The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-20
A 100 FOOT SEA SERPENT
SEEN By OYER 200 PERSONS OFF
LIGHTHOUSE POINT


At $3.50 Yesterday Afternoon-Great Ex-
element at the Point For Short Time
Seen by Responsible Persons-Passed
Close to Several Pleasure Boats-Said to
Have Been Fourteen Feet In Circumfer-
onoe-Headed For Deep Water.
Have you seen the sea serpent? If
you have not, there are lots of people
who say they have, and. what is more,
1t was only yesterday afternoon, Sun
day afternoon, mind you, when, owing
to the stringent liquor laws, no bogus
serpents are likely to be seen In this
vicinity.
This latest seen monster of the deep
was viewed by fully two hundred peo-
pie at about $3.50 yesterday afternoon
just off Lighthouse Point. At that
hour the beach at the Point was COW
cred with people and everything was
| passing off quietly, as becomes New
| England Sunday, when suddenly, only
| about fifty yards from the shore, a
| strange commotion was observed in the
| water. On closer inspection this prov
ed to be caused by the movements of
huge dark-colored creature which
was leisurely taking its way towards
the mouth of the harbor.
| At once all was excitement and the
crowds flocked down to the waters
edge to get look at what was at first
thought might be whale or shark,
but soon a huge semi-coil fully four
and a half feet in diameter was seen to
ivte F,o H. fn,, +a IA |, Atcrhf ~
several feet, and soon another coil and
then others, and it gradually dawned
upon the people that they were looking
upon one of the rarest of curiosities,
the sea serpent.
When this fact became evident some
| of the more timid ones made haste 20
put a little more distance between
| themselves and the water but some of
the more venturesome ones put out in
small boats to get a closer look at the
monster Tive can think Of no better
word to describe the creature seemed
not in the least affected by all the ex-
element it was causing, but kept on at
the same slow pace, passing quite close
| to several steamers and small pleasure
craft, none of which seemed to desire
a very close acquantanceship, as there
We're TO rifles aboard Some of the
| boats even veered off to get out of the
monsters way.
| BY this time a good survey of the
huge serpent had been obtained by the
crowds of onlookers, and some of the
most reliable Of these estimate that the
leviathan must have been fully 100 feet
in length and nearly fourteen feet in
circumference. The monster seemed to
be making its way by a sort of sinuous
motion, much the same as worms make
in travelling on the ground, large curves
of the body appearing above the water
at frequent intervals. but during all
this time the head was under water
and invisible. When last seen the SER
pent, for such it was to all appear
ances, was making for deeper water off
the lighthouse.
That this was real sea serpent IS
attested to by hundreds of people who
saw it both from the shore and from
boats. among those who assert that it
was surely a sea serpent being Adolph
! Bachman, a student in the medical
| school of Tulane university in New Or
/ leans, who is studying in this city this
summer, and who boards at 66 Wallace
street.