The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-08
THE SEA SERPENT ARRIVES.
Has Long, Flowing Side WhislSers OF
IA Delicate Shade of Green.
Bridgeport Cor. chicago Interocean.


Bridgeport Cor. Chicago Interocean.
The sea serpent has arrived earlier than
usual this spring. He arrived just after
sunrise yesterday morning. Capt. Adolf
plus Mcneil, keeper of the Bridgeport
lighthouse, rowed ashore at 10 o'clock
and told the news. The lighthouse is sit
uated two miles off Seaside Park. direct
ly at the mouth of the harbor. Capt. Ne
Neil lives in the lighthouse.
The sun rose at 6:l5 and Keeper Mcneil
put out the light at that hour. He looked
through the long eye" up ana down the
sound, to see If, perchance, a storm Of
any kind was brewing. OF toward Long
Island he esped black spec. 1t was
disturbing the water. Mcneil glued his
eye to his telescope and watched. This
is what he said he saw:
Il couldn't make out what it was. 1t
looked like a porpoise, but then it was
fourteen miles off, and no porpoise could
make such fuss and be seen that dis
lance. The speck got bigger and bigger.
l could see foam, spray and steam squirt
ing all around. / thought perhaps it was
one of them ere submarine torpedo boats
out on an experimental trip from Port
Jefferson, opposite us on Long Island; ;
but the thing came along about eighteen
knots an hour, and when off Lordship
Farm Point, 1 could see it was the sea
serpent.
"The head was about eight feet out of
water. 1t was about the color of a new
bronze and it had long green whislIers
on the back of the head and along down
the neck was a row Of arrow-shaped fins.
These were black.
when the serpent got nearer my light
house, l could see it better. Every few
seconds it ducked its head and swan for
a few hundred feet under water. Then
it would raise it's head and look around.
1.-The eyes were terrible. They had
fishy stare and emitted phosphoreseent
flashes. The body was as big around as
a locomotive boiler, and must have been
over 100 feet long, EVERY little way along
the body there were black rings around,
and in the middle were a couple of re-
volving fins that looked like twin screws.
The serpent made a great splashing;
but what surprised me most was that is
passed the lighthouse and started up the
harbor, By this time it was $40 o'clock.
When l saw that sea serpent heading for
Bridgeport, I was scared. I remembered
that every pleasant morning Walter Mich
OILS rowed across the harbor from Seaside
park to Pleasure beach.
Il turned my glass landward, and, sure
enough, there was Walter padding across
the harbor in his little skif. He had not
seen the sea serpent, which was bearing
down on him, and which was between me
and him. Suddenly 1 thought to warn
Walter, so 1 tolled the lighthouse fogben
THE serpent raised his big head nearly
twenty feet out Of water and looked back
Just then it was 6:45 o'clock, and every
factory whistle in Bridgeport was set off
The big steam gongs, the high and low
pitched whistles, the Sirens, and all the
rest, made an unearthly din. 1t always
wakes up everybody. The frightful racket
scared the serpent He ducked his head,
turned tail, and swan off toward STRAIT
ford Walter Nichols saw it. He stood
up in his skiff and waved his hat.
IF you don't believe me, just ask Wal
ter. The last 1 saw of the serpent he was
heading for New Haven and was making
fast time. Them steam whistles saved
Walter Nichols life