The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-11
To n Garrison,s Luck.


One eyed Tom Garrison, Of Greenwood
Lake, is a lucky dog. according 10 John
quincy Debar, OF Newark. says the New Y ork
sun. He went out On the ice on Monday
morning to cut holes for nshing and to make
DINER preparations for the arrival OF MI. De-
bar, who had telegraphed that he was coming
up 70 nsh through the ice. Tom was plying
MS lie chisel 1gOrOusly, when his attention
was attrac Ted by a surging sound and sharp
noise IN the ice close tehlnd him.
he instant Tom turned, Mr.. Deoar says,
ne saw circular hole four or Ave inches in
diameter and within ten feet OF where he was
standing. A sharp report at his right drew
MS attention TO another hole, from which a
pun OF steam toated away. Tom was scared.
he didn't know what TO think and so he
started on a swift run for the shore.
de felt safer when he Tea1 he'd the sloptng
Deach and turned to look cut upon the frozen
lake. Then he saw six holes. ihr, of them
he had cut with his chiseI, and they we're sur
rounded by the chips. The others were
cleanIy bored through the snow and ice by an
agency which he could no comprehend.
he waited for i've or ten minutes to assure
himself that there was no further demonstra-
tlon OF the kind, and then WENT out to eX-
anime the holes. The. nearest one was cut
through hve inches of ice in thirty or forty
feet Of water, and was so large that he could
thrust both lists through IL at once. The
second was about sixty feet further from the
shore TO the east OF the first, and the third
had struck three inches Of ice a hundred feet
or more away. and was about three inches in
diameter.
When Mr.. Debar arrived at the lake Tom
mad thirteen tip-ups planted and four pick
erel caught. He called Mr. Debar attention
to the holes and asked him what he supposed
made them. Mr.. Debar. after hearing Tom s
story, said, and still says, that they were I'M
douDtedly caused by shower Of meteoric
stones. lie says he explained the matter
more clearly to Tom by telling him that they
were the same as shooting stars. Tom was
surprised and said that he thought that shoot
ing stars fell only at night
Mr.. DeDar says he was deeply interested in
the phenomena, and by diligeut search found
fourth and smaller hole. which did not eX-
tend entirely through the six inch ice near
the shore. From this he says, he extracted
an aeroIlte weighing two ounces and meaSur-
ing an inch and half in length by an inch in
thickness. was fractured in several places,
but the OUT 7 Irface was covered with dull
fuslng OF the material in its rapid Passage
through the air.
Where the skin had faxed of the compost
ton OF the stone was revealed. To the naked
eye, Mr.. De ar says, 1t appeared to be a hard
ana hne-gralned gray stone, but under the
glass the texture revealed hundreds of points
OF yellow and steel gray mineral which
seemed TO make up the greater part of its
composition. Mr.. Debar marked the places
where the larger fragments fell, and Will try
10 hsh them up lin the spring after the ice
goes out
He says that those who have talked with
him ABOUT the matter declare that ii is re-
markabie that so many fragments fell in so
small a space, but this only goes TO show Tom
Garrison luck in not getting hit. Some of
the cleverest astronomers of Newark and
Greenwood Lake raise the point that me
teor OF the size OF the one described would
nave been carried by its enormous velocity
plumb through any ice that ever formed on
a man OF many accomplishments and an able
fisherman.