The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-09

in a Quarry-A Geologist Takes G.
Look.
from the NeW York Sun,
Amos Penn is an enterprising Jerseyman
Who ouarries stone near Ireland's mill,
) Bridgeton, N. ]. The stone he finds in that
region is red and sandy and not very hard.
still it is used for building purposes, and tie
business is not inconsiderable A few days
AGO Mr.. Penn was having some of mis- red
sandstone dug out from quarry about
five feet below the surface, when one of his
,yorknen stuck his iron bar through a
crack in the rocks and easily pried big
niece one side, disclosing within stone of
peculiar FORM
The workman piled his pick carefully,
and in a little while removed covering of
soft sandstone from an oblong piece of stone
that resembled a mans body more than
ANYTHING else. The form was not SO deli
cately chisseled as would be piece of stat
uary, but that did not make any difference
to the quarry workers in the estimate they
nlaced upon the value of their discovery.
They became somewhat excited, and spread
the news far and wide that a sandstone man
had been found.
1r6UUF SOOu Ull6 sig ulScSIo BdluOlGu anu
began poking the thing TO make sure that
they really saw what they imagined they
did. Their touch was not altogether gentle,
and the body of the prehistoric man crum-
bed into little bits. Then the crowd dived
for the chunks of the sandstone man, and
put them in their pockets to carry off and
keep as relics. Mr.. Penn did not like to
lose this curiosity, but the excited Wis
tors were too much for him. All
AL oI-@,,@ h. H.
full fiud and the learned men
of the town theorized deeply as
to whether or not the man had once lived
on that spot in Jersey and had been caught
in a prehistoric tornado of sand and gravel
and been buried in his tracks. And they
speculated, too, on the possibility of his
having been an inhabitant of some other
region who had been caught in the afore-
said tornado of sand and gravel, and had
been carried along until the storm had
spent it's fury and dropped him there to
be metamorphosed into pure sandstone.
Anyway, great excitement prevailed, and
the event was spoken of as the most interest
ing thing that had occurred in BrldgetOn
within the memory of the Oldest inhabitant.
Quarryman Penn went home the night his
stone man had been crumbled into relics,
disguised and provoked at the loss he had
suffered. He felt that there ought to be
It bult-tt olllull OLlG, any Ill UuS
c5very of petrified corpse of man who
probably had been contemporary of the
Cardiff giant, and he was justly entitled to
be somewhat incen ed at having the stran-
gers treat his find the way they did. So
when he got up the next morning he put
on his discovery clothes and went out
to his quarries, determined to dig
for something else that had been
caught in the same forbade of sand
av,l x.,hf oh, Ia1 ht,ri ad no
He met with luck. He found something
which no one can name. 1t is a curious
object. 1t may have been a cousin to a
giraffe, or a cross between horse and an
elk or perhaps it was the "What is it," of
the menagerie that went on tour of the
world before Noah went into the wild ami
NAL business. Two other things this thing
might be. First, it may be really a speci-
men of the carving of the aboriginal Jersey
man, or it may be specimen of the carving
of the modern Jerseyman. A fence has
been put up around it, and you may pay
your money to go in and look at the thing
al d then take your choice of the claims and
theories as to what it is.
On the day when the thing was uncov-
cred the instruments of the quarrymen had
got between six and eight feet beneath the
ground surface. Then the picks struck
something hard. After moment of joyful
speculation Lu6 WOfK was ISSututu WIFI
eager care. Little by little the stone cover
ing was taken off of all the hard stone, and
when it had all been removed the body of
the wonderful animal was all laid bare to
the sun. The form of the queer object re-
sembled a giraffe in that it had a
long neck and a head comparatively
small for the body. The fore feet were
larger than the hind ones. The extreme
length of the beast was feet from the hind
Al, g.. H. III II
quarters to the top of the head it was II
feet. From the back to the under part of
the belly the distance is 81 feet. The dis
lance from the hind foot to the upper part
of the hips is feet, while the distance from
the fore foot to the upper part of the shout
doris is 615 feet. The hoofs are cloven. In
the places where eyes and ears ought to be
there are protuberances. The nose is pretty
nearly perfect. Something that looks like
horn sticks out from the top Of the head.
The thing lay on its side, with its head
extended upward, as if the beast had died
IN the last effort to rise from its smothering
bed Of sand and gravel, and catch one more
breath of prehistoric air There is no ex-
preston of pain upon its countenance at
having failed in the effort The hind feet
OF the animal when found pointed one
forward and one backward. The forefeet
are stretched apart, too, but the lower Joint
place, though, and may have been cracked
of while the picks were being Piled or it
may have been purposely broken by some
one in order to add to the air of the genuine
ness of the find. All the stone that makes
up the body of the animal is harder than
that upon which it lies, but it is of nearly
the same color, like ordinary reddish sand
stone
Mr.. Penn was delighted at his luck, and
ne has begun putting up more than an or
binary fence with which to protec this dis
coVery. The Bridgeton people have
again been called upon to remark that the
event is the most wonderful thing which
has occurred in their vicinity in the mem
Dry OF the Oldest inhabitant, and great ex-
Gtement prevails again in the town. The
wise men are out with novel theories also,
ana the edge of curiosity has been whetted
To extreme sharpness. Visions Of the dis
coVery of whole quarryful of petrified
men and fossilzed beasts are dancing in the
minds of all South Jersey, aud the wisdom
oi starting general digging up Of all the
quarrles is soberly discussed.
p some OF the conservative people in
DDrldgeton wrote letters to State Geologist
george Z. Cook, professor in Rutgers
eoIege, at New Brunswick, about the man
una the beast. He sent his assistant, Prof.
frank l.. Mason, to Bridgeton on Tuesday
70 take look at Mr.. PENIS curiosities
rlof. Mason returned to his chief not at all
convinced that the beast is q genuine relic
VI the years when this country was having
uS surface remodelled by commissions OF
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