard no sportsman ho he added caught fish to throw overboard and ns it was hot and acm insects that 31 cuppinger dreaded were biting it ayas was decided to steam stearn back to kis sammee simmee ct city tho the presidents Pres identa cheeks were turn burned 0 o blisters he ile batad them with hazel extract but the sunburn had bad gone too deep his cheeks were almost broiled secretary Ch chandler andrer who had bad been bopping about all night catchin catching g alos was very tired he ile had a good time he lie said but the fun of camping in the everglades of florida was about exhausted when a native cracker told the secretary that wood ticks would bore through the skin into the flesh and there lie down and die he was very apprehensive and imagined ever ayery mosquito he got a wood tick when the president determined to return he was some milea miles from front the steamboat and he be paddled back through the black waters he ile said he had been happy all day in a blue flannel shirt and a coarse straw hat perched in the bow of a dugout he ile cast out his fly in the narrow black stream alligator tracks were on the banks macassin mo cassin cussin wag now and then seen the paro made frightful noises iu the air ILI r the huge turkey buzzards cast shadows on the water the mocking birds warbled away in the palmetto trees and other strange and mysterious tropical noises were nere heard to none of these did the president pay any heed capt rose who is tanned like a sailor paddled him about four hours and not ono one word did the president Preside tit speak he lie stuck to the yellow hackle fly and cast it with the tile kill skill of an adirondack guided guide it took no small skill to d do this the stream ream was narrow and the 0 current I 1 strong luxuriant tropical tioff lined the ino moss hung bung cy cypress ress trees met overhead but the residents presidents cast was sure his ilia shirt sleeves were rolled epand the sun was playing playing the mischief with his bare arms out ut he sat like a s sphinx silently casting the fly ana a when he had a it rise gently playing laying with wih the fish until it was landin landed d early in the evening the president got a fine strike he fe had a small but strong roll card on the rod the rod bent nearly double and it swayed this way and that the fiah fish was pulling like a derrick and it and the president had a tussle for fifteen minutes at length the chief M magistrate ag istrate landed a catfish that weighed thirteen pounds mr miller was patiently tl cas casting ti for black bass in another leat boat and an 1115 got a great many but the president w was beating him secretary chandler sat in the steamer in his shirt sleeves and stocking feet the happiest man in america he ile shoot he fish he swim but how he could talk I 1 they rigged up a line for him on the boat and bated it and induced him to throw it overboard by and bi by he be d it as s though a policeman had ad struck him between the shoulders with a club he shouted ive got a bite and he pulled as though he lie had bad a shark his eyeglasses eye glasses fell off and he had to feel hist w way y thereafter he ile landed a nin nine e pound und catfish bullhead bull head ho balles called it and be he was as happy happy as a boy with his first pair afre of red top boots early this forenoon capt arse called the president who had been slee sleeping C oi on the upper deck in a cot bed d with secretary chandler a few feet away the president was soon in the dugout and in half an hour landed a 12 pound bass ban that fought until the president panted then it grew hot and after a half dozen smaller fish had been taken the preg president ident decided to po go back with the steamer and return to kissimmee Kis simmee city there to take a special train for sanford the party reached sanford late on wednesday night only to find that telegraph communication was interrupted on thursday the wire was not repaired the president spent the dav day quietly riding in the afternoon t to doyle a orange giove where he picked sweet oranges ate strawberries and smoked cagara today to day a reception will be given him and in the afternoon he rails in a special steamer far st SL augustine where a stop orsome of some hours will be made |