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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY. JULY 14. 1916. SHARK STORIES FROM LONG ISLAND SHORES AND ELSEWHERE Sharks Are Common AlongBASKNG SHARK IS A LAZY FELLOW1 Blockade, No Shark Food; L. Harmless to Humans Ravenous, They Come Here I Brldgohumpton, L.

July 14 The reoent activity of the sharks along the Jersey coast ami the fact that one was sighted off Mecox Beach here a few days ago by I'hlllp Carter, a nephew CX-JUStlCe Jluu'l'-f. brought In mind that In years past the Atlantic frot ef li in being any man I lug waters now a number habitants of Bridgehai they remember the tiin habited the waters aboi numbers. Captain John Norrls Hedges, who has llve.l In Brldgchainpton for sixty-nine years and was captain of the Mecox life saving crew for thirty-nine, years, says that It was not uncommon about forty years ago to sharks of man-eating variety mf Hi idgehnmp-ton leach; but owing to the lishing the last few years which lias driven tho bunkers ta small llsh which Is a favorite food of farther out to sea, the sharks have ton come so far Inshore of late until this season, which attnluites to the fact that there has been little fishing the past few years, and that the hunkers arc coining closer in shore, and that the sharks are following them. lv llalsey, anntlur resilient or idgehanipion. who has Dassed a good part of seventy-nine years in this locality, corroborates Captain Hedges' belief, and says that It is very likely that man-eaters uro again inhabiting Char.c Peekert was a member of the crew that landed the last shark in this vicinty.

which was of the blue-nosed variety and was brought to shore in the winer of 1U14. It measured nine feet. An unusual number of nornoises have been sighted near shore here of late, and on Sunday and Monday two whale about forty feet long were seen basking off Sag Peach. Most Sharks on L. I.

Belong to Basking Family. Patchogue. L. Julv 14 Bavmen and deep sea fishers who have had ex-1 perience In shark hunting have great respect for wounded sharks. Captain franK Kourke, who once shot a si Man-Eatin i I Sharks? 'dozen vanities known hero.

Among, b. trade war. it w.eiM in I- in- he di the dog fish, which tire young sharks. I would he Ion, el 1 1,. In side yf monsters fifteen feet In length have Haven 1 tne i o.

tlio Atluntii and hnl hen been Observed several times in the 'he fouoei mhI 1 by turning somersaults In the water measuring over 6 feet In length, but Amagansett. L. I. It was noticed 1 1 Vry' 1 1 U0 so rapidly that Iinis cut a bu.z tlsh .11,1 attack them. They 1 when the buoys began to hob up audi I Kngla ml ha act a lly a II lorn, ctaT.uXyrkporpoleelBlnthesa,ne iXlXA Sharks Help Natives im8 "Sharks mother their young in the I i ETlTiF SjtfSB 2 To Catch Their Fish J.

ZZ SsKMiH Caught Shark in Sene it i 'iuu'V'i'o'pir gether make such an Th Killed With Rifle Bullets. 'n and In manv Is place for them that thev will avoid it th lv instance of sh ai attack lands in the West Indies, and along a ship at sea and eat tho lint and food llsh find here a haven. i'm- here shark measuring l.i'2 feet was coag, Brazil, big shirks help is thrown overboard each day. I have -k "The disappearance moss bunkers There has been a noticeable "rr the natives catch their llsh. Accord- Leen II time and again and the samel i'" garv is believed to have put the sharks In 01 en- 1 H'ftT.

The mm.Mer was nK alurohv of the trunk. 1 1 seen by ov, 1 0110 who I li If oo ni 1 not soro Rtralts for food and caused their tering the 1 the tiU- icarii)- out jv) usenni on' Ki stern I'arkwa this j' 1 I have 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II -hers 'Old Whalers Incredulous; nne'Uoutsbi'e hn.i' "i litm for not 11.. ,,1 a mi of Man Eaters Only in Tropics. that w' 'i i i mi'i ll shot's" 11 When a gang of fishermen stretch a that haV big il'h fron'i (Special to The Eagle.) L'iu 1 he'u aclPay! I Pino mouth of a cove ami hey we, not Howlng I ood. They dlvo It a sh irk Infest Sag Harbor.

L. July 14 Old Ten-Foot Shark Slipped herd the smaller Mahea t0" Soutli i i 'r. r. they know i wtewSTsi'iiuk's There a "Spanish Line Held bV Sixteen Men. he'-' have i' shl'r'u and in waters other than the tropics.

They A fishing parU cut whippi ng up the wa tor and ma Inn i. i 1 1,, o. ha Hi. saw Pig Pen, Long Tom are Incredulous of stories of man- N. J.

