The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-07
TOM GIRRIsON'S LUCK.
IL Doe-rt Equal Mr.. D-bar's. who Goo.
or P.ckrreI aud Catchr. u M-teor.

IL Doesr't Equal Mr.. Drbar'.. Who Goo.
or P.ckrrri aud Catches n Meteor.
Cnc.eyed Tom Garrison OF Greenwood Lake
is n lucky dog. according to John Quincy De-
bar Of Newark. lie went out on the ice on
Monday morning To cut holes for fishing and
10 make other preparations for the arrival OF
Mr.. Debar. who had telegraphed that he was
coming up to fish through the ice Tom was
plying his ice chsel vigorously when his at
tention was attracted by n surging sound and
a sharp noise in the Ice close behind him.
The instant Tom turned. Mr.. Debar says he
saw circular hole four or five inches in
diameter and within ten feet OF where lie was
standing. A sharp report at his right drew his
attention to another hole from which pun OF
steam noated away. Tom was scared. lie
didn't know what to think. and SO he started
on q swift run for tho shore.
lie felt safer whom he reached the sloplnG
beach and turned TO look out upon the frozen
lake Then he saw six holes. Three OF them
he had cut with his chisel. and they were sur
rounded by the chips The others were c!eanly
bored through the snow and Ice by an agency
which he could not comprehend.
lie waited for hN 9 or ten minutes 10 assure
himself that there Was no further dsmonstra-
ton, Of tho sind. and then went out q examine
the holes The nearest ono was cut through
hive inches OF zee in THIRTY or forty feet OF water
and was SO large that he could thrust both
sixty feet further from the shore to the east
Of the first. and the third had struck three-inch
leo hundred feet or more away. and WAS
about three inches in diameter.
When Mr. Debhr arrived al the lake Tom had
thirteen tin -uts planted and four pickcrel
caught lilo called Mr.. Debars attention TO
the holes and asked him what he supposed
made them. Mr. Debar after hearing Toms
story. said. and still says, that they were I'M
douOtedly caused by a shower OF meteoric
stones He says he explained the matter
more clearly to Tom by telling him that they
wero the same as shooting stars Tom WAS
surprised and said that he thought that shoot
ing star. fell only at night,
MIR. DehAr says he was deeply Interested in
tho phenomena, and by dilIgent search found
fourth and smaller hole. which did not eX-
tend entirely through the SIX inch ice near the
aernlite weighing two ounces and measuring
mn inch and q half in length by an inch In
thickness. IL WAS fractured in several places,
but the outer surface was covered with a dull
ing OF the material in it's rapid passage through
the air.
Where the skin had faxed OF the compost
ton ~ the stone was revealed. TO the naked
and fine grained gray stone, but under the
glass the texture ryvtasd hundreds OF points
"i yellow and steel gray mineral which seem
Ell TO make ~ the greater part OF its compost
ton. Mr.. DsuaT MAJ X cd the places whore the
larger fragments fell and will try to fish them
IN in the spring alter the ice goes out.
He says that those who have talked with him
about the matter declare that il ia remarkable
space. but this only goes to show Tom Garri-
sons luck In NOT getting hit some OF tho
"lryersst astronomers OF Newark and Green
wood Lake raise the point that "A meteor OF the
size 81 the one described would have been car
Tisd 10y It's enormous velocity plumb through
any ice that ever foImsd on the lake. but on
the other hand. Mr.. Dsbar is man ~ many
accom- pllshments and an able fisherman.