Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-18
SEA SERPENT ON DUTY.
This Leviathan of the Deep Up
 to Date Too.
DOES A SKIRT DANCE IN THE SOUND

SeraciOus Steamboat Captains See the A1Ou-
 ster In the Wee Sma' Hours-He Is $50
 Feet Long, Has Iridescent Scales and Is
 as Lively Loie Fuller.
 NEW YORK, July 1S.-That conscien- tious sea serpent is doing turns all over the sound. He gives matinee perform ances by day and scrpentine dances by flashlight at night. The sound steamers are about to be equipped, it is said, on no authority whatever, with red, green and orange paneS of glass for use over the searchlight. Then, when the leviathan shows himself at night, as he did to the officers of the steamers New Hampshire and Connecticut which arrived here yes terday, the slides will be turned on to suit the tastes of the passengers.
 So it is that all outgoing steamers of the Providence and Stonington lines carry conspicuous cards, announcing that "M. Leviathan, the Only and Original Ser pentine Water Dancer, will positively ap- pear every evening in new, realistic and startling divertisemcnt. The regular tick ct entities each and every passenger to q reserved seat on the promenade deck and the use of the company's marine glasses. Why swelter in the city or crowd to roof gardens when a refined and select vaude- vile entertainment, combined with the advantages of salt water travel, lies with in the reach of every man, woman and child having the price? Instructive to old and young. Come one, come all." A great increase in the business of the sound stcamboats is expected.
 The First Exhibition.
 The initial performance under the new management was given by NJ. Leviathan at 1 o'clock yesterday morning It lacked its realistic features, from the fact that the New Hampshire carried no colored slides. The vessel was off FalkncrS island, when the commander heard a rushing and swashing over the port bow. He leaned over the rail and heard what sounded like a frOufrou of skirts and saw what looked like tilmy lace. His practiced eye noted that what he saw was foam, which was
 being lashed to snowy whiteness by the squirIning and wriggling of mighty sea l monster. The powerful tail of the creature | threw the water over it's head like the gauZy skirts of n roof garden dancer. The | frOth was like wilderness of lace. The commander turned on his scarchlight, | and the effect was most sensational and startling.
 "The scales, he said, "wcre iridescent They changed with kalcidoscOpic rapidity with every throb of the agile body. Now | green, now blue, now the color of a SO l cluded mouse, they fascinated the eye ot | the beholdcr as nothing which I had ever | seen before Under the glare of the power
 full scarchlight, which brought out every
 shade and line, tho mysterious creature seemed to take pride in its antics anC exhibited an agility which I deem unpar | allelcd.'
 | His Idea aa to It's Length. The captain thinks the scrpcntinc danc
 CT was about 15O feet long. While he stood l aS though chained to the deck by the spel
 of it all, the serpent gave a Lefty Line
 flirt of the watery drapcries and disap | peared.
 All these things tho captain recorded
 in his log and reported them upon his ar | rival here yesterday.
 Hardly had he detailed the particular,
 to the 2omi@ny before Captain William, | of tho Connecticut entered and related 1 how he had found NJ Leviathan resting | near Little Gull island several hours be 1 fore daylight The monster-abbrcviateC | Mons.-wus evidently completed exhaust | ed. When Captain Williams turned hi l scarchlight upon it, the monster turned l nearly around yawned and swam away 1 It did not care to respond to any encOres | especially when it knew all the passen
 gers were asleep. Captain Williams coult | not distinguish whether or not the SC, | dancer had horned head and fOrkct l tail.
 It is believed this is the same old ser
 pent which has been lurking in the walk
 of sound steamers for several days, tryin.
 to scandaliZc the Christian Entleavor dele l gates returning from Boston.