Fishermen Say here IS llu, will prevent a i vl .1 in- obi a ters or' s.uie- i h. llsh, Just as you would eating sharks doing mortal damage sJirinish Shirk" a species! in small creeks or even along tho "JT 4 ft the I brarbes of New and long lha' ls appeared off the MONSTER 400-POUND SHARK IS 10 FEET LONG MoV'e to have been driven there by the terrific "oat oTg I hB 0( selves with whalers' bar, and one about which Ihe fishermen and MRi" JBfl HH 1 BHHH u.s.i.n.i.iioimiia. 'IHHBBMr I mwm MWm- 1: Nonsense! HiHtil Wii IlH No Such Thing, Say Fishermen Editor Arthur Knowlson of Fishing Guide Knows All About Hi" Spanish-American. Hp flHRlH liiiiHlHHHk teiB Wtif VflRlwl posit Iveness. there no HHbSLHT-' klflril 1b9B LiliiiiV KW if JBBHHH ihe 'Spanish" shark; Ki iVWiMiH K( VHSM wSSBL.

tliMiliMI of their own lmaglna- HMBBRg- iHHIHriaA FACTS ABOUT SHARKS HBHw There are different I BL.v. 'PpdJfBpj I'lagiosiionil. siih-orilor S(iuili. Ay "flB IfflllHWf, SB sharks are most numerous iu the I. 'B WBKSBB jB IHp -i fflMff -n.

'eilwll nir tiger shark Is common In the ff-S It from 10 to l. feet long. WBK TPp3lifK of hW flHK SHWf WHOfRWOOO been found in lie- waters of Long I BIHWfc these, only he man-rater nnd tiger shark could have klllel moil. I WPrr 1 11 s.ueezn,g through or 1 1 his or I be i a it am I tell a fro tn.it kiw I-bio or r.xtlnct sicics attain a size of on ja. the sa a king under the net and escaping.

otnor 00 I you cmo 90 fm- 'lii'e cpta "m'of I hoavy 7' sch "-l bw they can tell hook wn s. a a i hrew it over- 1 lc 11 will probablj find one shark from another. But they do The basking shark Is the biggest board. The shark took the bait in an and alternate a Bhark and a man, all thai a sb.ii has all and th. say (hat the shark also of present species, and reaches in.i'')" work" Lfraid of In' s) I "hii'i the Geralda la frlt len8th- -I, i'i 1 is I This species never attack human the ha V6 ''the 'o't 'th." ''i' ll'i'nr 'f't ONE YEAR AGO Mugs.

desperate struggle re ihe sharks." I i TODAY Ihl THF WAR it Is vBloahlo because of its oU. hook loose and et-caped. tto, TODAY IN 1 tit WAR Sharks Sometimes in Sound; Sna oThemwl'vr-H" Kr'';" "ft'u-i ii t-i- r. north of the 1 Only Basking Variety, Thtgh, 'When on a h. "i.V.

VI i- 1 Hunlingioii. I. 11 There is 1 'j' 'K, gll'ln bsia leling In- la. ib.i il i a nt ui ed I miles of Aub- Short Shark Stories tx Vr, i '1 Withstanding 1 off the blubbet and gulp if Sli. U- Pay.

I ha i ii.ai.l la-rlln reported rupture of the city whose there ls no room for any more in their "nar' a' of Prsasnysz In northern Poland Shark a Moneymaker ,.7 thai vini inch Fof Fisherman BrOWn. they saw ,,,..1 ha o.t' Vp of -a a I am Ai-- J. n. Brown, a fisherman of Bock- ton Bay. Tie -hat wb.

some the hungry llsh lane swallowing resl awav Peach, captured a P-foot shark fe.a IT I II it Inn he 'r" 1 Baymen sUke Sharks; Sharks' Habits Has Seen Around These Waters They're Astonished According to the men who go down to the sea in ships each day for the purpose of catching fish, there no record of a shark attacking a human being in Long Island waters. Some of the fishermen go as far as to say that there is no record in existence of a shark ever attacking a human being in Northern waters, and point to tho offer made by the late Hermann Oel-rich of Manhattan of $500 for any one who would bring him absolute proof that a shark had attacked a living man at sea. This sum was never won, although Mr. Oelrlch received many stories, without tho necessary Arthur Knowlson. editor and publisher of the Fishing Guide.

"Fishing Around New York." and similar publications, stated today that in all the years he has been fishing in Long Island waters, and that extends over a period of twenty-live years, he has never known of a shark attacking a human being. "I can offer no explanation of what has happened Off the New Jersey coast." said Mr. Knowlson. "Un-douhtedlv. the swimmers were attacked by some sort of a fish, and as there Is no other fish in Ihe seas thai could do such damage, must have been a shark that was responsible.

But it is at such odds with the usual customs of the fish that it is hard to believe. Plenty of Sharks in New York Wafers. "We have plenty of sharks in New York waters. There is the sand sark. tne sucker shark and the hammer head.

I have seen I hem upon many occasions, when 1 have been out in my canoe on firavesend Bav. You will see the dark dorsal fin of the fish cutting through the water like a periscope. You can alwas tell a shark, porpoise rambles through the water in big half circles, and so 11 could not he mistaken for a shark. "I have had a shark come along, dive underneath my canoe and llsh have 1 here for years. They run in years.

Somctunes there are son for sharks, fact, (here were so many of tin around went out alter the lug fellows. This year there have been fewer reports from the Fishing Hanks. er. Although he lives all forms of fish, he will eat It either dead or alive. The men who go after sharks generally fish with the head and the inside of some other fish as halt.

