The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-24
So SRRPFNTs ON LIE.
The Neptune Novelty Company Tells Bonl-
Eases How to Boom seashore Business.
Here's to the plesiosaurusl
He is the sea serpent for usi

faces How to Boom Seashore Business
Here s to the plesiosaurusI
he is the sea serpent for isl
-Plioeene Sonnet.
To all seashore hotel men (strictly con-
ndential): What is home without a mother
What is an ocean hostelry without 3 sea
serpent9
Arc you looking for all kinds Of money
down by the sad sea waves-sound money,
honest money, gold money, 10 to ! silver
money and unretired greenbacks?
If So get in line and place an order for
the appearance ut sea opposite your hotels
of our mammoth patented pIesiosaurus,
whose first grand annual tour viii soon
begin. Our patented plesiOsaurus, or mon
ster steel sea serpent, still has a few open
dates in the vicinity Of your justly popular
hotels, and this invaluable time viii be
awarded to the enterprising bonifaces who
hasten to apply for it. First come, first
served with sea serpent, is our motto.
There is a well defined impression in the
public mind that the sea serpent is q myth
and that all men who behold sea serpents
are liars. If George Washington were alive
today and should declare upon affidavit
that he had seen sea serpent, his reputa-
ton would be ruined We do not pretend
to hive seen q real live sea serpent or to
possess one, but we have constructed one
that defies competition.
Our patented plesiOsaurus, as we have
Al4Ct-lf lulllLlAL1Qs a Il1tlInL1OEn snake OF
steel He is 100 feet long, 10 feet in diam
eter and is run by electricity. His move
ments are directed by two sea serpent ex-
perts, who can speed him through the wa
ter at the rate OF 80 knots an hour, thus
outstripping all pursuers, or sink him out
of sight and reach by quickly allowing
large part Of his shell to ill with water. In
the course Of las first grand summer tour
the patented plesiOsaurus viii visit all the
principal seaside resorts along the Atlantic
coast, appearing once or twice a DAY in the
ocean directly opposite the hotels that con-
tract for his services. lis movements will
be conducted with the greatest secrecy, and
he is so constructed that he may be drawn
together like & telescope, given the outward
appearance Of an ocean going tug and
moved from place to place defiant of de-
lection.
Each hotel that secures the patented
plesiOsaurus' services will be given week
or two weeks on reasonable terms (Which
viii be furnished upon application, and
that his appearances will cause tremen-
dous sensation and a great boom in Tic hO-
tel business no Up to date, enterprising
boniface will deny.
Imagine for a moment if you can the
scene when our patented plesiosaurus
makes his debut among the white capped
waves a third Of a mile from your hotel.
1t is evening. The sun has set, and the
shadows are beginning to steal along the
bosom of old ocean There are scores of
empty seats on your piazzas. A third of
the rooms, perhaps, are taken by guests.
You are losing $500 day, or possibly even
81, 600. Your hotel clerk doesn't say
60 FrOntp' twice in half an hour. Your bar
is comparatively deserted, and you are
wondering when there viii be turn in the
financial tide.
Suddenly the air is rent by shout
Some keen eyed creditor or guest on the
piazza has disccrned something moving in
the sea short distance from shore
So There a sea sCrPent!' he cries.
He excitedly points finger seward and
is soon surrounded by small crowd of
chattering, curious people They gaze in
the direction indicated and, to their I'M
bounded amazenent, they see q monster
sea serpent 100 feet in length swimming
slowly along the swelling bosom Of the
ocean His greet head is reared a rod
above the water, his undulating sides
CLEAN with phosphorescent light, and his
big eyes blaze like balls of fire.
All is excitement on the beach and on
the hotel piazza. The news spreads like
yyldf1re. Thousands flock to the scene
and gaze with awe upon the monster, who
soon sinks beneath the waves and is seen
no more that night. The crowd, however, I
fingers a. your hOstelry. Your rooms are
all taken inside of half an hour. The bar
is packed to the very doors by throngs of
excited men who urgently feel the need
of a bracer. " Hundreds Of reporters take (
the first train to your resort and make I
your place their headquarters
The following day every newspaper in
the country giges your hotel an ad that
would have cost you 1000, 600, 600 at reg-
ular advertising rates Your place of bust |
ness is at once the most conspicuous hos /
telry in the entire country. From all over |
the land people ncck to secure a peep at /
the mysterious monster Of the briny deep. /
They pay enormous rates to sleep, dozen |
in room. They plead for even q cot in /
the crowded hall They form in line at /
the door of your ba-room, and the line ex-
tends away to the distant beach. You are |
weighted down with silver and swamped /
with greenbaczs- You have money for any /
number of devastating CONGREGATIONS.
If there is any sporting blood in your |
veins, you will easily get on no end Of /
swell bets that the sea serpent viii appear /
the following evening, thus relieving your |
guests of what little money they may pos /
sess after paying your regular bill Your I
bar viii be a greater gold mine than a |
half way house on the cycle path to Coney |
Island, and in a week or two you viii |
have SO much money that you can easily /
afford to own a steam yacht or start o
presidential boom.
Then, when money making has become /
a positive bore to you, the patented plesio- /
saurus viii wriggle away to play a weeks |
stand at some other resort and make some /
other landlord a modern Croesus
THE NEPTUNE NOVELTY Co
New York Sunday World.
Uncertainty.