New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-12
4 TRANSFER or SEALING GROUNDS
Long ISLAND SOUND is THE PLACE
FOR HUNTING NOW-MlXED EMO
TIONS OF THE SPORT.

Expectation and terror were mingled. up in the
region Of Glen Island yesterday on Tuesday
consignment Of some twenty or thirty seas ar
rived there from San Francisco. Wren they were
counted yesterday morning Ii was found that ten
OF them had escaped The that wild beasts
we're loose spread rapidly, and such means OF re-
capturing them were known to the people oil
the neighborhood were employed at once. Seine
nets were set off the shore, hooks and lines were
thrown from the piers, and members OF the New
Rochelle Yacht Club got under sail and trailed Tor
them with shark hooks. while parties armed with
shotguns were formed shore TO cut them OFT II
they should attempt to land. Few OF the odest
inhabitants set lobster pots.
In the ancient and adjacent town OF New-Ro-
chele the news of the escape of the seals and the
possibility of a hunt for them were received WIN
JOY. II be understood that severa' OF the
women of this place have sealskin sacks which
they seldom wear and never at this time Of the
year. The trouble Is that when. a few years ago.
1t became the fashion - enormously large
sleeves. the old sedlskn sacks. which were made
with small sleeves. would never 20 on over the
gowns. without running the sleeves OF the
latter. Some OF the seaskin sacks had been worn
for several seasons but others were quite new and
1t seemed rather hard. after money had been saved
little by little for a long time to buy them, that
Il should be necessary to begin saving again to
buy more sealskin to make new sleeves for them
So the most OF them were long ago laid aside.
Sleeves are rot made quite 80 big now, but New
Rochelle is conservative old place, and the
change Is not marked there yet. so that the news
that seals likely to be found anywhere IN
the harbor. oven In the streets. ready to yield
up their skins heard with rejoicing 1t was
first conveyed to the towncpc0plc by the old bell
man VINO goes about the streets announcing losses
and discoveries and auction sales, ard so on In
the enthusiasm OF the occasion he remembered his
schoolboy Macaulay rang his bell and dropped
into poetry thus:
thou. Rochelle. New Rochelle.
Proud city Of the waters.
Again let rapture light the eyes
OF all thy mourning daughters.
Then. As the mourning daughters came out 70
the doors hear him. he told them in prose
about the seals. and they set out 10 capture them
AMI make new sleeves TO their sacks.
In the midst % the JOY OF the hunt terror fell
ii Ike 4 cold thundcrshower. from the as
serton Of some unknown person that some Of the
seals were sea lions Nobody felt quite sure what
was the difference between seals and sea lions. or
whether they the same thing, but all realized
that "a lion among ladies Is most dreadful
thing" II was enough to send the most Of the
hunters home with the determination to keep their
old saalskin sacks till the fashion should decree
smaller sleeves. and for the rest Of the day the
most Of the houses In New-Rochele were tightly
closed.
At the time when the latest dispatches were sent
from Washington last night the State Department
had received no message from Lord Salisbury as
to his views of British rights to the seal fisheries
Of Long Island Sound