The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-15
FISHED In RAILWAY STATION.
ANGLERS STARTED A HUBBUB
THAT GREW AND GREW.
Bab, Cried. the Mother Spanked. the
Music Lover Lost Part OF His Trousers:
Anglers Ran. the Music Stopped and
,hc Sleliths Are Sleuthing Yet,

Baby (rlcu. tne NO'her spsUheu' VIC
Music Lover Lost Part OF His Trousers:
Anglers Ran. the Music stopped and
the Sleuths Are sleuthins Yet.
There's a big glass fountain basin filed
with gold fish in the Fatbush avenue rail-
road station, Brooklyn. Yesterday morn
ing there was the usual Sunday crowd of
anglers in the station on their way to
Jamaica Bay with rods and lines and hooks
and the customary two kinds OF bait, wrig-
Cling and liquid.
There was half an hour to wait Def ore
the next train would leave for the fishing
stations The liquid bait had already got
in its work for three Of the sportsmen,
and the gold fish were too much Of temp
tation for them.
Watched by an admiring crowd they
baited with the smallest worms in their
boxes and cast into the basin. The gold fish
uibbled and the crowd stood on tiptoe to
see the results. But just as two fish got we'll
hooked cop came into the station and
rushed to the rescue Of the railroad COM
panys aquarium
The fishermen yanked out their lines
with sweep and fed for the door without
stopping to reel in. There was tangle of
lines III tte diT dIlu tNo koil Jelh
free, flew In different directions and caused
more trouble, stopping one racket and
making another worse.
The fish that stopped racket did it by
plung ing head first into the funnel of a
monograph and smothering the last notes
OF Good Old Summer Time which some
body had paid a nickel to hear.
In far corner of the waiting room
kcLx l.. H..
ld-fashioned way regardless of the presence
idly in the down stroke just as the fish
landed on the baby and In another instant
the baby was glistening, with red gold
scales and there was dead fish at the
But that wasn't all that happened when
the cop came in. The empty hook of the
fisherman who hadn't got a bite made
trouble too. Near the mother and the
baby was man treating himself to an
electrical shock from a Notwithstanding
health machine The shock was good
stiff one and the man was doubled up over
the metallic handles.
got a good hold. 1t started more crcula-
ton in a minute than the electric machine
could produce in week, especially when
the fisherman kept on running and the line
sThe human fish, yelled the delighted
crowd, almost drowning the voice OF the
spanked baby.
Turn OF the electric current shreked
the man who was hooked, but didn't know
what had happened to him
Just then the barb OF the hook broke
through the skin, the trousers gave away
and the released hook trailed across the
floor baited with piece Of summer suit.
A plain clothes man happened in then
to help the cop in uniform. 1t was the
same detective who raided a second hand
book store in Brooklyn the other day be
cause some old prints OF English race horses
in the window made him think it was a
poolroom.
The sleuth took in the situation at glance.
He planted his foot on the fast-trailing line,
gave hurried instructions to the cop in
uniform to trace that line to, the person
or persons he might find at the other end
of the hook and piece OF cloth.
But then the sleuth made false move.
He lifted his foot from the line and the
ordinary. cop lost the scent. for the line was
trailing fast and the cop was fat.
But the eleuth was not baffled. .We have
a clue In this bit Of CLOTH he muttered 90
that the crowd could hear him. Find the
man who wears pants like this fragment
OF cloth and we've got the -
And you've got me, yelled the electric
shock man. who was dancing up, and down
IN corner and holding onto himself to
aAll aboard for Ozone Park, Aqueduct,
Ramblersville Goose Creek, The Raunt,
Broad Channel, Hammels' and Sea Side,'
shouted the train announcer.
The crowd, minus three fishermen, rushed
for the gates, and the sleuth was left alone
with his clue