Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-16

robert Sawyer. They had no field glasses
Nth them, and were unable 10 get any.
hing like q good view Of the monster.
They all agree, however, in estimating
lis length at close upon 100 feet.
Tho news quickly spread up and down
no river, and all available boats wore
,ressed into Reryioe. Many of the hunt
ng parties went out armed with guns in
he hope OF getting shot nj the serpent,
put most of the boats kept close to the |
bank with m eye to possible danger. |
During the day the lookout was kept M, |
but without result, and nobody succeeded
in getting even good look Mt tho nea
serpent.
zHe surns Tsp Tssss 'Eimo oft New
Haampshisc's Coast.
New York star.
LITTLE BoAR's HEAD, N. H., Sept. TO-
The summer idlers Mt this peaceful and
resort were violently ngitntod
this morning. Mrs. Henry L. Hotchkiss,
an estimable and credible Indy Of New
Haven, Conn, was sitting on the rocks
with her children, when her attention was
attracted by tremendous splashing and
lashing of the sea, abont one quarter Of a
mile from shore.
Although the coast is lined with reefs
there is no rock in that particular spot,
and while half-doubting her senses Mrs.
Hotchki,s distinctly saw the enormous
head anil ten feet of the body of q serpent
rise from the sea and sway from side to
side, ms though taking observations.
piercing shrek summoned Mr. Marsh
we'll known merchant of Haverhill,
Mass, whose house is directly opposite on
the beach, aud who is the only man here
who possesses teleseopO. Although
much agitated he was able TO focus tho
monster, md unhesitatingly pronounces
il TO be the same serpent that was soon TO
the southwark by the Gloucester fisherman.
He describes IL az being of dull grayish
brown color, with fiat head like an i'm.
mense cells wide, gaping mouth, pro
truding eyes, length about 100 feet and in
girth about the circumference of II hogs.
head.
While taking these hasty observations
one of the children had run back to Bach
elders Hotel screaming '"rhe soa scr
pent tho sea-sorpent ~ Mr.. Hotchkiss
who is most sleilltul amateur photog
rapher, seized his camera and plates and
darted TO the beach. An excited GROVE
| followed. But too late. Mrs. Hotchkis
and MIR. Marsh were found with blanchet
| faces gazing in the direction of the Isle
of Shoals aud pointing far off from tin
land whore "a streak like the wake of
schooner marked the dennrted and nnhn
lating course of the sorpSu,
Your correspondent Immediately scI
work to gather what reliable tcstimon
I Nj. -. IA
Mr.. Marsh repeated the story ms give
above. A disposition on the part of th
crowd to chat them and discredit thoi
statements was immediately checked b
their evident agitation ind earnest NJ
severation. Your correspondent then too
counsel with ex-Socrctary Robeson VIII
is spending tho summer here, and VIII
knows more about sen. going monster
, than any man in the country The q,
/ secretary said that he waR completely u,
| of politics and declined TO be Intervene,
/ but admitted thHt he Ind met Mrs. Hotel
0 kiss here for number of years IN
would believe her simplest statement.
Senator Don Cameron, who was spenr
3 Ing the day with Mr.. Robson, on rou
I from Maine to Beverly Farms, said:
''l'm skeptical about sea serpent
q young man, but I'll tell you ono thir
n that believe in, and that's Jim Blaine
L and we're going to put him up again. ~
l. hs'll run off with big majority as fast
o t.at alleged sea serpent ia making for II
O ii ,rbor."
n Mr.. Horace Scudder was busy wi
II paper and pencil taking notes for
Y article in the October 1tantic. lie sn
that ii was not often that tho editor of
Is monthly magazine got chance at me-
le item, and he proposed TO make the nc
4 of it,"
ID Mr., Richard Hoffman, the great pia,
90 virtuoso, who had been Doubt
"a Thomas at first, had serious Chop
ic like look in his eye, and his fling,
I, tSitched nervously when the iStar NJ
* asked his opinion.
ut Eyes, have n practical knowledge
ly scales, but this fish story beats anythi
ii in my line. This serpent suems to la
III crept up with rather I'M adngio mo
II ment, looked about for few STAGE,
ss moments, and then scnrried oil proat
to simo. It wouid make line symphol
w poem, and don't know but iii sut
to whole incident 10 music
de Professor Day of Yale was in n scinut
glow, and his eye snapped yieiously ns
is said 81 got here lust minute loo III
,ct Professor Marsh Inns hitherto Ind
ws monopoly OF the discovery of bensts q
.re reptiles, and il could have gone bi
he to New Haven and announced that ]
re seen the sen serpent and could have CIV
of scientific description OF it, it wo
60 have put quietuH on TINT Peabody b,
al yard"
Mr.. Lyman Jewell of Hartford Ind
out from the midst of rum punch,
tho manufacture of which he is o,
ler brated. lie ia also u 2reni Aportsm
ms and wins for organizing pursuit pa,
lat As the only boat on the cuIst hercabO
10 il rather leaky dory, he roluctal
Try abandoned the idea with the remark:
~, well, boys, it's about IL o'clock,
Il it's been my habit for years 10 smii
nh TINT hour. We've NIL boon considera
Of shaken up. What do you sAy?" Ev,
by body smiled.
les Postmaster Otis Brown, good Do
crat and n red hot Cleveland man,
perhaps more elated over the serpc
visit than any one
lyon sec, business in rather slacl
this out-of- the way corner OF the en-
'm Now, this hero serpent is going to lea
&c. a lot OF correspondence and the sale
ON heap of stamps. It amt often tim
Pile many distinguished men happen toge
try when sea-serpent is around. They'll
ere be writing to their friends about it,"
the Mr.. Bachelor, who keeps the h,
ork thought that it would give this pla
are boom, and it needs it now, as everyb
ily. is going away just as the weather is 1
lice charming. There is only one disae
the able brute here, who SCOTS ut the W
was story, and says that Mrs. Hotchkiss
ken Mr.. March saw the "Whales Bach
all submerged rock that only appears 1
md few moments ct the lowest ebb Ii
mp But he is fisherman, without imae
art ton or education, and much addicte
but Medford rum.
lex, The distinguished gentlemen W
ng. your correspondent has quoted are {
the satisfied with the evidence, and Will
ga GREETING that they were amoment too
ex- to SEQ more than the suggestion of {
nto phenomenon, they are Of ono mind
J. it is most fortunate that the serpent
ems ut last been seen by q lady and nj
in n befuddled men.
the II is, however, universally regr,
mix that Mr.. Hotohkiss was too late witt
all camera to get negative, when the
not witnesses are so positive. All the an
y Of ing doubts and uncertainties abou
existence of the sea-serpent would n
sarily have been set at rest had he
Beef taken on plate.
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