The iish. -rim can always lien the sharks are hungry. They will w-eakfish or a blue or some other tl--li is honked, he will turn on his side in.l bite the fish right off the hook. Manx' times I have had a shark clean my hook In this manner. Sharks have done very little of this stealing this summer.

That makes me think that thev have plenty of natural food. Therefore. It Is very hard to under- id whv thev should human beings." No Record of a Shark in L. Waters Attacking Man. Island waters would attack a man.

No record of such an attack has ever been known," was the reply. "Still, if fish were hungry. I would not put It past him. But. Judging by what happened at the fishing hanks this ear, there Is no famine of shark food ftround here this year." ut nau uui auacKca toe Bwira- that Ishing Many, but No "Man-Eaters" Others Say the Same.

at New Jersey Stories. of Ihe llshorn House nt Sheepshead Bay. a great rendezvous for fishermen, said that he never knew of a shark attacking a human being In l.ong i waters. "We have nlenlv of hammerheads and other species of snarK around nere. and It Is no uncommon thing for a fishing boat to bring In a big fellow.

As a rule, they are simply brought to shore as a curiosity, nnd the next day the skipper takes the dead fish out to pnrt throws him overboard. These sharks are generally caught off the Cholera nanus or mo iMonaiae. i do not remember any of them being caught nearer shore. As far as a man-eating shark is concerned. I never saw one or heard of anybody being attacked." Joe Olllles of the Great Kills Hotel, a famous Slaten Island fishing resort, laughed at the Idea of a man-eating shark.

"Wo seldom sen sand sharks around here," said Captain Joe, "and as for a man-eater, such a thing ls out of the question. Still, it Is mighty Charles Noehren. who owns a flshlmr station at Goose Creek. Jamaica Bav. said today that he had read the shark Rtorles.

but did not bcllevo that the fish wouin nniner mm. "we are so far up the bay that wo never are troubled by big fish If one gets up I tako a pop at him." I tnhor usijaKpe' shark common "ti I these waters, rlo you think that it ls a man-eater from the South?" was I we are drifting into the ques- attarkcibv a shask a man h-'n- I will' not attack a Vhe'se 'si-l'temen'ts seen "ill' 'l 'lie shark stories from the Jersev'Voast are true. Bovy swimming in the nude i were attacked yesterday." I.rin'-'a'i ollell" i northern waters "Lack of food in the South," was the reply. lite caused by 'the Mkn.Ts'in'."' c.niie Shark a Surface Feeder, Mr. Knowlson Points Out.

wlthlaVewfeet I of tlw top of the water. This is proven fish want t'o'g," 'sVr'r'l' VV' and so could not furnish food for sharks." trn-iiie was another question put to Mr. Knowl- "Yrs no." said the authority. fiWmen'0 nlny hy lnra' iifiliS! seine, and they eapturea tne IlBh With- of this 1 -Th Lot much dim. ul'v Th- shark was.

In this s' n1' 1 AT 4-n I si 1 a Side of Salt Beef Saved Longshoreman's Life. When the Alleghany of tho Hamburg-American line reached her dock here on October 1H05, she brought with her a thrilling story of how Harry Itenkell. chief officer, saved William Thomas, a longshoreman, of Aux Caves. Haytl. from a school of man-eating sharks.

Tho Alleghanv was In port unloading, when Thomas, who was at work on one of the lighters, fell overboard. Itenkell was on deck. All afternoon he had been amusing himself by taking pot shots at Ihe sharks which wero hovering around the steamers sides. Half a dozen of tho monsters made a rush for the man. Realizing his rlflo would 1.

useless. Itenkell sloed sldo of snlt beef which tho cook was preparing to cook, nnd hurled It into the water between the floundering man and the nnrushlng sharks. Whllo thev stopped to fight for tho meat, tho longshoreman was dragged out of tho 77ii Thrasher Shark Was 21 Feet Long, Says Record. with the fins itlckn.g "lc wator- uTn Iwholle 'stomarl. Thev Were easy to catch, because they sunning Itself.

out, lets it float out of its mouth, lt viil I lulvlV '-'Although I th- net. They ASHARK'S TOOTH ''1 T. ig sh'rit 'Jit. th Ov-SNn- I have seen a shark shot full of Short lleiieli, in Chiirn-I. them X.

W-" buck-hot and bullets, would 'Jt-f'IHl h''l "Pl i gottM nothin1' hal any dn of V. f5Jf5 on.v'wa's a'shark pet through. man. hauled en the deck of a ship gS? nil the 11-1, 1. t.

Vll il by vengeful sailors and completely hav- any II tiVI "With his stomach and all his In- up an old bi.aigiit to: I V'j testlnes left on the deck he was h. i and fastened i It to an eel epear ull alone r- than ten reel thrown back into the water, where i handle. Wit hihat I killed l-ng. h- p. 1 he Immediately began eating again, 'eight BChtrkl In pne ISAiOn, One Ol Intere tlmr I and he was still eating when he swam them was a shovel-nose shark, an the I a inoutU CV out of sight." 1 othert wl 0 oomuioatr variety, more,.