The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-04
MONKEY, PARROT, ACTOR, AND
SHARKS.
An Awful Commotion a. d MUGS Some
where on the Jersey Coast.


/ N awful AOuLQOLlOn a u - dSS @OhC-
where on the Jersey Coast
/ From the Philadelphia Times.
! Townsend's inlet runs down to Hereford
/ inlet Stone harbor is midway between the
/ two inlets, aud is famous place for shark
1 fishing. To-day occurred at Stone harbor
the rarest and raciest adventure Of this
summer season. J. B. Radcliffe, the comic
actor. made up his mind TO take day of
with Richard Stevenson, a gentleman far
mer from West New Jersey. Sherman
| Todd's cat-rigged yacht, the William Booth
by, was engaged. What surprised the party
most was that after an hours hard fishing
neither e herman could corral onto a single
bite, not even a tiny Blacklist. This was
S on explained. Stone harbor was full Of
big sharks devouring the mossbunkers,
chased in from the deep sea by the Aide
vouring mackerel.
Radcliffe, who is an Rll-round sportman,
always travels with parrot and a monkey,
both given him by some OF his admirers In
Brazil. He brought the parrot and monkey
" it'll him 10 see the sport. Radcliffe also
brought on board with him that latest aud
most effective agent Of civilization, repeat
ing rife. When the sharks came too near
the boat the actor fred his repeater into
them, and the inlet soon ran red at ebb tide
with the blood Of the hungry man-eaters.
This raised, as be expressed 1t, "a bloody
great connection among the sharks" who
began forthwith to fight each other.
There must have been fifty of them. Two
Of the most conspicuous gave battle in a sea
war t. TIE death. One man eater was If
teen feet long, and the other at least ten
feet. Stevenson dropped his blueash line,
and against Sherman Todd's earnest re-
monstrance, picked up a fish harpoon aud
let fly at the biggest shark and struck him
square on the spinal column. The shark
dashed off toward Avalon, pulling up the
killick, flashing the water into q white foam
as he ran away with the beat as IL it had
been she'll propelled by crack oarsmen of
the Schuylklll navy.
There was cemmotion on that boat. The
monkey flew TO the rigging. Stevenson
went below. The parrot, who had sat
serenely aloft in his cage up TO this
moment, began TO scream: "Jim Radcliffe,
give the shark - Radcliffe stood, rifle
in hand, bold as the boy who stood on the
burning deck. Sherman Todd was cool
enough TO keep the yacht in the channel and
turn her toward the drawbridge All the
sharks pursued the captive.
Nearing the drawbridge the harpoon
pulled out, and the b at giving a sudden
lurch over went Stevenson In thirty feet of
water, yelling Justify. He is a capital
swimmer, but he was in imminent danger
OF being devoured alive by the fifteen-foot
shark, whose anger was kindled as he made
vicious lunges at the boat and with dull
thuds struck her bottom with resembling
blows. Radcliffe refilled his rifles magazine
after throwing life line to Stevenson, who
struggled, spent swimmer, TO regain the
yacht Ratcliifes good aim ct the school
OF sharks surrounding us clearly saved
Stevensons life. He was soon hauled
Aboard--tVat hut ha INV 10 g.. L. L.,
a lilt."
All the sharks within mile gathered
around the boat. The fight was renewed
between the big and little shark, the 10
footer and bis gamy and determined adver-
sary. They tried to sail away, but the big
wounded shark came up near the boat, took
a flying leap and fell plump into the bottom
of the yacht. Jooko, chattering, flew to
the top of tho mAinmast, and the parrot
screamed with rage: "Kill the - shark
and DO done with it'll"
There lay the monster thrashing the bot
tom Of the boat. Stevenson disappeared in
the cabin, but Radcliffe stood his ground,
safe behind the big mast, with only two
cartridges iii his rifle. He fired at the big
shark, but, In his nervous haste, killed the
little one. Stevenson came up from below
with newborn courage, seized the small ak
and aimed a deadly blow at the vicious
oueuiy lIappluR bue ueCk as WIN trlD-
hammer. The ak struck the shark on the
tail, and up went his flukes with tremend-
Gus whisk, sending the ak spinning into the
thoroughfare twenty feet away, and knock
ing Stevenson senseless near the rudder
post
Just as Radcliffe was aiming his last
round at the sharks heart, Jacko came
down from the rigging, seized a Delaying
pin which nobody else had seen, and gave
the big shark resembling blow on the
back of the head, which made the monster
culver like an aspen, as the monkey flew
back again up the rigging like a streak of
CREASED lightning.
Hatcliffe was equal to the emergency. and
delivered his last shot ten feet away, into
the sharks brain. One convulsive throp,
and all was over, Jacko came down from
his perch up aloft, and seemed as happy as
a clam at high tide. The parrot preened
his feathers and, In shrill falsetto voice,
cried out:
We've won the bloody dayl"
bucket of salt water thrown over the
PROSTATE Stevenson brought him back to
his mundane sphere, place, he says, az am
loathe to quit by reason of blow from a
sharks tail! !" The two sharks were weighed
at Anglesea, and together turned the scales
at l.487 pounds. Radcliffe and the monkey
we're the heroes Of the hour.